The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-23
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Dofne Up mind hat when Hooker moved from
him oil the timetowards the sources from which
ms army was TO b. recruited; that while tho
ronte Of IL 9ilr M army was the arc Of circle he
our movsments hal TO be rapid witils his wore
ggw F,s,ono When En- our %5s army fsd crossed th,s
his strength, not only from the oonyal
leseents from tho hospitals ut Washington Bal
tlmore; aud further North. tipe. enough having
Of charlottesville o and Fredercksbnrg 10 bsyjn
to return to duty, but also from tho troops ia
the defenses OF Washington south Of the Poto-
mac, now rendered USELESS there. Ms well as
from now recruits answering ~ the many eur
nest appeals 70 the loyal North" to. rally to tho
nvaded loyal ia % '9 rs Sa W as as Of dyn naRona II nnY
capital. 1t was not probable, therefore. that
his army should decrease from causes similar
relation to NJ ,ade ia his Testimony Con. Rep,
42sl. says hat on the tenth OF June whsn Hooker
llsas Fiji b Corps 10 Ss; sth Corps, 5lSs il 4os;
Esygnth ia CM9rps M 70 !77 Twelfth Corps. 1925
Bates, in bis history Of the battle eoncgdss
mony, says. constituted ons-third Of tae
artillery Of the army. ButterHeld. tb, chief Of
staff. In rep ,2 the question:. Had there been
the 10th of June and ihe time the ba ts Of Get
ttysourg was fought 7" says: A portion of tho
b. On nd led to the Fifth Corps General Stan.
nards Vermont Brigade had bsen added to the
First Corps. but were to go out Of service very
eral Lockwood, with the Maryland Brigltie. Of
about 1900 men. had joined The Twelfth Corps
! have o. mem jrandum among my payers at
Look ut Valley, which will show ali tho addi-
tlons made to the Army Of tho .Potomc. do
not remember the exact hgurss."
On phgss 1913. he says: General Hooker had
hu1 In ind fs,f
the garrison ut rper's Ferry. which consisted
q 10000 or 900 men under General French. = =
General Hooker's intention had been to take
that garrison, with General Slocum's Corps tine
Twelfth, near Knoxville. the two making about
5000 men, throw them rapidly in rear Of Gem
1t does not appear wbether Lockwood had
then loi ned but IL will be sseu that the Twelfth
oorps had been increased from 1925 to about
la,ooo: sven IL iMockwood M had then Joined. with
erease Of 1000. The other corps must also have
increased. and accordingly We find Hooker tee-
5We 10 hsp ss o. W Wan ~ i2
state that, including tho portions OF Gen.
HeintzelmaB's command and Sehepeks now
duty will not excsed io5. 900 lie Is then pro.
testing that too much must not be expected Of
llm md; OF course. was not disposed TO over
had at lehst 5000 officers. which would make the
whole 10000. and this Was exclusive Of Frenehs
command, as shown by Coz. Taylor. There is
as Meade apDroaehei Gettysburg after he
assumed command. for he was probably joined
by other troops and there IRE very cogen' rsa-
sons for believing that he had between 10000
and 100000 men, perhaps fully tho latter num-
ber, On the Held OF Gettysburg. exclusive Of his
The absurd estimate Of Prof Bates that the
10000 reported by Hooker had been reduced
to only 72,ooo. between. the 9th Of June
nsh spd the esos II 81 9n 4 true Xeaa far
ty" and patriotism Of the Nortn. and on the
morale of the soldiers VINO had rallied to the
the e q ths s on uaa er9a s % sase
ferrous is the statement Of ubeday that there
were only 1000 men on the Federal side on the
We know that We got as many as COCO PRISON.
ers, including the wounded left on the field and
In the hospitals in Gettysburg from the First
q loss of as many more In killed and wounded;
in fact Bates puts the loss in those two corps at
about 10000. Butterfied says that on the 4th
First Corps 5000. and In the Eleventh $500. left
utter oil the fighting Of the I'd and sd, which
does not accord. by any means. with Double
days statement.
It Is little strange that Northern writer's
grops as,pso in the dark and resort .o con-
Sead 70 a9my st 'sfshsh whsn ss S
Generals ofioe should settle the question.
beyond that shown by any Official returns snirn @ Of
ours. and the Federal force greatly under that
shown BY their own returns. This applies TO all
The assumption that the Confederate govern
ment. with nj best only Il population Of 100000
Of white. to draw from. when l.. was nard pressed
ton beyond Its reach, could furnish more
troops for the invasion OF Pennsylvania than
the Federal government. with u .popula ion Of
cruits, could furnish to defend the soil of the
loyal North, and the natlonal capi al. and that.
Ths e s9 Of p1nnsyyana wh
the Union" were avaiing themselves Of the OK
piration Of their terms Of service to 60 home.
ahd cb bsv s1 aees % ae 9
furnishes food for curious reflection.
l. will now come TO q consld 5ration Of the
points, to notice which is the main object Of this
den. Fitz Lee. after paying very just tribute
to the memory Of Hen. Lwell. says, In reference
:" believe little more marching. perhaps a
little more fighting, would have given us the
coveted postum. aud that in such an event the
battle Of Gettysburg would have had another
name and possibly another result who
knows Z"
Col. Allan says:
successfui- first. had Ewell and Hill pushed
Howard's broken troops over the top Of Gene
terry Hill ON the frs day."
4 He then assigns four other conditions that
would have given us success.
Col. Taylor In his memorandum. makes the
same point as TO Ewel's conduct but it is more
phia Times as follows:
Gen. Lea witnessed the flight Of the Fed
erals through, Ge tysburg and up the hills
beyond. He then directed me to go to Gen.
Ewen and say o him that from the position he
occutiei he gould see the enemy retreating
over thyse hills. without rganization and in
great confusion: that it was only necessary to
press those, people il order, to SECURE
possession OF the heights. and that. II
Doss BILE, he wished hun, to do this. In
obedience to these instructions, I proceeded
to Gen Eweu and delivered
the order of Gen. Lee; and after receiving
from him some message for the commanding
turned to the latter and reported that his order
hal been delivered. Gen. EweIl did not express
any objection or indicate the ex stence of any |
impeding mt TO the execution OF the order con- |
veyed to him, bu,, left the impression upon my
mind that 1t would be executed. In the exer- |
else that discretion, however. win h Gen. Lee |
was accustomed ~ accord his lieutenants, and
probably because of an undue regard for his |
aamonition. given early in the day, not TO pre-;
cipitate a general engagement. Gen. EWell |
deemed it un@ise to make the pursuit. Ths |
troops were not moved forward. and the enemy |
proceeded to occupy and forrify the position |
which it was designed that Gen. Ewoll should
vision reached the field attar the engage |