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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 2 (search)
adjutant-general, was a young editor of a country newspaper in Illinois when hostilities began. He raised a company of volunteers for the Forty-eighth Illinois Infantry, but declined the captaincy, and fought in the ranks. He was detailed as a clerical assistant at General Grant's headquarters in the Donelson campaign, and was soon made a lieutenant, and afterward a captain and aide-de-camp. His services in all the subsequent campaigns were highly appreciated by his chief. Lieutenant-colonel W. L. Duff had been for a time acting chief of artillery under General Grant in the West, and was now assigned to duty as assistant inspector-general. Captain Ely S. Parker, assistant adjutant-general, who was a full-blooded Indian, a grand nephew of the famous Red Jacket, and reigning chief of the tribes known as the Six Nations. His Indian name was Donehogawa. Colonel Parker had received a good education, and was a civil engineer employed upon the United States government building
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 3: in Memoriam (search)
oint in June, 1864, is impressive. Sitting on the bench at the left is Lieutenant-General Grant, with his familiar slouch hat on his knee, By him is Brigadier-General J. A. Rawlins, his chief-of-staff. To the left of the latter sits Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Duff, assistant inspector-general. By the tent-pole is Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Porter, the author of the address here reprinted. At the right is Captain Ely S. Parker, a full-blooded Indian. Standing behind Grant is one of his secretaries, Lieutenant-Colonel Adam Badeau, who later wrote a military biography of the general. Behind Rawlins is Lieutenant-Colonel C. B. Comstock, noted as an engineer. By Duff stands Lieutenant-Colonel F. T. Dent. Between Porter and Parker is Lieutenant-Colonel O. E. Babcock. All were faithful, in the war and later. Friends who loved him for his own sake General Grant possessed in a striking degree all the characteristics of the successful soldier. His methods were all stamped with t
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
with deadly effect, completely breaking his line. The second time he fell back, but, getting reinforcements from the reserve, rallied and maintained his position about twenty minutes, when the whole force fled in confusion to a thicket of woods. Duff then discreetly retired to a position commanding the Leesburg road, with 3 prisoners and 15 stand of arms he had captured. There he maintained his position under fire, and about ten o'clock assisted Capt. Welborn and J. C. Campbell of the Eightened with praise the service of Lieut.-Col. John McQuirk, field officer of the day; Major Lyle, who acted as lieutenant-colonel; Capt. W. D. Holder,--who acted as major; Adjutant Fiser, Capt. E. W. Upshaw, and the particularly gallant record of Captain Duff. In the last charge which crowned our success and completed the discomfiture of the enemy, no troops could have behaved better, wrote Featherston of the Seventeenth. The whole line marched forward in the most admirable order upon a vastly supe
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), D (search)
., VI., 207, 316. Drummer Boys N. Y. Eighth Reg., VIII., 179; in full dress, VIII., 195; off duty, VIII., 195, 237; Confederate, VIII., 383. Drum-taps, Walt Whitman, IX., 21, 254. Dry Forks, Mo. (see also Carthage, Mo.), I, 348. Dry Wood, Mo., I., 350. Dryer, H., IV., 231. Duane, J. C., V., 240. Du Barry, W. D., VII., 125. Dubois, D. M., X., 265. Ducat, A. C., X., 19. Duck River, Tenn., VI., 69, 318. Duff, W., X., 49. Duff, W. L., IX., 113. Duffie, A. N.: II., 25; III., 324, 326; IV., 88, 177, 226, 233 seq., 224. Dug Springs, Mo., I., 350, 367. Dugan, Jimmine, a bugler boy, VIII., 189. Duganne, A. J. H., VII., 96. Duke, B. W.: II., 326; IV., 144, 148, 150; VII., 21; quoted, IX., 346. Dulany, R. H., IV., 104. Dumfries, Va., II., 328. Dummy battery, Seabrook Point, S. C. , VIII., 183. Dummy guns, I., 163. Duncan, A., VIII., 109. Duncan, J. K., I., 23