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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., Xviii. The Chattanooga campaign.—Middle and East Tennessee. (search)
00 in each. Thence moving by zigzags, but in an easterly course, through Vienna, dividing up his command so as to cut railroads and telegraphs on every side, the raider at once threatened July 11. Madison and demanded the surrender of Old Vernon, where a body of militia had hastily assembled to oppose him; but he decamped on finding the militia in earnest. Passing thence through Versailles, July 12. and making capital bargains in horse-trades all along, his followers concentrated at Harrison, just across the Ohio line; sweeping around Cincinnati July 13-14. at distances of 7 to 20 miles, and pushing thence by Miamisville, Williamsburg, Sardinia, Piketon, and Jackson, they struck the Ohio at Buffington island, not far below Parkersburg, whence they counted on an easy escape through the poor, thinly settled adjacent region of West Virginia and north-eastern Kentucky to the more congenial shades of southwestern Virginia. Of course, they levied on the stores and granaries, as
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
o camp at and near Bird's Mills, with orders issued to cook up rations and shoe the horses as rapidly as possible. On Friday morning, the twenty-fifth, I received orders to move with my entire command to meet the forces of Burnside at or near Harrison, which order was immediately obeyed. Having proceeded as far as Chattanooga Station, a second courier came up with an order to proceed via Cleveland to Charleston and disperse the enemy at that place, and, if necessary, to cross the-----River. badly wounded. The steadfastness with which both brigades bore this artillery fire was admirable in the extreme, especially as evincing the discipline of the men. General Davidson again met the enemy on the twenty-second, on the Chattanooga and Harrison road. With a part of his brigade he attacked and routed the Fifty-ninth Ohio infantry, took a number of prisoners, arms, &c., and was prevented from capturing the brigade entire only by a mistake of one of his own regiments, which fired upon th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
red in States whose quotas are not filled by Aug. 15.] Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va.......Aug. 9, 1862 Property in Louisiana belonging to John Slidell, Confederate commissioner to France, confiscated by order of General Butler......Aug. 11, 1862 Army of the Potomac evacuates Harrison's Landing......Aug. 16, 1862 Sioux Indians attack the frontier settlements of Minnesota......Aug. 19, 1862 Confederates, under Gen. Braxton Bragg, invade Kentucky, crossing the Tennessee River at Harrison above Chattanooga......Aug. 21-24, 1862 Secretary of War directs the military governor of the coast islands of South Carolina to enlist 5,000 volunteers of African descent......Aug. 25, 1862 [The first permission by the government to employ negroes as soldiers.] Battle of Groveton, Va., between the advance of General Lee's army and General Pope......Aug. 29, 1862 Battle of Manassas, or second Bull Run, a continuation of Groveton......Aug. 30, 1862 Kirby Smith, with Bragg's r
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1864 (search)
lry (Detachment). Union loss, 45 missing. Jan. 20: Skirmish, Tracy CityCONNECTICUT--20th Infantry (Co. "B"). TENNESSEE--Tipton's Company Vidette Cavalry. Union loss, 2 killed. Jan. 20: Skirmish, Holston RiverNEW YORK--79th Infantry. Jan. 21-22: Skirmishes, Strawberry PlainsMASSACHUSETTS--36th Infantry. MICHIGAN--20th Infantry. NEW YORK--79th Infantry. UNITED STATES--Batteries "L" and "M," 3d Arty. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded, 26 missing. Total, 29. Jan. 21: Scout from Chattanooga to Harrison and OoltewahILLINOIS--24th Infantry (Detachment). INDIANA--37th Infantry (Detachment). WISCONSIN--1st Infantry (Detachment). Jan. 22: Skirmish, Armstrong's FerryMICHIGAN--27th Infantry. Loss included in Strawberry Plains, Jan. 21-22. Jan. 22: Affair near WilsonvilleOHIO--10th Cavalry (Detachment). PENNSYLVANIA--15th Cavalry (Detachment). TENNESSEE--1st Cavalry (Detachment). Capture of Wagon Train. Jan. 22-27: Expedition from Union City to TrentonILLINOIS--2d Cavalry (1st Battalion). INDI
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Tennessee Volunteers. (search)
at La Fayette, Tenn., 4th Subdistrict, Middle Tennessee, April, 1865. Action at Wall's Hill September 28, 1864. Polk County November 23, 1864. Operating against guerrillas in White, Overton, Fentress and Montgomery Counties and quieting country till August, 1865. Mustered out August 25, 1865. 4th Tennessee Regiment Militia Infantry. Organized at Memphis, Tenn., for the protection of that city. 5th Tennessee Regiment Infantry. Organized at Barboursville, Ky., and Harrison, Tenn., February and March. 1862. Attached to 25th Brigade, 7th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 1st Brigade, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division Centre, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to April, 1863. District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to August,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
quick glass detects a belfry, from the top of which some earnest worshipper of secession is hurriedly signalling, and telling undoubtedly of the strange fleet which is approaching him. But now we, too, have reached the landing, and discover, retreating behind the house upon the knoll, a half dozen of the chivalry, who have evidently seen better times, or at least cannot see much worse, if we may judge from the variety and color of their uniform, if it be a uniform. But we are crossing Harrison bar, and there in front of us, three miles further, is City Point, a place become famous since the war.as a point of exchange for the Union and rebel prisoners. At the landing we can see the large steamer City of New York, the flag-of-truce boat, which makes its weekly or tri-weekly trips between Fortress Monroe and this place. One by one the transports move up, and the soldiers jump off, until the shore is lined with boats and steamers. Baggage-wagons, caissons and limbers are soon as
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, A daring scout and spy. (search)
Morford proceeded to Chattanooga, and remained there nearly a week, when he learned that three of our scouts were imprisoned in the Hamilton county jail, at Harrison, Tennessee, and were to be shot on the first Friday in May. Determined to attempt their rescue, he sent a Union man to the town to ascertain who was jailer, what the hings in general about the jail. Upon receipt of his report, Morford gathered about him nine Union men, on the night of Tuesday, April 21, 1863, and started for Harrison. Before reaching the place, however, they heard rumors that the guard had been greatly strengthened; and, fearful that it would prove too powerful for them, then the afternoon all went down to the river and loitered around until dark, when they procured boats and crossed to the opposite bank. Taking the Chattanooga and Harrison road, they entered the town, looked around at leisure, saw no soldiers nor any thing unusual, and proceeded toward the jail. Approaching quite near, they threw
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., Chapter 27: (search)
town to Dupont, where squads were sent out to cut the roads between Vernon and Seymour on the west, Vernon and Lawrenceburg on the east, Vernon and Madison on the south, and Vernon and Columbus on the north. From Vernon Gen. Morgan proceeded to Versailles, capturing five hundred militia there and gathering on the road. From Versailles he moved without interruption across to Harrison, Ohio, destroying the track and burning small bridges on the Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis Railroad. At Harrison he burned a fine bridge. Leaving Harrison at dusk, he moved around Cincinnati, passing between that city and Hamilton, destroying the railroad, and a scout running the Federal pickets into the city, the whole command marched within seven miles of it. Daylight of the 14th found him eighteen miles east of Cincinnati. The adventurous commander had now performed a wonderful circuit; he had traversed two enormous States, destroying property, probably to the extent of ten millions of dollars
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 8: the Chardon-Street Convention.—1840. (search)
gave the finishing-stroke to slavery, Mr. Garrison's opposition to the former has been pronounced both unworthy of him, and a striking evidence of his want of prevision. Those who have read the present narrative of its origin must conclude that he had no choice but to oppose the alter ego of New Organization. Those who read beyond, whether in this biography or in general histories of the ante-bellum period, will find the same men who in 1840 nominated Birney against Van Buren and against Harrison, nominating Van Buren as the Free-Soil candidate of 1848. They will find the anti-slavery policy of the Stanwood's Hist. Presidential Elections, p. 188. Free-Soil Convention of 1852 summed up in resistance to the extension of slavery and to Federal fugitive-slave laws. But not till they consult the proceedings of the Peace Conference at Washington in February, 1861; the McPherson's Polit. Hist. Rebellion, pp. 52-72. contemporaneous propositions of the Senate Committee of Thirteen and
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
136, E6; 171 Country adjacent and defensive works, Aug.-Sept., 1863 42, 1 Operations about, July 4-7, 1864 82, 1; 83, 5 Siege and capture of, Sept. 12-15, 1862 29, 1 Harpeth River, Tenn. 24, 3; 30, 2; 72, 1; 105, 9; 115, 3; 135-C, 5; 150, H5 Harris, Va. 44, 3; 45, 1; 87, 4; 91, 1, 91, 2; 94, 7; 96, 3, 96, 6 Harrisburg, Miss. 63, 2; 149, F1; 154, E13 Engagement, July 14-15, 1864 63, 2 Harrisburg, Pa. 43, 7; 116, 2; 135-A; 136, B8; 171 Harrison, Tenn. 24, 3; 35, 6; 48, 1; 49, 2; 57, 1; 97, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 149, C11 Harrisonburg, La. 53, 4; 117, 1; 135-A; 155, E4; 171 Harrisonburg, Va. 74, 1; 81, 4; 84, 9, 84, 10; 85, 1; 94, 2; 100, 1; 116, 4; 135-A; 137, C4 Harrison's Ferry, Tenn. 97, 1 Harrison's Landing, Va. 13, 3, 13, 4; 17, 1; 19, 1; 66, 7; 67, 4; 171 Army of the Potomac, position of the, 1862 13, 3 Plan of defensive works, Sept. 21, 1864 67, 4 Reconnaissance from, July 4,
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