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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
er's division capture of Jackson retreat of Johnston towards Canton destruction of railroad and smoves to cut Grant's communications receives Johnston's orders and reverses his column battlefieldll of death Grant gets in advance of column Johnston loses a day Sherman ordered to Bridgeport wiated direct through Raymond to Jackson, where Johnston next day took command, having just arrived inon alone might not have been able to dislodge Johnston from Jackson, which was strongly fortified; agenius and energy than his subordinate. When Johnston reached Jackson, he found a force there, repo the 13th, the approach of the national army, Johnston that night ordered Pemberton, who was now at e should be brought. Time is all-important. Johnston to Pemberton, May 13th. Johnston's hope, undoJohnston's hope, undoubtedly, was to detain his antagonist in front of Jackson until the reenforcements from the south anparent that McPherson had engaged the bulk of Johnston's command, without further aid than the moral[13 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
to hold the line of the Big Black river, keep Johnston in check, and to cover the Y zoo, from the mhed the purpose of his expedition, preventing Johnston from moving upon Vicksburg in that direction,adiness to move at a moment's notice. Should Johnston come, we want to whip him, if the siege has t McPherson, he said: Sherman goes out to meet Johnston. If he comes, the greatest vigilance will bets of Grant, and transmit this information to Johnston. Supplies, in consequence, were sent as far ake, if I can. On the 27th, he reported that Johnston expected ten thousand reenforcements from Brawith pressed cotton, for crossing ditches. Johnston was moving up at the same time. On the nightn the 22d of June, Pemberton had suggested to Johnston that the latter should make propositions to Gble. Again: Make your calculations to attack Johnston and destroy the road north of Jackson. I canded, it is fair to suppose that Pemberton and Johnston, so repeatedly and disastrously beaten, lost [42 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
tch, he said: It seems to me, now, that Mobile should be captured, the expedition starting from Lake Ponchartrain. But Halleck had other plans, and, on the 22d, he replied: efore attempting Mobile, I think it will be best to clean up a little. Johnston should be disposed of, also Price and Marmaduke, so as to hold line of Arkansas river. This will enable us to withdraw troops from Missouri. Vicksburg and Port Hudson should be repaired, so as to be tenable by small garrisons; also, assist Banirtually discharged from the rebel service. Thousands crossed the Mississippi and went west; many begged a passage to the north, and quite a number expressed a strong anxiety to enter the national service; but this, of course, was not allowed. Johnston's army also was greatly demoralized, and the men deserted by thousands. Even a political movement was started by citizens, west of Pearl river, to bring Mississippi back into the Union. This state of affairs, however, was not destined to last
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
Grant was operating behind Vicksburg, he had urged that Rosecrans should be directed to make some movement in his favor, to distract the enemy, and at least prevent the troops of Bragg, who was in front of Rosecrans, from being sent to reenforce Johnston. See page 227. But, although he was greatly superior to Bragg in numbers, Rosecrans refused to budge. See Halleck's report, as general-in-chief, for 1863. When Halleck gave him orders to advance, he held a council of war, and replied that it was a military maxim not to fight two decisive battles at the same time. So Bragg was depleted and Johnston reenforced, and the siege of Vicksburg prolonged. When Vicksburg fell, the rebels of course brought back to Bragg the troops that they were no longer able to use in front of Grant. The fact of these movements was shown conclusively at the time, by the reports of prisoners, as well as by scouts and spies from the various national armies. They were good strategists. Having fewer for
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 13: (search)
g Smith retreats to Memphis results of Meridian raid Cooperation of Thomas Johnston in command of rebel army movements in East Tennessee Grant ordered to Washin extent of more than a thousand miles. Thomas, at the centre, was confronting Johnston, Schofield was balancing Longstreet; and in order to distract the rebels, and rigades were sent from Mobile to the Tombigbee, and a force was withdrawn from Johnston's army, in front of Thomas. Never before had a national army penetrated so fa. Thomas moved out on the 29th, and caused the enemy, now commanded by Joseph E. Johnston, who had succeeded Hardee, to fall back from Tunnel hill. On the 1st of bruary, it was learned that a whole division and a brigade had been sent from Johnston, in the direction of Mobile. On the 5th, Grant was back at Nashville; and, the next day, receiving reports that two divisions from Johnston had been sent to Longstreet, he directed Thomas to send at least ten thousand men, besides Stanley's di
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 14: (search)
gth and resources, seemed to have lost none at all of its vitality. Kentucky and Tennessee, although in the possession of national forces, were yet debatable ground, and suffered all the ills of border territory in time of civil war; and Grant, ordered to the command of the entire region between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies, had checked the advance of Bragg, it is true, but even he had not yet driven the great rebel army of the West far beyond the northern boundaries of Georgia; for Johnston, the successor of the unlucky Bragg, still confronted the most formidable force that the government could accumulate in all its Western territory, and Longstreet occasionally threatened to assume the offensive in East Tennessee. In the Eastern theatre of war, no real progress had been made during three disastrous years. The first Bull Run early taught the nation that it had to contend with skilful, brave, and determined foes. Then came McClellan's labors in the organization of an army,
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter II. (search)
ts from which they can best be spared; at the same time, such a demonstration should be made on Columbus as will prevent the removal of any troops from that place; and if a sufficient number have already been withdrawn, the place should be taken. It may be well, also, to make a feint on the Tennessee river, with a command sufficient to prevent disaster under any circumstances. As our success in Kentucky depends in a great measure on our preventing reenforcements from joining Buckner and Johnston, not a moment's time should be lost in preparing these expeditions. I desire that you give me at once your views in full as to the best method of accomplishing our object, at the same time stating the nature and strength of the force that you can use for the purpose, and the time necessary to prepare. Very respectfully, G. B. McCLELLAN, Major-General commanding. Major-General Halleck to Brigadier-General Grant. headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, January 6, 1862.
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter III. (search)
the stampede of some of our raw troops, and gave us too little credit for the fact that for one whole day, weakened as we were by the absence of Buell's army, long expected, of Lewis-Wallace's division, only four miles off, and of the fugitives from our ranks, we had beaten off our assailants for the time. At the same time, our Army of the Tennessee have indulged in severe criticisms at the slow approach of that army which knew the danger that threatened us from the concentrated armies of Johnston, Beauregard, and Bragg, that lay at Corinth. In a war like this, where opportunities for personal prowess are as plenty as blackberries, to those who seek them at the front, all such criminations should be frowned down; and were it not for the military character of your journal, I would not venture to offer a correction to a very popular error. I will also avail myself of this occasion to correct another very common mistake, in attributing to General Grant the selection of that battle-f