 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
 | William Henry Powell - 1896 - 1066 strani
...below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's [Hamilton's Crossing] on this side of the Massaponax, taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open. ..." The same order said that Sumner, on the right, was to make an attack, with a division, from Fredericksburg.... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - 1898 - 500 strani
..."send out at once a division, at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the height near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponax,...keep it well supported and its line of retreat open." The only attack contemplated in this order is plainly one to be made by a single division, well supported,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1898 - 332 strani
...Proof — the same order, announcing Burnside's directions to Gen. Sumner on his right. "He (Burntide) has ordered another column, of a division or more, to be moved from Gen. Simmer's command up the Plank lioad to its intersection with the Telegraph Road, where they will... | |
 | Isaac Rusling Pennypacker - 1901 - 452 strani
...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,...moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank road, where they will divide, with a view to seizing the heights on both sides of those roads. Holding these... | |
 | George William Redway - 1906 - 342 strani
...will send but at once a division at least to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the height near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponax,...column of a division or more to be moved from General Summer's command up the Plank road to its intersection with the Telegraph road, where they will divide,... | |
 | Osmond Rhodes Howard Thomson, William H. Rauch - 1906 - 520 strani
...down the 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,...it well supported and its "line of retreat open." * It would appear that Franklin was justified in believing that his main duty was to be ready to move... | |
 | Newton Martin Curtis - 1906 - 446 strani
...corps commanders as requiring him to test the enemy; "You will send out at once a division at least, taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open"; he was not ordered to attack in force. Under this construction, Meade's division of the First Corps was... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - 1907 - 674 strani
...Then he was to "send out, at once, a division, at least, to seize, if possible, the height near Capt. Hamilton's on this side of the Massaponax, taking...keep it well supported and its line of retreat open." The order went on to tell Franklin what Sumner was to be doing at the same time. He was also to send... | |
 | United States. Military Information Division. War Department - 1909 - 758 strani
...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,...it well supported, and its line of retreat open. He [the commanding general] has ordered another column, of a division or more, to be moved from General... | |
 | Camille Baquet - 1910 - 726 strani
...out the 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,... | |
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