Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Theatre was filled last evening with a large audience who listened with pleasure to the lecture on the civil war. The lecturer opened his discourse with an elaborate account of the plan of campaign and its merits and defects. General Mead was in command of the army of the Potomac with about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push...
...this move, wanted to crush the rear of Lee, and then march on Richmond thus preventing this Northern raid, but he was commanded from Washington to keep between that city and the enemy. He accordingly moved north with the mountains between the enemy and the army of the Potomac. Balked in his plans he resigned and Meade was made the commander. Seeing Meade somewhat in his rear Lee moved back a little, and on June 30th, 1863, the armies lay almost opposite each other, each a few miles from Gettysburg which was between them...
Before the movement, of which the battle of Chancellorsville is the principle feature, was undertaken, the army of the Potomac was in a bad state of demoralization incident to the abortive attempts under Burnside to overpower Lee. It was the first duty of Hooker, its new commander, to reorganize it. This he did most effectively, and when he was ready to move forward he had about 130,000 men of all arms. This force lay along the banks of the Rappahannock, opposite Fredricksburg. On the bluffs behind this city, Lee was encamped in a natural stronghold with about...
...made by Hooker at Chancellorsville, and before he could move forward Lee was in his front with most of his army, having left some divisions to watch Sedgwick. Hooker was now placed on the defensive, and Lee and Jackson devised a plan of attack. The army of the Potomac was badly scattered in a wooded country where half its forces were useless. Jackson, by a long flank march, struck the isolated right wing under Howard a crushing blow and sent it reeling back upon the main army. This was a complete surprise, and took Hooker completely aback. He seemed dazed...
...Confederate entrenchments on the Warwick line near York-town, only to find that when everything was in readiness to open fire, the enemy had evacuated their position. A slow pursuit was at once begun, the rate of advance averaging two miles a day. Slowly the army of the Potomac crept forward until it assumed a position astride the Chickahominy river, which greatly embarrassed its operations. Ordinarily it is not deemed bad policy to have a river dividing an army. But the Chickahominy is an exceptional stream from the fact that its bottom is but little lower than its banks...