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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 86 14 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 79 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 65 3 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 52 44 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 42 16 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 39 23 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 29 9 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 2 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 27 5 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 25 17 Browse Search
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ad been effected. To fight them in detail, it was necessary to attack the first where it lay, backed by its gunboats. That sound judgment and soldierly daring went hand in hand in this attack the sequel demonstrated. Meantime some active operations had taken place in that part of General Johnston's command west of the Mississippi River. Detached conflicts with the enemy had been fought by the small forces under Generals Price and McCulloch, but no definite result had followed. General Earl Van Dorn had been subsequently assigned to the command, and assumed it on January 29, 1862. General Curtis was then in command of the enemy's forces, numbering about twelve thousand men. He had harassed General Price on his retreat to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and then had fallen back to Sugar Creek, where he proposed to make a stand. Van Dorn, immediately on his arrival at the Confederate camps on Boston Mountain, prepared to attack Curtis. His first movement, however, was to intercept Gener
nt and absolute. Before this second dispatch was received by General Bragg, General Beauregard had transferred the command to him, and had departed for Bladen Springs. General Bragg thus describes the subsequent proceedings: Prepared to move, I telegraphed back to the President that the altered conditions induced me to await his further orders. In reply to this, I was immediately notified by telegraph of my assignment to the permanent command of the army, and was directed to send General Van Dorn to execute my first instructions. From this statement it appears—1. That General Beauregard was not, as has been alleged, harshly deprived of his command, but that he voluntarily surrendered it, after being furnished with medical certificates of his physical incapacity for its arduous duties. 2. That he did not even notify his government, still less ask permission to retire. 3. That the order, assigning another to the command he had abandoned, could not be sent through him, when
e Mississippi the fleet of the enemy was found disposed as a phalanx, but the heroic commander of the Arkansas moved directly against it; though in passing through this formidable array he was exposed to the broadsides of the whole fleet, the vessel received no other injury than from one eleven-inch shot which entered the gun room, and the perforation in many places of her smokestack. The casualties to the crew were five killed, four wounded—among the latter was the gallant commander. General Van Dorn, commanding the department, in a dispatch from Vicksburg July 15th, states the number of the enemy's vessels above Vicksburg, pays a high compliment to the officers and men, and adds: All the enemy's transports and all the vessels of war of the lower fleet (i.e., the fleet just below Vicksburg), except a sloop of war, have got up steam, and are off to escape from the Arkansas. A vessel inspiring such dread is entitled to a special description. She was an ironclad steamer, one h
n Dorn and General Price battle at Iuka General Van Dorn battle of Corinth General little captu and about the last of August proposed to General Van Dorn to join him, but at that time Van Dorn's ton Rogue. After that force had rejoined General Van Dorn, he wrote to Price, inviting him to unitemorning to fall back and make a junction with Van Dorn, it being now satisfactorily shown that the eed at Ripley on September 28th, at which time Van Dorn in his report says: Field returns showed my s of energy and personal effort on the part of Van Dorn. His opponent, Rosecrans, was an engineer of decided to wait until morning. Of this, General Van Dorn says: I saw with regret the sun sink mmand within his lines, sent assurance to General Van Dorn that every becoming respect should be sho Few commanders have ever been so beset as Van Dorn was in the forks of the Hatchie, and very fewst: In the present aspect of affairs, General Van Dorn's cavalry is much more needed in this dep[14 more...]
re of General Bragg to pursue Reenforcements to the enemy, and Grant to command his description of the situation movements of the enemy conflict at Chattanooga. After the battle at Murfreesboro, in Tennessee, a period of inactivity ensued between the large armed forces, which was disturbed only by occasional expeditions by small bodies on each side. On March 5, 1863, an expedition of the enemy, under Colonel Colburn, was captured at Spring Hill, ten miles south of Franklin, by Generals Van Dorn and Forrest. Thirteen hundred prisoners were taken. In April another expedition, under Colonel Streight, into northern Georgia, was captured near Rome by our vigilant, daring cavalry leader, Forrest. This was one of the most remarkable, and, to the enemy, disastrous raids of the war. Seventeen hundred prisoners were taken. In June some movements were made by General Rosecrans, which were followed by the withdrawal of our forces from middle Tennessee, and a return to the occupation o
289-93. Communications to foreign cabinets concerning Confederate States, 312. Comparison with state government, 382-84. Subjugation of state governments, 384-87. Military domination of Northern States, 402-22, 416-17. Statistics of Federal Army, 598-99. Statistics of public debt, 599. Conduct of war by Federal Army, 599-606. Address of attorney general to president, 640; instances stated, 640-41. Upton, General, 589. V Vallandigham, Clement L., Trial and sentence, 421. Van Dorn, Gen. Earl, 39, 40, 204, 328, 330, 332, 338, 356. Varuna (boat), 185. Vaughan, General, 340, 588. Venable, Col. C. S., 278, 437-38, 557, 558. Vicksburg, Miss. Attempts to advance against, 331-35. Preliminary battles, 335-44. Siege and fall, 344-49, 352, 353. Viele, General, 82. Virginia. Preparations for McClellan's advance on Richmond, 67-68; the advance, 68-105. Jackson's activity in the Valley, 90-98. Seven Days Battle, 111-29. Formation of West Virginia, 255-57. Abolit