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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 18
t yesterday, and will not press our pickets far. I will not be drawn out far, unless with certainty of advantage; and I do not apprehend any thing like an attack upon our position. Sherman. Letter from General Sherman to the Editor of the United States' service magazine.—(published January, 1865.) headquarters, military division of the Mississippi. Prof. Henry Coppee, Philadelphia: dear sir,—In the June number of the United States' Service Magazine, I find a brief sketch of Lieutenant-GUnited States' Service Magazine, I find a brief sketch of Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, in which I see you are likely to perpetuate an error, which General Grant may not deem of sufficient importance to correct. To General Buell's noble, able, and gallant conduct you attribute the fact that the disaster of April 6th, at Pittsburg Landing was retrieved, and made the victory of the following day. As General Taylor is said in his later days to have doubted whether he was at the battle of Buena Vista at all, on account of the many things having transpired there, a
Danville (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ed by infantry, may by rapid movements reach these points from the river without very serious opposition. Avoid any general engagement with strong forces. It will be better to retreat than to risk a general battle. This should be strongly impressed upon the officers sent with the expedition from the river. General C. F. Smith, or some very discreet officer, should be selected for such commands. Having accomplished these objects, or such of them as may be practicable, you will return to Danville and move on Paris. Perhaps the troops sent to Jackson and Humboldt can reach Paris as easily by land as to return to the transports. This must depend on the character of the roads and the position of the enemy. All telegraph lines which can be reached must be cut. The gunboats will accompany the transports for their protection. Any loyal Tennesseeans, who desire it, may be enlisted and supplied with arms. Competent officers should be left to command the garrisons of Forts Henry and
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
or-General. General Grant to General Halleck, with Inclosures from General Sherman to General Grant. Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: The main force of the enemy is at Corinth, with troops at different points east. Small garrisons are also at Bethel, Jackson, and Humboldt. The number alace between our out-guards and the enemy's yesterday and the day before. U. S. Grant, Major-General. Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: General Nelson, of Buell's column, has just arrived. The other two divisions will arrive to-morrow and next day. Some skirmishing took place last night bled, and eight prisoners taken. U. S. Grant, Major-General. headquarters, District of West Tennessee, Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: Just as my letter of yesterday, to Captain McLean, Assistant Adjutant-General, was finished, notes from Generals Mc-Clernand and Sherman's Assistant Adjut
Paris, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
sent with the expedition from the river. General C. F. Smith, or some very discreet officer, should be selected for such commands. Having accomplished these objects, or such of them as may be practicable, you will return to Danville and move on Paris. Perhaps the troops sent to Jackson and Humboldt can reach Paris as easily by land as to return to the transports. This must depend on the character of the roads and the position of the enemy. All telegraph lines which can be reached must be cParis as easily by land as to return to the transports. This must depend on the character of the roads and the position of the enemy. All telegraph lines which can be reached must be cut. The gunboats will accompany the transports for their protection. Any loyal Tennesseeans, who desire it, may be enlisted and supplied with arms. Competent officers should be left to command the garrisons of Forts Henry and Donelson in your absence. I have indicated in general terms the object of this. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. Correspondence between Generals Beauregard and Grant. headquarters, army of the Mississippi, Monday, April 8, 1862. sir: At the close of the conflict
Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ached must be cut. The gunboats will accompany the transports for their protection. Any loyal Tennesseeans, who desire it, may be enlisted and supplied with arms. Competent officers should be left to command the garrisons of Forts Henry and Donelson in your absence. I have indicated in general terms the object of this. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. Correspondence between Generals Beauregard and Grant. headquarters, army of the Mississippi, Monday, April 8, 1862. sir: At the close oho never gave full credit to those in the front line, who did fight hard, and who had, at four P. M. checked the enemy, and were preparing the next day to assume the offensive. I remember the fact the better from General Grant's anecdote of his Donelson battle, which he told me then for the first time—that, at a certain period of the battle he saw that either side was ready to give way, if the other showed a bold front, and he determined to do that very thing, to advance on the enemy, when, as
Savanna (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
S. Grant, Major-General. General Grant to General Halleck, with Inclosures from General Sherman to General Grant. Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: The main force of the enemy is at Corinth, with troops armishing took place between our out-guards and the enemy's yesterday and the day before. U. S. Grant, Major-General. Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: General Nelson, of Buell's column, has just arrived. Thost several killed, and eight prisoners taken. U. S. Grant, Major-General. headquarters, District of West Tennessee, Savanna, April 5, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, St. Louis, Mo.: Just as my letter of yesterday, to Captain McLean, Assisder of General Smith, before General Grant succeeded him to the command of all the forces up the Tennessee-headquarters, Savanna. If there were any error in putting that army on the west side of the Tennessee, exposed to the superior force of the e
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
rn to Danville and move on Paris. Perhaps the troops sent to Jackson and Humboldt can reach Paris as easily by land as to return to the transports. This must depend on the character of the roads and the position of the enemy. All telegraph lines which can be reached must be cut. The gunboats will accompany the transports for their protection. Any loyal Tennesseeans, who desire it, may be enlisted and supplied with arms. Competent officers should be left to command the garrisons of Forts Henry and Donelson in your absence. I have indicated in general terms the object of this. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. Correspondence between Generals Beauregard and Grant. headquarters, army of the Mississippi, Monday, April 8, 1862. sir: At the close of the conflict yesterday, my forces being exhausted by the extraordinary length of time during which they were engaged with yours on that and the preceding day, and it being apparent that you had received and were still receiving reenf
Snake Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
behind McArthur's drill-field, placing batteries on chosen ground, repelled easily a cavalry attack, and watched the cautious approach of the enemy's infantry, that never dislodged me there. I selected that line in advance of a bridge across Snake creek, by which we had all day been expecting the approach of Lewis Wallace's division from Crump's Landing. About five P. M., before the sun set, General Grant came again to me, and after hearing my report of matters, explained to me the situationy of room, with Snake and Lick creeks the flanks of a camp for the grand army of invasion. It was General Smith who selected that field of battle, and it was well chosen. On any other we surely would have been overwhelmed, as both Lick and Snake creeks forced the enemy to confine his movement to a direct front attack which new troops are better qualified to resist than where the flanks are exposed to a real or chimerical danger. Even the divisions of that army were arranged in that camp by
Bear Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
Appendix to chapter III. Telegram from General Halleck to General Grant. St. Louis, March 1, 1862. General U. S. Grant, Fort Henry: Transports will be sent to you as soon as possible to move your column up the Tennessee river. The main object of this expedition will be to destroy the railroad bridge over Bear creek, near Eastport, Miss., and also the connections at Corinth, Jackson, and Humboldt. It is thought best that these objects be attempted in the order named. Strong detachments of cavalry and light artillery, supported by infantry, may by rapid movements reach these points from the river without very serious opposition. Avoid any general engagement with strong forces. It will be better to retreat than to risk a general battle. This should be strongly impressed upon the officers sent with the expedition from the river. General C. F. Smith, or some very discreet officer, should be selected for such commands. Having accomplished these objects, or such of them
Hamburg, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place. General Nelson's division has arrived. The other two, of Buell's column, will arrive to-morrow or next day. It is my present intention to send them to Hamburg, some four miles above Pittsburg, when they all get here. From that point to Corinth the road is good, and a junction can be formed with the troops from Pittsburg at almost any point. Colonel McPherson has gone with an escort to-day to examine the defensibility of the ground about Hamburg, and to lay out the position of the camps, if advisable to occupy that place. U. S. Grant, Major-General. Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, April 5, 1862. General Grant: sir,—All is quiet along my lines now. We are in the act of exchanging cavalry according to your orders. The enemy has cavalry in our front, and I think there are two regiments of infantry and one battery of artillery about six miles out. I will send you in ten prisoners of wa
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