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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, The battle of Franklin-the battle of Nashville (search)
rebel army moving for the Ohio River, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find. Let there be no further delay. Hood cannot even stand a drawn battle so far from his supplies of ordnance stores. If he retreats and you follow, he must lose his material and much of his army. I am in hopes of receiving a dispatch from you to-day announcing that you have moved. Delay no longer for weather or reinforcements. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General Washington, D. C. December 15, 1864 Major-General Thomas, Nashville, Tenn. I was just on my way to Nashville, but receiving a dispatch from Van Duzer detailing your splendid success of to-day, I shall go no further. Push the enemy now and give him no rest until he is entirely destroyed. Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. Do not stop for trains or supplies, but take them from the country as the enemy have done. Much is now expected.
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 46 (search)
All quiet below, save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads. The capture of Fort McAlister, Savannah, has caused a painful sensation. It is believed we have as many men on the Georgia coast as the enemy; but they are not the men of property-men of 1861-62; and those without property (many of them) are reluctant to fight for the benefit of the wealthy class, remaining at home. The following dispatch from Gen. Bragg was received this morning: Charleston, December 15th, 1864. My services not being longer needed in this department, I shall leave this evening for Wilmington, and resume my command. Sherman has opened communication with his new base, by the Ogeechee. The means to meet him do not exceed one-half the estimate in yours of the 7th instant. Braxton Bragg. So ends Gen. Bragg's campaign against Sherman! I have not heard about the President's health to-day. But no papers have come in from his office. Lieut.-Col. Ruffin, Commiss
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 8: (search)
l weather and almost impassable roads which had been his excuse, might result most unfortunately for the Union army by allowing the enemy to amass such a large force. Therefore General Logan wished to use his influence to have Thomas obey Grant's orders at once and thereby relieve him of the necessity of superseding General Thomas. General Thomas, being convinced that longer delay would cause him to forfeit his command, and that he would be superseded by General Logan, made the attack December 15, 1864. General Logan, receiving at Louisville the news of the battle of Nashville, at once sent to General Grant the following telegram: Louisville, Dec. 17, 1864. Lieut. Gen'l. U. S. Grant, City Point, Va. Have just arrived, weather bad, is raining since yesterday morning. People here all jubilant over General Thomas's success. Confidence seems to be restored. I will remain here to hear from you. All things going right, it would seem best that I return soon to join my com
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 29. (search)
aign further than to state that the Confederate invasion of Tennessee ended in disastrous failure. It was severely checked at the battle of Franklin on November 30; and when, in spite of this reverse, Hood pushed forward and set his army down before Nashville, as if for attack or siege, the Union army, concentrated and reinforced to about fifty-five thousand, was ready. A severe storm of rain and sleet held the confronting armies in forced immobility for a week; but on the morning of December 15, 1864, General Thomas moved forward to an attack in which on that and the following day he inflicted so terrible a defeat upon his adversary, that the Confederate army not only retreated in rout and panic, but soon literally went to pieces in disorganization, and disappeared as a military entity from the western conflict. Long before this, Sherman had started on his famous march to the sea. His explanations to Grant were so convincing, that the general-in-chief, on November 2, telegraph
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 30. (search)
September 19, the President sent the governor specific authority to execute the. scheme outlined in his letter of advice; but no substantial success had yet been reached in the process of reconstruction in Tennessee during the year 1864, when the Confederate army under Hood turned northward from Atlanta to begin its third and final invasion of the State. This once more delayed all work of reconstruction until the Confederate army was routed and dispersed by the battle of Nashville on December 15, 1864. Previous popular action had called a State convention, which, taking immediate advantage of the expulsion of the enemy, met in Nashville on January 9, 1865, in which fifty-eight counties and some regiments were represented by about four hundred and sixty-seven delegates. After six days of deliberation the convention adopted a series of amendments to the constitution, the main ordinance of which provided: That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. (search)
The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. The Union Army, Major-General George H. Thomas. Fourth Army Corps, Brig.-Gen. Thomas J. Wood. first division, Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. First Brigade, Col. Isaac M. Kirby: 21st Ill., Capt. William 11. Jamison; 38th Ill., Capt. Andrew M. Pollard; 31st Ind., Col. John T. Smith; 81st Ind., Maj. Edward G. Mathey; 90th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Samuel N. Yeoman; 101st Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Bedan B. McDanald. Brigade loss: k, 20; w, 100 ==120. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Walter C. Whitaker: 96th Ill., Maj. George Hicks; 115th Ill., Col. Jesse H. Moore; 35th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Augustus G. Tassin; 21st Ky., Col. James C. Evans; 23d Ky., Lieut.-Col. George W. Northup; 45th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. John H. Humphrey; 51st Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Charles H. Wood. Brigade loss: k, 10; w, 38; m, 1==49. Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William Grose: 75th Ill., Col. John E. Bennett; 80th Ill., Capt. James Cunningham; 84th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Charles H. Morton; 9th Ind.,
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 55: operations of the Mississippi Squadron in the latter part of 1864 and in 1865. (search)
his highest recognition was a complimentary letter from the Secretary of the Navy on the occasion when he brought about the capture of General John Morgan, the celebrated Confederate partisan leader. In the engagement with the Confederate batteries, the Neosho was struck one hundred and ten times with shot and shell, ranging in size from 20 to 30 pounders, but she received no injury that would have prevented her from going into battle immediately afterwards. From the 7th to the 15th of December, 1864, Lieutenant-Commander Fitch's little flotilla was most active in co-operating with the Army, making reconnoissances and attacks on Confederate batteries whenever they showed themselves along the river. On the 14th inst., Fitch was requested to co-operate with the Army in order to capture some artillery. By a very skillful manoeuvre on the part of the Army and Navy, a battery of four guns was captured. While the Navy were advancing in front, the cavalry surrounded and captured the
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 17: (search)
d of Forrest's cavalry. The enemy's estimate of our losses as well as of the number of Confederate colors captured is erroneous, as will be seen by the following telegram: [no. 560.]headquarters near Nashville, on Franklin pike, December 15th, 1864. Honorable J. A.. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond. The enemy claim that we lost thirty colors in the fight at Franklin. We lost thirteen, capturing nearly the same number. The men who bore ours were killed on or within the enemy's such weather as you find. * * * * The following dispatch from General Grant to Thomas gives strong evidence that in this campaign we had thrust at the vitals of the enemy: Van Horne's History, vol. II, page 259. Washington, December 15th, 1864, 11.30 p. m. I was just on my way to Nashville, but receiving a dispatch from Van Duzen, detailing your splendid success of to-day, I shall go no further. * * * U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. He could not well afford to allow us
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 6: the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease. (search)
fficers and men engaged, its loss being over 57 per cent. The troops in Paine's Division were the same ones which carried the works at Petersburg, June 15, 1864. In the action on the Darbytown Road, Va., October 27, 1864, the Twenty-ninth Connecticut (colored) distinguished itself by the efficiency with which it held a skirmish line for several hours, under a strong pressure. Loss, 11 killed and 69 wounded. Two brigades of colored troops participated in the victory at Nashville, December 15, 1864. The heaviest loss in any regiment on that field occurred in the Thirteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, which, in its assault on Overton Hill, lost 55 killed (including 4 officers), and 166 wounded; Includes the mortally wounded. total, 221. The severest loss at the battle of Honey Hill, S. C., November 30, 1864, fell on a black regiment, the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, which lost in that action, 29 killed, and 115 wounded; total, 144. In the closing battle of the war — the victor
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
ng to 11 killed, 87 wounded, and 11 missing. At Chickamauga, it lost 13 killed, 91 wounded, and 22 missing. In October, 1863, the regiment was assigned to Grose's (3d) Brigade, Palmer's (1st) Division, Fourth Corps. During the Atlanta campaign this division was commanded by General Stanlev, and by General Kimball in the Franklin-Nashville campaign. The regiment reenlisted in December, 1863, and thus preserved its organization during the war. After the victory over Hood, at Nashville, December 15, 1864, it marched into East Tennessee; from there it moved to Texas, where it remained with the Army of Occupation until September, 1865, when it was mustered out and returned home. Fourteenth Indiana Infantry. Kimball's Brigade--French's Division--Second Corps. （1) Col. Nathan Kimball; Bvt. Major-Gen. （3) Col. John Coons (Killed). （2) Col. William Harrow; Brig.-Gen. （4) Col. Elijah H. Cavins. companies. killed and died of wounds. died of disease, accidents, in Prison,
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