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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 40: (search)
speedy evacuation of Chattanooga for want of food and forage. These reverses caused the enemy to send forward reenforcements Map: battle of Chickamauga. from the army at Vicksburg, and also to assign General Grant to the command in Tennessee. As early as September 23d the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps of the Army of the Potomac were detached, and sent under General Hooker to Tennessee, and assigned to protect Rosecrans's line of communication from Bridgeport to Nashville. It was on October 23d that General Grant arrived at Chattanooga, and only in time to save their army from starvation or evacuation. The investment by General Bragg had been so close and their communications had been so destroyed that Bragg was on the point of realizing the evacuation of Chattanooga, which he had anticipated. The report of Grant thus describes the situation on his arrival: Up to this period our forces in Chattanooga were practically invested, the enemy's lines extending from the Tennessee
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
d States government. Thirty-seven confined in the military prison at Washington were released on taking the oath. On September 3d an exchange was made between General Pillow and Colonel Wallace, of the United States Army. Whereupon General Polk proposed an exchange to General Grant, who replied on October 14th: I can, of my own accordance, make none. I recognize no Southern Confederacy myself, but will communicate with higher authorities for their views. An exchange was made on October 23d between General McClernand and General Polk. Subsequently, on November 8th, General Grant offered to surrender to General Polk certain wounded men and invalids unconditionally. To this proposition General Polk replied: My own feelings would prompt me to waive again the unimportant affectation of declining to recognize these States as belligerents in the interest of humanity; but my Government requires all prisoners to be placed at the disposal of the Secretary of War. On Novembe