 The general commanding directs that you keep your whole command in position for a rapid movement down the old Richmond road, and you will send out at once a division at least, to pass below Smithfield to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's,...  Major-general Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth army corps - Stran 211avtor: Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 593 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1879 - 656 strani
...down the old' Richmond road, and you will send out a division, at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponix, taking care to keep it well supported, and its line of retreat open." He also informed... | |
 | United States. War Dept - 1902 - 1308 strani
...spirit of the order, the words of it being, " You will send out at once a division at least, * » * taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open." At 8.30 o'clock General Meade's division moved forward about 500 yards, and, turning to the right,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1881 - 674 strani
...the old Richmond road ; and you will send out at once a division at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's,...Massaponax, taking care to keep it well supported and iU lino of retreat open. He haa ordered another column of a division or more to be moved from General... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 790 strani
...sending " one division, at least, to seize, if possible, the heights near Hamilton's Crossing, and taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open," while he was to hold the rest of his command " in position for a rapid movement down the old Richmond... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1884 - 690 strani
...Smithfleld, to seize, i£ possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponix, taking care to keep it well supported, and its line of retreat open." He also informed Franklin that a simultaneous attack would be made on the enemy's extreme left, and adds:... | |
 | F.Warne - 1886 - 992 strani
...at least, to pass below Smithfield" — a hamlet occupied by Reynolds on the previous evening — " to seize if possible the heights near Captain Hamilton's...keep it well supported and its line of retreat open" The peculiar wording of the order is positive evidence that when it was penned Burnside's mind was... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - 1888 - 816 strani
...at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's farm on this side of the Massaponax; taking care to keep it well supported, its line of retreat open." On one hand, " to hold three army corps ready for a turning movement on... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 598 strani
...at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize if possible the heights near Captain Hamilton's, . . . taking care to keep it well supported, and its line of retreat open." Upon these ambiguous orders Franklin fought all day, sending in at first Meade's division, and following... | |
 | William Allan - 1892 - 582 strani
...the old Richmond road, and you will send out at once a division, at least, to pass below Smithfield to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's,...column of a division or more to be moved from General Sum ner's command up the Plank road, to its intersection with the Telegraph road, where they will divide... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - 1893 - 570 strani
...the old Richmond road, and you will send out at once a division, at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's...more to be moved from General Sumner's command up the plank-road, to its intersection with the telegraph road, where they will divide, with a view to seizing... | |
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