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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 9: battle of Shiloh. March and April, 1862. (search)
camp; after reconnoissance, I ordered the two advance companies of the Ohio Seventy-seventh, Colonel Hildebrand, to deploy forward as skirmishers, and the regiment itself forward into line, with an interval of one hundred yards. In this order we advanced cautiously until the skirmishers were engaged. Taking it for granted this disposition would clear the camp, I held Colonel Dickey's Fourth Illinois Cavalry ready for the charge. The enemy's cavalry came down boldly at a charge, led by General Forrest in person, breaking through our line of skirmishers; when the regiment of infantry, without cause, broke, threw away their muskets, and fled. The ground was admirably adapted for a defense of infantry against cavalry, being miry and covered with fallen timber. As the regiment of infantry broke, Dickey's Cavalry began to discharge their carbines, and fell into disorder. I instantly sent orders to the rear for the brigade to form line of battle, which was promptly executed. The brok
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
d military skill. General Bragg had reorganized the army of Beauregard at Tupelo, carried it rapidly and skillfully toward Chattanooga, whence he boldly assumed the offensive, moving straight for Nashville and Louisville, and compelling General Buell to fall back to the Ohio River at Louisville. The army of Van Dorn and Price had been brought from the trans-Mississippi Department to the east of the river, and was collected at and about Holly Springs, where, reenforced by Armstrong's and Forrest's cavalry, it amounted to about forty thousand brave and hardy soldiers. These were General Grant's immediate antagonists, and so many and large detachments had been drawn from him, that for a time he was put on the defensive. In person he had his headquarters at Corinth, with the three divisions of Hamilton, Davies, and McKean, under the immediate orders of General Rosecrans. General Ord had succeeded to the division of McClernand (who had also gone to Washington), and held Bolivar and G
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
gerous subjects in every sense. They care not a sou for niggers, land, or any thing. They hate Yankees per se, and don't bother their brains about the past, present, or future. As long as they have good horses, plenty of forage, and an open country, they are happy. This is a larger class than most men suppose, and they are the most dangerous set of men that this war has turned loose upon the world. They are splendid riders, first-rate shots, and utterly reckless. Stewart, John Morgan, Forrest, and Jackson, are the types and leaders of this class. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace. They have no property or future, and therefore cannot be influenced by any thing, except personal considerations. I have two brigades of these fellows in my front, commanded by Cosby, of the old army, and Whitfield, of Texas. Stephen D. Lee is in command of the whole. I have frequent interviews with their officers, a good understanding with them, and am inc
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
in our general purpose, as well as to punish the rebel General Forrest, who had been most active in harassing our garrisons iterprise was to destroy the rebel cavalry commanded by General Forrest, who were a constant threat to our railway communicatiFebruary 1st. I explained to him personally the nature of Forrest as a man, and of his peculiar force; told him that in his route he was sure to encounter Forrest, who always attacked with a vehemence for which he must be prepared, and that, after hhelm him and utterly destroy his whole force. I knew that Forrest could not have more than four thousand cavalry, and my ownm the neighborhood of Yazoo City to Jackson and below; and Forrest's, which was united, toward Memphis, with headquarters at actually done. At the same time, I wanted to destroy General Forrest, who, with an irregular force of cavalry, was constantus, Kentucky; and then, when he did start, lie allowed General Forrest to head him off and to defeat him with an inferior for
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
I was much disturbed by a bold raid made by the rebel General Forrest up between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers. He rd has been the subject of congressional inquiry. No doubt Forrest's men acted like a set of barbarians, shooting down the heafter the fort was in their possession; but I am told that Forrest personally disclaims any active participation in the assauring as soon as he could. I also take it for granted that Forrest did not lead the assault in person, and consequently that undreds of our men, who were at various times prisoners in Forrest's possession, that he was usually very kind to them. He hpoint of our making soldiers out of their late slaves, and Forrest may have shared the feeling. I also had another serioushe should not find you in person, I will simply state that Forrest, availing himself of the absence of our furloughed men ande Yazoo a position near Grenada, thence to operate against Forrest, after which to march across to Decatur, Alabama. You wil
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 16: Atlanta campaign-battles about Kenesaw Mountain. June, 1864. (search)
as far as Nashville. Besides, there was great danger, always in my mind, that Forrest would collect a heavy cavalry command in Mississippi, cross the Tennessee Rive command of all the cavalry in that quarter, to go out toward Pontotoc, engage Forrest and defeat him; but on the 14th of June I learned that General Sturgis had himself been defeated on the 10th of June, and had been driven by Forrest back into Memphis in considerable confusion. I expected that this would soon be followed by aed General Smith to go out from Memphis and renew the offensive, so as to keep Forrest off our roads. This he did finally, defeating Forrest at Tupelo, on the 13th,Forrest at Tupelo, on the 13th, 14th, and 15th days of July; and he so stirred up matters in North Mississippi that Forrest could not leave for Tennessee. This, for a time, left me only the task Forrest could not leave for Tennessee. This, for a time, left me only the task of covering the roads against such minor detachments of cavalry as Johnston could spare from his immediate army, and I proposed to keep these too busy in their own d
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 20 (search)
dition of idleness. General Schofield was permitted to go to Knoxville, to look after matters in his Department of the Ohio; and Generals Blair and Logan went home to look after politics. Many of the regiments were entitled to, and claimed, their discharge, by reason of the expiration of their term of service; so that with victory and success came also many causes of disintegration. The rebel General Wheeler was still in Middle Tennessee, threatening our railroads, and rumors came that Forrest was on his way from Mississippi to the same theatre, for the avowed purpose of breaking up our railroads and compelling us to fall back from our conquest. To prepare for this, or any other emergency, I ordered Newton's division of the Fourth Corps back to Chattanooga, and Corse's division of the Seventeenth Corps to Rome, and instructed General Rousseau at Nashville, Granger at Decatur, and Steadman at Chattanooga, to adopt the most active measures to protect and insure the safety of our r
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
force of cavalry from Mississippi, under General Forrest, made its appearance at Athens, Alabama, at now the tables were to be turned; that General Forrest was already on our roads in Middle Tenneserman, Atlanta: It will be better to drive Forrest out of Middle Tennessee as a first step, and ch. There are men enough to the rear to whip Forrest, but they are necessarily scattered to defendman efforts will be made to break my road. Forrest is now lieutenant-general, and commands all t Macon. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. Forrest having already made his appearance in Middle e, and General Thomas started to-day to drive Forrest out of Tennessee. Our roads should be watche our main route of communication and supply. Forrest had with him in Middle Tennessee about eight n the Tennessee River, opposite Florence) and Forrest, opposite Johnsonville. On the 31st of Octove Colbert Shoals. On the 31st of October Forrest made his appearance on the Tennessee River op[3 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
Sherman, Major-General United States Army. As soon as the army had reached Savannah, and had opened communication with the fleet, I endeavored to ascertain what had transpired in Tennessee since our departure. We receive I our letters and files of newspapers, which contained full accounts of all the events there up to about the 1st of December. As before described, General Hood had three full corps of infantry — S. D. Lee's, A. P. Stewart's, and Cheatham's, at Florence, Alabama--with Forrest's corps of cavalry, numbering in the aggregate about forty-five thousand men. General Thomas was in Nashville, Tennessee, quietly engaged in reorganizing his army out of the somewhat broken forces at his disposal. He had posted his only two regular corps, the Fourth and Twenty-third, under the general command of Major-General J. M. Schofield, at Pulaski, directly in front of Florence, with the three brigades of cavalry (Hatch, Croxton, and Capron), commanded by Major-General Wilson, watchi
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
All this he admitted, but always recurred to the idea of a universal surrender, embracing his own army, that of Dick Taylor in Louisiana and Texas, and of Maury, Forrest, and others, in Alabama and Georgia. General Johnston's account of our interview in his Narrative (page 402, et seq.) is quite accurate and correct, only I do notel armies will disperse; and, instead of dealing with six or seven States, we will have to deal with numberless bands of desperadoes, headed by such men as Mosby, Forrest, Red Jackson, and others, who know not and care not for danger and its consequences. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, Major-Genort, Mississippi, five hundred miles in thirty days, took six thousand three hundred prisoners, twenty-three colors, and one hundred and fifty-six guns, defeating Forrest, scattering the militia, and destroying every railroad, iron establishment, and factory, in North Alabama and Georgia. He spoke in the highest terms of his cav