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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 16: (search)
constituted, embracing the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky east of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers; Brigadier General D. tes Department of the West. General W. T. Sherman was removed from Kentucky and sent to report to General Halleck. General A. S. Johnston was confronted by General Halleck in the West and by General Buell in Kentucky. The former, with armies at Cairo and Paducah, under Generals Graand, and to Nashville on the other. At the northeastern corner of Kentucky there was a force under Colonel Garfield of Ohio, opposed to the C assignment, the command of a portion of East Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky, which embraced the troops stationed at Mill Springs, on thow, and Island No.10. As it was our purpose not to enter the state of Kentucky and construct defenses for the Cumberland and Tennessee rivery were located within the borders of Tennessee, and as near to the Kentucky line as suitable sites could be found. On these were commenced th
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 17: (search)
of which I avail myself, to write you an unofficial letter. We have suffered great anxiety because of recent events in Kentucky and Tennessee, and I have been not a little disturbed by the repetitions of reflections upon yourself. I expected you tmmunication, to break up his plan of campaign, and, defeating some of his columns, to drive him from the soil as well of Kentucky as of Tennessee. We are deficient in arms, wanting in discipline, and inferior in numbers. Private arms must supply command of this department, the Government charged me with the duty of deciding the question of occupying Bowling Green, Kentucky, which involved not only military but political considerations. At the time of my arrival at Nashville, the action of tifty thousand, and an advance was impossible. No enthusiasm, as we imagined and hoped, but hostility, was manifested in Kentucky. Believing it to be of the greatest moment to protract the campaign, as the dearth of cotton might bring strength from
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 18: (search)
eral Bragg, in a sketch of the battle of Shiloh, thus speaks of General Johnston's army: In a period of four weeks, fragments of commands from Bowling Green, Kentucky, under Hardee; Columbus, Kentucky, under Polk; and Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans, under Bragg, with such new levies as could be hastily raised, all badly ars program should have followed—the defeat of Buell's and Mitchell's forces as they successively came up, and a return by our victorious army through Tennessee to Kentucky. The great embarrassment had been the want of good military weapons; these would have been largely supplied by the conquest hoped for, and, in the light of what had occurred, not unreasonably anticipated. What great consequences would have ensued must be a matter of conjecture, but that the people of Kentucky and Missouri generously sympathized with the South was then commonly admitted. Our known want of preparation for war and numerical inferiority may well have caused many to doubt
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 19: (search)
lowed with the whole division—infantry, artillery, and cavalry. General M. L. Smith's brigade moved rapidly down the main road, entering the first redoubt of the enemy at 7 A. M. It was completely evacuated, and by 8 A. M. all my division was at Corinth and beyond. The force of General Beauregard was less than forty-five thousand effective men. He estimated that of the enemy to be between eighty-five and ninety thousand men. All the troops of the enemy in reserve in Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Illinois were brought forward, except the force of Curtis, in Arkansas, and placed in front of our position. No definite idea of their number was formed. In the opinion of Beauregard, a general attack was not to be hazarded; on May 3d, however, an advance was made to attack the corps of General Pope, when only one of his divisions was in position, and that gave way so rapidly it could not be overtaken. Again on May 9th an advance was made, hoping to surprise the enemy. But a divis
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 25: (search)
onfederate States, to seize all property as plunder, and to let the negroes go free. Our posterity, reading that history, will blush that such facts are on record. It was estimated on the floor of the House of Representatives that the aggregate amount of property within our limits subject to be acted upon by the provisions of this act would affect upward of six million people, and would deprive them of property of the value of nearly five thousand million dollars. Said Garrett Davis of Kentucky: Was there ever, in any country that God's sun ever beamed upon, a legislative measure involving such an amount of property and such numbers of propertyholders? But this is only one feature of the confiscation act which was applied to persons who were within the Confederate States, in such a position that the ordinary process of the United States courts could not be served upon them. They could be reached only by the armies. There was another feature equally flagrant and criminal.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 36: (search)
regulations in question are illegal and void, and that the seizure of the goods of Carpenter, because he refused to comply with them, can not be sustained. The judgment of the District Court must, therefore, be reversed, and the goods delivered to the claimant, his agent, or proctor. The proclamation of the President required by the act was issued on August 16, 1861, declaring certain states and parts of states to be in insurrection, etc. Under it some licenses were issued to places in Kentucky and Missouri where the United States forces were located, without any fruitful results. Some strong military and naval expeditions were fitted out to invade us and occupy the ports where cotton and other valuable products were usually shipped. An advance was made up the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and down the Mississippi, as has been stated elsewhere. The ports of Beaufort, North Carolina, Port Royal, South Carolina, and New Orleans, Louisiana, were declared by proclamation of the P
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
eat of General Buell to Louisville battle at Perryville, Kentucky General Morgan at Hartsville advance of General Rosecraeast Tennessee. Subsequently, in August, he moved toward Kentucky, and entered that State through Big Creek Gap, some twent on September 5th, and without serious opposition entered Kentucky by the eastern route, thus passing to the rear of General subsequently effected when the army was withdrawing from Kentucky. On September 18th General Bragg issued an address to the citizens of Kentucky. Some recruits joined him, and an immense amount of supplies was obtained, which he continued to sg to Rosecrans by a rapid transfer of all the troops from Kentucky, and for this and the reasons before stated General Bragg presence of the enemy, General Bragg moved his army into Kentucky, which, by this time, the Federal government thought it nn north Mississippi. General Bragg, when he advanced into Kentucky, had left them with instructions to operate against the F
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 40: (search)
e district of east Tennessee; General Samuel Jones commanded the district of southwest Virginia, his headquarters at Abingdon, Virginia. Between the two was Cumberland Gap, the well-known pass by which the first pioneer, Daniel Boone, went into Kentucky, and the only one in that region through which it was supposed an army, with the usual artillery and wagon train, could march from the north into east Tennessee or southwest Virginia. It was therefore occupied and partially fortified, which, wiined that the army under General Rosecrans had crossed the mountains to Stevenson and Bridgeport. His force of infantry and artillery amounted to seventy thousand men, divided into four corps. About the same time General Burnside advanced from Kentucky, crossed, by using pack-mules, the rugged mountains west of Cumberland Gap, and about September 1st approached Knoxville, east Tennessee, with a force estimated at over twenty-five thousand men. General Buckner, therefore, evacuated Knoxville, a
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
mpted to escape were intercepted and made prisoners. Unfortunately, among the exceptions was their commander, who had been guilty of most unpardonable outrages upon defenseless noncombatants. General Rodes marched from Berryville to Martinsburg, entering the latter place on the 14th and capturing seven hundred prisoners, five pieces of artillery, and a considerable quantity of stores. These operations cleared the Valley of the enemy. More than four thousand prisoners, Operations in Kentucky and Tennessee twenty-nine pieces of artillery, two hundred seventy wagons and ambulances, with four hundred horses, were captured, besides a large amount of military stores. Our loss was small. On the night that Ewell appeared at Winchester, the enemy at Fredericksburg recrossed the Rappahannock, and on the next day disappeared behind the hills of Stafford. The whole army of General Hooker, in retiring, pursued the roads near the Potomac, offering no favorable opportunity for attack
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 43: (search)
43: Subjugation of the border States, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri a military force invades Maryland and occution emancipation hardly carried first open measures in Kentucky interference at the state election by the United States s of its unscrupulous and lawless outrages. In the state of Kentucky the first open and direct measures taken by the govermistakably define the popular will and public judgment of Kentucky. It is settled that Kentucky will, with unwavering faithKentucky will, with unwavering faith and unswerving purpose, stand by and support the Government in every effort to suppress the rebellion and maintain the Unio, a very different state of feeling would have existed in Kentucky. But, instead of carrying them out, the most offensive a the United States in the subversion of the government of Kentucky was the destruction of the unalienable right of personal tes was more rapid and more desperate than in the case of Kentucky. As previously stated, the governor of the state, at the
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