Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1. delU.S. Government Printing Office, 1865 |
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11th corps 2d corps 6th corps A. A. G. Telegram advance Answer April 11 artillery assault Assistant Adjutant attack Banks's ford batteries battle battle of Chancellorsville battle of Gettysburg brigade Burnside Burnside's BUTTERFIELD cavalry Cemetery hill chairman Chancellorsville Chief of Staff Colonel column committee met pursuant corps commanders crater crossing Culpeper D. C. WAGER DANIEL BUTTERFIELD despatch directed division enemy enemy's line explosion fight fire flank force Fredericksburg front General-in-Chief Gettysburg H. W. HALLECK Hagerstown Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman infantry JOSEPH HOOKER July 30 June Lee's army Lieutenant major general commanding Major General HALLECK Major General HOOKER miles morning move movement night o'clock occupied officers Official copy operations opinion position Potomac Question Rappahannock rear rebel received regiments retreat river road S. F. BARSTOW Secretary of War Sedgwick sent Sickles Taneytown telegraph to-morrow troops Warren Warrenton Washington
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Stran 249 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Stran viii - The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of...
Stran 155 - If he should leave a rear force at Fredericksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight in intrenchments and have you at disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Stran 206 - No noncommissioned officer or private can give his parole except through an officer. Individual paroles not given through an officer are not only void, but subject the individuals giving them to the punishment of death as deserters. The only admissible exception is where individuals, properly separated from their commands, have suffered long confinement without the possibility of being paroled through an officer.
Stran 260 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?
Stran 175 - My original instructions require me to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington. I have now imposed upon me, in addition, an enemy in my front of more than my number. I beg to be understood, respectfully, but firmly, that I am unable to comply with this condition with the means at my disposal, and earnestly request that I may at once be relieved from the position I occupy.
Stran xlv - No artificial defences worth naming have been thrown up, and there appears to be a scarcity of troops at that point, and not, in the General's opinion, as favorably posted as might be. We have good reason to suppose that the enemy is moving to our right. Please advance your pickets for purposes of observation as far as may be safe, in order to obtain timely information of their approval, (Signed) JAMES H.
Stran 508 - I expect to find the enemy in a strong position, well covered with artillery, and I do not desire to imitate his example at Gettysburg, and assault a position where the chances were so greatly against success ; I wish, in advance, to moderate the expectations of those who, in ignorance of the difficulties to be encountered, may expect too much.
Stran 154 - In view of these contemplated movements of the enemy, I cannot too forcibly impress upon the mind of His Excellency the President the necessity of having one commander for all of the troops whose operations can have an influence on those of Lee's army. Under the present system, all independent commanders are in ignorance of the movements of the others; at least such is my situation. I trust that I may not be considered in the way to this arrangement...
Stran 206 - No paroling on the battle-field; no paroling of entire bodies of troops after a battle; and no dismissal of large numbers of prisoners, with a general declaration that they are paroled, is permitted, or of any value.