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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 155 (search)
ss, by Captain Grosvenor, brigade inspector. The trains being safely guarded to a place of safety within our new lines, we moved as far as Wallace's house. At 5 p. m. we were ordered forward to report to General Davis; by his order advanced as far as the Widow Holbrook's place and camped for the night in a position to protect the trains then parked near Patterson's. On the 28th marched by a cross-road to Mount Gilead Church; remained with the teams until 10 a. in.; were then ordered by General Thomas to report to our division commander; marched with the division until near night, when we crossed the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad; took up a position about three-fourths of a mile from Red Oak Station. Remained in position on the 29th. On the 30th marched at 6 a. m. by Shoal Creek Church; met the enemy's cavalry in small force and skirmished with it about one mile, to house, killing 1 and capturing 2 of the enemy ; took up a strong position; sent forward the Ninety-second Ohio for p
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 176 (search)
section of my battery went into position in front of gap and opened on rebel works. 9th, remaining two sections moved up and battery was engaged all day; at noon three guns went through the valley to the left of Buzzard Roost Gap under a heavy musketry fire and took up position within 1,000 yards of the rebel batteries. On the 10th battery was engaged in front of gap again. 11th, engaged heavily three hours at the gap; one section was placed in a very exposed position, by order of Major-General Thomas, to draw the enemy's fire. May 12, marched to Snake Creek Gap and camped at the south end. 13th, moved out and took up a position in line in front of Resaca. 14th, advanced in the evening and took up position and threw up works within 800 yards of rebel works during the night. 15th, after being engaged a short time I was ordered to move farther to the left and take up position, which I did under heavy fire of artillery and musketry, and was heavily engaged here all day. 16th, the e
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 178 (search)
the 10th, and finding the enemy on Pine Mountain one section was put in position per order of General Baird, and during this and the following day shelled the mountain. June 11, withdrew from this position and remained quiet until the 15th, when we advanced several miles, and that night built works on our division line and put the battery in position. Early in the morning of the 16th General Palmer ordered the woods and valley in my front to be shelled, and on the afternoon of that day General Thomas sent orders to open a vigorous fire on a nest of sharpshooters that prevented an advance, which was accordingly done; during the night of the 16th threw up an advanced work, and the next day occupying it, assisted our troops to advance by dislodging their skirmishers. Late in the afternoon of the 18th I got two guns into position on the right of Battery I, First Ohio Artillery, and opened fire on a rebel fort 1,300 yards distant, which was feebly replied to. Moved forward on the 19th,
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 182 (search)
received a letter of instructions from Major-General Thomas, stating that it had been decided to le., in accordance with orders received from General Thomas, Generals Stanley, New ton, and Wood were d it satisfactory. An officer was sent to General Thomas at this hour to ask when the firing of our0 p. m., General Wood, (in accordance with General Thomas' instructions) commenced to withdraw from haust his men to thin out his lines, to Major-General Thomas, with the statement that our position w from our front. 6.30 a. m., sent note to General Thomas, informing him that the skirmishers of Hazh line. 6.45, General H[oward] replies to General Thomas' note, received at 5 p. m., stating that h up connection. 10.40, received note from General Thomas, dated 6.30, stating that the enemy was red himself. 5.30 p. m., received note from General Thomas, stating that General Schofield would cros. m., received verbal instructions from Major-General Thomas to move directly on Atlanta to-morrow m[182 more...]
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 1 (search)
st meeting with General Grant a conference at Thomas's headquarters Grant's manner of writing desp an orderly brought me a message from General George H. Thomas, Commander of the Army of the Cumberlers and top-boots were spattered with mud. General Thomas approached this officer, and, turning to might supper immediately after his arrival, General Thomas had sent for several general officers and xceedingly interesting group. A member of General Thomas's staff quietly called that officer's atteds were usually no respecters of persons. General Thomas's mind had been so intent upon receiving t departed he had made an appointment with Generals Thomas and Smith and several staff-officers to aeded our expectations. In company with General Thomas and other members of his staff, I was brouto Washington, and in accordance therewith General Thomas issued an order relieving me from duty wit It was a subject of much regret to leave General Thomas, for I had become greatly attached to him,[4 more...]
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 18 (search)
, and spent a couple of days very advantageously in looking over the captured city, and learning many points of interest regarding the marvelous campaign which had secured it. That evening I paid a visit to my old commanding officer, General George H. Thomas, who had quartered himself in a house on Peachtree street, now known as the Leyden House, and passed a very pleasant hour with him. The house was surrounded by a broad porch supported by rows of fluted columns, and was very commodious. arters. There were some capital voices among the officers, and no end of comic songs at hand; and these, with the recitations and improvisations which were contributed, made up a series of variety performances which became quite celebrated. General Thomas was a constant attendant, and would nod approval at the efforts of the performers, and beat time to the music, and when anything particularly comical took place he would roll from side to side and nearly choke with merriment. That day She
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 20 (search)
se to be pursued in the West. Hood had now turned north, and was operating against Sherman's railroad in his rear. Sherman had left the Twentieth Corps in Atlanta to hold that place, and had marched with the rest of his army as far north as Marietta. On October 10 Sherman telegraphed Grant: Hood is now crossing the Coosa, twelve miles below Rome, bound west. If he passes over to the Mobile and Ohio road, had I not better execute the plan of my letter sent by Colonel Porter, and leave General Thomas with the troops now in Tennessee to defend the State? The situation was such, however, that General Grant disliked to see a veteran army like Sherman's marching away from Hood without first crippling him; and he replied to Sherman the next day (the 11th), saying, among other things: . . . If you were to cut loose, I do not believe you would meet Hood's army, but would be bushwhacked by all the old men, little boys, and such railroad guards as are still left at home. Hood would probably
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 22 (search)
sulting in a campaign back to the Ohio River. Thomas replied at 9 o'clock that night: . . . I will Washington had now become so intense regarding Thomas's delay that Grant became more anxious than evhat he was wrong and Thomas right. That night Thomas telegraphed to both Grant and Halleck, explainuntil 4 P. M. on the 11th, when he telegraphed Thomas the following: If you delay attack longer, theAt 12:30 P. M. on the 14th Halleck telegraphed Thomas from Washington, reiterating that it was felt thing but victory could follow the moment that Thomas moved, and he wished that loyal and devoted arvy load from his mind. He at once telegraphed Thomas: I was just on my way to Nashville, but receiveneral sent him a reply, saying: The news from Thomas so far is in the highest degree gratifying. Y did not enable him to stay the impetuosity of Thomas's troops. Battery after battery fell into ther than any one else could know that as soon as Thomas launched his army against Hood's forces he wou[45 more...]
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 25 (search)
was to move down the valley of Virginia for the purpose of destroying the railroads, the James River Canal, and the factories in that section of country used for the production of munitions of war. Stoneman was to start upon a raid from east Tennessee with 4000 men, with a view to breaking up the enemy's communications in that direction. Canby, who was in command at New Orleans, was to advance against Mobile, Montgomery, and Selma. In the movement on Mobile, Canby had at least 45,000 men. Thomas was to send a large body of cavalry under Wilson into Alabama. The movements of our forces in the West were intended not only to destroy communications, but to keep the Confederate troops there from being sent East to operate against Sherman. Sherman was to march to Columbia, South Carolina, thence to Fayetteville, North Carolina, and afterward in the direction of Goldsborough. Schofield was to be transferred from Tennessee to Annapolis, Maryland, and thence by steamer to the Cape Fear
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XI (search)
s of the magnitude of the battle that had just been fought. It had been expected by Buell that he would fight the enemy on the 9th of October, but the Confederates disposed of that proposition by attacking us on the 8th, thus disarranging a tactical conception which, with our superior numbers, would doubtless have proved successful had it not been anticipated by an enterprising foe. During the battle on the 8th the Second Corps, under General Thomas L. Crittenden, accompanied by General George H. Thomas, lay idle the whole day for want of orders, although it was near enough to the field to take an active part in the fight; and, moreover, a large part of Gilbert's corps was unengaged during the pressure on McCook. Had these troops been put in on the enemy's left at any time after he assaulted McCook, success would have been beyond question; but there was no one on the ground authorized to take advantage of the situation, and the battle of Perryville remains in history an example of
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