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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862. (search)
morning, February 18th, 1862. The wires are cut somewhere between this and Tennessee. We hear nothing farther West than Lynchburg; rumours are afloat that Donelson has fallen. We are too unhappy about it to think of any thing else. Evening, 1862. It is all true. Our brave men have yielded to overpowering numbers. The struggle for three days was fearful. The dread particulars are not known. Wild stories are told of the numbers captured. God in his mercy help us! Wednesday, February 19th, 1862. We are now in our own comfortable little room on Grace Street, and have quite a home-like feeling. Our children in the city are delighted to have us so near them, and the girls have come on a visit to their cousin, Mrs. C., and will be present at the inauguration on the 22d. February 22, 1862. To-day I had hoped to see our President inaugurated, but the rain falls in torrents, and I cannot go. So many persons are disappointed, but we are comforted by knowing that the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
f the worst sort, was invading the Territory. His force was formidable in numbers (twenty-three hundred) and in experience, many of them having been in successive expedition s against the Indians. Sibley issued a proclamation to the people of New Mexico, in which he denounced the National Government and demanded from the inhabitants aid for and allegiance to his marauders. Confident of success, he moved slowly, by way of Fort Thorn, and found Canby at Fort Craig, on the Rio Grande, Feb. 19, 1862. prepared to meet him. A reconnaissance satisfied him that, with his light field-pieces, an assault on the fort would be foolish. He could not retreat or remain with safety, and his military knowledge warned him that it would be very hazardous to leave a well-garrisoned fort behind him. So he forded the Rio Grande at a point below Fort Craig, and out of reach of its guns, for the purpose of drawing Canby out. In this he was successful. Canby at once threw a force across the river, T
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
e magnanimity of the enemy accords to you an unsurpassed heroism, and an enviable and brilliant share in the hardest-fought battle and most decisive victory ever fought and won on the American continent. . . . . . The death-knell of rebellion is sounded; an army has been annihilated; and the way to Nashville and Memphis is opened. and General Halleck, who had drawn from General Hunter's Kansas Department some of the re-enforcements which he had sent to Grant, said, in a letter to him, Feb. 19, 1862. To you, more than to any other man out of this Department, are we indebted for our success at Fort Donelson. In my strait for troops to re-enforce General Grant, I applied to you. You responded nobly, placing your forces at my disposition. The Secretaries of War and of the Navy also issued congratulatory orders. The Government and people were satisfied that a withering blow had been given to the rebellion, and that henceforth its proportions would be less, and its malignity not so da
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 4: (search)
jealousy and ignorance seek to deprive him of the honors. Halleck restive. he takes command. over Caution. Grant's position. his sense of wrong. Grant and Sherman. a friendship fortunate for the country. Halleck called to Washington, and Grant resumes command. defensive operations.--honor to whom honor is due. In recognition of his victory Grant was at once nominated by the President as a Major General of volunteers, and the nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate, February 19, 1862. General Halleck, commanding the Western Department, and thus Grant's superior officer, appears to have ignored Grant, and in his letters and despatches speaks of our movements and our victory, without a word for him to whom belonged the honor of the victory. Halleck also recommended that Smith should be appointed a Major General, and said that to him belonged the credit of the victory; but he made no mention of Grant, who had not yet been promoted. Yet Halleck had nothing to do with
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., I. Texas and New Mexico. (search)
s, on the 1st of January, 1862; but moved forward, a few days thereafter, with 2,300 men, many of them trained to efficiency in the Mexican War and in successive expeditions against Apaches and other savages, wherein they had made the name of Texan Rangers a sound of terror to their foes. For Canby's regulars and American volunteers, they had some little respect — for his five or six thousand New Mexicans, none at all. Advancing confidently, but slowly, by way of Fort Thorn, he found Feb. 19, 1862. Canby in force at Fort Craig, which he confronted about the middle of February. A careful reconnoissance convinced him that it was madness, with his light field-guns, to undertake a siege; while his offer of battle in the open plain, just outside the range of the guns of the fort, was wisely declined. He would not retreat, and could not afford to remain, consuming his scanty supplies; while to pass the fort without a contest, leaving a superior force undemoralized in his rear, was an
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)
Gettysburg, Pa. 16 Hatcher's Run, Va. 8 Wilderness, Va. 25 Gravelly Run, Va. 2 Spotsylvania, Va. 14 Five Forks, Va. 3 North Anna, Va. 1 Picket Line, Va. 1 Cold Harbor, Va. 11     Present, also, at Cedar Mountain; Rappahannock; Thoroughfare Gap; Chancellorsville; Mine Run; Totopotomoy; White Oak Road; Appomattox. notes.--Known also as the Third Oneida, being composed almost wholly of men from Oneida and Herkimer counties. It was mustered in at Boonville, N. Y., on February 19, 1862, leaving that place on March 12th. It arrived at the National Capital on the 20th, where it went into camp at Fort Corcoran. In April, 1862, it was assigned to Duryee's Brigade, and in May took the field with Ricketts's Division of McDowell's Corps. The Ninety-seventh was under fire at Cedar Mountain and at Rappahannock, losing a few wounded men in those engagements; but at Manassas, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Spofford, it was actively engaged, losing 7 killed, 42 wounded,
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
ow acting Prussian consul, who has married the sister of the rebel secretary of war, to embarrass as much as possible the United States officers here, by subscriptions to city defence fund, and groundless complaints to the Prussian minister. I have thus endeavored to give a faithful and exact account of the state of the foreign population of New Orleans, on the 15th day of February, 1862. In October, 1861, the city had voted to erect a battery out of this defence fund. On the 19th of February, 1862, the city council, by vote published and commented upon in the newspapers, placed in the hands of the Confederate General Lovell, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended by him in the defences of the city. It will, therefore, clearly appear that all the inhabitants of the city knew that the city council was raising and expending large sums for war purposes. On the 20th of the same February, the city council raised an extraordinary Committee of public safety, from the body of the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 47 (search)
reached the river at Bowling Green to-day, making a bridge to cross. The enemy burned the bridge at one o'clock in the morning, and were evacuating the place when he arrived. D. C. Buell, Brigadier-General Commanding. Gen. Buell's General order. The following is a general order, issued by Gen. Buell to the troops of General Mitchell's division, after their advance upon Bowling Green: General order no. 70. headquarters Third division, Camp John Q. Adams, Bowling Green, February 19, 1862. soldiers of the Third division: You have executed a march of forty miles in twenty-eight hours and a half. The fallen timber and other obstructions, opposed by the enemy to your movements, have been swept from your path. The fire of your artillery, and the bursting of your shells, announced your arrival. Surprised and ignorant of the force that had thus precipitated itself upon them, they fled in consternation. In the night time, over a frozen, rocky, precipitous pathway, down
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
Eleventh Indiana--four privates. wounded. Eighth Missouri--one officer and thirty-five privates. Eleventh Indiana--twenty privates. Report of Col. G. F. McGinnis. headquarters Eleventh Regt. Indiana Vols., Fort Heiman, Ky., February 19, 1862. Col. Morgan L. Smith, Commanding Fifth Brigade, Gen. C. F. Smith's Division: sir: I beg leave to make the following report of the operations of the Eleventh Indiana, under my command, in the battle at Fort Donelson, on the afternoon of be mentioned, to have imitated. Accompanying this, you will find a report of the killed and wounded in my command. Respectfully, George T. McGinnis, Colonel Eleventh Indiana. headquarters Eleventh regiment Indiana, Fort Heiman, Ky., February 19, 1862. Col. M. L. Smith, Commanding Fifth Brigade: sir: In accordance with orders from your headquarters, I respectfully submit the following complete list of the killed and wounded of the Eleventh regiment Indiana volunteers in the battle of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 51.-Gov. Harris's General orders: issued February 19, 1862. (search)
Doc. 51.-Gov. Harris's General orders: issued February 19, 1862. To the Commanders of the Militia: 1. The State of Tennessee has been invaded by an enemy that threatens the destruction of the rights and liberties of her people — to meet and repel which you are required to call at once to the field the whole effective force under your command that is or can be armed, which you will immediately organize and march to the rendezvous hereafter designated. 2. You will make vigilant efforof this order. It is your attention to duty that will make efficient soldiers of your commands. By command of Isham G. Harris. W. C. Whitthorne, Adjutant-General. Proclamation — to the people of Tennessee. Executive Department, February 19, 1862. The fall of Fort Donelson, so bravely and so gloriously defended, and accomplished only by vastly superior numbers, opened the approaches to your State, which is now to become the grand theatre wherein a brave people will show to the wo
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