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1861 AD (search for this): chapter 2
ical style, announced to his auditors that, on their side, they would construct a great mausoleum of hearts, to which men who yearn for liberty will, in after years, with bowed heads and reverently, resort as Christian pilgrims to the sacred shrines of the Holy Land. A man of true talent, the new governor of New York, Horatio Seymour, disdaining so high a strain, was more precise as well as more practical. He was invited to address his constituents on the Fourth of July. Twice already, in 1861 and 1862, the great national holiday had been celebrated amid mourning and defeat. It seemed as if the return of this date should once more bring misfortune to the Union cause, the destiny of which was going to be decided by the issue of the battle begun since the first day of July. Therefore, Mr. Seymour, counting upon a fresh disaster, exclaimed in the presence of an excited assembly, We were promised the downfall of Vicksburg, . . . the probable capture of the Confederate capital, and th
September 2nd (search for this): chapter 2
trestle-bridge at Bridgeport, and notwithstanding assiduous work to repair it the troops can cross over only on the 2d of September. During all this time, Bragg, although he is only twenty-two to twenty-five miles distant, makes no effort to stost be such as to enable Thomas and Sheridan to transfer their heavy artillery and trains to the other shore. On the 2d of September, after Sheridan had crossed with his infantry, a length of more than two hundred and sixteen yards of trestle-work bnd Walden's Ridge, has descended into the valley of the Sequatchie as far as Jasper, and reached, on the 1st and the 2d of September, the edge of the Tennessee; the trains and the artillery have gone toward the bridge at Bridgeport. Three brigades to join him for the defence of the approaches to that city on the two sides of the Tennessee, he might still, on the 2d of September, have sent Polk to Frick's Gap and Stevens' Gap, concentrated his cavalry in Winston's Gap, and thus closed against
September (search for this): chapter 2
to rejoin McCook, and the cavalry, of which Mitchell had resumed the command in the place of Stanley, who was ill, holding itself on a parallel line with the Twentieth corps upon the eastern slope of the mountain, was approaching the head-waters of the Chickamauga. In fine, the army was going to receive an important reinforcement: new regiments having come from Columbia to relieve the garrisons at Wartrace, Shelbyville, and other posts, General Granger had been enabled at the beginning of September to unite these garrisons in order to bring them to Rosecrans. On the 11th he passed the Tennessee at Bridgeport with Daniel McCook's brigade and Steedman's division, which comprised two other brigades. These troops, after a rapid and difficult march, arrived on the 13th at Chattanooga, and encamped in the evening at Rossville. Rosecrans allowed them to remain in this important position, whence they could easily help Crittenden. With his army brought together, he directed Granger to m
January (search for this): chapter 2
ndertaken the conquest of East Tennessee, so as to be able to advance from Knoxville and help the Army of the Cumberland at the time when it should resume the offensive. A considerable part of Grant's army, having no longer any enemy confronting it on the Mississippi, should have advanced, rebuilding the track as it proceeded, along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, so as to cover Rosecrans' right, and open, by way of Tuscumbia, a second road for the replenishment of his commissariat. One month would have sufficed if the direction of these manoeuvres had been entrusted to one head only, and not to three generals under the pedantic and annoying control of the small aulic council at Washington. Burnside, absorbed in his chase after Morgan, no longer thought of delivering East Tennessee, and to the four weeks during which the Southern partisan had kept all of Burnside's troops on a rush, two were to be added to bring these troops back to the Cumberland Valley. Burnside would hav
June (search for this): chapter 2
d themselves able to number many partisans among the inhabitants of that State. In the middle of June, Morgan, leaving, with a great part of his forces, the positions which he occupied in advance of eves he has attained the end of his troubles. The rising of the Ohio, which generally occurs in June after the melting of the snows on the Alleghany Mountains, has been delayed this year, and the st than would a Confederate victory in the State of Mississippi. But Bragg's army in the middle of June was weaker than ever. Polk's army corps comprised about eighteen thousand infantry and artillery for the return of his old corps, the Ninth, sent to the assistance of Grant in the first days of June; but this body, detained at first on account of the brief campaign against Johnston, and subseque and Indiana, formed the Twenty-third corps, under the orders of General Hartsuff. At the end of June, as we have said, this little army was in readiness to move, when Morgan started on his raid. Si
U. S. Grant (search for this): chapter 2
ry Hill and Johnston had succeeded in breaking Grant's lines. In the preceding volume we did not regular army if he would win a victory before Grant and Hooker—a humiliating offer which he rejectd near Jackson, Mississippi, in consequence of Grant's movements. In fine, desertions were thinnin resume the offensive. A considerable part of Grant's army, having no longer any enemy confrontingld corps, the Ninth, sent to the assistance of Grant in the first days of June; but this body, detaon the sickly banks of the lower Mississippi. Grant's army also was wholly in like circumstances. Lee to dispense with a part of his army; that Grant could not detain Johnston, whose traces he hadlow Rosecrans to follow up the enemy, and that Grant should take his troops by railway to meet Bragof this Vol. IV.-7 plan. Once at Tuscumbia, Grant would at last have been enabled to give Rosecr, which covers Chattanooga, as the opponent of Grant had abandoned Haynes' Bluff. We have alluded [5 more...]
S. D. Lee (search for this): chapter 2
They had not dared actively to co-operate with Lee, but they waited only for his first victory upoard, in the course of the month of August, when Lee had recrossed the Rapidan, he concentrated in tEastern section of the Union and the Western. Lee was then marching toward Pennsylvania. If the of Ohio or by reaching Pittsburg in advance of Lee's victorious army. This dream, fantastical in d been won in his absence. Mr. Davis asked General Lee again to dispense with Longstreet, so as towho could have trained them after the manner of Lee. Longstreet's corps, surrounded with all the prlace in line, and almost equal to the number Lee had under his orders at Gettysburg. However, an of the transportation of troops detached from Lee's army. Again, Meade, having received orders tnderstood that Meade by his caution had allowed Lee to dispense with a part of his army; that Grant Virginia, accustomed as he was to receive from Lee only general instructions, the execution of whi[7 more...]
Schofield (search for this): chapter 2
rans the co-operation which the latter had so vainly demanded up to that time. But Hurlbut at Memphis had only a few troops, and could not lead them beyond Corinth. The rest of the army, commanded by Sherman in the absence of Grant, who was ill at New Orleans, was near Vicksburg, while the despatches, carried by steamboats, reached it only very slowly. On the 18th, Sherman received Halleck's orders: time was required to prepare for their execution. Reinforcements were also requested of Schofield, who had a command in Missouri, and of Pope, who was watching the Indians on the frontier of Minnesota. Besides, orders were issued in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to collect the men at the posts and recruiting-depots, together with small detachments, and to move them upon Tennessee. All these measures will be the means, if the occasion occur, of compensating for the disaster which threatens Rosecrans, but they will not give him one additional man on the battlefield. Veri
Judah (search for this): chapter 2
ed into two brigades. The first, belonging to Judah's division of the Twenty-third army corps, hadmmon from every corner in Kentucky. Meantime, Judah, with three regiments and one battery, kept atrailroad near Shepherdsville; at the same time Judah was reaching the road, more to the south, at Ethe day would be sufficient to give Hobson and Judah time to overtake Morgan, while troops brought hange a few shots with the enemy's artillery. Judah did not go beyond Litchfield; Hobson reached Btwelve hours in the rear of the Confederates. Judah, in another direction, had returned from Litchs of time in recovering his trail. Elsewhere, Judah has embarked, in the morning of the 15th, on ooon in her first quarter. Fatal delay! For Judah, who has spared his men and horses by forwardiece of artillery and many men made prisoners. Judah himself escapes with difficulty. But he prompceforth no resistance is possible. Hobson and Judah, whose united forces amount to nearly five tho[5 more...]
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 2
Liddell's two brigades, and on their left Strahl's brigade, are lying in wait on the edge of the wood, exchanging with the enemy only an irregular skirmish-fire. Jackson, and Preston Smith on his left, face to the northwest, and their line thus forms an obtuse angle with Cleburne's line. They have received orders to support him. s, pierced with bullets, at the first discharge. A confused struggle immediately ensues in the thickest part of the wood between his men and Johnson's soldiers. Jackson, pursuing, like Smith, a direction which brings him nearer to Cleburne, unites his battalions with those of Cleburne. He presses on the right Wood's brigade, theamong troops that should either have been engaged earlier or spared for the morrow. Preston Smith has been the victim of this movement, always imprudent, as Stonewall Jackson had been some months before at Chancellorsville. Bragg has not been able to accomplish the manoeuvre which he had prepared. Instead of placing himself be
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