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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 15: (search)
believed and still believe, if you had started south while Hood was in the neighborhood of you, he would have been forced to go after you. Now that he is far away, he might look upon the chase as useless, and he will go on in one direction while you are pushing in another. If you can see a chance of destroying Hood's Army, attend to that first, and make your other move secondary. General Sherman replied, as follows: Sherman's Memoirs, vol. II, page 165. Rome, Georgia, November 2d, 1864. Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia. Your dispatch is received. If I could hope to overhaul Hood, I would turn against him with my whole force; then he would retreat to the southwest, drawing me as a decoy away from Georgia, which is his chief object. If he ventures north of the Tennessee river, I may venture in that direction, and endeavor to get below him on his line of retreat; but thus far he has not gone above the Tennessee river. General Thomas will have a
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 32 (search)
ce to Kingston Upham surprised at Southwest creek Hoke strikes out is repulsed, and retreats Schofield enters Goldsboroa. Gen. Sherman, after sending back to Chattanooga his sick and wounded, surplus guns, baggage, and the garrisons of his more northern posts in Georgia, had still under his immediate command the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 20th corps, numbering 60,000 infantry and artillery and 5,500 cavalry. Concentrating these around Rome and Kingston, Georgia, he thoroughly destroyed Nov. 2-11, 1864. such portions of the railroads and such other property as he judged might be used to his prejudice by the enemy, reserving for the last sacrifice the telegraph which still connected him with Grant, Washington, and the North; but, at length, cutting that, Nov. 11. after sending his parting messages, his army stood clear of all posts and communications — a strictly movable column — and commenced its memorable march. For this, it had been organized in two grand divisions or wing
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)
. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Leesburg, Va., Sept. 17, 1862 1 Todd's Tavern, Va., May 8, 1864 3 Boydton Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 6 Beverly Ford, Va., June 9, 1863 6 Near Richmond, Va., May 12, 1864 3 Prince George C. H., Va., Nov. 2, 1864 1 Middleburg, Va., June 19, 1863 5 Hawes's Shop, Va., May 28, 1864 17 Disputanta Station, Va., Nov. 18, ‘64 3 Middleburg, Va., June 26, 1863 1 Trevilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864 7 Stony Creek Station, Va., Dec. 1, 1864 3 Gettysburg lost 12 killed, 95 wounded, and 11 missing. During the Atlanta campaign the Sixth was in Hazen's (2d) Brigade, T. J. Wood's (3d) Division, Fourth Corps, and was prominently engaged in all the battles of that command. It was mustered out on November 2, 1864, its term of service having expired. The recruits and reeinlisted men with unexpired terms, remaining in the field, were transferred to the Fourth Kentucky Mounted Infantry. Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry Carlin's Brigade — Johnson's D
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
ignant personage was Rosencrantz. I do svear! he exclaimed, this whole night have I not a single vink slept. It is not enough that those sentry fellows should tell us vat time it is, but they must also be screaming to me a long speech besides! Vat do I care vat time it is; and if all is vell, vy can they not keep it to themselves, and not be howling it in my ears and vaking me up? This is the most fool tings I have seen! You may be sure that was the first and last of the warders. November 2, 1864 As it was fine, after three days rain, General Humphreys bestirred himself to give rational entertainment to the two Englanders; and so General Meade ordered a couple of brigades of cavalry turned out and a horse-battery. We first rode along the rear line and went into a fort there. It made quite a cortege, for, besides the Generals and their officers and orderlies, there followed Mr. Lunn in a four-horse spring waggon, with General Hunt to bear him company; for Lunn had received t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
om there in the matter. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. [no. 85. see page 754.] War Department, Washington City, Nov. 2, 1864. Major-General Butler: General:--You will please proceed immediately to New York and report to Major-General Dix fo Secretary of War: E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. [no. 86. see pages 755 and 768.] Washington, D. C., Nov. 2, 1864 [Received 1 P. M.]. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point, Va.: I am here in obedience to your order. Am orde Shall leave to-night for New York, Fifth Avenue Hotel. Benj. F. Butler, Major-General. [Cipher.] City Point, Va., Nov. 2, 1864, 5 P. M. Major-General Terry: Send a good large brigade of infantry with two batteries of Napoleon guns to report they will be preferable, Answer what troops you send. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. [Cipher.] Washington, D. C., Nov. 2, 1864 [Received 1 P. M.]. Major-General Terry, headquarters Tenth Army Corps, near Varina, Va., in the field near Richmond:
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
troying Hood's army, attend to that first, and make your other move secondary. U. S. Grant Lieutenant-General. My answer is dated-- Rome, Georgia, November 2, 1864. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia: Your dispatch is received. If I could hope to overhaul Hood, I would turn against him with my wholmy headquarters to Kingston as more central; and from that place, on the same day (November 2d), again telegraphed to General Grant. Kingston, Georgia, November 2, 1864. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia: If I turn back, the whole effect of my campaign will be lost. By my movements I have thrown Beaureent through Georgia. W. T. Sherman, Major-General. That same day I received, in answer to the Rome dispatch, the following: City Point, Virginia, November 2, 1864--11.30 A. M. Major-General Sherman: Your dispatch of 9 A. M. yesterday is just received. I dispatched you the same date, advising that Hood's army, now t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 63 (search)
October eighteenth, passed through Dick's and Ship's Gaps, moved along the side of Taylor's Ridge, and crossed the Chattooga on the nineteenth. October twentieth, division reached Galesville, Alabama, where it remained encamped till the twenty-ninth. October twenty-ninth, crossed the Chattooga, destroyed the bridge and also a large and valuable flouring-mill, passed through McCullough's Gap, and encamped five miles from Rome, at which place the division remained until the morning of November second, 1864. November second, division moved from camp near Rome, Georgia, and arrived, at three P. M. same day, at Kingston, where it remained until November twelfth, when the march toward Atlanta was begun, encamping first night three miles from Etowah River. November thirteenth, passed through Allatoona Gap, destroyed the railroad from Allatoona Creek to a point one mile beyond Ackworth, and went into camp at Big Shanty. November fourteenth, division crossed the Chattahoochee River. Novem
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
ill go in one direction while you are pushing in the other. If you can see a chance of destroying Hood's army, attend to that first and make your other move secondary. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. My answer is dated: Rome, Ga., November 2, 1864. General Grant. Your dispatch is received. If I could hope to overhaul Hood I would turn against him with my whole force; then he would retreat to the south-west, drawing me as a decoy away from Georgia, which is his chief object. If h will have cavalry enough to checkmate them. I am clearly of opinion that the best results will follow my contemplated movement through Georgia. That same day I received, in answer to the Rome dispatch, the following: City Point, Va., November 2, 1864, 11:30 A. M. To Major-General Sherman. Your dispatch of 9 A. M. yesterday is just received. I dispatched you the same date, advising that Hood's army, now that it had worked so far north, ought to be looked upon now as the object. With
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
es from Canada......Oct. 19, 1864 Confederates under Price enter Linn county, Kan......Oct. 23, 1864 Confederate ram Albemarle blown up by Lieutenant Cushing, U. S. N., at Plymouth, N. C.......Oct. 27, 1864 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Va.......Oct. 27, 1864 Nevada, the thirty-sixth State in order, admitted into the Union by proclamation of the President......Oct. 31, 1864 Mr. Seward telegraphs the mayor of New York of a conspiracy to burn the principal cities of the North......Nov. 2, 1864 Second session of second Confederate Congress convenes at Richmond......Nov. 7, 1864 McClellan resigns his command in the army......Nov. 8, 1864 At the general election, Lincoln and Johnson, Republican, carry twenty-two States; McClellan and Pendleton, three (New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky); eleven not voting......Nov. 8, 1864 Atlanta burned, and Sherman begins his March to the sea......Nov. 14, 1864 Blockade of Norfolk, Va., Fernandina, and Pensacola raised by procla
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
tary division of the West, Tuscumbia, Nov. 1st, 1864. Genl. J. B. Hood, Comdg., etc., etc.: General,—General Beauregard desires to see Brigadier-General Roddy without delay on the navigation of the Tennessee River; if not incompatible with the public service, he wishes that you would direct him to report in person on the receipt of this order. Respectfully, your obedient servant, Geo. Wm. Brent, Col., and A. A. G. Headquarters, Military division of the West, Tuscumbia, Nov. 2d, 1864. Genl. J. B. Hood, Comdg., etc., etc.: General,—General Taylor has been instructed to impress the number of laborers required by Major Fleming, Chief-Engineer and General Superintendent M. and O. Railroad. Respectfully, your obedient servant, Geo. Wm. Brent, Col., and A. A. G. Headquarters, Military division of the West, Tuscumbia, Nov. 4th, 1864. General J. B. Hood, Comdg., etc., etc.: General,—General Beauregard has directed me to acknowledge receipt of your comm<
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