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Gen. Gordon's Night Sortie
A FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORY
March
Copyright, isw. by o. u Kilmer
EXEUAL JOHN B. COUPON'S
description of the famous Con -
federate attack which he led
against Grant's lines at Peters-
! burg, March 23, 13(55, I heard from his
j own lips In 1878, and about that time
another auditor, Henry W. Grady, put
It in print in the Philadelphia Times.
Having been a participant on the Fed
eral side In
repelling the assault, the
narration was one of thrilling Interest
to me. In the following extracts from
the Times article are given the chief
points of the brilliant forlorn attempt
to raise the siege of Petersburg and
nnlte the armies of Johnston and Lee:
Tou remember the situation of affair
tn Virgin) about the 1st of March. ISA.
Grant had massed an enormous army In i
front of Petersburg; and Richmond, and '
trash troops were hurrying to his aid.
Our army covered a Uue of over twenty
miles and was In great distress.
My corps (Stonewall Jackson's old
.rt) had hn obiced noon the rutht
wing of the army. I had general Instrue -
tion to protect the flank of the army,
prevent General Grant from turning It.
and, above all, to protect the slender line
of road from which solely we received
our scanty supplies. We were almost
continually engaged In fighting, milking
feints. protecting our skirmish lines,
which the enemy were feeling and press
ing continually. Before daylight on the
morning of the !d of March, ISoJ. General
Lee sent for me. I mounted my horse at
once and rode to the general's headquar
ters. I reached the house ka which he
was staying at about i o dock In the
morning.
As I entered the room to which I hod
been directed I found General Lee alone.
I shall never forget the scene. The gen
eral was standing at the fireplace, his
head on hi arm. leaning on the mantel
piece, the first time I ever saw him look
ing so thoroughly dejected. A dim lamp
wa burning on a small center table. On
the table wa a mass of official reports.
General Lee remained motionless for a
moment after I opened the door. He
then looked up, greeted me with his usual
courtesy, motioned m to the Utile J&ble
and. drawing up a chair, sat down. I sat
opposite htm.
"I have sent for you, General Gordon,"
he said, "to make known to you the con
dition of our affair and to confer with
you as to what we had best do." The
night was fearfully cold. The fire and
lamp both burned low as General Lee
went on to give me the details of the!
situation. "I have here," he said, "re-1
find upon careful examination that I have ',
under my command of all arms hardly
4S.'XQ men. These men are starving.
Their sufferings are terrible and exhaust
ing. 'My horses are broken down and lm-
GUBD'ffl'S HEN ATTAfKr.N'.'l FORT STKDMAS.
pv.iiit. 1 am ftppreliciiiilve thr.t Oraiit
iii',. ,r' -;-' !ir'.-;ni m;.1 fl.- nk nnd cu' our
fi.H r'.i:'nnit Hi:': of ijupplies. Kow.
t,!nr:il," he laid, loo'ilng me atraight In
the inee, "wl.m is to be done?"
V'ith this he h3 jgr.er .'own smi
leare-O Lack in his eh.-ilr. i rpli1:
'Sine you have done me Hie i.onor to
ask my opinion, I will give It. The (situa
tion as you protray it Is Infinitely worse
than J had dreamed it was. 1 cannot
doubt that your Information Is correct.
I am confident th;:t one of two things
should be done at onee. We must tither
treat with the I'rilted Stales government
on the best terms possible or we should
concentrate nil our stnigth on one point
of Grant's line selecting some point on
the right Lank o; the Appomattox as
sault him. break through his ilnea, de
stroy Iris r.o!;tooris. then turn full upon
the flunk of his left wing, sweep down It
and destroy it 1 possible, and then Join
Genera! Johnston In North Carolina by
forced marches and, combining our army
with his, fall upon Sherman."
"And what then?'
"If we beat him and succeed In making
considerable battle, treat at once for
terms. I am forced to the conclusion,
from what you say, sir, that we have no
time for delay."
I finally submitted the plan of battle to
General Lee, which he approved and or
dered executed. It was briefly this: "To
take Fort Stedman by direct assault at
night; then send a separate body of men
to each of the rear forts, who, claiming
to be Federals, might pass through the
Federal reserves and take possession of
the rear line of forts, a If ordered to do
o by the Federal commander; next, then
to press with my whole force to the rear
of Grant s main line and force him out
of hi trenches, destroy his pontoons, cut
hi telegraph wires and press down his
flank." We both recognized It a the for
lornest of forlorn hopes. .
Port Stedman was made the point or
attack because it was the nearest to
the Confederate works, being about
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25. ISIS
j sixty rod from Colquitt's salient. ,
i There were two strong Federal worka i
1 " right and left of Fort Stedinan-1
, namely. Fort Haskell and Fort MeGH- j
wry-distant respectively 80 and 100
, yards. There was also an Intrenched
1 line of lufantry anil batteries connect
i Inj? these works and a second lutrvuch
j ed line a hundred yards in the rear. One
j mile In rear of this position Graut had
; military railroad and teleirrunh ex.
j tending the whole length of bis In-
, trenched camps. Gordon's success
I would depend upon his cutting the veie-
graph aud railroad to delay the bring
ing of Federal re-enforcements on the
scene.
General Gordon's story continues:
General Lee sent me. In addition to my
own corns, a portion of Lcnirstreet'
corps trtckett's division), a rortlon of
A. P. Hill's and a body of cavalrv. Dur.
I ,h whwol a ot h ' March
i ! wa. on horseback making preparation
( Jf.K , , bou, 4 oV1,H'k
1 'n wornlng I called clie around me
nft" ml ,ou" companies, 100 each.
1 . selected to do
I ,,hte hardo0s work. I spoke to them of
character of the undertaking and of
me msi nope ot me cause which was
about to be confKlett to them. Around the
shoulders of each nmn was bound a white
strip of muslin, which Mrs. Gordon, who
sut In a room not fur distant llxtvnlhg for
the signal gun. hud prepared as a mean
of recognition of each other. The hour
had come, and when everything was
ready I stood on the breastworks of Col
qultt's mlti-nt and ordered two men to
my side with rltlrs, who were to lire the
signal for att.uk. The noise of moving
our own obstructions was going on and
attracted the notice of a
Federal picket,
in the darkness his voice rung out
"Hello, there. Johnny Jleb! What are
you making all that fuss about over
there
The men were Just leaning forward for
the start. The sudden call disconcerted
me somewhat, but the rifleman on rfiy
right came to my assistance by calling
cut In a cheerful voice:
"Oh. never mind us. Yank. Me down
and go to sleep. We are Just gathering a
little corn. You know, rations are mighty
short over here."
There was a patch of com between our
lines, some of It still hanging on the
stalks. After a few moments there came
tuck the kindly reply of the Yankee
picket, which quite reassured me. He
said:
"All right, Johnny. Go ahead and get
your corn. I won't shoot at you,"
"Hang! Hang!" Two shot broke the
stlltne.ta, and I comni inded, "forward!"
;nf chosen V
sprang forward eagerly.
followed by the axtr.rti. ami (or the la:'t
time the stars and bars were curried to
aggressive awciull. in a moment th
axmen were upon the nbatia of the en
emy and hewing It down. 1 shall never
know how they whisked this line of wire
fastened obstruction out of the way. The
10U overpowered the pickets, sent them
to the rear, rushed through the gup made j
by the axmen up the slope of Fort ftte.-
man, and it was ours without the firing
of a single gun and with the loss of but
one man. He was killed with the bay
onet. The three companies who were to at
tempt to pass the reserve and go Into
the rear forts followed and passed on
through Fort Stedman. Then came the
other troops pouring Into the fort. We
captured, I think, 9 pieces of artillery, 11
mortars and about tuo or TO) prisoners,
among whom was General McLaughlin,
who was commanding on that portion of
the Federal line. Many were taken In
their beds.
I now nnxioiiHly awaited tn learn the
fate of e ) who had lu-en Sent In
companies of Jut) each to attempt the cap
ture of the three rear forts Soon a mes
senger rea.ch."d me from two olfleer.n com
manding two of these chosen Isidles, who
Informed me that they had succeeded In
passing right through the line of Federal
reserves by presenting themselves es
Federals and had certainly gone far
enough to the rear for the forts, but that
their guides had abandoned them or been
lost and that they did not know In what
direction to move. It was afterward dis
covered when daylight came that these
men had gone farther out than the forts
and could easily have entered and captut-
j ed them If the guides had not been lost
or nari aone tneir auiy. ui course otter
dawn they were nearly all captured, be
ing entirely behind the Federal reserves.
In the meantime the few Federal sol
diers who had escaped from the fort and
lntrenchments we had captured had
spread the alarm nnd aroused the Federal
army. The hills in the rear of 'Jrant's
lines were soon black with troops. By
the time It was fairly daybreak the two
forts on the main line flanking Fort
Stedman (Fort Haskell and Fort McUll
veryl, the. three forts In the rear and the
reserves all opened up upon my forces.
We held Fort Stedman and the Federal
lntrenchments to the (Appomattox) river.
or nearly so, but the guides had been lost,
and In consequence the rear forts had not
been captured. Falling to secure these
forts, the cavalry could not pass out, the
pontoons could not be destroyed and the
telegraph wires were not cut.
In addition to these mishaps, the trains
had been delayed, and i'lekett's division
and other troops sent me by General Iee
had not arrived. The success had been
brilliant so far as it had gone and had
been achieved without loss of any con
sequence to our army, but It had failed In
the essential to oompM success or to
a great victory. Every hour was bringing
heavy re-en fttrenfl to ta the Federals
and rendering my paction less and leas
tenable. After a brief correspondence
with General Lee It wa decided to with
draw. My loss, whatever it was, occurred
In withdrawing under concentrated fire
from forts and Infantry.
Among tbe Confederate officers lot
was Major Grady of Gordon's stuff (fa
ther of the lute Henry W. Grady, tbe
noted Georgia journalist). Major Gra
dy was shot dead Id saddle about fifty
yards from the parapets of Fort Has
kell while leading a charge to silence
tbe guns of that work as a cover to
Gordon's retreat This charge was
made In full daylight, and Major Gra
dy In person came under my own eye.
One feature of the battle General
Gordon nobly passed over In silence. It
was not for him to tell It, although
there Is a hint of It in the words which
he quotes from Lee about the lack of
rations in the Confederate army. His
soldiers were actually famished, and
when they found themselves within
our camp, surrounded by an abundance
of bread and meat, they fell to and ate
a Hrjuare meal. The time thus lost was
t' Our cannoneers stood to the.
guns, our Infantry llmnl th imnipets
on the Dank and In front of the ns
sallauts, and the Koldon hour for Gor
don and Lee was added to the eternity
of bygone. .
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