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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 7 : Missouri . April and May , 1861 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
Chapter 11: Memphis to Arkansas post.
July, 1862, to January, 1863.
When we first entered Memphis, July 21, 1862, I found the place dead; no business doing, the stores closed, churches, schools rried up that river to Fort Hindman.
We had reports from this fort, usually called the Post of Arkansas, about forty miles above the mouth, that it was held by about five thousand rebels, was an incl that we could not carry on operations against Vicksburg as long as the rebels held the Post of Arkansas, whence to attack our boats coming and going without convoy, I visited him on his boat, the Tig nd Admiral Porter was in deshabille. We were seated in his cabin and I explained my views about Arkansas Post, and asked his cooperation.
He said that he was short of coal, and could not use wood in ose of Fort Hindman, and drove the gunners into the ditch.
The aggregate loss in my corps at Arkansas Post was five hundred and nineteen, viz., four officers and seventy-five men killed, thirty-fou
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
Chapter 15: Atlanta campaign-nashville and Chattanooga to Kenesaw.
March, April, and May, 1864.
On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutepant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by Major-Generals Schofield, Thomas, McPherson, and Steele. General Grant was in the act of starting East to assume command of all the armies of the United States, but more particularly to give direction in person to the Armies of the Potomac and James, operating against Richmond; and I accompanied him as far as Cincinnati on his way, to avail myself of the opportunity to discuss privately many little details incident to the contemplated changes, and of preparation for the great events then impending.
Among these was the intended assignment to duty of many officers of note and influence, who had, by the force of events, drifted into inactiv
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)