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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
came strongly fortified. At this time Brig.-Gen. U. S. Grant, U. S. V., commanded the district of C the morning of the 7th of November, 1861, General Grant, with two brigades of infantry, consistinglk, advised of the landing of the forces under Grant, ordered Brigadier-General Pillow to cross theal troops. Making his dispositions to receive Grant's attack, skirmishers were hotly engaged immedwere soon forced back on the main line. General Grant's first battle was on; it was fierce and wicial report, continued for four hours. In General Grant's order of the following day, thanking hit; and with this command fell upon the rear of Grant's troops, routed them, recaptured two pieces owas a race with this command and the troops of Grant for the transports. Smith succeeded only in r from the fire of the Federal gunboats. General Grant reported his entire loss at 85 killed, 301ed, 107 missing. Brig.-Gen. C. F. Smith, under Grant's order, made a demonstration in force in the [1 more...]
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
s, consisting of 2,610 officers and men of all arms. Gen. U. S. Grant, commanding an army of 16,000 men, had landed at Bailimself and Captain Taylor's company of Tennesseeans. General Grant invested Fort Donelson on the 12th of February, 1862, wways fired at the right time and to the right place. General Grant had so far failed to accomplish anything with his army.of Forrest's Tennessee cavalry, disputed the advance of General Grant on Fort Donelson with commendable enterprise and skill,ted to 12,000 to 14,500 men. General Badeau, in his life of Grant, Vol. I, page 36, says, on the last day of the fight Grantfar below the number, and General Buell stated in 1865 that Grant had 30,000 to 35,000 exclusive of the naval contingent. Mobile & Ohio and the Memphis & Charleston railroads. General Grant was moving on the same point, and Gen. Don Carlos Buellement of his troops that enabled him to form a junction with Grant in time to save the army of the latter from annihilation.
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
f Purdy with his division. In the attack about to be made on General Grant, General Johnston expected to beat him back to his transports a Tennessee river and give battle to Buell, known to be advancing to Grant's assistance. General Johnston rapidly concentrated his troops andamed in his plan of attack, and it was successful at all points. Grant's troops made a stout resistance, but retired slowly from the momenetter, said: One more resolute movement forward would have captured Grant and his whole army. That movement was not made. The troops were withdrawn to receive an attack from the combined forces of Grant and Buell on the following day. Another battle of Shiloh was fought, with varcaptured were those of Brig.-Gen. B. M. Prentiss, Sixth division of Grant's army. At 8 a. m. of the 7th General Polk ordered Cheatham's di reports the Confederate loss at 10,699. Swinton fixes the loss of Grant and Buell in killed, wounded and captured, at 15,000. In May, 18
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
ville important service of Tennesseeans fruits of the campaign. On June 17, 1862, Gen. Braxton Bragg was placed in command of the army, known afterward as the. army of Tennessee, General Beauregard commanding the department. The army was concentrated at Tupelo, Miss., and after rest and reorganization was ready for the field. General Bragg had before him the alternatives of idleness at Tupelo, an attack on Halleck at Corinth, an attack on Buell at or about Chattanooga, or an attack on Grant in west Tennessee. The threatened advance of Buell meant the severance of the Confederate States, the East from the West. General Bragg, seeing this danger, determined, he said, to move to Chattanooga, and drive the enemy from our important country in western Alabama, middle Tennessee and Kentucky. A small division of troops was sent from Tupelo to the department of East Tennessee, then commanded by Maj.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith, and later, Smith was further reinforced by the brigades of P.
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
to it. The boy named by General Breckinridge was Luke E. Wright, younger brother of the gallant captain, and afterward junior-lieutenant of the battery. The experience of that fateful day made him a veteran and a conspicuous soldier; he survived the war and attained civil prominence as one of the leaders of the bar of Tennessee. Before the fragment of the company was hardly out of the battery, in obedience to orders to retire, the Federal flag was flying on one of their lost guns. Lieutenants Grant and Phillips, with the guns saved, stood fast and covered the retreat of the attacking division, which fell back in the face of overwhelming numbers, and with the conviction that somebody had blundered. General Hardee, the corps commander, said in his official report, this movement was made without my knowledge. On the 20th of April, 1863, Lieutenant-General Hardee, under instructions, furnished the following names of officers of his corps who fell at Murfreesboro, who were conspic
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
of Reynolds and Vaughn at Vicks— Burg the First regiment heavy artillery the State's Representation at Port Hudson, La. On the 8th of December, 1862, Major-General Grant, from his headquarters at Oxford, Miss., ordered Maj.-Gen. W. T. Sherman, then at Memphis, to proceed with his forces down the river to the vicinity of Vick ordered working parties to unload from his transports all things necessary for five days operations, this being considered ample time to enable him to execute General Grant's order. Sherman's plan was by a prompt and concentrated movement to break the Confederate center near Chickasaw bayou. On the 29th of December the assaultn, had received the baptism of fire at Fort Donelson. The distinction then won had its sequel at Chickasaw Bayou. Later in the campaign against Vicksburg, when Grant, after various failures, had landed south of Vicksburg, and advanced to the railroad between Jackson and Vicksburg, a Tennessee brigade, under Brig.-Gen. John Greg
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
nt-General Longstreet, commanding the left wing of the Confederate army, noted the capture by his command of 40 pieces of artillery, over 3,000 prisoners, 10 regimental standards, 17,645 small-arms, and 393,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition collected on the field. General Bragg reported the capture of 8,000 prisoners and 51 pieces of artillery. Capt. O. T. Gibbes, ordnance officer, army of Tennessee, reported that 66 pieces of captured artillery were received by him at Ringgold, Ga. Gen. U. S. Grant, in a letter to Gen. W. T. Sherman, dated September 30, 1863, says our loss was 54 pieces of artillery. It was not until 2 p. m. of the 21st that an advance of the army was made. Cheatham, leading it on the right, bivouacked for the night at the Mission House, and moving early on the morning of the 22d, reached Missionary Ridge at 10 a. m. He reported that finding the enemy on the crest of the ridge in force, his position was assailed and carried by Maney's and Vaughan's brigades af
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
, consisting of the departments of the Cumberland, Ohio and Tennessee, was created, with Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant in command. General Bragg preferred charges against Lieutenant-General Polk for disobrce the Federal army; Sherman's army had been brought up; and two months of inaction enabled General Grant, in command at Chattanooga, to concentrate a great army. On the other hand, Longstreet withtance abandoned the field and lost the battle, and possibly prevented a greater disaster. General Grant was slow to claim the great victory he had won. At 7:15 p. m. of the 25th of November he advof the great battles of the Southwest, and had won commendation and honor on every field. General Grant reported his losses at Missionary Ridge at 5,616 killed, wounded and missing. The corrected isoners, 7 pieces of artillery, 9 battleflags and not less than 10,000 stand of small-arms. General Grant, in forwarding Hooker's report under date of March 25, 1864, placed this endorsement upon it
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
nough to crush Hood even if he had avoided Franklin. Marching through the beautiful valley of the Tennessee over which Sherman had carried his army to reinforce Grant at Chattanooga, our army was appalled at its desolation. Sherman's iron hand had destroyed it—old men, non-combatants, women, children, faithful slaves, were redwer's division of the Seventeenth corps penetrated the cavalry line on our extreme left and moved upon Bentonville. General Sherman, reporting the incident to General Grant, said: Yesterday we pushed him (Johnston) hard and came very near crushing him. But General Hardee met the movement with Cumming's Georgia brigade under Colonth their arms, and 3 pieces of artillery. Sherman must have lost 400 in killed and wounded, as the Confederates fought behind intrenchments. In a dispatch to General Grant, General Sherman states his entire losses in the Carolina campaign at 2,500; but his own official return of casualties fixes his loss at Kinston at 1,337; at
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
head of which he had won distinction. Gen. U. S. Grant, promoted lieutenant-general and assignedt suspended hostilities. The next morning General Grant telegraphed to Halleck, So far, there is n5,000 men, increasing his strength to 45,000. Grant was reinforced by 12,000, increasing his effective strength to 112,000. General Grant said: We assaulted at 4:30 a. m. to-day (June 3d) without g luster to its already splendid reputation. Grant reported a loss at the Wilderness of 17,666, ae day of his signal defeat at Cold Harbor, General Grant confessed to the failure of his plan of caGeneral Meade, in reporting this affair to General Grant, said: Our men are tired, and the attacks the battle was renewed by the attacks made by Grant's entire army, which were three times repulsed$5,000,000 in Confederate money for use of General Grant in a cavalry expedition, on which he propoof his subordinates were censured for what General Grant stigmatized as the miserable failure of Sa[3 more...]
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