Grant at once detached Sheridan with a heavy force, to operate against the lines from Gordonsville and Charlottesville.
Simultaneously with these a heavy force was to be massed under McClernand in Ohio, to sweep down the Mississippi; while the weak show of Confederate force in the states west of the river was to be crushed before it could make head.
Meantime, General Sigel had threatened the Valley with a heavy force; but, in mid-May he had been met by General Breckinridge and was defeated with such loss of men and munitions, that he retreated precipitately across the Shenandoah.
It is noteworthy that the first three of these had always earnestly advocated the Manassas movement.
On the thirtieth, Sheridan advanced to Five Forks, where he found a heavy force of the enemy.
Stanley with the rest of his cavalry marched down the Manchester pike, encountering the enemy's cavalry strongly posted at Lytle's Creek in heavy force.
The cavalry, on the 29th, reported an advance of the enemy in large numbers, and that a heavy force of infantry was driving in the pickets.
The enemy was pressing forward in heavy force, and their shouts of triumph rang from end to end of the field of battle.
Opposite the gap was a deep cutting, and the Federals, covered by the wood, massed here unobserved in heavy force.
The rebels are inheavy force in the Cumberland Valley.
Lee possibly may cross the Potomac again, however, if Meade detaches a heavy force to capture Richmond.
There are rumors of the enemy accumulating a heavy force at Suffolk.
The rebels, intent upon holding the point, had brought a heavy force to bear upon their assailants, and the regiment had begun to give way.
General Lee said in his report: "The attack on our left was speedily followed by one in heavy force on the center.
On the morning of the 5th it was again in motion, and encountered Grant's troops in heavy force at a short distance from the Old Wilderness Tavern, and Jones's and Battle's brigades were driven back in some confusion.
The attack on our left was speedily followed by one in heavy force on the center.
On the morning of the 9th the enemy appeared in heavy force in front of the works thrown up for the defense of the place; these, consisting of a line of rifle-pits prepared at intervals for artillery, .
In the mean time General Grant massed a heavy force, estimated at eighty thousand men, at various points on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
Surprised at this, he determined to withdraw to Todd's Tavern, but before his resolution could be put into execution the Confederates attacked him with a heavy force, and at the same time began pushing troops down the Catharpen road.
In case of an active campaign (a hostile one) I think a heavy force should be put on the Rio Grande as a first preliminary.
The Reds were busy defending Plesetskaya from a converging attack and not till snow clouds gathered in the northern skies were they to gather up a heavy force to attack Toulgas.
Beyond this was a half-mile square clearing with characteristic woodpiles and station and woodmen's houses, occupied by a heavy force of six hundred Red Guards, themselves preparing for attack on the Americans.
It seems that the commander of the force had sent out a Russian patrol on the east bank of the Emtsa River which brought back information that a heavy force of the enemy was operating in the rear of "D" force.
On the 22d Lee attempted a crossing near Sulphur Springs, and threw a heavy force of Jackson's troops across the river; but the storm, and the sudden rise of the stream making the fords impassable, induced him to withdraw.
Alarms from this line were frequent, and on one occasion the enemy were reported as advancing in heavy force, and the troops were hastily gotten under arms.
He advanced by way of Chancellorsville and old Wilderness Tavern; but on approaching the Court House we found it occupied by a heavy force of the enemy.
Had General Hooker been able to receive Sickles' message, and ordered a heavy force to his assistance, it is thought that a great disaster could have been prevented, and probably a victory might have been gained.
As General Wadsworth was placing his division in position, General Reynolds went forward quite alone to reconnoitre, when he discovered a heavy force of the enemy in a grove not far distant.
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