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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 18 0 Browse Search
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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
y, stationed at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. The company was commanded by Captain Robert Anderson; Henry B. Judd was the senior first-lieutenant, and I was the junior first-lieutenant, and George B. Ayres the second-lieutenant. Colonel William Gates commanded the post and regiment, with First-Lieutenant William Austine as his adjutant. Two other companies were at the post, viz., Martin Burke's and E. D. Keyes's, and among the officers were T. W. Sherman, Morris Miller, H. B. Field, William Churchill, Joseph Stewart, and Surgeon McLaren. The country now known as Texas had been recently acquired, and war with Mexico was threatening. One of our companies (Bragg's), with George H. Thomas, John F. Reynolds, and Frank Thomas, had gone the year previous and was at that time with General Taylor's army at Corpus Christi, Texas. In that year (1846) I received the regular detail for recruiting service, with orders to report to the general superintendent at Governor's Island, New York;
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
d of Colonel Garland who commanded in chief, and he said that General Churchill did, and that he was inside the fort. I then rode into the fose against the fort, with their bows on shore. I soon found General Churchill, in conversation with Admiral Porter and General A. J. Smith,d that there might be trouble there at any moment. I advised General Churchill to send orders at once, because a single shot might bring theequences; soon afterward, we both concluded to go in person. General Churchill had the horses of himself and staff in the ditch; they were bought in, and we rode together to where Garland was standing, and Churchill spoke to him in an angry tone, Why did you display the white flagland replied, I received orders to do so from one of your staff. Churchill denied giving such an order, and angry words passed between them.nappishly, that he had received no orders to surrender ; when General Churchill said: You see, sir, that we are in their power, and you may s
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
was rebuilt in three days, and cars loaded with stores came forward to Kingston on the 24th. The telegraph also brought us the news of the bloody and desperate battles of the Wilderness, in Virginia, and that Generel Grant was pushing his operations against Lee with terrific energy. I was therefore resolved to give my enemy no rest. In early days (1844), when a lieutenant of the Third Artillery, I had been sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to Marietta, Georgia, to assist Inspector-General Churchill to take testimony concerning certain losses of horses and accoutrements by the Georgia Volunteers during the Florida War; and after completing the work at Marietta we transferred our party over to Bellefonte, Alabama. I had ridden the distance on horseback, and had noted well the topography of the country, especially that about Kenesaw, Allatoona, and the Etowah River. On that occasion I had stopped some days with a Colonel Tunlin, to see some remarkable Indian mounds on the Eto