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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
Augur and Averill and Torbert and Sheridan and Grant and Halleck, and even from Stanton, the Secretlleck, at Washington, saying: Nothing from General Grant later than 12th. At 7:30 A. M. on the 13tuld not have been committed in compliance with Grant's orders. The government has published all thr's Ferry, and burned six wagons. It deceived Grant both as to the magnitude of the disaster and tofficial notice of me by General Lee since General Grant came to Virginia. The Berryville raid was the army immediately under the command of General Grant. He knew us only by report. No doubt, iyal was from the Valley—one was from Georgia. Grant evidently thought that these Children of the MBurning dwelling houses was a violation of General Grant's orders. At my request, when he was Presed, or rather distracted, the attention of General Grant, who was at that time commanding general og his part of this correspondence, sent to General Grant three letters dated respectively, August 1[40 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging. (search)
gree with him that our men were hung in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sheridan. They were not hung in obedience r in the air that Macbeth saw. If Sheridan had communicated Grant's dispatch of August 16th to any one to be executed, it woutted that they ever hung anybody. Major Richards refers to Grant's order to destroy subsistence for an army, so as to make trning of mills and wheat stacks in Loudoun two years before Grant came to Virginia. Grant's orders were no more directed agaGrant's orders were no more directed against my command than Early's. Augusta and Rockingham were desolated, where we never had been. But I can't see the slightest r I had suspended hostilities, surely it was equally so for Grant to do it, when I was doing all the damage in my power to hider. I once called at the White House in 1876 to see General Grant; sent him my card, and was promptly admitted. When I cthat General Custer had called the day before, but that General Grant refused to see him. The incident is related in the Life
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
d the same result. At Shiloh, April 5, 1862, General A. S. Johnston had driven Grant's army from three to four miles and crowded the whole broken mass upon the brining Pemberton not to fall back into Vicksburg after he had marched out to fight Grant at Baker's Creek, but to abandon the fortified position completely surrounded be by General Lee to the President to the effect that, while he retreated before Grant from the Wilderness toward the James, the government should abandon Richmond, m of him. That having been done, he would continue his retreat slowly, weakening Grant as he forced him to lengthen his line, and ultimately calling General Joseph E.efore Sherman, into reach, the two united Confederate armies would destroy both Grant and Sherman. This is a profoundly important inquiry into the military ability he was compelled to fall back from the Wilderness to Petersburg, it was because Grant had limitless resources at a moment's command, while every man who fell out of