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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 48 12 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 46 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 27 11 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 22 6 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 21 9 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 17 15 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 15 11 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 13 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 4 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 48: (search)
nt for Sherman or for an attack on Mobile; that, to meet this force, he (Lee) had only seven thousand men, including the commands of Forrest and Roddy. He would like to have reenforcements, but anyhow, with or without reenforcements, he should meet Smith, and whip him, too. Ah! there is a man for you, said Mr. Davis. And he did meet Smith with his inferior force, and whipped him, too. He next read a dispatch from a commander at Mobile (who, I think, was General Maury), to the effect that Canby was marching from New Orleans with twenty thousand men, and A. J. Smith from Memphis with fifteen thousand, intending to make a combined attack on Mobile. To meet this force of thirty-five thousand men he had four thousand, and Lee, with Forrest and Roddy, seven thousand, making eleven thousand in all. He asked for reenforcements. After going fully through this matter, and showing how utterly General Johnston was at fault, as to the numbers of troops in the different commands, the Presid
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
on, p. 224. Intelligence of the Johnston-Sherman convention reached us, and Canby and I were requested by the officers making it to conform to its terms until thed of the Johnston-Sherman convention of April 18th, and of the meeting between Canby and himself to arrange terms for his army, and an agreement that there should bn for the termination of the armistice. Under these circumstances he asked General Canby to meet him again, and on May 18th, two days before I was actually captured, but which he supposed had already occurred, he agreed with Canby on terms for the surrender of the land and naval forces in Mississippi and Alabama. These terms wth, the chief of staff of General E. Kirby Smith, and the chief of staff of General Canby, at Baton Rouge, arranged similar terms for the surrender of the troops in The total number in the Department of Alabama and Mississippi paroled by General Canby, under the agreement with General Richard Taylor of May 8, 1865, as reporte
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
ct in New Orleans, 195. Commander of New Orleans, 241. Horrors committed, 241-44. Order to insult women, 242. Negotiations with Ould concerning exchange of prisoners, 506-08. Extracts from official report concerning exchange of prisoners, 510-11. Pierce, 405-06. C Caleb Cushing (revenue cutter), 219. Cameron, Simon, 405-06. Campbell, Captain, 589. General, 266, 268. Judge John A., Member of Confederate peace commission, 521. Report of peace commission to Davis, 522-23. Canby, General, 474, 588, 591-92, 624, 628. Carondelet (gunboat), 25. Carpenter, —, court decision concerning seizure of goods, 291-92. Carpetbag rule, 641. Carr, General, 39. Michael, 200. Carroll, General, 37. Prison, 414. Carter, Colonel, 303-06, 558. Abner, 201. Casey, General, 129. Cash, Colonel, 601. Castlereagh, Viscount, 7. Cedar Run, Battle of, 265-69. Chalmers, General J. R., 43, 50, 548. Description of battle of Shiloh, 50-51. Chambersburg, Pa., burned, 448. Ch