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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 16: (search)
ns of points below were piled up in his front, the provisions were running low in his trains, and there was need of unusual care and prudence. How great was the neglect instead, and how narrow the escape of Sherman from serious disaster, the history of the battle of Bentonville will show. Little became known at the time, of the real character of this battle. The surrender of Lee, which occurred before the facts connected with Bentonville could be disclosed, and the appalling death of Mr. Lincoln, occupied the full attention of the country. By the time it so recovered as to turn its mind toward North Carolina, Johnston had offered to surrender, and so Bentonville passed almost unnoticed. It is just to General Sherman to say, that in his Memoirs he brings the real facts connected with this action into bolder relief than any other of his mistakes of which he treats. But the official record supplies some important omissions. Concerning the start from Savannah northward, Gener
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
Station, when, after some conversation over the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Sherman says: I then told Johnston that he must be convincem that I had recently had an interview with General Grant and President Lincoln, and that I was possessed of their views. * * * * That the teible; and, being anxious to return to Raleigh before the news of Mr. Lincoln's assassination could be divulged, on General Johnston's saying political rights after their surrender. I explained to him that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of amnesty of December 8, 1863, still in force, esaid they were inadmissible. Then recalling the conversation of Mr. Lincoln at City Point, I sat down at the table and wrote off the terms, een fighting for that object. A long official conversation with Mr. Lincoln, on Southern affairs, a very short time before, had convinced hit had been deliberately, repeatedly, and solemnly rejected by President Lincoln, and better terms than the rebels had ever asked in their mos
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 18: (search)
ll orders necessary according to the views the Executive may take, and influence him, if possible, not to vary the terms at all, for I have considered every thing, and believe that the Confederate armies once dispersed, we can adjust all else fairly and well. It is now known, from documents which might have slept but for General Sherman's revival of this matter, that the members of Jeff. Davis' Cabinet construed the Sherman-Johnston terms exactly as Mr. Stanton and the other members of Lincoln's Cabinet did. It has already been made to appear that Mr. Reagan, the Confederate Postmaster-General; Mr. Breckinridge, Secretary--of War; Wade Hampton, and General Johnston held a consultation at the headquarters of the latter, late at night, after the first conference with General Sherman. Up to that time no draft of terms had been prepared by either side, and Mr. Reagan thereupon drew up outlines, based upon Johnston's conversations with Sherman, and this paper was the next day hand
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 50: (search)
hen Blair returned and gave me this letter of Lincoln of January 18th, it being a response to my norent mode of procedure. He had, as he told Lincoln, held friendly relations with me for many yea He then unfolded to me the embarrassment of Lincoln on account of the extreme men in Congress andemained only for me to act upon the letter of Lincoln. I determined to send, as commissioners or form: In compliance with the letter of Mr. Lincoln, of which the foregoing is a copy, you are e to the two countries; whereas the letter of Lincoln, which was their passport, spoke of securing ections were finally waived. The letter of Lincoln having expressed a willingness to receive anyrs; a more important inquiry, however, is: If Lincoln previously had determined to hear no propositen without functions. I think the views of Lincoln had changed after he wrote the letter to Blaiis efforts successfully to prosecute the war, Lincoln may be naturally supposed thence to have reac[5 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
ur political future at the mercy of an enemy which had for four years been striving to subjugate the states would have led the United States authorities to do, as Lincoln had indicated—give any terms which might be found necessary speedily to terminate the existing war. Those who look back upon the period when the states were trremarked that my expression indicated a particular person. I answered that I did, and the person was the one who signed it, for he at least knew that I preferred Lincoln to himself. Some other conversation then occurred in regard to the route on which we were to be carried. Having several small children, one of them an infant, Iarily surrendered himself upon learning that he was included in the proclamation for the arrest of certain persons charged with complicity in the assassination of Lincoln), General Wheeler, the distinguished cavalry officer, and his adjutant, General Ralls. My private secretary, Burton N. Harrison, had refused to be left behind, a
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IV (search)
provost-marshal. In compliance with the Secretary's instructions, I issued an order, on September 11, providing for the action above stated, and no further. These instructions from the Secretary of War were subsequently repudiated by President Lincoln; but in the meantime they produced serious evil under my successor, who fully enforced them by apparently committing the national administration to the extreme radical doctrine, and making the military commander in Missouri appear to be acble parts of my whole military service was the thirty days in command of that division at Triune, and some of my strongest and most valued army attachments were formed there. But that happy period of soldier life was brief. Early in May President Lincoln reappointed me major-general, with original date, November 29, 1862, and ordered me back to the old scene of unsoldierly strife and turmoil in Missouri and Kansas. In 1861 and 1862 I had a Hibernian striker who had been a soldier in the
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter V (search)
r afterward manifested toward me, and which, with the like manifestations of approval from President Lincoln, are to me the most cherished recollections of my official career. The appreciation of nks, originated during the administration of General Fremont. in Missouri, so much desired by Mr. Lincoln, was exactly what the radicals did not want and would not have. Satisfied of this and disguselieve me, Yours very truly, (Signed) J. M. Schofield. On June 20, I telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln: The action of the Missouri State Convention upon the question of emancipation will depen as in State politics; that the conservatives were sincere in their friendship and support of Mr. Lincoln, and desired his renomination, while the radicals were intriguing for Mr. Chase or some otherhan by quoting from my correspondence and journal of that period. On August 28 I wrote to President Lincoln as follows: In reply to your telegram of the 27th, transmitting copy of one received f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VI (search)
Chapter VI A memorandum for Mr. Lincoln the President's instructions his reply to theilitia regiments summoned to Washington by Mr. Lincoln offered the command of the army of the Ohihat my true position was on that question. Mr. Lincoln promptly dismissed the subject with the woose fellows have been lying to me again. Mr. Lincoln undoubtedly referred here to a previous incime it arrived I had become so satisfied of Mr. Lincoln's confidence that I did not think it worth eemed that of inextricable confusion, which Mr. Lincoln and his friends were anxious to unravel, ifbeen friendly to me was also a supporter of Mr. Lincoln, while the radicals were opposed to him. Incommander suited to its peculiarities. But Mr. Lincoln declared decidedly to me, and to my friendse cause, was uppermost in his mind. With Mr. Lincoln I had no personal acquaintance, having met end the political necessity which compelled Mr. Lincoln to give his official countenance to such me[5 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
profile, in relief, of Mr. Lincoln, surrounded by the words, in French, Dedicated by the French Democracy. A. Lincoln, twice elected President of the United States. On the reverse is an altar, bearing the following inscription, also in French: Lincoln, Honest Man. Abolished Slavery, Re-established the Union, and Saved the Republic, without Veiling the Statue of Liberty. He was Assassinated the 14th of April, 1865. Below all are the words: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. On one side of two emancipated slaves —the younger, a lad, offering a palm branch, and the elder pointing him to the American eagle, bearing the shield, the olive-branch, and the lightning, with the motto of the Union. The older freedman The House in which Lincoln died. holds the musket of the militia-man. Near them are the emblems of industry and progress. Over the altar is a triangle, emblematic of trinity—the trinity of man's inalienable rights—liberty, equality, and fraternity. Reply to Stephen A<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman, William Tecumseh 1820-1829 (search)
ng of the march from Atlanta to the sea. It opened to Sherman's army a new base of supplies. Sherman communicated with the officers of the fleet, and, on Dec. 17, he summoned Hardee to surrender. Hardee refused. Perceiving the arrangements made to cut off his retreat to Charleston, Hardee secretly withdrew on the dark and stormy night of Dec. 20, and, with 15,000 men, escaped to that city. The National army took possession of Savannah on Dec. 22, 1864. On the 26th Sherman wrote to President Lincoln: I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savanah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton. On his march Sherman had lived generously off the country, which was abundantly filled with provisions. He appropriated to the use of the army 13,000 beeves, 160,000 bushels of corn, more than 5,000 tons of fodder, besides a large number of sheep, swine, fowls, and quantities of potatoes and rice. He forced into the service 5,000
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