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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
ton, from July 4th; and, fifth, G. T. Beauregard, from July 21st, the date of the appointment previously conferred upon him. See the President's telegrams on p. 21. This action was altogether illegal, and contrary to all the laws enacted to regulate the rank of the class of officers concerned. Those laws were: 1. The act of March 6th, fixing the military establishment of the Confederacy, and providing for four brigadier-generals, that being the highest grade created. 2. The act of March 14th, adding a fifth brigadier-general, and authorizing the President to assign one of the five to the duties of adjutant and inspector-general; and, 3. Enacting further, that in all cases of officers who have resigned, or who may, within six months, tender their resignations from the army of the United States, and who have been, or may be appointed to original vacancies in the army of the Confederate States, the commissions issued shall bear one and the same date, so that the relative rank of
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
ss. For God's sake and for your country's sake, come out of Washington! I foretold to General Halleck, before he left Corinth, the inevitable result to him, and I now exhort you to come out West. Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Your sincere friend, W. T. Sherman. We reached Memphis on the 13th, where I remained some days, but on the 14th of March received from General Grant a dispatch to hurry to Nashville in person by the 17th, if possible. Disposing of all matters then pending, I took a steamboat to Cairo, the cars thence to Louisville and Nashville, reaching that place on the 17th of March, 1864. I found General Grant there. He had been to Washington and back, and was ordered to return East to command all the armies of the United States, and personally the Army of the Potomac. I was to succeed him in command of the Milit
Doc. 92.-Gen. Stoneman's reconnoissance toward Warrenton, Va., March 14. A correspondent of the New--York Tribune gives the following account of this affair: Washington, Monday, March 17, 1862. On Friday last a grand reconnaissance in force was made by Gen. Stoneman, Chief of Cavalry, about fourteen miles beyond Manassas, toward Warrenton, to which place it was said the rebels had retreated. Gen. Stoneman was attended by the following staff-officers, regular and volunteer: Lieut.-Col. Grier, Inspector of Cavalry; Major Whipple, Topographical Engineers; Dr. McMillan, Division Surgeon; Capt. A. J. Alexander, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieut. Sumner, Aide-de-Camp; Lieut. Bowen, Topographical Engineers; Duc de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Count Dillanceau, Dr. G. Grant, Assistant Division Surgeon. The force was composed of the Sixth United States cavalry regiment, Col. Emery; Fifth United States cavalry regiment, under command of Capts. Whiting, Owens, and Harrison; Third Pennsylva
o the world. Clarksville has fallen-Roanoke Has yielded to the mighty stroke; And Richmond, Treason's central grounds, Is suffering from her sister's wounds. Her pulse is sluggish, stagnant, slow, And when the coming potent blow Is struck, she'll stagger, reel and fall, And Davis with it, treason, all. Then where's that fancied paradise, Those fields luxuriant, cotton, rice; Those verdant lawns; elysian plains; Embowered shrines; pierian strains; That constitution, moulded in time, To suit the South and Southern clime; Those petticoated belles and maids, Who scoff to shame the Yankee trades; And all that fancy-gilded scheme, The South-Carolinian's golden dream? Where, where, bold soldier, tell us where, When spring is breathing summer's air. Where have the mighty thousands bled? Where was the hero's blood not shed? Where is that flag you bore away, The symbol of a bloody day? Tell us, brave soldier, does it wave Still o'er the land, the free, the brave? --Baltimore American, March 14.
A Rebel soldier named Joseph Infield died on the steamer Fanny Bullitt at Fort Donelson from a wound received in the battle. He requested that his mother should be informed of his fate, but was too low to give particulars. Her name is now Harriet Harris, and she is supposed to reside in Southern Kentucky. His dying words were: Tell my mother I have made my peace with God and die happy; that I have but one regret, that of raising an arm against my country. His last moments were soothed by womanly tenderness and sympathy. Louisville Journal, March 14.
Rebel Hounds.--The following paragraph is taken from an old number of the Louisville-Nashville-Bowling-Green Courier: We, the undersigned, will pay five dollars per pair for fifty pairs of well-bred hounds, and fifty dollars for one pair of thorough-bred blood-hounds that will take the track of a man. The purposes for which those dogs are wanted is to chase the infernal, cowardly, Lincoln bushwhackers of East-Tennessee and Kentucky (who have taken the advantage of the bush to kill and cripple many good soldiers) to their dens and capture them. The said hounds must be delivered at Capt. Hanmer's livery-stable by the tenth of December next, where a mustering officer will be present to muster and inspect them. F. N. Mcnairy, H. H. Harris. Camp Crinfort, Campbell Co., Tenn. --N. Y. Evening Post, March 14.
The poisoning of forty of the Union soldiers in Arkansas by the rebel troops, the poisoning of Sheriff Craig by a rebel soldier after the battle of Fort Donelson, whilst the Sheriff was engaged in relieving the wounded, and the finding of a lot of poisoned bullets at Nashville, left behind by the rebels in their flight from that city, are fearful indications of the fiendish spirit of portions of our enemies. If this war shall continue, we know not how soon the rebels, transformed by fury and despair from human beings into devils, may resort to poisoning as an established mode of warfare. But we earnestly trust never to see so dreadful a condition of things. Louisville Journal, March 14.
in this expedition was six killed and twenty-seven wounded. A number were killed and wounded on our gunboats, and among the former, Lieutenant Commanding Buchanan. On learning of the capture of the Queen of the West by the rebels, above Port Hudson, and their movements in Red River and the Teche, Admiral Farragut determined to run past the enemy's batteries, while the land forces at Baton Rouge made a demonstration on the land side of Port Hudson. The demonstration was made, and, on March fourteenth, Admiral Farragut succeeded in passing the batteries with the Hartford and Albatross. The Monongahela and Richmond fell back, and the Mississippi grounded, and was blown up by her commander. Had our land forces invested Port Hudson at this time, it could have been easily reduced, for its garrison was weak. This would have opened communication, by the Mississippi River, with General Grant at Vicksburgh. But the strength of the place was not then known, and General Banks resumed his
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 135.-Governor Murphy's address. (search)
or the recipients of the pardon of the Government against which they rebelled, and tried, but in vain, to destroy; all the families in the land in mourning; property pillaged and destroyed; poverty and desolation everywhere; happiness changed to misery; joy, to mourning and woe. They saw no way to escape the evils under which we were all suffering, but to return to the government of our ancestors, and remove the cause of our trouble. The Constitution was referred to the people on the fourteenth of March, and ratified by a very large vote, and is now the supreme law of the State. State and county officers have been elected. You have been deprived of the right by the presence of rebel forces in your counties. The Convention provided, by an ordinance, that in such cases, an election may be holden on any other day thereafter, that the people may agree upon, for county officers. I therefore recommend to you, that as soon as you can hold an election with safety to yourselves, that yo
force, compared to it, was as four to ten, fell back up the Bayou De Glaize to a point near Fort De Russy, and thence moved to Evergreen, about thirty miles south of Alexandria, where he was joined by General Taylor with Mouton's division. Meanwhile General Walker had left the garrison at Fort De Russy to its fate, as he considered it impossible, from the nature of the ground and the preponderance of the enemy's force, to cover or support the place. It fell, with its garrison, on the fourteenth March by a land attack. General Taylor estimated the strength of this column at twenty-three thousand men. Immediately after the fall of Fort De Russy, the enemy occupied Alexandria. General Taylor was thrown off into the Pine hills, and took the road leading up Red River. He halted a short time at McNutt's Hill, twelve miles above Alexandria, but soon moved eighteen miles farther back, to Carroll Jones's, with his infantry. Meanwhile Banks, with twenty-five thousand men of all arms, drov