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Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
C. H. Cole, is derived from the publication from which the above extract is taken. The project of sending my command to meet Hunter's force, then supposed to be in the Valley, and, after that was disposed of, to make the advance on Washington, was adopted at a conference between President Davis and General Lee, late in the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1864, and I began the movement early on the morning of the 13th. On arriving at Charlottesville, I found that Hunter was advancing on Lynchburg, and it became necessary for me to meet him at that place. After his retreat, and my pursuit of him beyond Salem, General Lee, in a telegram, submitted it to my discretion whether I should make the advance on Washington, and this was repeated in a telegram to me after I reached Staunton; and I assumed the responsibility of continuing the movement. This does not look as if my movement was a part of a scheme for releasing the Confederates in northern prisons, and establishing a northwester
Sharpsburg (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
destruction, as Hunter had arrived at Harper's Ferry, in my rear, with a force much larger than my own. I may say here, as I have stated on several occasions, that it was not a part of General Lee's plan that I should make an attack on Washington, but his instructions were that I should threaten that city in order to draw troops away from Grant's army. When I suggested to him the idea of capturing Washington, he said very emphatically that it would be impossible to do so. After I reached Sharpsburg, on my route to Washington, I received a dispatch by a messenger from General Lee, informing me that there was a scheme for releasing the prisoners at Point Lookout, by a naval expedition up the Chesapeake, and I was directed to send a calvary force towards that point, in order to co-operate in the scheme, if I found it practicable to do so. I did order General Bradley T. Johnson to move in that direction with his brigade, after cutting the railroads between Baltimore and Philadelphia and
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
estern Confederacy? Really, this Story of the war requires a vast deal of credulity and entire ignorance of the events of the war on the part of any one who accepts it as the truth. The idea of introducing Mr. Jacob Thompson on board of a United States man-of-war as a country aunt is funny, to say the least of it. And the statement that the Confederacy (in 1864) had plenty of money in its secret service fund, and that there was something like $86,000,000 to the credit of the Confederate Comand fall of the Confederate Government, by President Davis, vol. 2, pp. 611-12: The opening of the spring campaign of 1864 was a favorable conjuncture for the employment of the resources of diplomacy. To approach the Government of the United States directly would have been in vain. Repeated efforts had already demonstrated its inflexible purpose — not to negotiate with the Confederate authorities. Political developments at the North, however, favored the adoption of some action that m
Charlottesville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
, even of the names of Colonel T. A. Burr and Major C. H. Cole, is derived from the publication from which the above extract is taken. The project of sending my command to meet Hunter's force, then supposed to be in the Valley, and, after that was disposed of, to make the advance on Washington, was adopted at a conference between President Davis and General Lee, late in the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1864, and I began the movement early on the morning of the 13th. On arriving at Charlottesville, I found that Hunter was advancing on Lynchburg, and it became necessary for me to meet him at that place. After his retreat, and my pursuit of him beyond Salem, General Lee, in a telegram, submitted it to my discretion whether I should make the advance on Washington, and this was repeated in a telegram to me after I reached Staunton; and I assumed the responsibility of continuing the movement. This does not look as if my movement was a part of a scheme for releasing the Confederates
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
tle more than seven weeks after I had retired from Washington. When that convention was held I was confronted by Sheridan in the Valley with very nearly 55,000 troops, according to the returns on file in the Adjutant-General's office in Washington, while my whole force did not reach the fourth of that number. Was it expected that I should destroy Sheridan, then capture Washington, hold in check the entire force of the United States army, including all the troops in Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, while the 20,000 released prisoners should arm themselves, overrun all the Northwestern States and establish a Northwestern Confederacy? Really, this Story of the war requires a vast deal of credulity and entire ignorance of the events of the war on the part of any one who accepts it as the truth. The idea of introducing Mr. Jacob Thompson on board of a United States man-of-war as a country aunt is funny, to say the least of it. And the statement that the Confederacy (in 1864) had plen
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
l T. A. Burr, a well known Confederate officer, tells the story of an attempt to release 20,000 Confederate prisoners at Chicago, Columbus and Sandusky in 1864, and to form a northwestern confederacy. Major C. H. Cole, of the Fifth Tennessee regimee were weary of war. It was first intended to strike the blow while the National Democratic Convention was in session at Chicago, and more than 4,000 Confederate soldiers and sympathizers were there ready for action. But, Early's delay in striking gton. It is said: It was first intended to strike the blow while the national Democratic convention was in session at Chicago, and more than 4,000 Confederate soldiers and sympathizers were there ready for action. But Early's delay in striking Wgton caused a postponement. The Democratic convention for 1864, which nominated McClellan for President, assembled at Chicago on the 31st of August--a little more than seven weeks after I had retired from Washington. When that convention was hel
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
cheme, if I found it practicable to do so. I did order General Bradley T. Johnson to move in that direction with his brigade, after cutting the railroads between Baltimore and Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington; and he had started and crossed the railroad between Washington and Baltimore, when, having learned that two corps Baltimore and Washington; and he had started and crossed the railroad between Washington and Baltimore, when, having learned that two corps had arrived at Washington from Grant's army, he informed me of the fact by a courier who reached me in front of Washington on the night of the 11th of July. Realizing the fact then that there was no possible hope of capturing Washington, I determined to retire, and sent an order to General Johnson to rejoin me. The attempt to releBaltimore, when, having learned that two corps had arrived at Washington from Grant's army, he informed me of the fact by a courier who reached me in front of Washington on the night of the 11th of July. Realizing the fact then that there was no possible hope of capturing Washington, I determined to retire, and sent an order to General Johnson to rejoin me. The attempt to release the prisoners at Point Lookout was not made for reasons not at all connected with my operations. If there was this scheme for releasing the prisoners in the North and Northwest, which was to be carried out in connection with my advance on Washington, it is a little singular that General Lee gave me no information of it when
York (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3.23
entire ignorance of the events of the war on the part of any one who accepts it as the truth. The idea of introducing Mr. Jacob Thompson on board of a United States man-of-war as a country aunt is funny, to say the least of it. And the statement that the Confederacy (in 1864) had plenty of money in its secret service fund, and that there was something like $86,000,000 to the credit of the Confederate Commissioner and his colleague, Jacob Thompson, most of which was deposited at a bank in Toronto, is not excelled in its romanticism by that other story of Mr. Davis's carrying off over $2,000,000 in specie about his person when he was made a prisoner at the close of the war. If there was any such secret fund, that is, a fund that would have been available in Canada, it must have been a very profound secret indeed, and such it will ever remain until that final day when all secrets shall be given up. In regard to the mission of Mr. Jacob Thompson and his colleagues in Canada, the
Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.23
arpsburg, on my route to Washington, I received a dispatch by a messenger from General Lee, informing me that there was a scheme for releasing the prisoners at Point Lookout, by a naval expedition up the Chesapeake, and I was directed to send a calvary force towards that point, in order to co-operate in the scheme, if I found it pras no possible hope of capturing Washington, I determined to retire, and sent an order to General Johnson to rejoin me. The attempt to release the prisoners at Point Lookout was not made for reasons not at all connected with my operations. If there was this scheme for releasing the prisoners in the North and Northwest, which was connection with my advance on Washington, it is a little singular that General Lee gave me no information of it when he informed me of the proposed attempt at Point Lookout? I may further remark that, as the project of sending me to threaten Washington was first conceived on the 12th of June and I arrived in front of Washington
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3.23
an in Texas. He received his instructions from Jacob Thompson, who was then in Canada, and was put in command of the department of Ohio, with headquarters at Sanduskhat information of the fact could have reached the Confederate commissioners in Canada, and been sent by them to Sandusky, in Ohio, before I retired from the front ofere was any such secret fund, that is, a fund that would have been available in Canada, it must have been a very profound secret indeed, and such it will ever remain ven up. In regard to the mission of Mr. Jacob Thompson and his colleagues in Canada, the following statement is to be found in The rise and fall of the Confederatersons, eminent in position and intelligence, was accordingly appointed to visit Canada, with a view to negotiation with such persons in the North as might be relied uall of 1864, by some escaped Confederate prisoners, who had made their way into Canada, for the release of the Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island; but that sch
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