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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 185 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 172 8 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 156 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 153 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 147 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 145 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 121 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 114 2 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 110 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 102 2 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Organization of the two governments. (search)
Organization of the two governments. The United States Government. I. The Buchanan Administration. (1857-1861.) President: James Buchanan (Pa.) Vice-President: John C. Breckinridge * (Ky.) Department of State. Secretary of State: Lewis Cass (Mich.) Secretary of State: Jeremiah S. Black (Pa.), appointed Dec. 17, 1860. War Department Secretary of War: John B. Floyd * (Va.) Secretary of War: Joseph Holt (Ky.) (ad interim), Dec. 31, 1860; regularly appointed Jan. 18, 18retary of War: Judah P. Benjamin, Sept. 17, 1861 Secretary of War: George W. Randolph, March 17, 1862 Secretary of War: Gustavus W. Smith, acting, Nov. 17, 1862 Secretary of War: James A. Seddon, Nov. 20, 1862 Secretary of War: John C. Breckinridge, Jan. 28, 1865. Secretary of the Navy : Stephen R. Mallory. Secretary of the Treasury: C. G. Memminger Secretary of the Treasury: George A. Trenholm , June, 1864. Attorney-General: Thomas Bragg Attorney-General: Thomas H. Watts
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
on of General Anderson. Of course it is to remain a secret unless and until the commission is delivered. This letter bears the indorsement, this day made.--editors. His example was followed by most of the higher officers, and the State Guard began rapidly to disintegrate: It was no uncommon sight in Louisville, shortly after this, to see a squad of recruits for the Union service marching up one side of a street while a squad destined for the Confederacy was moving down the other. John C. Breckinridge, Major-General, C. S. A.; Vice-President of the United States, 1857-61; Confederate Secretary of War, appointed Jan. 28, 1865. from a daguerreotype taken about 1850. In the interior, a train bearing a company destined for Nelson's camp took aboard at the next county town another company which was bound for Camp Boone. The officers in charge made a treaty by which their men were kept in separate cars. On the day after the August election Nelson's recruits began to gather at his r
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
pickets, rendered it so improbable that the Union commander would not be prepared for the attack, that General Beauregard advised the abandonment of the enterprise, to the success of which a surprise was deemed to be essential. General Johnston overruled the proposition, however, and the attack was ordered for the following morning. The army was drawn up in three parallel lines, covering the front of the Federal position. Hardee commanded the first line, Bragg the second, and Polk and Breckinridge the third, the latter being intended as a reserve. The locality on which the storm of battle was about to burst has often been described with more or less of inaccuracy or incompleteness. It is an undulating table-land, quite broken in places, elevated a hundred feet or thereabout above the river; an irregular triangle in outline, nearly equilateral, with the sides four miles long, bordered on the east by the river, which here runs nearly due north, on the north-west by Snake Creek a
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Shiloh. (search)
ood, Col. W. K. Patterson (temporarily): 16th Ala., Lieut.-Col. J. W. Iarris; 8th Ark., Col. W. K. Patterson; 9th Ark. (battalion), Maj. J. H. Kelly; 3d Miss. Battalion, Maj. A. B. Hardcastle; 27th Tenn., Col. Chris. H. Williams (k), Maj. Samuel T. Love (m w); 44th Tenn., Col. C. A. McDaniel; 55th Tenn., Col. James L. McKoin; Miss. Battery, Capt. W. L. Harper (w), Lieut. Put. Darden; Ga. Dragoons, Capt. I. W. Avery. Brigade loss: k, 107 ; w, 600; m, 38 = 745. reserve corps, Brig.-Gen. John C. Breckinridge. First Brigade, Col. Robert P. Trabue: 4th Ala. Batt., Maj. J. 11. Clifton; 31st Ala., Lieut.-Col.--Galbraith; 3d Ky., Lieut.-Col. Ben. Anderson (w); 4th Ky., Lieut.-Col. A. R. Hynes (w); 5th Ky., Col. Thomas H. Hunt; 6th Ky., Col. Joseph H. Lewis; Tenn. Battal. ion, Lieut.-Col. J. M. Crews; Ky. Battery, Capt. Edward P. Byrne; Ky. Battery, Capt. Robert Cobb. Brigade loss: k, 151; w, 557; in, 92-= 800. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John S. Bowen (w), Col. John D. Martin: 9th Ark
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
t, Bragg the center, Hardee the right wing, Breckinridge the reserve. hope engagement before Buell in which Johnston, Beauregard, Bragg, Polk, Breckinridge and Gilmer took part, which added greatly tcorps, under Polk, and three brigades under Breckinridge. Polk's command was massed in columns of brigades on the Bark road near Mickey's, and Breckinridge's on the road from Monterey toward the same eight hundred paces from Bragg's line; and Breckinridge, to the right of that road, was to give supegiment; and, after a brief conference with Breckinridge, whom he loved and admired, that officer, f helping to envelop the Federal center; but Breckinridge's two brigades did not make another charge was the salvation of Grant's army. General Breckinridge's command closed in on the Federal leftt the victory was won. Bragg, Polk, Hardee, Breckinridge, all the corps commanders, were at the fronhased, was almost certain. Polk, Hardee, Breckinridge, Withers, Gibson, Gilmer, and all who were [4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
f 2 brigades, with a reserve under Brigadier-General Breckinridge, and several cavalry regiments unaawback was encountered from Lieutenant-General John C. Breckinridge, C. S. A. From a photograph. sissippi, and on the following day Brigadier-General Breckinridge was substituted for General Critterals Polk and Hardee by 1:30 A. M., and General Breckinridge was notified to the same effect by telet, Bragg the center, Hardee the right wing, Breckinridge the reserve. Hope engagement before Buell g the left of his line. The reserve, under Breckinridge, of 7062 men, exclusive of cavalry, marched of small arms, I ordered Generals Polk and Breckinridge to hasten forward, the first to the supportfound near by, resting at ordered arms, General Breckinridge, to whom the order was given, being wits of General Beauregard. )-G. T. B. General Breckinridge quickly became engaged with the enemy ihere to be seen as early as 4 P. M. General Breckinridge, with the rear-guard, bivouacked that n[12 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
ointed out that the Confederate forces posted under General Breckinridge at several points along the line of the Memphis andeipts, which I required to be taken. The orders to General Breckinridge were given by telegraph, he having been called by mproved to be Statham's brigade of the reserve under General Breckinridge; but because it belonged to the reserve, I hesitateressed his agreement with me, and I rode at once to General Breckinridge, who was not far to the rear of his troops, surrounby a number of officers. Accosting him, I said, General Breckinridge, it is General Johnston's order that you advance ane din of their discharges. As the order was given, General Breckinridge, clad in a well-fitting blouse of dark-colored Kent, and it was quite dark by the time Generals Hardee and Breckinridge came to see General Beauregard for orders for the next or until the entire Confederate force had retired, General Breckinridge's troops being the last, and without seeing a singl
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
note and sketch, and I have already ordered General Breckinridge to send forces to fill up the space on our rtoward the right, and you will probably meet General Breckinridge; lead him to the position you indicate, and ohnston used. I obeyed the order given, met General Breckinridge, conducted him to the place where I had left and the Federal division gone. I rode with General Breckinridge a few hundred yards forward, and we soon rechort distance from their original position. General Breckinridge deployed Bowen's and Statham's brigades, movk was on the left, then Bragg, then Hardee, then Breckinridge. In our front only one single point was showingfficered and christened, a message came from General Breckinridge on our extreme right that he was hard pressin reserve by his orders, was sent by him to General Breckinridge's assistance. We marched down the line of battle to the extreme right, passed beyond General Breckinridge's right, wheeled by companies into line of batt