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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 198 2 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. 165 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 131 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 80 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource] 56 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource] 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 52 6 Browse Search
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 46 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 45 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Morgan's cavalry during the Bragg invasion. (search)
progressed only thirty miles; nevertheless, John Morgan received no aid as promised him, nor did St him to battle. At noon, October the 1st, Colonel Morgan received orders to withdraw from the enemyhe battle — well in hand. After Perryville, Morgan was ordered to rejoin the army, when everythinithout battle, began its retreat to Tennessee, Morgan, assisted by Col. Henry Ashby with a small brition of the garrison would be attracted, while Morgan should dash into Edgefield and burn the cars, ing Gallatin on the night of November the 4th, Morgan entered Edgefield at daybreak the next morningwhich commanded the ground on which we stood. Morgan accordingly withdrew, followed a short distancing on the Louisville and Nashville turnpike. Morgan sent strong detachments to harass these troopsfe position between Lebanon and Murfreesboro‘. Morgan's loss during the entire campaign, in killed arecruits were fully the equals of the original Morgan men, in spirit, intelligence, and capacity to [5 more...]<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville. (search)
a transfer of the State to the Confederacy. I never had the slightest apprehension of such a result. Boys might join John Morgan's roving cavaliers, and some mature men might commit themselves with less romance to the cause of the Confederacy, andernment of Kentucky sought refuge at Louisville, where on my arrival Nelson reported a force of 30,000 raw troops. General Morgan at Cumberland Gap was promptly aware of Kirby Smith's movement, and informed me of it on the 16th of August. He had at last to withdraw, which he did on the night of the 17th of September. He was pursued by Stevenson and harassed by John Morgan's cavalry, but made his way successfully through Manchester, Boonesville, West Liberty, and Grayson to the Ohio River ation of cavalry corps which were comparatively efficient even without instruction; and accordingly we see Stuart, and John Morgan, and Forrest riding with impunity around the Union armies, and destroying or harassing their communications. Late in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Cumberland Gap. (search)
elled trees. In the work of clearing away these obstructions, one thousand men, wielding axes, saws, picks, spades, and block and tackle, under the general direction of Captain William F. Patterson, commanding his company of engineer-mechanics, and of Captain Sidney S. Lyon, labored with skill and courage. In one instance they were forced to cut a new road through the forest for a distance of four miles in order to turn a blockade of one mile. At Grayson, however, on the 1st of October, John Morgan abandoned the contest, to seek a new field for the exercise of his superior partisan skill and high courage; and on the 3d we reached the Ohio River at Greenup [see map, p. 6], without the loss of a gun or a wagon, and with the loss of but eighty men. Not only that, but, as General Bragg states in his re port, we had detained General Kirby Smith, and thus prevented the junction of the Confederate armies in Kentucky, long enough to save Louisville. The opposing forces at Cumberland Gap,