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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
the latter acting under McClernand's command. As the position of the troops had been changed on Friday night, and Gen. Grant being sent for during the night from the gunboats, the movements of all troops except those attached to McClernand's diir ground so manfully for three hours, retired to procure ammunition, the enemy occupied the field. At this time General Grant ordered General Smith to move forward his division and storm the enemy's works on our left. This order was obeyed wi the cheers of our daring soldiery were heard, and the old flag displayed from within the enemy's entrenchments. General Grant then sent word to Generals McClernand and Lewis Wallace that General Smith was within the enemy's entrenchments, and urday night contraction of all our lines was made for a simultaneous assault from every point, and orders were given by Gen. Grant to take the enemy at the point of the bayonet. The next morning every man was at his post — the Fifty seventh, Col.
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana. (search)
age and consistency to hurl contempt in the teeth of tyranny, though fully aware that the consequences may involves a loss of personal freedom. Of this class are Messrs. Vallandigham and Voorhees. The last named gentleman made a speech in the Federal Congress, on the 21st inst., the tenor of which may be judged from the following Washington telegram, which appears in the Baltimore American, of the 22d: The speech of Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, in the House, to-day, is regarded as treading upon the very verge of treason. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, replied to his statement that the people of Indiana were in favor of a compromise with armed rebellion by saying that the people of Illinois, also, would compromise, but only upon the terms proposed by Grant to Ruckner! "Immediate and unconditional surrender." The floor and galleries heartily applauded the sentiment, and the knot of disloyalists who had gathered around Voorhees to offer him their congratulations suddenly dispersed.
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 26 (search)
trong reinforcements during the week, and now they numbered, according to their own estimates, fifty thousand men. Snow lay on the ground to the depth of three inches, and a cold, blinding sleet poured incessantly in the faces of our soldiers. Still, with all these odds, they faltered not. Early in the day the order came from headquarters to make a vigorous attack on the right flank of the Federal army, which, thirty-five thousand strong, was posted on the opposite hills, under command of Gen. Grant. Not more than ten thousand of our men engaged in this movement, but such was the impetuosity of their advance that the enemy fled in confusion from their entrenchments. Charge after charge was made by our regiments, and the ground was covered with the slain. Three hundred prisoners, including several officers belonging to an Illinois regiment, four batteries, and thirty-five hundred stand of arms, were captured. The former are now in a Confederate prison.--The two latter may have
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the United States. (search)
From the United States. official report of the battle at Fort Donelson--General summary of Northern news. From our Northern files of the 24th inst. we collate the following: Gen. Grant's official report. Headquarters Army in the Field, Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. Gen. G. W. Cullom, Chief of Staff, Department of Missouri: General — I am pleased to announce to you the unconditional surrender, this morning, of Fort Donelson, with twelve to fifteen thousand prisonersd services. For full details and reports, and particulars, reference is made to the reports of the engineer, medical director, and commanders of brigades and divisions, to follow. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant. U. S. Grant, Brig. General. The capture of Clarksville. The New York Herald has the subjoined account of the capture of Clarksville, Tenn.; but in reading it every one must make due allowance for the source whence it comes: On the appearance