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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
eneral-in-chief of the Federal army, I have no idea of finding Bragg here to-morrow. It was not until the morning of the 27th that the advance of Thomas' forces under Hooker and Palmer reached the front of the Confederate rear guard of Hardee's corps under Cleburne, less than 20 miles away, at Ringgold, Ga. Cleburne's command consisted of 4,157 men; his retirement to this place had been leisurely made; he was in position carefully selected, and he received the attack about 8 a. m. of the 27th, by a force many times his superior. The repulse was a bloody and decisive one, from which the enemy made no attempt to advance. Cleburne lost 20 killed, 190 wounded, and Hooker admitted a loss of 65 killed and 377 wounded. Among the wounded of Cleburne's command were Col. W. D. Robison, Second Tennessee, and Lieut.-Col. J. G. Cole, Fifth (Confederate) Tennessee, mortally wounded. Colonel Cole had been a conspicuous figure of Polk's brigade in all of the great battles of the Southwest, and
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
spite of his heavy losses, reported on the 21st of May that he would move on the following day with full 80,000 fighting men, and had ordered the Seventeenth army corps, 10,500 strong, to join him. Hardee's corps spent Saturday and Sunday near Allatoona, on Pumpkin Vine creek; on the following day marched eight miles to meet a reported movement of the enemy; on the 24th marched ten miles below Dallas, and then immediately returned where General Johnston had concentrated the army. On the 27th, Cleburne fought the battle of New Hope Church. Being attacked at 4 o'clock p. m. by four army corps, the enemy was repulsed after an obstinate fight of an hour and a half, and Cleburne reported the capture of 160 prisoners, exclusive of 72 sent to his field hospital, and the capture of 1,200 small-arms. His own loss was 85 killed and 363 wounded, and he estimated the Federal loss at 3,000. According to General Hardee, 700 Federal dead were lying within a dozen paces of Cleburne's line.
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
field returns of the army of Northern Virginia show a strength of 81,000, and of this force 30,000 under Magruder were covering Richmond. On the morning of the 27th, Hill's division crossed Beaver Dam creek, and under orders of General Lee, took the route to Cold Harbor or Gaines' mill. Arriving at the creek upon which Gaines' mill is located, half a mile from Cold Harbor, the enemy was discovered upon the opposite bank. At 2:30 p. m. of the 27th, General Hill advanced his division to the attack, and soon discovered that the whole force of the enemy was in his front. The Tennessee brigade, now reduced to less than 1,000 men, says General Archer,ne he telegraphed the generalin-chief at Washington: In your opinion is there any foundation for the report that the Confederates are at Chambersburg, Pa.? On the 27th he was relieved and Maj.-Gen. George C. Meade was assigned to the command of the army of the Potomac. The army was already in motion. When General Hill advance
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
accorded the glory. Forrest entered west Tennessee on the 4th of December, 1863, and arrived at Bolivar on the 5th. He took with him McDonald's battalion and a section of Morton's battery, numbering 250 trained soldiers, and was joined en route by Richardson's partisans, increasing his command to 500. He established his headquarters at Jackson, and began the organization of the troops gathered together at different points with such success that when he retired from west Tennessee on the 27th, he reported to President Davis that he had 3,000 new troops. In this communication he stated that the difficulties attending organizing regiments by consolidating the odds and ends of proper commands into full regiments were very great. That division of the State was crowded with young men ambitious for command, and it required address and firmness on the part of General Forrest to consolidate the several detachments, and to secure efficient regimental organizations. General Hurlbut, comm