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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 194 68 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 74 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 44 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 4 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 24 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 24 10 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 23 1 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 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. 17 1 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter III (search)
er Colonel Franz Sigel, was sent from St. Louis, via Rolla, to Springfield; while a force of regular troops unde had ordered supplies to be sent from St. Louis via Rolla, but they remained at Rolla, the railroad terminus, Rolla, the railroad terminus, for want of wagon transportation. The troops had to live upon such supplies as could be obtained from the counthe department, which had been forwarded to him from Rolla by Colonel John B. Wyman. The letter from General Fn advance as Springfield, he should fall back toward Rolla until reinforcements should meet him. It is difficircumstances, wholly unjustifiable. Our retreat to Rolla was open and perfectly safe, even if begun as late alonel Sigel, and it was determined to retreat toward Rolla next morning. Sigel's brigade was placed in advanced under Sturgis's command, and the column arrived at Rolla on August 19, nine days after the battle. Here the ceived at Wilson's Creek. Soon after our arrival at Rolla the regiment was ordered to St. Louis, to be convert
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IV (search)
g. He for a long time kept up a pretense of wanting me to move east or west, or south, or somewhere, but negatived all my efforts actually to move. The situation seemed to me really unendurable: I was compelled to lie at Springfield all the latter part of winter, with a well-appointed army corps eager for active service, hundreds of miles from any hostile force, and where we were compelled to haul our own supplies, in wagons, over the worst of roads, 120 miles from the railroad terminus at Rolla. I could not get permission even to move nearer the railroad, much less toward the line on which the next advance must be made; and this while the whole country was looking with intense anxiety for the movement that was to open the Mississippi to the Gulf, and the government was straining every nerve to make that movement successful. Hence I wrote to General Halleck the letters of January 31, 1863, and February 3. These appear to have called forth some correspondence between Generals Hall
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
; difficulties of his campaign, 38-43; returns to Springfield, 39; solicitude for the loyal people of Missouri, 39, 42; battle of Wilson's Creek, 39, 40, 42-47, 141, 363, 364; letter from Fremont, Aug. 6, 1861, 39, 40; ordered to fall back toward Rolla, 40; letter to Fremont, Aug. 9, 40, 41; retires to Springfield, 41; consultation with and reliance on Sigel, 42, 43; desperation, 42-45; wounded and killed, 44, 45, 47, 141, 364; supported by the clay-bank element, 87, 90 M McAllister, Carot to, 334 Rock Springs, Wyo., massacre of Chinese at, 509 Rocky-Face Ridge, military operations near, 124, 126, 129 Rocky Mountains, the, development of the country west of, 491 Roddey, Brig.-Gen. Philip D., on the Tennessee, 318 Rolla, Mo., military movements near, 37, 38, 40, 42, 47, 48, 65; retreat from Wilson's Creek to, 47, 48 Rollins, James S., memorandum furnished to, by S., 89-91; relates anecdote of Lincoln's reception of a Missouri delegation, 108 Rome, Ga., milita