Three Years with Grant by Sylvanus Cadwallader

Author:Sylvanus Cadwallader [Cadwallader, Sylvanus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83033-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

1 On the night of May 3, Cadwallader informed Hudson: “The army moves in the morning. Gen. Meade’s H’d Qrs. break up at 5 o’clock. Gen. Grant’s during the day. Our troops will force a passage of the Rapidan tomorrow. Immediate, and obstinate fighting is apprehended. Burnside is in the rear as a reserve corps, and can be thrown to the right, left or center, as demanded.

“Mr. Chapman came as far as Meade’s Hd. Qrs. today.… Saw Mr. N. Davidson & Mr. Hendricks this evening. Both are prepared for any emergency.…

“No private telegrams will be permitted to pass between here and Washington until further orders—which means, until 3 days after a battle. We shall have to depend on mail and messengers.” James Gordon Bennett Papers, Library of Congress.

On May 5, Cadwallader told one of his reporters, L. A. Whitely, that he would send out his reports via Grant’s private mailbag. Bennett Papers.

2 Official figures put the Union losses at 17,886. War of the Rebellion: … Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Vol. XXXVI, pt. I, p. 133. The Official Records are referred to hereafter as O. R.

3 Frederick Phisterer: Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States (New York, 1883), put the Confederate loss at 11,400.

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