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Braxton Bragg (search for this): chapter 54
ttanooga. It was a most favorable moment to strike directly into the heart of the Confederacy. Bragg had weakened himself to strengthen Johnston in his vain endeavor first to prevent, and then to rFederal commanders, who had been watching him closely for ten days, concluded he had returned to Bragg's main column near Tullahona. They were sure, then, that their first surmise, that he had come ee months. He thus broke the plan of co-operation, and delayed Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, giving Bragg time to get back the men He had loaned Johnston. Instead of a strong joint movement, Burnside aral troops under command of General Judah-five thousand of which were excellent cavalry. Again: Bragg's chief object was to delay Judah and Burnside — the latter especially-to retard their advance aouisville. At Louisville he had a good time, after which he left, mounted on a fresh horse; for Bragg's army. Whether he ever reached his destination or not I do not know. I gather all the facts r
Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 54
ng --that is, we enjoyed looking back upon this scene and laughing at it. While it was being enacted, we were looking out each for himself, and striving to get out of what we considered a disgraceful dilemma. The result of this short interview with the enemy was not calculated to flatter our vanity. We, the general included, had learned that it was not safe to disregard all precautions dictated by the rules of war and common sense and prudence, when we had such men as Morgan, Duke, and Johnson for enemies, however jaded and toil-worn they and their men might be. We lost a half-dozen men killed and wounded. Captain R. C. Kise, Assistant Adjutant General, and Captain Henshaw, were captured; Lieutenant Fred W. Price, of the staff, was wounded, and our gun was carried off by the rebel skirmishers. And beside, and worse than all, we had made ourselves utterly ridiculous and lost immensely on our stock of pride and self-respect. By the time this affair, which did not occupy more tha
Fred W. Price (search for this): chapter 54
result of this short interview with the enemy was not calculated to flatter our vanity. We, the general included, had learned that it was not safe to disregard all precautions dictated by the rules of war and common sense and prudence, when we had such men as Morgan, Duke, and Johnson for enemies, however jaded and toil-worn they and their men might be. We lost a half-dozen men killed and wounded. Captain R. C. Kise, Assistant Adjutant General, and Captain Henshaw, were captured; Lieutenant Fred W. Price, of the staff, was wounded, and our gun was carried off by the rebel skirmishers. And beside, and worse than all, we had made ourselves utterly ridiculous and lost immensely on our stock of pride and self-respect. By the time this affair, which did not occupy more than twenty minutes, was over, the fog had entirely disappeared, and Morgan's lines were within easy view of our forces on the hill. Business was now the order. The Fifth Indiana, Colonel Butler, was ordered to move
Luther C. Ladd (search for this): chapter 54
easily verified as to all their details by living witnesses. Colonel R. A. Alston, chief of Morgan's staff, was captured on the evening of the 5th of July, on the road from Lebanon to Bardstown, together with an escort of twenty men, by Lieutenant Ladd, of the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, and seven men. Alston and his escort were riding some distance in Morgan's rear. Ladd, who was scouting, came upon them just after dark. He concealed himself in the bushes at the roadside, and, by various deLadd, who was scouting, came upon them just after dark. He concealed himself in the bushes at the roadside, and, by various devices, completely fooled the Confederates as to the size of his force until he had them disarmed. Alston, who was a brave officer, was terribly chagrined, but, on his word of honor, he took his men to Lexington, the nearest military post, and surrendered the next day. Major Dan McCook, paymaster, a gentleman probably sixty-five years old, but hale and much younger in appearance, accompanied General Judah from Cincinnati as a volunteer aid. Major McCook was the father of the celebrated fami
Reverdy Johnson (search for this): chapter 54
ir way so far as Buffington arrived the day after the fight and capture. General Duke puts the force at Green river bridge — which his forces failed to capture-at six hundred. There were just one hundred and sixty men reported for duty to Colonel Moore that morning by his post adjutant. They were behind a hastily-constructed, but strong, parapet, in front of which they had made an ugly abattis, by cutting down trees. Artillery could not be brought to bear on Moore's position, and Colonel Johnson, who was ordered by Morgan to take it by storm, could only charge in a narrow front through several hundred yards of the abattis on horseback, as to dismount and lay siege would take too much time. After a few foolhardy attempts, and the loss of thirty or more men killed, the Confederates left Moore to celebrate the balance of the 4th of July in more peaceful style. It may be humiliating to Morgan's chief officers to admit that a paltry squad repulsed repeatedly, with heavy loss, the
John H. Morgan (search for this): chapter 54
, the one just related is the only instance of Morgan's abuse of prisoners which ever came to my earer Burnside's intentions were in the premises, Morgan succeeded, during twelve hours of intense anxileet of steamers, and, leisurely waiting until Morgan passed the city, we started up the river, undewe were constantly within reach of and feeling Morgan's right flank and rear. John O'Neil, since ofn either side. The capture and destruction of Morgan's command were trifling losses to the Confedere had less than six thousand men for duty when Morgan crossed the Cumberland. General Duke says: witnesses. Colonel R. A. Alston, chief of Morgan's staff, was captured on the evening of the 5that Captain Gurley was captured with others of Morgan's forces; that he was taken to Nashville, trieffington, but following those who got off with Morgan, and, finally, making a clean sweep of the flenant. The endurance displayed by that part of Morgan's command which was last captured, and by thei[48 more...]
Burnside (search for this): chapter 54
ntucky were being placed on the same basis by Burnside, who commanded the Department of the Ohio, wit, and then to raise the siege of Vicksburg. Burnside and his troops concentrated near the Tennessef internal and external evidence to show that Burnside intended that Morgan should cross the river aohnston. Instead of a strong joint movement, Burnside and Rosecrans found all they could attend to n back from Kentucky in a crippled condition, Burnside would have met Rosecrans at Chattanooga by thiated, how much General Duke treats Judah and Burnside as separate, independent commanders. He saysicult to come at. Judah was a subordinate of Burnside's, being lowest in rank of all the brigadiers the Twenty-third Army Corps, which corps and Burnside's force for active field duty were at that tidenied any post-being sent into retirement by Burnside on account of what his superiors considered h down to an inch in length, and shaved into a Burnside a fashionable cut among the nobs at that time[7 more...]
Woolford (search for this): chapter 54
, that he had come into the valley to recruit his stock on its fine pastures, was correct. All vigilance north of the river was slackened. Videttes along the bank were recalled and sent to their several commands. The cavalry, under Hobson and Woolford, was permitted to scatter about the country, the better to enable men and horses to be fed. The force nearest the river was at Tompkinsville, twenty miles from Burksville, the county town of Cumberland County, Kentucky, a few miles south of whic when the raiders were at full speed on their northward journey, our commanders began to have an inkling that these fellows had come into the valley of the Cumberland for something else than grass. On the evening of the 3d, the rebels struck Woolford,. with the First Kentucky Cavalry, and scattered him to the right and left near the village of Columbia. On the 4th, they made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Colonel O. M. Moore, of the Twenty-fifth Michigan Infantry, and a small garrison
Henshaw (search for this): chapter 54
loose cavalry on his route. Judah, with the Fifth Indiana, the Fourteenth Illinois, the Eleventh Kentucky, a section of Henshaw's Illinois Battery and a section of three-inch Rodmans, manned by troopers of the Fifth Indiana, set out on an interior the enemy. Behind Armstrong's company rode the general and staff, and behind them, and close upon their heels, was Captain Henshaw with a piece of artillery. The road, after we descended the hills, was a narrow lane bordered on each hand by wheatg like devils, the recoil degenerated into a scrambling, rushing, tumbling panic. The postillions on the lead horses of Henshaw's gun were killed by the first shot. The team to the gun and limber chest was hopelessly entangled in a moment, formingheir men might be. We lost a half-dozen men killed and wounded. Captain R. C. Kise, Assistant Adjutant General, and Captain Henshaw, were captured; Lieutenant Fred W. Price, of the staff, was wounded, and our gun was carried off by the rebel skirmi
Champ Ferguson (search for this): chapter 54
in an ambulance. He was quite ill at the time, had turned the active direction of the march over to the senior colonel, and was riding in advance to keep out of the dust and noise of the column. Under these circumstances his ambulance was attacked by a scouting party under a Captain Gurley, of the Confederate cavalry. He refused to surrender; a fight ensued, and General McCook was killed. It was charged and believed among our forces that Gurley was a bushwhacker after the pattern of Champ Ferguson and Gatewood. The old gentleman had heard that the slayer of his son was with Morgan, and his object in accompanying the pursuing column was to find and punish him for the deed, and he had no doubt of succeeding in his undertaking. He was constantly pushing himself into the most dangerous places. He was with our skirmishers back of Pomeroy, on the 18th, and gave the officers a good deal of trouble to keep him from uselessly exposing himself to danger, and, at the same time, betraying
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