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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
Army crosses the Ogeechee, 409. the March on Millen, 410. March from Millen to Savannah, 411. ca making an effort to liberate the prisoners at Millen. It was intended to deceive the Confederatesibly prevent the removal of the captives from Millen. The value of Augusta to the Confederates, asn's chief objective, until after he had passed Millen. Kilpatrick had several skirmishes with Wheelesured that the prisoners had been removed from Millen, he fell back with his whole force to the vici passed that stream, and was ready to march on Millen. Sherman's admirable stratagem in securing oved down the left bank of that stream towards Millen. In order to distract his foe, he directed KiAt Thomas's Station, on the railway connecting Millen and Augusta, he fought Wheeler, Dec. 4. and dn, on the Augusta railway. The Prison-pen at Millen. this pen was built of large logs driven inhe bullet of a guardsman. Sherman reached Millen, with the Seventeenth Corps, on the 3d of Dece[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
to send immediately to City Point, twelve thousand or more Confederate prisoners, to be exchanged for Union soldiers confined in the South. This proposition was distinctly and unequivocally refused by Mr. Ould. And why? Because the damnable plans of the rebel Government, in relation to our poor captured soldiers, had not been fully carried out. For obvious reasons, the revolting details of the cruelties practiced upon the Union prisoners at Richmond, Andersonville, Danville, Salisbury, Millen, Charleston, and other places, and the results of those cruelties, are not put upon record here. General statements are considered quite sufficient for the purpose already avowed; and the reader may consult, for a knowledge of those details, the report of the Commission alluded to; the published statements of scores of victims; the testimony elicited by the Committee on the Conduct of the War; the testimony on the trial of Captain Wirz, and the painfully interesting book written by Ambrose
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
Dec. 3, 1860, 1.64; unsatisfactory to all parties, 1.73; popular disappointment excited by, 1.74. Message of President Buchanan, of Jan. 8, 1861, 1.218. Mexico, invasion of by the French, 3.47. Michigan, attitude of in relation to secession, 1.212. Middletown, battle of, 3.371. miles, Col. D. H., bad conduct of at the battle of Bull's Run, 1.606; his surrender of Harper's Ferry, and death. 2.473. Militia, seventy-five thousand called for to suppress the rebellion, 1.336. Millen, Ga., arrival of Sherman's forces at, 3.410. Milliken's Bend, battle at, 2.623. Mill Spring, Ky., battle of, 2.194. Milroy, Gen., operations of in Western Virginia, 2.103; compelled to evacuate Winchester, by Ewell, 3.51. Mine at Petersburg, explosion of, 3.351; its disastrous failure, 3.353. Mine Run, Meade's movement against Lee at, 3.108; the retreat of the Nationals from, 3.111. Mines, explosion of at Vicksburg, 2.625. Ministers, American, abroad, instructions to, 1.