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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
g was, is shown by his letter of the 14th of June, 1862, to General Smith, commanding at Vicksburg:-- Richmond, Virginia, June 14, 1862. Brig.-Gen. M. L. Smith, Vicksburg, Miss.: . . . . . . . . . . . . . What progress is being made toward the completion of the Arkansas? What is the condition of your defence at Vicksburg? Can we do anything to aid you? Disasters above and below increase the value of your position. I hope and expect much from you. Jefferson Davis. On the 22d of June General Bragg ordered to Vicksburg the first reinforcements, six thousand of Breckinridge's corps. On the 26th Van Dorn, who was left in command of Beauregard's army, removed his headquarters to Vicksburg, only to be immediately superseded by Bragg, who was in command of the department. On the 1st of June, Beauregard with all his army was in full retreat from Corinth. On the 17th, he abandoned his command and went to Bladen Springs, near Mobile, sick. Davis seems to have found som
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 16: Atlanta campaign-battles about Kenesaw Mountain. June, 1864. (search)
effect on troops: in action and on the march, rain is favorable; but in the woods, where all is blind and uncertain, it seems almost impossible for an army covering ten miles of front to act in concert during wet and stormy weather. Still I pressed operations with the utmost earnestness, aiming always to keep our fortified lines in absolute contact with the enemy, while with the surplus force we felt forward, from one flank or the other, for his line of communication and retreat. On the 22d of June I rode the whole line, and ordered General Thomas in person to advance his extreme right corps (Hooker's); and instructed General Schofield, by letter, to keep his entire army, viz., the Twenty-third Corps, as a strong right flank in close support of Hooker's deployed line. During this day the sun came out, with some promise of clear weather, and I had got back to my bivouac about dark, when a signal message was received, dated-- Kulp house, 5.30 P. M. General Sherman: We have re
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 517 (search)
168. a Southern song. by L. M. If ever I consent to be married, (And who would refuse a good mate?) The man whom I give my hand to, Must believe in the rights of the State. To a husband who quietly submits To negro equality sway, The true Southern girl will not barter Her heart and affections away. The heart I may choose to preside o'er, True, warm, and devoted must be, And have true love for a Union Under the Southern Liberty Tree. Should Lincoln attempt to coerce him To share with the negro his right, Then, smiling, I'd gird on his armor, And bid him God-speed in the fight And if he should fall in the conflict, His memory with tears I will grace; Better weep o'er a patriot fallen, Than blush in a Tory embrace. We girls are all for a Union, Where a marked distinction is laid Between the rights of the mistress, And those of the kinky-haired maid. --Louisville Courier, June 22.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), Foreign accounts of the fight. (search)
. The crew of the Alabama is there stated at one hundred and fifty men; she had, in fact, but one hundred and twenty, all told. Again, as to her armament; that of the Kearsarge may be correctly given by your correspondent. I do not know what it was. The Alabama had one seven-inch Blakeley rifled gun, one eight-inch smooth-bore pivot-gun, and six thirty-two-pounders, smooth-bore, in broadside. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. M. Mason. 24 Upper Seymour Street, June 22. Southampton, June 21, 1864. sir: I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with my intention, as previously announced to you, I steamed out of the harbor of Cherbourg between nine and ten o'clock on the morning of the nineteenth of June, for the purpose of engaging the enemy's steamer Kearsarge, which had been lying off and on the port for several days previously. After clearing the harbor we descried the enemy, with his head off-shore, at a distance of about seven miles. We
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
teen wounded. Reinforcements were sent from New Orleans, but the enemy did not renew the attack. Our forces were under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Stickney, Forty-seventh Massachusetts volunteers. Subsequently, they fell back to Algiers. Orders had been sent to Brashear City to remove all stores, and hold the position, with the aid of the gunboats to the last. But the enemy succeeded in crossing Grand Lake by means of rafts, and surprised and captured the garrison on the twenty-second of June, consisting of about three hundred men, two thirty pounder Parrott guns, and six twenty-four pounders. The enemy, greatly increased in numbers, then attacked the works at Donaldsonville, on the Mississippi, which were defended by a garrison of two hundred and twenty-five men, including convalescents, commanded by Major J. D. Bullen, Twenty-eighth Maine volunteers. The attack was made at half past 4 in the morning of the twenty-eighth of June, and lasted until daylight. The garriso
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 46 (search)
d out much longer. My previous dispatches from General Johnston had not made me very sanguine, and his dispatch of June twenty-second was not calculated to render me more hopeful. He said: General Taylor is sent by General E. K. Smith, to co- twenty-seventh, already alluded to, and previously copied, will be found his views on that point. The dispatch of June twenty-second from General Johnston, rendered it painfully apparent that the siege could not be raised (to cross the Mississippi t, equal to my whole force. The Big Black covers him from attack, and would cut off our retreat if defeated. On June twenty-second, in reply to a dispatch from General Pemberton, of the fifteenth, in which he said, that though living on greatly rwards us, and the roads blocked. A day or two after this a dispatch was brought me from General Pemberton, dated June twenty-second, suggesting that I should make to General Grant propositions to pass this army out with all its arms and equipages,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 47 (search)
e, General, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Thomas H. Holmes, Lieutenant-General. Report of Major-General Price. headquarters Price's division, camp on Jones' Lake, July 13, 1863. Captain John W. Hinsdale, A. A. G.: Captain: I have the honor to submit to the Lieutenant-General commanding, the following report of the part taken by this division in the attack made upon Helena on the fourth instant: I left Jacksonport, in obedience to his orders, on the twenty-second day of June, with this division and Marmaduke's division of cavalry. My march was greatly impeded by the extraordinary rains, which, beginning on the evening of the twenty-fourth June, and falling almost without intermission for four days, made the rivers, bayous, and creeks, over which my route lay, and the bottoms and swamps through which it ran, almost impassable to troops, unprovided, as mine were, with the means of repairing roads and constructing bridges or rafts. I was, however, enabl
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 67 (search)
ters forces South of Red River, Thibodeaux, La., July 4, 1863. Major. E. Surget, A. A. G., District Western Louisiana: Major: In obedience to instructions from Major-General R. Taylor, commanding District of Western Louisiana, on the twenty-second day of June, after surmounting difficulties amounting to almost impossibilities, I succeeded in collecting some thirty-seven skiffs and other row-boats, near the mouth of the Teche, with a view to co-operate, from the west side of the Atchafalaya, al: I have the honor to report to you the result of the expedition placed under my command, by your order, June twentieth, 1863. In obedience to your order, I embarked my command, three hundred and twenty-five strong, on the evening of the twenty-second June, at the mouth of Bayou Teche, in forty-eight skiffs and flats, collected for that purpose. Proceeding up the Atchafalaya into Grand Lake, I halted and muffled oars, and again struck, and after a steady pull of about eight hours, reached th
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., chapter 24 (search)
other repay some of these people with interest, and make them feel ashamed of themselves, if there is such a thing in their composition, which I rather doubt. I can't tell you how sick I am of this kind of life. I suppose it is the cross that it is my lot to bear, and that I should not repine. I know it is wrong, and I do my best to bear everything contentedly; but sometimes the old, impatient spirit will break out and I lose my temper. But I will keep on trying to do my best. . . . June 22, Sunday, 3 P. M. . . . By an arrival from Washington to-day I learn that Stanton and Chase have fallen out; that McDowell has deserted his friend C. and taken to S.! Alas! poor country that should have such rulers. I tremble for my country when I think of these things; but still can trust that God in His infinite wisdom will not punish us as we deserve, but will in His own good time bring order out of chaos and restore peace to this unhappy country. His will be done, whatever it may
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.13 (search)
more free to inhale the fresh air. But, after two or three days service, the germs of the prison-disease, which had swept so many scores of fine young fellows to untimely graves, broke out with virulence in my system. I disguised my complaint as much as was possible, for, having been a prisoner, I felt myself liable to be suspected; but, on the day of our arrival at Harper's Ferry, dysentery and low fever laid me prostrate. I was conveyed to the hospital, and remained there until the 22nd June, when I was discharged out of the service, a wreck. My condition at this time was as low as it would be possible to reduce a human being to, outside of an American prison. I had not a penny in my pocket; a pair of blue military trousers clothed my nethers, a dark serge coat covered my back, and a mongrel hat my head. I knew not where to go: the seeds of disease were still in me, and I could not walk three hundred yards without stopping to gasp for breath. As, like a log, I lay at nig
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