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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 17: (search)
ou delay attacking longer, the mortifying spectacle will be witnessed nessed of a rebel Army moving for the Ohio, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find. * * * * The following dispatch from General Grant to Thomas gives strong evidence that in this campaign we had thrust at the vitals of the enemy: Van Horne's History, vol. II, page 259. Washington, December 15th, 1864, 11.30 p. m. I was just on my way to Nashville, but receiving a dispatch from Van Duzen, detailing your splendid success of to-day, I shall go no further. * * * U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. He could not well afford to allow us to reach Kentucky, and finally assail him in rear at Petersburg. Therefore he left his own Army in front of the illustrious Lee to proceed to Nashville and assume direction in person. At this eventful period General Thomas stood with eightytwo thousand (82,000) effectives Sherman's Memoirs, vol. II, pages 162, 163. to oppose our small A
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 24 (search)
d before night the town presented quite a business aspect. The rear-guard of the enemy had not vacated Resacca two hours, ere the familiar whistle of Sherman's train was heard by the retreating army. The telegraph line was kept up well by Captain Van Duzen, who followed in the rear of our advancing columns, and repaired it thoroughly. Resacca is now the advanced depot for supplying the army, which is well provisioned with bacon, hard-tack, coffee, and all the et ceteras of the Commissary depreek, the troops were passed over singly to the opposite bank on logs, and in any way they best could, under the cover of a heavy fire from the batteries. The brigade of General Giles A. Smith consisted at the time of the Sixth Missouri, Colonel Van Duzen, One Hundred and Eleventh Illinois, Colonel Martin, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois, Colonel Curtis, Fifty-seventh Ohio, Colonel Rice, and One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois, Colonel Froman. At six the line of skirmishers was adv
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), V (search)
74, 176. Van Buren, W. H., VII, 330. Van Cleve, H. P.: Il, 174, 176, 284; X., 219. Vanderbilt, C.: VI., 309; IX., 297. Vanderbilt, Captain New York Tenth Cavalry, quoted, IV., 26. Vanderbilt,, U. S. S.: III., 342; VI., 309. Van Dervoort, P., X., 296. Vandewater, J., X., 288. Van Dorn, E.: I, 206, 235, 245; II., 143 seq., 183, 190, 200, 204, 324, 328, 330; IV., 49; capture, 116, 133, 263; V., 70; VI, 308; VII., 28, 30, 233; X., 251, 270, 272. Van Duzen, J. C., VIII., 358 seq. Vannerson, photographer: IX., 123; X., 63. Van Norman, L. E., I., 10. Van Sant, S. R., X., 296. Van Valkenburgh, D. H., I., 295. Van Valkenbergh, T. S., VIII, 362. Van Vinson Vii, 125. Van Wyck, C. H., X., 229. Vaquin, E., VIII., 169. Varnells Station, Ga., III., 320. Varuna,, U. S. S., VI, 190, 191, 198. Varuna Landing, Va.: pontoon bridge at, IV.; 189. Vaughen, A. J., X., 299. Vaughen, J. C.: