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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 14: siege of Petersburg. (search)
the absence of proper clothing. Mrs. Lee, in her invalid chair in Richmond, with large heart and small means, assisted by friends, was busy knitting socks and sending them to him. He writes her from Petersburg, November 30, 1864: I received yesterday your letter of the 27th, and am glad to learn your supply of socks is so large. If two or three hundred would send an equal number we should have a sufficiency. I will endeavor to have them distributed to the most needy. And again on December 17, 1864: I received day before yesterday the box with hat, gloves, and socks; also the barrel of apples. You had better have kept the latter, as it would have been more useful to you than to me, and I should have enjoyed its consumption by yourself and the girls more than by me. And on December 30, 1864, he tells her: The Lyons furs and fur robe have also arrived safely, but I can learn nothing of the saddle of mutton. Bryan, of whom I inquired as to its arrival, is greatly alarmed lest it
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 46 (search)
ers of the Virginia Assembly propose paying themselves $50 per day! Congress has not yet passed the act increasing the compensation of members. December 19 The darkest and most dismal day that ever dawned upon the earth, except one. There was no light when the usual hour came round, and later the sun refused to shine. There was fog, and afterward rain. Northern papers say Hood has been utterly routed, losing all his guns! A letter from Mr. -- to-- , dated Richmond, December 17th, 1864, says: I have the honor to report my success as most remarkable and satisfactory. I have ascertained the whole Yankee mail line, from the gun-boats to your city, with all the agents save one. You will be surprised when informed, from the lowest to the highest class. The agent in your city, and most likely in your department, has yet to be discovered. This is as certain as what we have learned (his arrest, I mean), for the party in whose bands the mail is put coming from your
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 8: (search)
herefore General Logan wished to use his influence to have Thomas obey Grant's orders at once and thereby relieve him of the necessity of superseding General Thomas. General Thomas, being convinced that longer delay would cause him to forfeit his command, and that he would be superseded by General Logan, made the attack December 15, 1864. General Logan, receiving at Louisville the news of the battle of Nashville, at once sent to General Grant the following telegram: Louisville, Dec. 17, 1864. Lieut. Gen'l. U. S. Grant, City Point, Va. Have just arrived, weather bad, is raining since yesterday morning. People here all jubilant over General Thomas's success. Confidence seems to be restored. I will remain here to hear from you. All things going right, it would seem best that I return soon to join my command with Sherman. John A. Logan, Maj. General Thus it will be seen that General Logan made the sugges tion to return to his command after Thomas's victory, ignor
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1864. (search)
ile manacled in the horrid dungeon, his only petition was to be allowed to keep a Bible, from which he professed to have derived great peace and comfort. His family think that he returned from prison a changed man. His spirit, which was naturally stern, had become gentle and loving, and strangely grateful to every being who showed him the least kindness. The Bible was still his daily companion; from it he seemed to derive great comfort and an abiding faith in Christ his Saviour. December 17th, 1864. The military movements are important, but to what they tend we know not. More troops have been added from Sheridan to Grant, and Early to Lee, and Sherman has crossed Georgia with little opposition or loss. Our last news is, that he has taken Fort McAllister, some miles below Savannah. What fate awaits that city we tremble to think of. A raid on Bristol and up the railroad, towards Saltville, has alarmed us for the salt-works; but General Breckinridge having turned up in the rig
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
E. W. Rucker. This detention allowed the fugitives to escape. It was too late for the pursuers to reach Franklin that night: they lay down upon the field of their victory, and slept on their arms. The chase was renewed the next morning. Dec. 17, 1864. Knipe overtook the rear-guard of the Confederates at Hollow Tree Gap, four miles north of Franklin, and captured four hundred and thirteen of them. Meanwhile, Wilson had pushed on toward Franklin, and there he found Hood confronting him atce, Gillem returned to Mount Airy, from which place Stoneman had sent out a brigade under Colonel Buckley, to destroy lead mines in that region, which that officer accomplished, after driving off Vaughan, who was there. Stoneman now started Dec. 17, 1864. to destroy the great salt-works already mentioned. On the way, Burbridge, in the advance, met and fought Breckinridge near Marion, nearly all one day. Gillem approached from another point to cut the foe off from the salt-works, when Breckin
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
dee refused to surrender, and I then resolved to make the attempt to break his line of defense at several places, trusting that some one would succeed. headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Savannah, Georgia, December 17, 1864. General William J. Hardee, commanding Confederate Forces in Savannah. General: You have doubtless observed, from your station at Rosedew that sea-going vessels now come through Ossabaw Sound and up the Ogeechee to the rear of my army, gr the surrender of the town of Resaca, to be used by you for what it is worth. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, Major-General. headquarters Department South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Savannah, Georgia, December 17, 1864. Major-General W. T. Sherman, commandiny Federal Forces near Savannah, Georgia. General: I have to acknowledge the receipt of a communication from you of this date, in which you demand the surrender of Savannah and its dependent forts, o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 64 (search)
ce of all other troops belonging to the Federal army. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to Captain Sykes Beaumont, of company E, a brave and efficient officer, who, through the entire campaign, has rendered me valuable assistance. The wound he received on Saturday, December seventeenth, having resulted in the loss of his left leg, will probably prove fatal to life. I also inclose the following report of casualties: Killed: Charles Baker, company E, corporal, December seventeenth, 1864; Thomas Ridgeway, company G, private, December seventeenth; total, two. Wounded: Sykes Beaumont, company E, captain, left leg amputated, December seventeenth; Evan Owens, company B, private, right leg amputated, December seventeenth; George Free, company B, private, shoulder, slight, December seventeenth; Nicholas Cavenaugh, company B, private, hip, severe, December sixteenth; James Earley, company F, private, leg, severe, December fourteenth; George E. Russell, company C, priva
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 68 (search)
ters Ninth Pennsylvania cavalry, near King's Bridge, Georgia, December 17, 1864. Captain: I respectfully report that the Ninth Pennsylvanitwelve (12) horses. Arrived in camp, near King's Bridge, December seventeenth, 1864. Have no complaint to make of officers. They did their ers Fifth Kentucky cavalry, camp near King's Bridge, Georgia, December 17, 1864. Captain James Beggs, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Firses in fifth Kentucky cavalry, from November thirteenth to December seventeenth, 1864. No.NAMERank.Co.Date.Place.Remarks. 1John W. Forrester, compliance with a circular from your headquarters, dated December seventeenth, 1864, I have the honor to report that the Tenth Wisconsin batteport of this campaign from November fourteenth, 1864, to December seventeenth, 1864: Ninth Michigan cavalry left camp near Atlanta on then the Ninth Michigan cavalry, from November fourteenth to December seventeenth, 1864: Adjutant William C. Cook, taken prisoner at Waynesbor
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
Fifteenth Corps; Confed., Garrison commanded by Maj. W. G. Anderson. Losses: Union, 24 killed, 110 wounded; Confed., 48 killed and wounded, 200 missing. December 15-16, 1864: Nashville, Tenn. Union, Fourth Corps; First and Third Divisions Thirteenth Corps; Twenty-third Corps; Wilson's Cav., and detachments colored troops, convalescents; Confed., Gen. J. B. Hood's army. Losses: Union, 387 killed, 2558 wounded; Confed., 4462 killed, wounded, and missing. December 17, 1864: Franklin, Tenn. Union, Wilson's Cav.; Confed., Forrest's Cav. Losses: Confed., 1800 wounded and sick captured. (Incident of Hood's retreat from Nashville.) December 25, 1864: Fort Fisher, N. C. Union, Tenth Corps and North Atlantic Squadron, commanded by Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter; Flag-Ship, Malvern; Iron-Clads: Canonicus, Mahopac, Monadnock, New Ironsides, Saugus; Screw-Frigates: Colorado, Minnesota, Wabash; first class Side-Wheel Steamers: Powthatan, Susquehanna;
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 1.9 (search)
l extent of the work of transportation of sick and wounded of which the surgeons of the Civil War had charge is sufficiently indicated by the fact that, as shown by the official records, the general hospitals alone contained at one time, on December 17, 1864, a total of no less than 83,409 patients, practically all of whom had been returned sick from the front. The men in these photographs can represent only faintly the extent of the gigantic medical organization of which they were merely a smom time to time, such as could not walk to the hospital. Nearly all of these out-patients, as well as some others in my hospital, went south with Hood's battered battalions as they retreated beyond the Tennessee River in the days following December 17, 1864. In my hospital, while at Franklin, only seven men died; two from abdominal wounds, three from gunshot wounds in the head, one with amputation of thigh, and one who refused to submit to amputation—I never amputated a limb without consent
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