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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 104 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 53 19 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 42 4 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 41 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 5 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 13 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 8 2 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
gia troops, and request him to hold possession until the relations of Georgia with the federal government be determined by this convention, and that a copy of this resolution be ordered to be transmitted to the governor of New York. While General Mitchel was holding the Charleston and Memphis Railway in northern Alabama, he set on foot one of the most daring enterprises attempted during the war. It was an effort to break up railway communications between Chattanooga and Atlanta, in Georgia. at an important curve in the road, after destroying the track a considerable distance, Andrews said, Only one more train to pass, boys, and then we will put our engine at full speed, burn the bridges after us, dash through Chattanooga, and on to Mitchel, at Huntsville. The exciting chase continued many miles. The raiders cut telegraph wires and tore up tracks. The pursuers gained upon them. Finally their lubricating oil became exhausted, and such was the speed of the engine that the brass j
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
arly 400 miles. Don Carlos Buell, major-general, had been appointed commander of the Department of the Ohio, with his headquarters at Louisville. There he gathered a large force, with which he was enabled to strengthen various advanced posts and throw forward along the line of the Nashville and Louisville Railway a large force destined to break the Confederate line. He had under his command 114,000 men, arranged in four columns, commanded respectively by Brig.-Gens. A. McDowell McCook, O. M. Mitchel, G. H. Thomas, and T. L. Crittenden, acting as major-generals, and aided by twenty brigade commanders. These troops were from States northward of the Ohio, and loyalists of Kentucky and Tennessee. They occupied an irregular line across Kentucky, parallel with that of the Confederates. General McCook led 50,000 men down the railroad, and pushed the Confederate line to Bowling Green, after a sharp skirmish at Mumfordsville, on the south side of the Green River. In eastern Kentucky Col
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchel, Ormsby McKnight 1810- (search)
ville (q. v.) pushed on to Murfreesboro, and there, taking a southwesterly course, joined the forces under Beauregard at Corinth, in northern Mississippi. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel was sent by General Buell, with a part of his force, in the direction of Huntsville, Ala.; to seize and hold the Memphis and Charleston Railway at that pl the railway each way from Huntsville. Colonel Sill led the expedition eastward to Stevenson, and Colonel Turchin the other westward to Tuscumbia. On April 16 Mitchel said to his soldiers: You have struck blow after blow with a rapidity unparalleled. Stevenson fell 60 miles to the east of Huntsville; Decatur and Tuscumbia have miles, and your morning-gun at Tuscumbia may now be heard by your comrades on the battle-field made glorious by their victory before Corinth. For these exploits Mitchel was promoted major-general in April, 1862. In September he was made commander of the Department of the South, with his headquarters at Hilton Head, where he was
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nashville, (search)
egraphed to Nashville while the siege of Fort Donelson was going on: Enemy retreating! Glorious result! Our boys following and peppering their rear! A complete victory! This despatch made the people of Nashville happy, and they were comfortably seated in their churches on Sunday, Feb. 16, when the news reached them of the surrender of Fort Donelson to the Nationals. There was panic everywhere. Gen. A. S. Johnston, at Bowling Green, ordered the troops there to fly to Nashville, for General Mitchel, of Buell's army, was pressing on them. They did so, after destroying property valued at $500,000. They were followed by the Army of the Ohio. At the same time National gunboats were ascending the Cumberland River to co-operate with the troops. The Confederates of Nashville were fearfully excited. The governor of Tennessee (Harris) rode through the streets, and with his associates gathered as many papers as possible at the capitol as concerned themselves and fled by railway to Memph
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Negley, James Scott 1826- (search)
Negley, James Scott 1826- Military officer; born in East Liberty, Pa., Dec. 26, 1826; served in the war against Mexico, and when the Civil War broke out raised a brigade of three months volunteers, and was commissioned a brigadier-general in April, 1861. He assisted in organizing and disciplining volunteers; commanded a brigade of them under General Patterson on the upper Potomac. He served under General Mitchel in the West, and afterwards commanded a division of the Army of the Ohio. For his services in the battle of Stone River he was promoted majorgeneral, and was distinguished in the Georgia campaign and in the battle of Chickamauga. He was a member of Congress from Pittsburg in 1869-75 and 1885-87, and afterwards removed to New York City
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
on to the Confederacy by the strong arm of military power. The people longed for deliverance, which seemed near at hand when, in January, 1862, the energetic General Mitchel made an effort to seize Chattanooga. His force was too small to effect it, for E. Kirby Smith was watching that region with a strong Confederate force. MitcMitchel asked Buell for reinforcements, but was denied. Finally General Negley, after a successful attack upon Confederates near Jasper, having made his way over the rugged ranges of the Cumberland Mountains, suddenly appeared opposite Chattanooga (June 7). Towards evening he had heavy guns in position, and for two hours he cannonadnd the Confederate works near. The inhabitants and Confederates fled from the town. With a few more regiments Negley might have captured and held the place, and Mitchel could have marched into east Tennessee. But Buell would not allow it. The Confederates had already evacuated Cumberland Gap voluntarily, and the inhabitants of e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
f Lexington, Mo........Sept. 11-20, 1861 Bowling Green, Ky., occupied by the Confederates......Sept. 18, 1861 Gen. O. M. Mitchel assumes command of the Department of the Ohio......Sept. 21, 1861 Gen. William T. Sherman supersedes General Anderson in the Department of the Cumberland......Oct. 8, 1861 Gen. O. M. Mitchel organizes an expedition for the occupation of east Tennessee......Oct. 10, 1861 James M. Mason, of Virginia, John Slidell, of Louisiana, Confederate envoys to Greai, evacuated by the Confederates......April 7, 1862 Huntsville, Ala., occupied by the United States forces under Gen. O. M. Mitchel......April 11, 1862 Bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia passes the Senate April 3, 29 to 14, and army under General Bragg passes through Cumberland Gap on its retreat from Kentucky......Oct. 26, 1862 Death of Gen. O. M. Mitchel, U. S. A., at Beaufort, S. C., aged fifty-two......Oct. 30, 1862 Major-General Buell, commanding Army of the Ohi