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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 1 (search)
His first despatch was to General Halleck, the general-in-chief at Washington, and read: Have just arrived; I will write to-morrow. Please approve order placing Sherman in command of Department of the Tennessee, with headquarters in the field. He had scarcely begun to exercise the authority conferred upon him by his new promotion when his mind turned to securing advancement for Sherman, who had been his second in command in the Army of the Tennessee. It was more than an hour later when he retired to bed in an adjoining room to get a much-needed rest. As he arose and walked across the floor his lameness was very perceptible. Before the company depart to me after a time, he said, Perhaps you might like to read what I am sending. I thanked him, and in looking over the despatches I found that he was ordering up Sherman's entire force from Corinth to within supporting distance, and was informing Halleck of the dispositions decided upon for the opening of a line of supplies, and a
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Exchange of prisoners. (search)
trument, strange as that might appear. I have reason to believe that General Butler urged the adoption of the new cartel with good faith and zeal. It was transmitted by the War Department to General Grant, then in front of Petersburg, for his approval or rejection. It is well known to the country what his action was. General Butler, in his report to the Committee on the Conduct of the War, states that General Grant communicated his rejection to him, giving in substance as his reason that Sherman would be overwhelmed and his own position on the James endangered. Over one hundred thousand officers and men were, at or about that time, in confinement on both sides, the United States holding quite a large majority. When this effort to renew exchanges failed, so anxious were the Confederate authorities to have some plan of relief adopted, that they instructed me to abate our just demands and accede to the offer more than once made by the Federal Agent of Exchange, to exchange offic
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The last Confederate surrender. (search)
y day, meet me at Montgomery, Alabama. The military situation was as follows: Sherman occupied Atlanta, Hood lying some distance to the southwest; Farragut had forcmove his command across the Tennessee river, and use every effort to interrupt Sherman's communications south of Nashville, I proceeded to Mobile to inspect the fortosing scenes of the great drama succeeded each other with startling rapidity. Sherman marched, unopposed, to the sea. Hood was driven from Nashville across the Tennhe Confederacy, that it should be moved to the Carolinas, to interpose between Sherman's advance and his (Lee's) lines of supply, and, in the last necessity, of retr Intelligence of Lee's surrender reached us. Staff officers from Johnston and Sherman came across the country to inform Canby and myself of their convention. Wherility. General Canby dispatched that his government disavowed the Johnston-Sherman convention, and it would be his duty to resume hostilities. Almost at the sam
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Vicksburg during the siege. (search)
S. Gregory. On January 24th, 1862, a fleet bearing the united forces of Generals Grant and Sherman, of, the river, and descending the Mississippi from Memphis, appeared before the terraced city l tradition, by Daniel Webster. The disastrous experiment made in the previous December by General Sherman--of approaching the town on the Yazoo line — was not repeated. The troops were disembarkedrom Jackson by Pemberton, whose headquarters were at Edwards' Depot. On the 30th of April, General Sherman, commanding the Fifteenth Corps, after a slight feint on Haines' Bluff, on the Yazoo, returhed General Johnston before the note previously sent. Meanwhile, no grass was growing under Sherman's feet. On the 14th, Johnston, hearing that the Fifteenth Corps was twelve miles from Jackson, in one hour, said somebody else. One paper gave a detailed statement of the amputation of General Sherman's leg. Another said the citizens demand the surrender of Vicksburg, and Pemberton refuses I
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Flight and capture of Jefferson Davis. (search)
ate that when Mr. Davis was informed that General Sherman would allow him to leave the United Stateoint between the armies of Generals Grant and Sherman, and turn upon and defeat one of them, and tad him assistance in his negotiations with General Sherman. General Breckenridge and myself were thence: He says that after he was advised by General Sherman of the armistice which was entered into br that he was advised of its existence by General Sherman, and that it was intended to apply to my s that in a short time he was informed by General Sherman, by telegram, of the termination of hostie 18th of April, and on the 24th of April General Sherman notified General Johnston it would terminhe notice of its termination was given by General Sherman, and until the expiration of the forty-eiiting the result of the negotiations with General Sherman, and afterward the termination of the armses he was, after he had been notified by General Sherman that the armistice was binding on him. An[1 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First attack on Fort Fisher (search)
ions were confirmed by the gathering of the formidable naval force in Hampton Roads. Then they hastened to strengthen Fort Fisher and its dependencies, by erecting new military works and increasing its garrison. The skilful engineer and judicious commander, General W. H. C. Whiting, was in charge of the Confederate forces in that region, in the absence of General Braxton Bragg, who had gone to Georgia with a greater portion of the Confederate troops at and around Wilmington, to oppose General Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea. The fact that General Bragg had gone to Georgia, with most of the troops in Eastern North Carolina, was communicated to General Grant at the close of November, and he considered it important to strike the blow at Fort Fisher in the absence of that general. Grant had held a consultation with Admiral Porter in Hampton Roads, and it was agreed that the lieutenant general should provide 6,500 troops from the Army of the James, then under the command of Gen
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Dalton-Atlanta operations. (search)
tions insufficiently guarded. Therefore, General Sherman must have regarded the forces he assembleson had attacked on the 9th, according to General Sherman's plan, Resaca could easily have been helr we were assailed in our intrenchments. General Sherman was misinformed as to the taking of an imot a fourth part. The reports made to General Sherman charge his troops, indirectly, with beingrs, the best of whom were not superior to General Sherman's. But the testimony of the ten thousand d prisoners were subsequent. On page 49, General Sherman claims that the strength of the country, n Amelia and Appomattox Court-Houses. General Sherman certainly executed his plan of operations the 18th of March, to attack the head of General Sherman's left column next morning, on the Goldsbd next day, were agreed upon, except that General Sherman refused to include Mr. Davis and his Cabission aside, these terms were proposed to General Sherman, with the reminder that they had been alm[31 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Recollections of Grant. (search)
tly, if there was still hope. It was told of Sherman how one of these flag-of-truce officers one d enemies in the North sometimes call me Crazy Sherman; but, in my sane moments, I have said this wanary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. I was under Sherman now, and joining in the charge made by a partrs it was one loud and continued cheer for Billy Sherman. Here was the general whom everybody knewant had been the creator of the Western army, Sherman was its idol. He was, indeed, looked upon as magnetism of one really great man. It was Billy Sherman. His approach to the line of march was thunced to Grant as a bearer of dispatches from Sherman, whose Army I soon learned had not been heardI was then questioned as to many a detail of Sherman's last movements. We have been in perfect igeartily. And this, then, was the disaster to Sherman's army, of which the rebels had been boasting narrow escape, however, for life. He was at Sherman's headquarters the day after the surprise, an[11 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Confederate negro enlistments. (search)
f in favor of the movement, there was no concerted serious attempt to concentrate public opinion in regard to it until the latter part of October, 1864. Two events at that time suddenly waked the Confederates to the gravity of their situation. Sherman began his march to the sea, and the elections in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania showed the rebels that McClellan was certain to be defeated for the Presidency, and that Lincoln would give them four years more of war unless they surrendered. The Confederates hoped much from McClellan's election; they were sanguine that he would be elected, and their disappointment was proportionately great. The march of Sherman in the same way showed them what Grant had several times insisted upon, that the Confederacy was like an empty egg-shell-all its powers of resistance had been drained to keep the frontier line strong. From this time forth, then, even the most sanguine began to lose all hope, and those who still believed in a successful re
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), How Jefferson Davis was overtaken. (search)
mmand of a broken and disorganized force that Sherman had already driven through two States. When,sanity, in attempting to hold this city after Sherman's army had flanked it, is difficult to imaginat once, and on the spot, address a letter to Sherman to prepare an interview. No, replied Generalrested by the armistice concluded between Generals Sherman and Johnston, though not till after the c reasonable time for specific orders from General Sherman. General Cobb, in a subsequent conversateived by telegraph, in a short time, from General Sherman, that he had actually concluded an armist, through General Thomas, I received from General Sherman a dispatch, in cipher, informing me of thceipt of the telegram just mentioned from General Sherman. General E. M. McCook, with a detachment to state, that in declaring the armistice of Sherman void, the Secretary of War had directed that l and persistency of Grant, the brilliancy of Sherman, and the solid qualities of Thomas. In the c[5 more...]
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