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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 157 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 125 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 116 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 108 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 84 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 72 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 70 2 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 60 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 59 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 52 0 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter III (search)
eneral on Lyon's staff a missing letter from Fremont to Lyon Lyon's reply battle of Wilson's Creat origin of the opposition of the Blairs to Fremont affair at Fredericktown. when it became p9 General Lyon received a letter from General John C. Fremont, then commanding the department, whicy Colonel John B. Wyman. The letter from General Fremont to Colonel Wyman inclosing that to Generapears among the published papers submitted by Fremont to the Committee on the Conduct of the War inby me and is yet in my possession, shows that Fremont's letter to Lyon was dated August 6, and was d meet him. It is difficult to see why General Fremont did not produce a copy of those instructit at Wilson's Creek was a necessity, and that Fremont ought to have reinforced him before that time at any cost, that perhaps Fremont had not the courage to do what was really best for his own defenon instructed me to prepare an answer to General Fremont's letter on the morning of August 9. He [2 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter V (search)
row of the existing State government; that a reconciliation of the quarrel between the pestilent factions The division of the Union party into radicals and conservatives, or charcoals and claybanks, originated during the administration of General Fremont. in Missouri, so much desired by Mr. Lincoln, was exactly what the radicals did not want and would not have. Satisfied of this and disgusted with the abuse heaped upon him by men who owed him warm and honest support, Governor Gamble tendere radical theories, and are so radical that they cannot possibly be loyal to the government. . . . These men were styled revolutionists, not without sufficient cause. It was currently reported that they had in 1861 conceived the elevation of Fremont to a dictatorship. In 1862, and again in 1863, they invented a scheme for the violent overthrow of the provisional State government and the existing national administration in Missouri. The first act of the program was to seize and imprison Go
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VI (search)
ess or wickedness of any general. The newspaper files—those chronicles of current events—will show that the evils now complained of were quite as prevalent under Fremont, Hunter, Halleck, and Curtis as under Schofield. If the former had greater force opposed to them, they had also greater forces with which to meet it. When the of commanders for the department. To restrain contraband intelligence and trade, a system of searches, seizures, permits, and passes had been introduced by General Fremont. When General Halleck came, he found and continued the system, and added an order, applicable to some parts of the State, to levy and collect contributions from noted rebels to compensate losses and relieve destitution caused by the rebellion. The action of General Fremont and General Halleck, as stated, constituted a sort of system which General Curtis found in full operation when he took command of the department. That there was a necessity for something of the sort was clear; but
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
patriotism and courage, 31; introduces S. to Fremont, 48, 49; opinion of Fremont, 49; movement favFremont, 49; movement favoring his succeeding S. in command in Missouri, 59, 60; correspondence with Halleck, Aug. 11-12, 18e, 458 Department of the Mississippi, the, Fremont relieved from command of, 54; contest over ti, helping the Baptist meeting-house at, 17 Fremont, Maj.-Gen. John C., commanding Department of 102 Halleck, Maj.-Gen. Henry W., relieves Fremont from command of Department of the MississippiWar Department reform, 479 Memphis, Tenn., Fremont's plan of campaign below, 49; Hatch sends tro command over, 317 Mississippi River, the, Fremont's plan of campaign on, 49; military operation, 37 et seq.; plight of the Union troops, 38; Fremont's plan of campaign, 49; Fremont takes the fieyon at Boonville, 37; drafts Lyon's letter to Fremont, Aug. 9, 1861, 40, 41; between two fires, 44,e of, 488 Wyman, Col. John B., letter from Fremont to, Aug. 6, 1861, 39 Wyoming, massacre of [9 more...]