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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter IX (search)
y swallowed by the Southern people. The announcement of the scheme was followed by the appointment of commissioners in each of the Southern States to send out emigrants; but before any were deluded into starting, I made to General Grant a report of what was going on, with the recommendation that measures be taken, through our State Department, looking to the suppression of the colony; but, as usual, nothing could be effected through that channel; so, as an alternative, I published, in April, 1866, by authority of General Grant, an order prohibiting the embarkation from ports in Louisiana and Texas, for ports in Mexico, of any person without a permit from my headquarters. This dampened the ardor of everybody in the Gulf States who had planned to go to Mexico; and although the projectors of the Cordova Colonization Scheme — the name by which it was known-secured a few innocents from other districts, yet this set-back led ultimately to failure. Among the Liberal leaders along th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
ginia, at Richmond, on the 20th of July. See page 547, volume I. There was a full attendance. The members assembled at noon, and were called to order by Howell Cobb, when the Rev. S. K. Tallmadge, of Georgia, made a prayer. At half-past 12 o'clock, Col. Josselyn, the private secretary of Jefferson Davis, appeared, and delivered to Congress a communication The Senate-Chamber at Montgomery. this picture is from a sketch made by the author, while on a visit to Montgomery, early in April, 1866. the mahogany furniture was the same as that used by the conspirators at the formation of their Confederacy. cation from that chief leader of the Rebellion. In that message, Davis congratulated his confederates on the accession of States to their league. He assured them that the National Government had now revealed its intentions to subjugate them by a war whose folly was equaled by its wickedness, and whose dire calamities would fall with double severity on the loyal people themselves
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
e errors of aeneas. It says, Not unacquainted with misfortune, I have learned to succor the distresses of others. I am indebted to the Rev. John Woart (who was chaplain at the U. S. General Hospital at Hilton Head when I visited that post in April, 1866) for a copy of Elliott's note, taken from the original by Captain Law, of the New Hampshire, then in that harbor. The humane injunction of Elliott was in a spirit directly opposed to his act in the matter of the infernal machine. He doubtlest Pulaski, which was within easy mortar distance, might be assailed, and the harbor of Savannah perfectly sealed against blockade runners. On the Martello tower on Tybee Island. this was the appearance of the tower when I sketched it, in April, 1866. its height had been somewhat. Diminished by demolishing a portion of its upper part, on which rested a roof. Such towers had been erected early in the present century along the British coasts, as a defense against an expected invasion by B
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
off the bluff into the river. A train on fire, connected with both ends of a magazine, was cut, and safety was soon secured. A garrison of a little over two thousand men, including four hundred cavalry, was left to hold the post. We have observed that Polk and his confederates, on retiring from Columbus, took position on the Mississippi shores and Island Number10 Island number10. this was the appearance of Island number10, to the eye of the author, from a Mississippi steamer in April, 1866. it lies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky. below. New Madrid, on the Missouri side of the river, New Madrid is the capital of New Madrid County, Missouri, 79 miles below Cairo, and 947 miles above New Orleans, by the winding river. Island Number10 is about ten miles above it. The islands in the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River downward, are distinguished by numbers, this, as its name implies, being the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
it, and Hamburg, above it. The only buildings there were a store-house on a terrace, at the mouth of a ravine near the shore, and a dwelling-house, on the high bank above, which served as a post-office. When the writer visited the Landing in April, 1866, only a few scattered bricks and some charred wood were to be seen on the site of the buildings. In the view here given, the spectator is looking down the Tennessee River from across the ravine and creek, at the mouth of which, as we shall heinity, that the bodies of men and horses should be removed from the surface of the ground. The former were buried and the latter were burned. Burning horses near Pittsburg Landing. The writer visited the battle-field of Shiloh late in April, 1866. At seven o'clock in the evening of the 23d, he left Meridian in Mississippi, for a journey of about two hundred miles on the Mobile and Ohio railway to Corinth, near the northern borders of the State. It was a cool moonlit night, and the to
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
fled from Shiloh. The way seemed wide open Beauregard's Headquarters at Corinth. this was the dwelling of Mr. Ford when the writer visited Corinth, late in April, 1866. it stood upon the brow of a gentle slope in the northwestern suburbs of the village. for his immediate destruction; but the judgment of General Halleck, the iers, was one of the finest of the kind in the South. It was not yet rebuilt when the writer visited Decatur and crossed the Tennessee in a ferry-boat, late in April, 1866. It was the only bridge over the Tennessee between Florence and Chattanooga, excepting one at Bridgeport, eastward of Stevenson, which was then the eastern extr, if he had remained in St. Louis a week Halleck's Headquarters at Corinth. this was the dwelling of Mr. Symington when the writer visited Corinth, late in April, 1866. it was one of the houses in the suburbs of the village that survived the war. longer, Grant, left free to act, would have captured Beauregard's army, supplie
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
l Whipple; Sixth Connecticut, Colonel Chatfield; and Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania, Colonel Guess. and Fleetcaptain Obstructions in the Savannah River. this is from a sketch made by the author from the deck of a steam-tug, just at sunset in April, 1866. these were only the remains of the formidable obstructions, those from the main channel having been removed. The scene is near Fort Jackson. On the right are seen earthworks on a small island, and on the left the shore of the main land, whe great breach was made. It was copied by permission, from a drawing that accompanied General Gillmore's report, published by D. Vanostrand, New York. It was sketched on the morning after the battle. When the writer visited Fort Pulaski, in April, 1866, this breach was repaired, but the casemates within it were still in ruins. danger of their piercing the magazine and exposing it to explosion. Gillmore's breaching batteries had been ordered to assail the eastern half of the pancoupe, cov
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
R. C. Murphy, of the Eighth Iuka Springs. this is a view at the mineral Springs in the village of Inka, as it appeared when the writer sketched it, late in April, 1866. there are two Springs in a swale on the bank of Iuka Creek, a small stream that flows <*>ng the eastern border of the village. These were covered with neat pe ground. It is from a photograph made that day by G. S. And C. T. Smith, of Jackson, Mississippi, who kindly gave the writer a copy of it when he was there in April, 1866. Corinth. It was that Confederate battery that opened the fight. Its shells fell in the streets of Corinth, producing great consternation among the noncombortico and angles, they fired upon the Nationals on the Rosecrans's Headquarters. this was the appearance of the house when the writer sketched it, late in April, 1866. it was the residence of Hampton Mark. During the battle, at the time mentioned in the text, it was much injured; but at the time of the writer's visit it was
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 20: events West of the Mississippi and in Middle Tennessee. (search)
g, Farragut determined to run by them. This he did without much harm, He lost by the fire of the batteries fifteen killed and thirty wounded. at three o'clock on the morning of the 28th, with the flag-ship Hartford and six other vessels, leaving the mortar-fleet and transports below, and met the gun and mortar flotilla of Commodore Davis, and the steam-rams, under the younger Ellet Elles's Cliffs. this is from a sketch of the Cliffs made by the writer from the steamer Indiana, in April, 1866. these Cliffs, on the east bank of the river, are at a sharp turn in the stream, about eighteen miles below Natchez. They are of yellow clay, and rise from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet above the water. (the elder having just died at Cairo), who had come down from Memphis. Williams, under the direction of Farragut, made an attempt, with twelve hundred negroes, to cut a canal across the peninsula opposite Vicksburg, through which his transports might pass in safety, but
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
t was to these that a public servant of the Republic announced the glad tidings. When the writer visited the village of Beaufort, in South Carolina, early in April, 1866, he spent an evening with Dr. Brisbane, the Government Tax-Collector of the District. He was born in South Carolina, but had been driven from the State more there this little sketch was taken was a strong palisade, and near it was a block-house, both. Of which were well preserved when the writer visited Vicksburg, in April, 1866. abatis. Sherman's army was organized in four divisions, commanded respectively by Brigadier-Generals G. W. Morgan, Morgan L. Smith, A. J. Smith, and Frttle-ground at Chickasaw Bayou. this was the appearance of the battle-ground of Chickasaw Bayou when the writer sketched it, just at evening of a warm day in April, 1866. the view is taken from the road (see map on page 578), on the slope of the bluff which Blair attempted to carry. The Chickasaw Bayou is seen winding through
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