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Bragg (search for this): chapter 2
ta. This was not different from what Grant had first suggested in his telegram of the 10th of September. But at this moment the whole situation changed as suddenly as the scenery in a theatre. Sherman's letter was dated September 20th, and on the 21st, Hood moved his army from Lovejoy's, where he had remained since the capture of Atlanta, to Palmetto station, on the West Point railroad, twenty-four miles south-west of the national position. From this place, on the 22nd, he announced to Bragg: I shall, unless Sherman moves south, so soon as I can collect supplies, cross the Chattahoochee river, and form line of battle near Powder Springs. This will prevent him from using the Dalton railroad, and force him to drive me off, or move south, when I shall fall upon his rear. It is strange to note how the very movement which Grant and Sherman were discussing, had been considered nearly as soon by the rebel general. He even appeared to desire the national advance, and purposely left
Kautz (search for this): chapter 2
r moved from Deep Bottom; the Eighteenth corps, under Ord, marched by the Varina road, nearest the river; and the Tenth, under Birney, by the Newmarket road; while Kautz, with the cavalry, took the Darbytown road, on the right of the army. All these routes run direct to Richmond, only ten miles north of Deep Bottom. The attack bade, and informed him that rebel reinforcements were arriving from Petersburg. If this continues, he said, it may be well for you to attack the enemy. Meanwhile, Kautz, with the cavalry, had advanced on the Darbytown road to a point within six miles of Richmond, and a division of Butler's infantry was ordered to his support. Bto-night, if they do not reach Richmond. This was accordingly done, and a position taken up, extending from the river at Cox's ferry, to the Darbytown road, where Kautz had pushed on to the line of redoubts nearest Richmond. Thus the success of the day was limited to the capture of Fort Harrison in the morning, and a later adva
Horace Porter (search for this): chapter 2
I will estimate the number I will want. Meanwhile, the general-in-chief was carefully considering this next move, and on the 12th of September, he sent Colonel Horace Porter, of his staff, to make known his views to Sherman and bring back a reply. He was accustomed to inform the officers of his personal staff very thoroughly o to represent him at the headquarters of his more important generals, with whom he thus communicated more fully and exactly than was possible by other means. Colonel Porter was the bearer of a letter in which, after explaining the situation in Virginia, and announcing a proposed operation against Wilmington, Grant proceeded to decrossing the Coosa, twelve miles below Rome—bound west. If he passes over to the Mobile and Ohio road, had I not better execute the plan of my letter sent by Colonel Porter, and leave General Thomas with the troops now in Tennessee, to defend the state? He will have an ample force when the reinforcements ordered reach Nashville.
Price (search for this): chapter 2
ws. The rebels west of the Mississippi, relieved of all fear of attack front Canby, had begun themselves to threaten offensive operations. Ten thousand men under Price were marching through Arkansas to invade Missouri, while Kirby Smith had set out to cross the Mississippi and co-operate with the troops opposed to Sherman. Thesend I do not exactly see. The difficulties of supplying your army, except when you are constantly moving beyond where you are, I plainly see. If it had not been for Price's movement, Canby could have sent twelve thousand men to Mobile. From your command on the Mississippi an equal number could have been taken. With this force, my dered the value of Mobile and the possibility of Southern independence; proposed reinforcements for Meade and campaigns for Canby; glanced at the side movemints of Price and Rosecrans; treated of Hood's army and the Appalachicola river; but nevertheless narrowed itself down to a definite answer to Grant's inquiry and a positive pla
E. O. C. Ord (search for this): chapter 2
general-in-chief movement of Butler from Deep Bottom capture of Fort Harrison Ord wounded national advance interrupted Grant enters captured work assault by Bihe 29th of September, Butler moved from Deep Bottom; the Eighteenth corps, under Ord, marched by the Varina road, nearest the river; and the Tenth, under Birney, by tes run direct to Richmond, only ten miles north of Deep Bottom. The attack by Ord on the left had been ordered for half-past 3; it was not made until several hou below Chapin's Farm. Several hundred prisoners also fell into Butler's hands. Ord, however, who commanded the assaulting column, was wounded in the leg and obliges if he had been in camp. The despatch was to Birney, and in these words: General Ord has carried very strong works and some fifteen pieces of artillery, and his on the right, by which no especial result was attained. The advantage gained by Ord had not been properly pushed at the instant; the enemy was warned and prepared f
Hood (search for this): chapter 2
orgia, I can march to Milledgeville, and compel Hood to give up Augusta or Macon, and then turn on t1st of October, Sherman reported the advance of Hood, and added: If he tries to get on my road this ay Sherman moves, he will undoubtedly encounter Hood's army, and in crossing to the sea-coast, will Sherman said to him: There is no doubt some of Hood's infantry is across the Chattahoochee, but I d, about sixty miles south-west of Rome; and as Hood had now abandoned the Macon and West Point road His hope was to interpose this corps between Hood and the detachment of five thousand rebels now gia howl. . . . On the 10th, he learned that Hood had crossed the Coosa river, between Rome and tof road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from going north. With Wilson turned loose wit, dated the same hour with Grant's—eleven A. M. Hood moved his army from Palmetto station, across bydiffered was whether it was not better to fight Hood before the march was made. Sherman declared th[41 more...]
William T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 2
shville and Chattanooga, two hundred miles in Sherman's rear, and Grant, with his usual pugnacity, he seacoast, I will advise you. The same day Sherman asked for reinforcements, saying: In Middle Tidan in the Valley. On the 1st of October, Sherman reported the advance of Hood, and added: If h movement. But he went on to say: I wrote to Sherman on this subject, sending my letter by a staffnswer to his messages to Allatoona; but while Sherman was with him, he caught a glimpse of the tell objective points, at first was unwilling for Sherman to turn his back on the enemy. A movement toy to the sea-coast. It was not on account of Sherman, who was to set out with sixty thousand men, neral-in-chief alone could and did assume. Sherman's proposed attempt was like, and also unlike,ave proposed, to leave an enemy in his rear. Sherman did conceive his peculiar march, destroying Ais is the greatest and most audacious part of Sherman's conception, and this is all his own—he was[123 more...]
Pemberton (search for this): chapter 2
s of success, and when he found his great lieutenant so impetuous in his eagerness, he gave the word. Yet he himself would probably never have made the march, leaving Hood in the rear. In the Vicksburg campaign, it is true, he moved away from Pemberton, but it was to attack Johnston; and when he set out from the Mississippi, he fully intended to turn and crush Pemberton, as soon as Johnston was destroyed. Had he been in Sherman's place now, he would have been quite as determined to make the Pemberton, as soon as Johnston was destroyed. Had he been in Sherman's place now, he would have been quite as determined to make the march, but not until Hood was annihilated. He felt, however, that he was able to supervise all; to provide troops for Thomas sufficient to withstand Hood, and supplies to meet Sherman when he emerged; and his confidence in Sherman's generalship determined him to permit the move. Such an army, he said to Stanton on the 13th, and with such a commander, is hard to corner or to capture. This confidence was reciprocal. If Sherman could not have reposed absolutely on Grant, if he had not felt c
Butler Grant (search for this): chapter 2
end, we will find where the enemy's weak point is. To Butler Grant described the operations on the left, and said: This woe enemy modified his defensive line north of the James, and Grant strengthened Fort Harrison and turned its guns against thosd now become extremely delicate. Ground had been gained by Grant at each extremity; the right and left wings were both advan the circle, he could transfer troops in a few hours, while Grant, on the arc, required a day to move his men from Petersburgs more than equalized by the position the other enjoyed. Grant, however, was steadily acquiring ground which must in the e. The returns of each army for the month of September show Grant's fighting force, in the armies of the Potomac and the Jame reduced by the same long and arduous service as Lee's, and Grant's recent recruits had not been numerous. The above statemeay be calamitous. There have been critics who pronounced Grant's method of extending north and south of the James simultan
Napoleon (search for this): chapter 2
I will not follow him now. I will watch him, as I do not see what he designs by this movement. He had not long to wait. The rebel President had come from Richmond to the camp of Hood, and all along the road, with extraordinary fatuity, proclaimed the new campaign. At Columbia, in South Carolina, at Macon, and at Palmetto station, he publicly announced that Atlanta was to be recovered; that Forrest was already on the national roads in Middle Tennessee; that Sherman would meet the fate of Napoleon in the retreat from Moscow; and, finally, addressing the army, he turned to a division of Tennessee troops, and exclaimed: Be of good cheer, for in a short while your faces will be turned homeward, and your feet pressing Tennessee soil. This imprudent disclosure of the rebel plans was published in the Southern newspapers, and Sherman was of course forewarned. The speech at Macon was made on the 23rd of September, and on the 27th, Sherman telegraphed it to Washington. Even on the 24th,
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