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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 149 3 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) 125 9 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 92 6 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 88 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 83 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 70 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 53 5 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 51 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 41 5 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 65 (search)
y-third instant reached you, I repeat that I departed from Clarksville for this point by the request of Brig.--Gen. Smith, commanding at Clarksville, and arrived here this morning, preceded by seven steamboats conveying an army commanded by Brig.-Gen. Nelson. The troops landed without opposition. The banks of the river are free from hostile forces. The railroad and suspension bridges here are all destroyed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. C. Bryant, Lieutenant Commanding. ing was done until Monday evening, when Gen. Buell arrived at Edgefield, and was immediately visited by a committee from Nashville, headed by Mayor Cheatham. The hour for a formal interview was fixed at eleven A. M. Tuesday, before which time Gen. Nelson arrived with his column on transports, accompanied by the gunboat St. Louis. At the appointed hour the Mayor and some ten citizens waited on Gen. Buell and surrendered the city, receiving assurances that the liberty and property of all citi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
he Tyler again opened fire by direction of General Nelson--who greatly distinguished himself in yest rapidly forward for crossing the division (Gen. Nelson's, which has the advance of Buell's army) o! Oh! that night or Lew. Wallace would come! Nelson's division of Gen. Buell's army evidently couloops, and of Lew. Wallace's, engaged: Brig.-Gen. Nelson's division--First brigade, Col. Ammon, Te the opening of their Monday's retreating. Nelson's advance. To the left we were slower in fiing Grant and Buell combined. Gradually, as Nelson pushed forward his lines under heavy musketry,'s division. I have sketched the advance of Nelson. Next to him came Crittenden. He too swept fhen came the reflex rebel wave that had hurled Nelson back. Crittenden, too, caught its full force.g column. But the two brigades, like those of Nelson to their left, took a fresh position, faced thd for their treason by the brave man's death. Nelson, Crittenden, McCook, Hurlbut, McClernand have [18 more...]