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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 35: Battle of Atlanta (search)
corps on its right, that Blair sent Giles A. Smith with his division to guard Leggett's left and rear, stationing his men along the line of the McDonough road, with set out with three divisions, but Cleburne, who had been all day withstanding Leggett and Giles A. Smith, fell into his column; they moved on all night. Hardee's h the Fifteenth Corps position, with plenty of cannon and rifle volleys, helped Leggett break this bold effort and send the venturesome Confederates immediately and r in order and well rested, had already broken forward from the Atlanta front. Leggett's soldiers had had hardly time to breathe after their rapid and successful firg every soldier behind his lines of intrenchment. Early in the action many of Leggett's regiments had hastened to Giles A. Smith's aid when he was in sore need, and now Blair was able to get for Leggett all the prompt reenforcement he required, so that by an obstinate resistance, somewhat prolonged, Cheatham's attacks on that
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 42: March through the Carolinas; Savannah, Ga., to Columbia, S. C. (search)
Chapter 42: March through the Carolinas; Savannah, Ga., to Columbia, S. C. Our first check was at Garden's Corner, where Leggett's division, being on the lead, saw a well-constructed outwork having a long parapet beyond an intervening swampy plateau. Here I saw a stretch of land without grass, apparently soft clay. Little by little I ventured out, trying the ground before charging my men over it. My aid, Captain Beebe, followed me. That morning I had accidentally thrown a civilian coat r too close to me and I took off my hat and made him as polite a bow as I could for his charming salute; then, with Beebe, I disappeared behind our brave skirmishers, who were watching and cheering in the front edge of a neighboring wood. General Leggett had meanwhile succeeded in turning the entire fort. As soon as this was done the Confederates evacuated the work and ran rapidly to the rear toward Pocotaligo. The Confederate force here encountered was but a rear guard, probably not excee
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 62: life in Washington, D. C., 1866 to 1874; assigned to duty in regular army as commander, Department of the Columbia (search)
o complaint with regard to hours or wages, at all times doing his best. Two years before the close of the Freedmen's Bureau I secured him a situation under General Leggett, one of my division commanders who was then at the head of the land office in the Department of the Interior. Leggett gave him a good clerkship and for a timLeggett gave him a good clerkship and for a time he was doing well. A Union soldier in that department who had lost one of his feet in the war, for some reason took a great dislike to him and began to worry him with petty persecutions. Cudlipp, for that was the young man's name, had married, and now had one child a little over three years of age. With this child he was one daand, in fact, ever since, the judge said that if I would pay the fine he would remit the confinement. I did so at once and then went back with Cudlipp to see General Leggett. The general declared that he could not reinstate him, for, he said: I have just learned that he has been in a penitentiary at Richmond, Va., having been con
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
12, 317, 318, 321, 330, 331, 351, 352, 357, 365-369, 376, 380-383, 385, 387, 388, 392, 395, 397-401, 403, 407, 413, 416, 419-421, 430, 432, 434, 435, 440, 445, 492, 498, 580; II, 124, 153, 154, 163, 309,582. Lee, Robert M., I, 245, 248. Lee, S. D., I, 85; II, 21, 22, 25, 36, 41, 57, 64, 120, 131, 141, 151, 152. Lee, S. P., I, 443. Lee, Wellesley, II, 387. Lee, W. H. F., I, 358. Leech, Susie, II, 530. Leech, William A., II, 527. Leech, William A., Mrs., II, 527. Leggett, M. D., I, 611,612; II, 5, 7, 8, 11, 101, 465, 466. Lemon, Mr., II, 494. Lewis, J. R., II, 290. Lightburn, Joseph A. J., II, 14. Lincoln, Abraham, I, 102, 104, 135, 137, 139, 176, 180, 182, 188, 193, 196, 200, 202, 209, 256, 271, 309, 310, 312, 349, 350, 379, 385, 452-454, 492; II, 42, 94, 155, 156, 159, 168, 169, 180, 183, 190, 197, 201, 205, 207, 319, 321, 325. Lincoln Memorial University, II, 68, 569, 588. Iindsley, Rev., II, 468, 471. Livermore, D. S., II, 187. Lloyd