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Andrew Johnson (search for this): chapter 2
It came on the 12th. It was only on the 16th that Rosecrans left Winchester and at last set his army in motion. Burnside took the field on the same day. As his operations were less important, we shall follow him first. Ever since the Federals had become masters of Kentucky they had projected an expedition into East Tennessee. It is known that this region, always opposed to slavery, had remained loyal to the Union: it was represented in the Senate by an orator of great influence, Andrew Johnson. If it belonged de facto to the Confederacy, it owed this fact to its geographical position and not to the sentiments of its inhabitants. The secession chiefs, after having broken the Federal compact, had not allowed the East Tennessee people to invoke in their turn the very principle upon which the Secessionists rested their claims, and to separate from the insurrectional government of Tennessee. They had, on the contrary, cruelly oppressed them, enforcing with vigor the conscription
June 20th (search for this): chapter 2
out illusion. The request of Mr. Stephens, transmitted to Washington by the admiral, got there a few hours after the news of the final repulse of General Lee. Hence the answer was an easy matter: it was peremptory. The accredited agents were sufficient to settle the question of exchanges, and the commissioner extraordinary was not recognized nor allowed to proceed to Washington. Mr. Stephens understood the situation: he did not insist, but returned to Richmond. We left, about the 20th of June, Rosecrans and Bragg on the banks of Duck River. After six months of preparation a new campaign is to begin: the time has come for us to follow it. Since the battle of Murfreesborough different motives have imposed the same reserve upon the two adversaries. The season has not allowed Rosecrans to advance beyond the theatre of that bloody struggle. Later, thanks to the arrival of Van Dorn, the Confederates have beenable, on one hand, to inflict upon their antagonists two serious discomf
September 7th (search for this): chapter 2
on parole, had for his successor Lieutenant-general D. H. Hill, whom we have seen figuring first in Lee's army and subsequently in North Carolina. His corps had fallen back, on the 3d, from Tyner's Station to Ringgold, after having sent a brigade of infantry to the banks of the Tennessee in order to mask this movement. Bragg's movement must involve Buckner's and ensure the junction of the two corps. Buckner had been on the left bank of the Hiawassee River two days only when, on the 7th of September, he received orders to start out at once on the road to the south. Bragg gave him at the same time a rendezvous in McLemore's Cove. Marching over forty-four miles in eight-and-forty hours, Buckner arrived on the 9th on the banks of the Chickamauga, and posted himself a few miles above Polk's corps on Anderson's farm, between Gordon's Mills and Crawfish Spring; Forrest had ordered Pegram's division to defend as long as possible the banks of the Tennessee from Harrison to Chattanooga an
4th (search for this): chapter 2
more than two hundred and sixteen yards of trestle-work broke down. Fortunately, at the time of the accident the bridge was free and nobody went down with it. Thanks to incessant labor, the crossing was restored in less than two days, and on the 4th, in the morning, Baird's division, followed by all the artillery and the wagons of the Fourteenth corps, filed over. Brannan and Reynolds in another direction crossed the river on the 1st of September, the one at the great bend of the Tennessee, leads to the edge of Lookout Creek. Negley toils up the slopes of Raccoon Mountain. On the right McCook's three divisions occupy the eastern declivity of that mountain and descend into Will's Valley between Trenton and Johnson's Crook. On the 4th, at the time when Baird's last troops are crossing the Tennessee, two divisions of the Fourteenth corps are near Trenton with Sheridan, and the third division bivouacs above that town, while McCook, climbing, on the right, the side of Lookout Moun
July, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 2
alla riva Si volge alla acqua perigliosa, e guata; Cosi l'animo mio, cha ancor fuggiva, Si volse 'ndietro a rimirar lo passo Che no lascio giammai persona viva. . . . . As he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, Turns to the water perilous and gazes; So did my soul that still was fleeing onward, Turn itself back to re-behold the pass Which never yet a living person left. Longfellow's Translation. The people of the Northern States in the early days of July, 1863, could thus cast a long retrospective look at the experiences which they had just encountered, like the shipwrecked voyager who, landing upon the shore, turns to glance at the angry billows which break impotent at his feet. The events which closely followed the twofold victory at Gettysburg and Vicksburg enabled the North to take in the whole extent of the misfortunes that would have befallen them if Lee had planted his flag upon the slopes of Cemetery Hill and Johnston had succeeded in
August 29th (search for this): chapter 2
n a position to support Negley, but the two other divisions of the Fourteenth corps did not leave Trenton, where they had been for the last three days. A like movement was simultaneously accomplished by General McCook. On the 8th he was massing his corps in the vicinity of Valley Head, and the two brigades of Carlin and Heg of Davis' division were occupying the eastern side of Winston's Gap. Stanley, having resumed the command of the cavalry which had crossed at Caperton's Ferry on the 29th of August, was crossing Lookout Mountain and penetrating into the small valleys which empty their streams into the Chattooga River. On the next morning Carlin and Heg, closely following him, were occupying, the one Alpine and the other Broomtown. This double demonstration was useless, since the result which Rosecrans was expecting from it had been obtained even before the demonstration was accomplished. As early as the 8th, Wagner, who was posted on the left bank of the Tennessee, and whose
September 1st (search for this): chapter 2
nd Gap, he was, on the 31st of August, authorized to remain there. Shackelford's Federal cavalry had hardly descended into the valley when they pushed on, on September 1st, as far as Loudon in hopes of preserving the bridge for their army and of preventing the enemy's rearguard from having access to it. They came too late to savevision, followed by all the artillery and the wagons of the Fourteenth corps, filed over. Brannan and Reynolds in another direction crossed the river on the 1st of September, the one at the great bend of the Tennessee, and the other at Shell Mound. Negley, following Johnson at Caperton's Ferry and immediately going up on the lefade purposely to prepare new Caudine Forks for vanquished forces. Instead of availing himself of the means of defence offered him by nature, Bragg, on the 1st of September, concluded to wait for his adversary on the plain stretching out to the eastward of Lookout Mountain. Only one serious motive could justify this plan: it br
September, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 2
e beginning of the war the Confederates had not won such a victory west of the Alleghany Mountains. The moral effect produced upon both sides was considerable. The illusions which the North had entertained since its successes in the month of July were rudely destroyed. It was not discouraged, but it understood that many efforts would yet be required to overcome its valiant adversary. The latter again took courage and hope, for the South could not foresee that the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, would prove for it the last two brilliant days of that grand struggle. Naturally, if the consequences of its victory were great, the South was justified in counting upon results much more important still. In the evening of the 20th the Union army was greatly disordered and weakened; it was easy to see that. It could not hold its ground on Missionary Ridge. In order to recuperate its strength and make resistance it must take shelter behind the fortifications commenced by Bragg himse
2nd (search for this): chapter 2
the crossing used for the road from Manchester to Winchester. This last point is occupied by a detachment from the enemy's troops. Jones' Ford, on the contrary, is without any protection, but the crossing is so difficult that one brigade only is able to clear it before dark. On the right, McCook, following with two divisions the route from Tullahoma to Winchester, has arrived at Rock Creek Ford, where he has met with the same difficulties encountered by Thomas. He has not been able, on the 2d, to set foot upon the left bank, that was defended only by a small body of cavalry, but on which it was hard to land on account of the rise in Elk River. It was only near to the source of this stream that the Federals have been enabled to surmount this difficulty. Turchin's Federal brigade of cavalry, proceeding on the road from Hillsborough to Hookersville, has found the ford at Morris' Ferry protected by a part of Forrest's troops. Mitchell, with his division, soon joins Turchin's command
17th (search for this): chapter 2
gun, near Piketon, the Scioto River, and arrives at last, on the morning of the 17th, at Jackson, after an almost uninterrupted march of forty-eight hours. His soldis of the enemy are reported alike in the rear and on the flanks. Indeed, on the 17th, Hobson crossed the Scioto at Piketon, and in the evening of the same day he wiliver and to try and head him off at Pomeroy by a march during the night. On the 17th a conflagration kindled by the Confederates at Jackson, and the smoke from whichim the greatest uneasiness for forty-eight hours. At last McCook appeared on the 17th, in the morning, notwithstanding Wheeler's cavalry, which vainly sought to delayscover the motives for an inactivity which was beginning to astonish him. On the 17th, Steedman, with six regiments of infantry and one battery of artillery, at last he columns of infantry, but they were not all passable with artillery. On the 17th, in the evening, Bragg's definite orders are issued to the different corps which
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