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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 209 17 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 149 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 144 2 Browse Search
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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 126 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., chapter 12.46 (search)
might have abandoned the Mississippi River to Grant and brought Polk to his aid, but he had no thoe of the Federal army: this effected, to crush Grant in battle before the arrival of Buell. This ms army, which might arrive before Buell joined Grant, and which did arrive only a day or two later.h, inadequate to anymore serious duty. General Grant's army had been moved up the Tennessee Rivists that his plan of campaign was offensive. Grant's first object was to destroy the railroads wh begun, and was there to frustrate it. Indeed, Grant's army was assembled at Pittsburg Landing onlyfore Johnston completed the concentration. Grant has been severely criticised for placing his a movement. The determinate purpose to capture Grant that day was lost sight of. The strong arm was thousand men. This delay was the salvation of Grant's army. General Breckinridge's command cloconfirm this statement. General Buell says of Grant's army that there were not more than five thou[22 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
ilroad, about 40 miles from Bowling Green. General Grant had about 20,000 men in hand at or about Cht be caught and crushed between the armies of Grant and Buell, and that it would also expose to caat moment that within the next thirty days General Grant would strike and capture the Confederate c March. Making his report the same day to General Grant, who had just reached Savannah, General Sht for us, however, was to strike a blow at General Grant so soon as General Johnston's troops were come, whereas the union of Buell's forces with Grant, which might be anticipated at an early day, wter Hood's. 2. Beauregard's headquarters. 3. Grant's headquarters, June, 1862. 4. Rosecrans's hely south, and possibly a little west, says General Grant. Their first line, reaching from the bridnything like an attack upon our position. General Grant thereupon wrote to his superior, General Hen when leaving Savannah the next morning, General Grant scarcely at first can have believed that h[14 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)
Confederate column reached a point within less than two miles of the Federal lines, instead of on the 4th, in which case the battle would have been fought with General Grant alone, or without the material and moral help derived from the advent of Buell on the field, as happened on the night of April 6th and morning of the 7th. Iwas brought me from Corinth by a courier, saying that scouts employed in observing General Buell's movements reported him to be marching not toward a junction with Grant, but in the direction of Decatur, North Alabama. This assuring dispatch I handed to General Beauregard, and then, at his order, I wrote a telegraphic report to thod temper. With a laugh, he said: You gentlemen have had your way to-day, but it will be very different to-morrow. You'll see! Buell will effect a junction with Grant to-night, and we'll turn the tables on you in the morning. This was said evidently with sincerity, and was answered in the same pleasant spirit, and I showed h
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
nd needed reinforcements. My regiment, which was at the time just behind General Beauregard, held in 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 battle, and went in with the rebel yell. The men on our left took up the yell and the charge, and we gained several hundred yards of ground. From this point we fought back slowly and steadily for several hours, until word came that the army was ordered to retreat, that the commands would fall back in succession from the left, and that the right wing would be the rear-guard. This order was carried out, and when night came the right wing was slowly falling back with face to the foe. We halted on the same ground we had occupied on the morning of the 6th, just before the battle began. If there was any breaking and starting, as General Grant expresses it, I did not witness it.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The March of Lew Wallace's division to Shiloh. (search)
mstances and character of the order. As General Grant passed up from Savannah on the Tigress on der arms at the sound of the battle. [For General Grant's statements, see pages 467-8.] General Was official report places the hour at which General Grant reached Crump's at about 9, while General General Grant gives the hour of his arrival at Pittsburg Landing as about 8. Grant left Wallace a directioGrant left Wallace a direction to hold himself in readiness for orders. In anticipation of the receipt of them, a horse was sadof this order there is much disagreement. General Grant says that the order was verbal; that it war not later than 9 o'clock. Rowley states that Grant gave the order verbally and in person to Baxtemap in General Badeau's Military history of U. S. Grant, for the main roads on the north side of Sn the Century and in the Personal memoirs of U. S. Grant ]: Headquarters, Third Division, Adamsvillxoneration of your course. Yours truly, U. S. Grant, General. To Major-General L. Wallace. [5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 14.53 (search)
hnson for a pardon. Secretary Stanton and Judge Advocate-General Holt were for trying him, and his application hung fire. March 12th, 1866, he wrote to Lieutenant-General Grant, stating his grievances and again setting forth his claim for a pardon. Upon the back of that letter General Grant made this singular indorsement: DurinGeneral Grant made this singular indorsement: During the rebellion belligerent rights were acknowledged to the enemies of our country, and it is clear to me that the parole given by the armies laying down their arms protects them against punishments for acts lawful for any other belligerents. In this case I know it is claimed that the men tried and convicted for the crime of deserrnment did not disregard its contract entered into to secure the surrender of an armed enemy. And the whole was referred to the President. The indorsement of General Grant was all-powerful, and nothing was done.-R. C. H. Things remained in this condition until July, 1862, when General Burnside, with the Ninth Corps, of which
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first fight of iron-clads. (search)
f Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant Pendergrast says, in his official report: seeing that our men were being killed without the prospect of any relief from the Minnesota, . . . not being able to get a single gun to bear upon the enemy, and the ship being on fire in several places, upon consultation with Commander William Smith we deemed it proper to haul down our colors. Lieutenant Smith's sword was sent to his father by the enemy under a flag of truce.-editors. Map of the routes by which General Grant was reenforced at Pittsburg Landing. certain duties after getting on board. Some were to try to wedge the turret, some to cover the pilot-house and all the openings with tarpaulins, others to scale with ladders the turret and smoke-stack, using shells, hand-grenades, etc. Even if but two of the gun-boats should succeed in grappling her, we were confident of success. Talking this over since with Captain S. D. Greene, who was the first lieutenant of the Monitor, and in command after Cap
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 2: birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army. (search)
who had slept beneath the same blanket, drank from the same canteen, and formed those ties of steel which are strongest when pledged amid common dangers around a common mess table, were to be marshaled under the banners of opposing armies. Ulysses S. Grant was then twenty-five years old, a lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry, self-reliant, brave, and fertile in resources. He fought with old Zach at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and at Monterey; was at Vera Cruz, and in all the battles which foouacked, fought, and bled side by side on the burning sands of old Mexico, imagine that in less than two decades McDowell would be training his guns on Johnston and Beauregard at first Manassas, while McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant would each in turn test the prowess of Lee; nor did their old commander, Scott, dream he was training these young men in practical strategy, grand tactics, and the science of war, in order that they might direct the information thus acquired agai
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 12: Gettysburg. (search)
it secure. Halleck, from his office in Washington, urged him to Push forward and fight Lee before he can cross the Potomac. And Mr. Lincoln was cramming him with the comforting information that Vicksburg, on the Mississippi, had surrendered to Grant on July 4th, and that if Lee's army could be destroyed, the rebellion would be over. While waiting at Williamsport General Lee received the news of the capture (by raiding Federal cavalry) of his son, General W. H. F. Lee, who was wounded at B therefore only eight when the war closed. He was greatly admired for his rapid, springy walk, high spirit, bold carriage, and muscular strength. When a colt he took the first premium at the Greenbrier Fair, under the name of Jeff Davis. General Grant also had a horse called Jeff Davis. The general changed his name to Traveler. He often rode him in Lexington after the war, and at his funeral Traveler followed the hearse. He was appraised by a board in August, 1864, at $4,600 in Confedera
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 13: campaign in Virginia.-Bristol Station.-mine Run.-Wilderness. (search)
d, and Hood, had served in the Fourth Infantry-Grant's old regiment-and was thirty years of age whens turned toward Parker's Store to meet Hill. Grant discovered that he had Lee's army on his rightosition. Lee's plan was to feign attack on Grant's right and assail his left flank, Grant's to ent. On the 18th and 19th he attacked again. Grant lost eighteen thousand three hundred and ninethe Federals. Hancock's corps was brought from Grant's right during the stormy night before and masoncentrated his efforts to retake the salient, Grant to hold it. The musketry fire with its terrifiJunction, May 23, 1864, the general wrote: General Grant, having apparently become tired of forcingnsive lines showed the skill of the engineer. Grant crossed his army at two points some miles apartage of his position. Warren, on the right of Grant's army and Hancock on the left, supposed, afte James and up the York, landed, and marched to Grant. Lee was also re-enforced by a division of No[53 more...]
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