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Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ht of suffrage should be accorded to them. I advised and so urged that the States in rebellion should be divided into territories held under military control for a sufficient length of time to teach them that the lost cause and the lost Confederation was utterly obliterated and to be forgotten. I advised that those territories should be given specific names. For instance, Virginia should be the territory of Potomac; North Carolina, the territory of Cape Fear; South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the territory of Jackson; Louisiana, the territory of Jefferson; Texas, the territory of Houston, and Arkansas, the territory of Lincoln. I believed that the lines of those territories should be so drawn as to cut up the boundaries of the original-States so that there should be nothing of State pride left. By their proceedings the people of these States had forfeited all honorable mention, and when they should be fit to come back into the Union,--which they would have been at an early da
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
First Massachusetts Volunteers by Governor Andrew. When General Shepley was designated by the President as Governor of Louisiana, Lieut.-Col. French was promoted from acting provost marshal on my staff to the post of provost marshal general of the State of Louisiana, and remained in that office when I left New Orleans. To his energy and ability the quiet and good order of the populace of New Orleans may be largely ascribed. Col. S. H. Stafford, of a New York Regiment, who had been acting aly death. Gen. George F. Shepley was promoted to be brigadier-general and at the same time was appointed Governor of Louisiana. I would that space permitted me to speak in detail of other officers, regimental commanders, etc. But they made theof Potomac; North Carolina, the territory of Cape Fear; South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the territory of Jackson; Louisiana, the territory of Jefferson; Texas, the territory of Houston, and Arkansas, the territory of Lincoln. I believed that
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
, surgeons, and inspectors, I took the most experienced and best officers I could get. Gallantly, well, and faithfully did they serve, evincing great ability and entire loyalty to their chief, and there were no better officers or men. But as such staff officers, they had no opportunity to distinguish themselves in their line of duty so as to come into much notice in the course of the history of military campaign, although their services were invaluable. When I led the First Brigade of Massachusetts troops into Washington in April, 1861 I had but three staff officers. Two of these served only until the 16th of May, and when I was commissioned major-general they left. One of them, Major Haggerty, served with me until I was relieved at New Orleans. I have had occasion to speak of him before, and now have only to add that he was a very able man, and good soldier, sometimes serving as judge advocate general. When I took command of the Department of New England, I had as assistant
City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
se to remember with gratitude his great aid in enabling me to make the expedition, of which I have heretofore spoken, up the river with the Army of the James to City Point. I found Lieut.-Col. John Cassels as provost marshal of the department. I did not reappoint him when I made up my staff. There are no more arduous dutiesve been good soldiers. But the question of the colored troops troubles me exceedingly. I wish you would do this as soon as you can, because I am to go down to City Point shortly and may meet negotiators for peace there, and I may want to talk this matter over with General Grant if he isn't too busy. I said: I will go over thn Lincoln was assassinated, and he himself was so brutally assaulted that he was detained in bed for many weeks afterwards. Meantime, Mr. Lincoln had gone to City Point and remained absent several days, returning only to meet the assassin's pistol. On the night of the 14th of April, I took the train at Washington for New Yor
Five Forks (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
h he recalled Sheridan with his ten thousand cavalry. Sheridan had been operating in the Shenandoah Valley, and came down toward the north side of the James River so as to join Grant at once with his whole force. As soon as Sheridan's horses had been rested and his army had been refitted, Grant, fearing all the time that Lee would escape him, commenced a series of operations on Lee's right flank to drive him into Richmond and hold all communication on the south side. Hence the battle of Five Forks, which was successful. Lee made a counter attack on Grant's right wing, which was at first quite successful, his lines being broken through the day so that Meade was cut off from his headquarters; but that disaster was soon repaired. From that moment Grant had no further doubt of the end and was very much concerned lest Lee should vacate Petersburg in the night and escape him, of course abandoning Richmond. Grant was being all the time reinforced by troops from the North and other sourc
Jeff Davis (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ohnston's army agreed to by Sherman See Appendix No. 47. I would have revoked, as President Johnson did with the advice of his Cabinet, but I should not have advised that Halleck be sent down to violate a truce, as was done, because that was breaking faith. But there was a justification for the action of Johnson and his Cabinet in going so far as they did. I know the information upon which they acted. They were informed of the fact that Johnston called to his assistance the cabinet of Jeff Davis to draw those terms of surrender, and they were drawn by Mr. Reagan, one of the members of Davis' cabinet. As evidence, fac-simile of them is produced on the next three pages by courtesy of Brev. Brig.-Gen. H. V. Boynton. It is true Sherman does not copy Reagan's words exactly, but he copies his paper so far as the substance is concerned, wording it differently so as to make it his own, or, as Johnston says, to make it fuller, and he adds that Sherman wrote his copy with Reagan's before
Upper Town (Nevada, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
e was an anti-slavery man to a degree that utterly unbalanced his judgment. While in command of a portion of the troops on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico near the State of Mississippi, he, in the winter of 1861-62, upon his own motion, issued a proclamation of emancipation of the slaves. No notice was taken of it, as it was simply a dead letter. He disciplined his troops very admirably, and upon my arrival in New Orleans, I put him in command of the forces stationed above the city at Carrolton. The history of that command I have already stated. Differing with me on the slavery questions because I held that nothing could be done about freeing the slave, except through the President, he resigned his command and reported to Washington to argue the question with the President, so that I lost him. He is now deceased. Of General Williams and his services I said all that ever can be said in my general order of notice of his untimely death. Gen. George F. Shepley was promoted to
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
urbed him, and that would not arise until peace was established. He told me that he had-met, in the last of January, the Confederate commissioners who came to Hampton Roads to treat of peace, and that he informed them very distinctly of these terms, and that he stated to them he would substantially leave to them all other terms upon which they could come into the Union and consent to live with us as a part thereof. His proposition made to the rebel commissioners at Hampton Roads, as Grant reports it, (Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. II., pp. 422, 423), was that there would be no use in entering into any negotiations unless they would recognize, fispecially the radical portion who were now in majority, which pained him very much. A conversation was held between us after the negotiations had failed at Hampton Roads, and in the course of the conversation he said to me:-- But what shall we do with the negroes after they are free? I can hardly believe that the South an
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
following him, and by reason of his great want of supplies. As the winter had been a very rainy one, the roads he would have to go over would be almost impassable early in the season; consequently he must wait until milder weather and the drying up of the mud before he could make the move. So confident was Grant of this that early in March he recalled Sheridan with his ten thousand cavalry. Sheridan had been operating in the Shenandoah Valley, and came down toward the north side of the James River so as to join Grant at once with his whole force. As soon as Sheridan's horses had been rested and his army had been refitted, Grant, fearing all the time that Lee would escape him, commenced a series of operations on Lee's right flank to drive him into Richmond and hold all communication on the south side. Hence the battle of Five Forks, which was successful. Lee made a counter attack on Grant's right wing, which was at first quite successful, his lines being broken through the day so
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
last. After the war was over, a war broke out between Turkey and Greece, and he went to Athens and took a position in the Greek army, serving with great distinction until he received an accidental wound from the falling of a carbine which disabled him from further service. Later he served as assistant district-attorney of the United States of the city of New York, and remained one of my most valued friends until his death, a short time ago. The other was Mr. John I. Davenport, of Brooklyn, New York, who came to me as a stenographer. I soon employed him in ascertaining the strength of Lee's army, and put him at the head of my Bureau of Information with the rank of lieutenant, and made him my military secretary. His capacity, which he has shown since for many years, so that he has made a proud name for himself in the service of the government as chief supervisor of elections in the city of New York for many years, coupled with his great energy, enabled him to render John I. Dav
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