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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), May 13-14, 1862.-occupation of Rogersville and skirmish at Lamb's Ferry, Ala. (search)
l prevent hereafter the passage of any troops to the north side of the river. The ferries from Florence down to Savannah I trust will be guarded by boats sent from the main army at Pittsburg Landing. other, under command of Colonel Lytle, from Athens. Colonel Lytle advanced upon the road from Florence to Athens, and expected the enemy to dispute the passage at Elk River, and while thus engaged G the river.is now removed. Holding, as I shall do, the command of the river from Bridgeport to Florence, I venture to ask that you will protect me at points below Florence. I have extemporized a gunFlorence. I have extemporized a gunboat, which will be ready for service this day. I hope to be able to move her upstream at the rate of 4 miles an hour, and by her assistance to prevent the enemy from realizing the boats we have destrr 900, upon leaving here, took the Elk River road; between 200 and 300 took the road leading to Florence. The others fled in every direction. Scott's cavalry and transportation train crossed the riv
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
xpedient. Answer. A. S. Johnston, General, C. S. Army. Decatur, Ala., March 18, 1862. Col. B. H. Helm, Tuscumbia: Make silent preparations to burn the Florence Bridge as soon as the enemy's gunboats may pass Eastport or the enemy approach Florence from north side of the river. Place scouts at proper points to ascertain and report to you in full time to insure the execution of this order when necessary. Answer, and warn operators not to speak of this message. A. S. Johnston, General, al. Decatur, March 18, 1862. General Bragg, Corinth: Now moving forward as fast as possible. Where did the enemy land on the river? To what place are they marching? In what force? Have they landed at any other point between Eastport and Florence? Do you know my cipher or General Beauregard's? Use either in important communications. Ninety-three miles to Corinth. A. S. Johnston, General. Hdqrs. Second Grand Div., Army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., March 18, 1862. Col. Thomas J
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Appendix:Embracing communications received too late for insertion in proper sequence. (search)
ed and repaired the burnt bridge already alluded to, if it be possible to capture Tuscumbia and Florence I shall then be able to open communications with the main body of the army under your command. al attention to Bridgeport. Should it be desirable to join you my division can easily march to Florence in two days from Athens. The great responsibility I have been under and constant activity day 62]. Major-General Buell: I directed General Wood to push forward a brigade to Tuscumbia and Florence to receive the locomotives and cars from Paducah and Saint Louis now coming up the Tennessee. quite certain the enemy will follow. If supplies can be sent to Bainbridge Ferry, 7 mile above Florence, the distance to Florence is less than 40 miles and the route far superior to any other. It Florence is less than 40 miles and the route far superior to any other. It is my duty to again repeat the opinion already expressed, that we ought to occupy the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad with a powerful force, and if not done very soon the enemy will do it. O. M. M
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Iii. Kentucky--Tennessee--Alabama. (search)
ess, and some from desertion; some regiments leaving Bowling Green with six or seven hundred men, and reaching Corinth with but half of this number. The towns through which we passed were left full of sick men: and many were sent off to hospitals at some distance from our route. Pollard makes Johnston's army at Murfreesboroa but 17,000. Directly after the capture of Fort Henry, Commander Phelps, with the wooden gunboats Conestoga, Tyler, and Lexington, steamed up the Tennessee to Florence, Ala., at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, where he captured two steamboats, and constrained the Rebels to burn six others; he having burnt the railroad bridge near Benton on the way. The wholly unexpected appearance of the National flag in North Alabama, where slaves were comparatively few, and at least three-fourths of the people had stubbornly opposed Secession, was a welcome spectacle to thousands, and was greeted with enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty. Com. Foote, with the gunboats
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 28 (search)
Holston at Strawberry plains; and so, circling around Knoxville, he crossed the Clinch near Clinton, and the Cumberland mountains, by Sequatchie, MeMinnville, Murfreesborough, and Lebanon, whence he was chased southward across the Tennessee near Florence into Alabama. He destroyed much property during this extensive raid; but his operations had little influence on the results of the campaign. Hardee, moving to his right, formed a junction with Hood near Jonesboroa, and their army was soon c,000 cavalry; and he did not turn his back again on Tennessee until assured that Thomas was strong enough to hold it. And now, learning that Hood, after a feint on Decatur, had passed on to Tuscumbia and laid a pontoon-bridge across the river to Florence, Sherman turned his face southward, and, gathering up all his garrisons holding the railroad, sending some back to Chattanooga to aid in the defense of Tennessee, and drawing others forward to Atlanta, he thoroughly dismantled tile railroads, bu
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 31 (search)
gn. Forrest's last raid captures Athens, Ala. is chased out of Tennessee by Rousseau Hood preases Gordon Granger at Decatur crosses the Tennessee at Florence Thomas retires on Nashville Hood follows fighting at Duck river and at Spring Hill Schofield makes a stand at Franklin bloody drawn battle heavy Rebel lossd, with some loss; and he drew off westward next evening. The pressure on Decatur was a feint to cover his crossing farther west; which was soon effected near Florence, in spite of resistance by Gen. Croxton's brigade of cavalry, there picketing the river. Meantime, Forrest, moving eastward from Corinth, Miss., through Paris, homas that the former had cut loose from his base and started southward from Atlanta on his Great March ; and no sooner had the tidings reached Hood, still at Florence, Ala., where he had a pontoon bridge, with part of his force on either side of the river, than the crossing of his remaining corps commenced; Nov. 17. while his
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
luded), 41 battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Fort Donelson, Tenn. 55 Wyatt, Miss. 1 Shiloh, Tenn. 103 Snake Creek Gap, Ga. 1 Corinth, Miss. 29 Resaca, Ga. 4 Lundy's Lane, Ala. 1 Dallas, Ga. 1 Meed Creek, Miss. 3 Rome, Ga. 1 Jackson, Tenn. 1 Nancy's Creek, Ga. 1 Grenada, Miss. 1 Atlanta, Ga. 2 Bear Creek, Tenn. 1 Milledgeville, Ga. 3 Salem, Miss. 5 Orangeburg, S. C. 1 Montezuma, Tenn. 1 Place unknown 1 Present, also, at Saratoga, Tenn.; Cherokee; Florence; Athens; Moulton; Flint River. notes.--The Ninth lost the most men, killed in action, of any Illinois regiment. After serving in the three months service, the regiment enlisted for three years, leaving Cairo September 5, 1861. It proceeded to Paducah, Ky., where it was stationed until February, 1862, when it moved with Grant's Army to Fort Donelson. It was then in McArthur's Brigade of C. F. Smith's Division; its loss at Fort Donelson was 36 killed, 165 wounded, and 9 missing, total,
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 9: battle of Shiloh. March and April, 1862. (search)
ng at Paducah a division for myself when allowed to take the field, which I had been promised by General Halleek. His purpose was evidently to operate up the Tennessee River, to break up Bear Creek Bridge and the railroad communications between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, and no doubt lie was provoked that Generals Grant and Smith had turned aside to Nashville. In the mean time several of the gunboats, under Captain Phelps, United States Navy, had gone up the Tennessee as far as Florence, and on their return had reported a strong Union feeling among the people along the river. On the 10th of March, having received the necessary orders from General Halleck, I embarked my division at Paducah. It was composed of four brigades. The First, commanded by Colonel S. G. Hicks, was composed of the Fortieth Illinois, Forty-sixth Ohio, and Morton's Indiana Battery, on the boats Sallie List, Golden Gate, J. B. Adams, and Lancaster. The Second Brigade, Colonel D. Stuart, was compos
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
at Eastport with the aid of the gunboats, and to move to Florence. About the same time, I received the general orders assito employ water transportation to Nashville, Eastport, or Florence. If you reoccupy the passes of Lookout Mountain, whichson I crossed on the 1st of November, and rode forward to Florence, where I overtook Ewing's division. The other divisions followed rapidly. On the road to Florence I was accompanied by my staff, some clerks. and mounted orderlies. Major Ezra Toung Taylor and another of the clerks, and after reaching Florence, Major Taylor heard of the capture of his son, and learneat home, I sent for three or four of the principal men of Florence (among them a Mr. Foster, who had once been a Senator in ) as rapidly as possible at Eastport, and push forward to Florence, which he did; and the same day a messenger from General person I crossed, and passed to the head of the column at Florence on the 1st of November, leaving the rear divisions to be
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
er, estimated at four thousand; and near Florence, Alabama, watching the crossings of the Tennesseee south side of the Tennessee River, opposite Florence, where he was compelled to remain nearly a mon Hood (then on the Tennessee River, opposite Florence) and Forrest, opposite Johnsonville. On th crossed the Tennessee River four miles above Florence, and that he had endeavored to stop him, but the old railroad-piers, four miles above Florence, Alabama, which is below Muscle Shoals and above front. General Hood remained still at Florence, Alabama, occupying both banks of the Tennessee Rooner than flood could possibly march up from Florence. Meantime, General F. P. Blair had rejoineoner than General Hood could possibly do from Florence, so that he was perfectly satisfied with his ditional news to report from the direction of Florence. I am now convinced that the greater part of Beauregard's army is near Florence and Tuscumbia, and that you will have at least a clear road be[2 more...]
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