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Cobb (search for this): chapter 12
en Chesterville and Charlotte, and Charlotte and Lincolnton, and the railroad depot at Salisbury, were destroyed by these troops. Pettus's brigade, sent from Greensboroa to protect the railroad bridge over the Yadkin, arrived in time to repel the large party sent to burn it. The arrival of Brigadier-General Echols with Duke's and Vaughn's brigades of cavalry from Southwestern Virginia removed any apprehension of further damage of the kind. On the 21st, a dispatch was received from Major-General Cobb, announcing the occupation of Macon by Major-General Wilson's cavalry the day before the Federal commander declining to respect the information of an armistice given by his enemy. During the military operations preceding the armistice, there were ample supplies of provision and forage for our forces in the railroad-depots of North Carolina. We were forming similar depots in South Carolina, then, and collecting provisions abundantly, in a district that had been thought destitute.
Reagan (search for this): chapter 12
e summoned to the President's office in an hour or two, and found Messrs. Benjamin, Mallory, and Reagan, with him. We had supposed that we were to be questioned concerning the military resources of ot to express their opinions on the important question. General Breckenridge, Mr. Mallory, and Mr. Reagan, thought that the war was decided against us; and that it was absolutely necessary to make peaent, I requested him by telegraph to join me as soon as possible. General Breckenridge and Mr. Reagan came to General Hampton's quarters together, an hour or two before daybreak. After they had r give, and had learned the terms agreed upon, and the difficulty in the way of full agreement, Mr. Reagan proposed to reduce them to writing, to facilitate reconsideration. In doing so, he included ted on the subject discussed the day before perhaps a half-hour, when the memorandum written by Mr. Reagan was brought. I read this paper to General Sherman, as a basis for terms of peace, pointing ou
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 12
Tennessee in North Carolina. interview with General Beauregard. movement of the Federal forces in North Carng the command thus assigned to me, I visited General Beauregard in Charlotte, where his headquarters then wereneral Sherman's army invaded South Carolina, General Beauregard ordered those remaining on duty to repair to to, and at Columbia; and had been directed by General Beauregard to march thence to Charlotte. The second, leunt to six or eight thousand men. Leaving General Beauregard to protect the line of railroad from Charlottan was moving from Columbia toward Charlotte, General Beauregard instructed Lieutenant-General Hardee to direc o'clock in the morning, on the 12th, and was General Beauregard's guest. His quarters were a burden-car nearrt of the surrender of the army in Virginia. General Beauregard and myself, conversing together after the inttleman fulfilled his engagement promptly; and General Beauregard and myself were summoned to the President's o
McLaws (search for this): chapter 12
d of whose column was then near, was directed, most injudiciously, to send his leading division, McLaws's, to the assistance of the troops assailed; the other, Taliaferro's, moving on to its place on the extreme right. McLaws's division, struggling through the thicket, reached the ground to which it was ordered just in time to see the repulse of the enemy by Hoke, after a sharp contest of half a very far overlapped by the Federal right. Lieut.-Gen. Hardee was therefore requested to detach McLaws's division to Hoke's left. We were so outnumbered, however, that much of the cavalry was deployed as skirmishers on McLaws's left, to show a front equal to that of the enemy. On the 21st the skirmishing was resumed with spirit by the enemy, with Hoke's and McLaws's divisions, and the cavalrMcLaws's divisions, and the cavalry on the left of the latter. To ascertain why our right was unmolested, Stewart's and Taliaferro's skirmishers were thrown forward. They found the Federal troops in their front drawn back and formed
Hardee (search for this): chapter 12
The troops of the department, under Lieutenant-General Hardee's command, were moving from Charlestlotte, General Beauregard instructed Lieutenant-General Hardee to direct his march toward Greensboron Fayetteville, orders were sent to Lieutenant-General Hardee to turn directly to that place; but s, and at seven o'clock next morning Lieutenant-General Hardee was attacked by those corps in a posthe 17th, that the troops with which Lieutenant-General Hardee was engaged the day before were not ederal forces was gathered during the day. General Hardee remained at Elevation to give his men the evation, which it reduced almost as much. General Hardee found it too great for a day's march. om that ground, nearer, by several miles, than Hardee's bivouac, and therefore we could not hope forurgently for strong reenforcements. Lieutenant-General Hardee, the head of whose column was then nerate forces were ordered to march to Raleigh: Hardee's corps, with Butler's division as rearguard, [17 more...]
W. T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 12
s, and the other to be given to an officer to be designated by General Sherman. Each officer and man to give his individual obligation in wrfield, Major-General commanding United States Forces in N. C. General Sherman assured me that he would remove from the department all the trr-General Stoneman's division to return to East Tennessee. General Sherman was accompanied on this occasion by several among the most disful war. I have made, therefore, a military convention with Major-General Sherman, to terminate hostilities in North and South Carolina, Georountry from further devastation, and our people from ruin. General Sherman published it to the Federal army, in his field-order No. 66, oops until the end of April. In making the last agreement with General Sherman, I relied upon the depots recently established in South Carol ensued, both of the troops and the people on their routes, if General Sherman, when informed of our condition, had not given us two hundred
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 12
Kinston in heavy force, and was then but nine miles from the place. He suggested that the troops just arrived at Smithfield from Charlotte could join him in a few hours, and that such a reinforcement might enable him to win a victory. Major-General D. H. Hill, who commanded the troops referred to, was, for the object in view, placed under General Bragg's orders. The troops were united at Kinston on the 7th. Clayton's division, the remnant of it rather, which reached Smithfield during the dad-pieces were captured in the engagement and pursuit. In reporting this success by telegraph, at night, General Bragg said: The number of the enemy's dead and wounded left on the field is large. Our own loss, under Providence, is small. Major--Generals Hill and Hoke exhibited their usual zeal, energy, and gallantry. The two parties skirmished a little on the 9th, in front of the position taken by the enemy the evening before, which had been intrenched in the mean time. On the following morn
Stanton (search for this): chapter 12
elegraph, to arrange the time and place of meeting, I went to his headquarters, two or three miles southeast of Hillsboroa. There General Hampton informed me that the conference was to be at noon next day, at a house on the Raleigh road midway between the pickets of the two armies. General Sherman met me at the time and place appointed — the house being that of a Mr. Bennett. As soon as we were without witnesses in the room assigned to us, General Sherman showed me a telegram from Mr. Stanton, announcing the assassination of the President of the United States. A courier, he told me, had overtaken him with it, after he left the railroad-station from which he had ridden. After reading the dispatch, I told General Sherman that, in my opinion, the event was the greatest possible calamity to the South. When General Sherman understood what seemed to have escaped him in reading my letter, that my object was to make such an armistice as would give opportunity for negotiation bet
George Stoneman (search for this): chapter 12
omised. After waiting several days to no purpose, Colonel Mason returned without one. During the conference, Major-General Stoneman, who had come from the West with a large body of cavalry, approached the line of railroad in Middle North Carolinfficers, and directed him to suspend hostilities. Before these orders were received, if they were ever delivered to General Stoneman, the railroad bridges over the Catawba between Chesterville and Charlotte, and Charlotte and Lincolnton, and the rais own army to Washington; Major-General Wilson's cavalry back to the Tennessee River, near Decatur; and directing Major-General Stoneman's division to return to East Tennessee. General Sherman was accompanied on this occasion by several among theGeneral Kilpatrick will report in person to Major-General Schofield for orders. 2. The cavalry command of Major-General George Stoneman will return to East Tennessee, and that of Brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson will be conducted back to the Te
Kirkland (search for this): chapter 12
formed parallel to and fronting the road, and near enough to command it. In this position the usual light intrenchments were immediately begun and soon finished. Hampton prolonged this line to the left, to Mill Creek, with Butler's division, and Wheeler's, which had come up from the direction of Averysboroa. The Federal army was united before us about noon, and made repeated attacks, between that time and sunset, upon Hoke's division; the most spirited of them was the last, made upon Kirkland's brigade. In all, the enemy was so effectually driven back, that our infirmary corps brought in a number of their wounded that had been left on the field, and carried them to our field-hospitals. It was soon ascertained that our left was very far overlapped by the Federal right. Lieut.-Gen. Hardee was therefore requested to detach McLaws's division to Hoke's left. We were so outnumbered, however, that much of the cavalry was deployed as skirmishers on McLaws's left, to show a front
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