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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861. (search)
ed in command of all the Virginia forces by the governor, and by an ordinance every militia officer in the State above the rank of captain had been decapitated, and the governor and his military council had been authorized to fill vacancies thus created. Harper's Ferry, from the Maryland side. The railway bridge was destroyed by the Confederates on the 13th of June, 1861. Two days later, on the approach of Union forces under General Robert Patterson, near Williamsport, and under Colonel Lew Wallace at Romney (see footnote page 127), General Joseph E. Johnston (who had succeeded Colonel Jackson in command on the 23d of May), considering the position untenable, withdrew the Confederate army to Winchester. This was a disastrous blow to the pomp and circumstance of glorious war at Harper's Ferry. Militia generals and the brilliant staff were stricken down, and their functions devolved, according to Governor Letcher's order of April 27th, upon Thomas J. Jackson, colonel commandant,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., McClellan in West Virginia. (search)
forces occupied Philippi. The telegraphic reports had put the Confederate force at 2000 and their loss at 15 Major-General Lew Wallace. the 11th Indiana Zouaves, Colonel Lew Wallace, passed through Cincinnati June 7th on their way to the frontColonel Lew Wallace, passed through Cincinnati June 7th on their way to the front. They belonged to General Morris's first Indiana Brigade (which also included the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Indiana regiments), but were placed on detached service at Cumberland, on the Potomac. Under instructions from General Robert Patterson, Colonel Wallace led an expedition against a force of about five hundred Confederates at Romney, which influenced General J. E. Johnston in his decision to evacuate Harper's Ferry (see note, page 120). in his report of the Romney engagement ColonelColonel Wallace says: I left Cumberland at 10 o'clock on the night of the 12th June with 8 companies, in all about 500 men, and by railway went to New Creek station, 21 miles distant. A little after 4 o'clock I started my men across the mountains, 23 m
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
The capture of Fort Donelson. Lew Wallace, Major-General, U. S. V. The village of Dover was-and for that matter yet is-what our English cousins would call the shiretown of the county of Stewart, Tennessee. In 1860 it was a village unknown to fame, meager in population, architecturally poor. There was a court-house in the place, and a tavern, remembered now as double-storied, unpainted, and with windows of eight-by-ten glass, which, if the panes may be likened to eyes, were both squint and cataractous. Looking through them gave the street outside the appearance of a sedgy slough of yellow backwater. The entertainment furnished man and beast was good of the kind; though at the time mentioned a sleepy traveler, especially if he were of the North, might have been somewhat vexed by the explosions which spiced the good things of a debating society that nightly took possession of the bar-room, to discuss the relative fighting qualities of the opposing sections. If there was a l
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (search)
Richardson, F. Welker, and George H. Stone. Brigade loss: k, 10; w, 109; m, 2 = 121. Fourth Brigade, Col. Jacob G. Lauman: 25th Ind., Col. James C. Veatch; 2d Iowa, Col. James M. Tuttle; 7th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. James C. Parrott; 14th Iowa, Col. William T. Shaw; Birge's Mo. Sharp-shooters. Brigade loss: k, 55; w, 301; m, 1 = 357. Fifth Brigade, Col. Morgan L. Smith: 11th Ind., Col. George F. McGinnis; 8th Mo., Major John McDonald. Brigade-loss: k, 11; w, 69 = 80. Third division, Brig.-Gen. Lew Wallace. First Brigade, Col. Charles Cruft: 31st Ind., Lieut.-Col. John Osborn, Major Fred. Arm; 44th Ind., Col. Hugh B. Reed; 17th Ky., Col. John H. McHenry, Jr.; 25th Ky., Col. James M. Shackelford. Brigade loss: k, 35; w, 182 ;: m, 16 = 233. Second Brigade [attached to the Third Brigade]: 46th Ill., Col. John A. Davis; 57th Ill., Col. Silas D. Baldwin; 58th Ill., Col. William F. Lynch; 20th Ohio, Col. Charles Whittlesey. Brigade loss: k, 6; w, 15; m, 1 = 22. Third Brigade, Col. John M.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The battle of Shiloh. (search)
pose of meeting him on his arrival. General Lew Wallace, with a division, had been placed by Geaccordingly directed to go back and order General Wallace to march immediately to Pittsburg, by the his order. About 11 P. M., not hearing from Wallace, and being much in need of reinforcements, I e to take part in the first day's fight. General Wallace has since claimed that the order delivereh. This letter shows that at that time General Lew Wallace was making preparations for the emergenwhere our right rested. In this letter General Lew Wallace advises General W. H. L. Wallace that hould win at Shiloh. Victory was assured when Wallace arrived even if there had been no other suppo the morning of the 7th was as follows: General Lew Wallace on the right, Sherman on his left; thenison Bridge over Snake Creek by which General Lew Wallace's troops reached the field, Sunday evenorce on the morning of the 6th was 33,000. Lew Wallace brought five thousand more after nightfall.[14 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
r momentary expectation of the arrival of General Wallace, to whom orders had been timely and repeat 32,000 men; by General Grant at 33,000. General Wallace left 2 regiments of his division and a pisee for 1881, p. 82. About dark, he says, General Wallace's division commenced arriving, and formed Seven thousand men at the utmost, besides Lew Wallace's 5000, were ready Sunday night to take paran have said that reinforcements other than Lew Wallace's division were in nowise necessary at the s ascertained to come from a portion of General Lew Wallace's command. Directly afterwards, firingl report. The action here was commenced by Lew Wallace, one of whose batteries at half-past 5 o'clty of artillery firing in front of Nelson and Wallace. Colonel Hovey, who was in immediate supports, of the 11th Indiana, whose regiment was on Wallace's extreme left, describes this incident as fobut with less destructive effects in front of Wallace on the right. As soon as the enemy's right b[41 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Shiloh. (search)
. George H. Stone. Artillery loss: k, 4; w, 53 = 57. Third division, Major-General Lew Wallace. First Brigade, Col. Morgan L. Smith: 11th Ind., Col. G. F. McGiners, etc., etc. Deducting from the total above given the present for duty of Lew Wallace's division (7564), leaves 37,331 as the present for duty (combatant and non-. General Buell speaks in a general way of 25,000 reenforcements, including Lew Wallace's 5000. General Grant says: At Shiloh, the effective strength of the Union forces on the morning of the 6th was 33,000 men. Lew Wallace brought 5000 more after nightfall. . . . Excluding the troops who fled, panic-stricken, before they had , says: The reinforcements of Monday numbered, of Buell's army about 25,000; Lew Wallace's 6500; other regiments about 1,400. General Lew Wallace says in his reportGeneral Lew Wallace says in his report that his command did not exceed 5000 men of all arms. The Confederate army. Army of the Mississippi. General Albert Sidney Johnston (k). General G. T. Be
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
usive of cavalry, 35,330. the Federal army numbered present 49,232, and present for duty 41,543. but at Crump's Landing, five or six miles distant, was General Lew Wallace's division with 8820 present, and 7771 men present for duty. [see page 538.] General Nelson's division of Buell's army had arrived at Savannah on Saturdayay a position which during the night was occupied by Buell's twenty thousand fresh troops, who thus regained the high grounds that had been won at such a cost. Lew Wallace, too, had come up 6500 strong. General Wallace, in his report to General Halleck, says that his whole command did not exceed 5000 men of all arms.--editors. General Wallace, in his report to General Halleck, says that his whole command did not exceed 5000 men of all arms.--editors. Moreover, the orders had been conveyed by Beauregard's staff to brigades and even regiments to withdraw, and the troops wandered back over the field, without coherence, direction, or purpose, and encamped where chance provided for them. All array was lost, and, in the morning, they met the attack of nearly thirty thousand fresh an
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
ed, at the same time, 6 regiments under General Lew Wallace by water. The investment of the positi side, until the latter was reinforced by General Wallace's division, nearly 10,000 strong, later at such disadvantage, before the advent of Lew Wallace that afternoon, as to have enhanced the vicr the Confederates by the immediate defeat of Wallace also. What happened from the policy adoption to be immediately sent to the same point; Wallace's division being left, however, at Crump's Lathe effect that he was being menaced by General Lew Wallace's division. Assuming that the enemy hae the divisions of C. F. Smith, (under W . . L. Wallace) and of Hurlbut, aggregating 16,000 men with a mile in advance, to the left of Nelson. Lew Wallace's division of General Grant's army also hadith at least 48 pieces of artillery. General Lew Wallace's division numbered 5000 men of all armee of Buell's divisions as well as with General Lew Wallace's, that I determined to yield the field[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
t Shiloh, Adjutant-General of the Confederate Army). After 10 o'clock at night, on the 2d of April, 1862, while in my office as adjutant-general of the Confederate army assembled at Corinth, a telegram was brought to me from General Cheatham, commanding an outpost on our left flank at Bethel, on the Mobile and Ohio railway, some twenty odd miles northward of Corinth.-General Cheatham had addressed it to General Polk, his corps commander, informing him that a Federal division, under General Lew Wallace, had been manoeuvring in his proximity during the day. General Polk had in due course sent the message to General Beauregard, from whom it came to me with his indorsement, A Confederate private of the West. From a tintype. addressed to General A. S. Johnston, in substance: Now is the time to advance upon Pittsburg Landing. And below were these words, in effect, if not literally: Colonel Jordan had better carry this in person to General Johnston and explain the military situation.-
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