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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 1.6 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The removal of McClellan
The removal of McClellan. by Richard B. Irwin, Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. V.
In some former notes
The Administration in the Peninsular campaign, Vol.
II. of this work, p. 435; Washington under Banks, Vol.
II. of this work, p. 541. I tried to trace with an impartial hand, and without intruding any prejudice or opinion of my own, the course of the unfortunate differences that had arisen between the Government and the commander of the Army of the Potomac.
The acute stage was reached on the Peninsula; Pope's campaign marked the first crisis.
On the 1st of September McClellan found himself a general without an army.
On the 2d the Government gave him what was left of two armies, and only asked him to defend the capital.
On the 5th the troops were in motion; on the 7th, without another word, and thus, as appears probable, overstepping the intentions of the Government,
See Vol.
II., p. 542, and note.
This is strongly confirmed by Chase's diary, Sep
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 6.79 (search)
Military operations in Louisiana in 1862.
for an account of the naval operations, see p. 551. by Richard B. Irwin, Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. V.
On the 1st of May General Butler took possession of New Orleans, and immediately after-ward of all its outlying defenses.
General Butler at once declared martial law (by a proclamation dated May 1st), abridging the liberty of the press and placing the telegraph under military espionage.
On the 6th a military commission was established to try capital and other serious offenses.
On the 13th an order was issued forbidding fasting and prayer under the proclamation of Jefferson Davis; on the 15th an order (No. 28) prescribing that women guilty of insulting Union soldiers should be treated as women of the town ; and on the 16th an order forbidding the city and the banks from receiving Confederate money, and fixing the 27th of May as a date when all circulation of Confederate notes and bills should cease in the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The capture of Port Hudson . (search)
The capture of Port Hudson. by Richard B. Irwin, Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. V.
General Banks arrived in New Orleans on the 14th of December, 1862, with the advance of a fleet of transports from New York and Hampton Roads, bringing reenforcements for the Department of the Gulf.
These reenforcements finally included 39 regiments of infantry (of which 22 were 9-months' men), six batteries of artillery, and one battalion of cavalry. On the 15th he took command of the department, Butler then formally taking leave of the troops.
His orders were to move up the Mississippi, in order to open the river, in cooperation with McClernand's column from Cairo.
Banks was to take command of the combined forces as soon as they should meet.
On the 16th General Grover, with 12 regiments and a battery, without disembarking at New Orleans, accompanied by two batteries and two troops of cavalry from the old force, and convoyed by a detachment of Farragut's fleet under
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Port Hudson, La. : May 23d July 8th , 1863