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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 610 4 Browse Search
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. 558 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 515 3 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 513 5 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 504 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 465 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 460 6 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. 452 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 398 2 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 380 4 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
notes to General Foster, Admiral Dahlgren, General Grant, and the Secretary of War, giving in gener the following letter of December 3d, from General Grant, and on the next day Colonel Babcock, UnitMrs. Sherman to go with me. Yours truly, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters armies sident of the United States, and from Lieutenant-General Grant, letters conveying their high sense amore important letters that passed between Generals Grant, Halleck, and myself, which illustrate ourVirginia and the Southwestern Railroad. General Grant's wishes, however, are, that this whole ma Confederacy. But I will not anticipate. General Grant is expected here this morning, and will pr the South. All well here. Yours truly, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters militaryRailroad, throw himself rapidly between me and Grant, leaving Richmond in the hands of the latter. isadvantage, always under the supposition that Grant would be on his heels; and, if the worst come [19 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
ous campaign. I had not yet received from General Grant or General Halleck any modification of theited States Engineers, arrived direct from General Grant's headquarters, bearing the following lettavannah, Georgia, January 2, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. General: I have reter object of uniting my army with that of General Grant before Richmond. General Barnard remainnd soon after he returned to his post with General Grant, at City Point, bearing letters and full psoon as General Butler reached City Point, General Grant was unwilling to rest under a sense of faidy for you, let me know it. Yours truly, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters military South Carolina, January 29, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia. dear General: I have just received dispatches from General Grant, stating that Schofield's corps (the Twent C. Sir: I have just received from Lieutenant-General Grant a copy of that part of your telegram [1 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866. (search)
eral Lee sit down in Richmond (besieged by General Grant), and permit us, almost unopposed, to pass or would he make an effort to escape from General Grant, and endeavor to catch us inland somewherere only those to the Secretary of War, and Generals Grant and Terry, as samples of the whole. hk at 6 P. M. I have written a letter to General Grant, the substance of which he will doubtless our march, and come within the theatre of General Grant's field of operations in all April, and thower to make our cause win. Yours truly, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters armies o Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters armies o Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters armies or, North Carolina, March 22, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, Commander-in-Chief, City Point, Va, North Carolina, March 23, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, commanding the Armies of the Unit[10 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. The railroad was r Grant had provided tea. While at the table, Mrs. Grant inquired if we had seen Mrs. Lincoln. No, sa7th of March, 1865), I accompanied him and General Grant on board the President's flag-ship, the Quhey cannot be used again for a long time. General Grant remarked, What is to prevent their laying the army that he has official notice from General Grant that General Lee surrendered to him his enive operations, and to communicate to Lieutenant-General Grant, commanding the armies of the United that I had recently had an interview with General Grant and President Lincoln, and that I was possh, North Carolina, April 18, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, or Major-General Halleck, Washing Very respectfully your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. headquarters military States Forces in North Carolina. Approved: U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. I returned to Rale[68 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 24: conclusion — military lessons of the War. (search)
res — as recorded in Chapter XIX.; but the value of the magnetic telegraph in war cannot be exaggerated, as was illustrated by the perfect concert of action between the armies in Virginia and Georgia during 1864. Hardly a day intervened when General Grant did not know the exact state of facts with me, more than fifteen hundred miles away as the wires ran. So on the field a thin insulated wire may be run on improvised stakes or from tree to tree for six or more miles in a couple of hours, and Ifor the information of the next higher authority, and for history. A bulky staff implies a division of responsibility, slowness of action, and indecision, whereas a small staff implies activity and concentration of purpose. The smallness of General Grant's staff throughout the civil war forms the best model for future imitation. So of tents, officers' furniture, etc., etc. In real war these should all be discarded, and an army is efficient for action and motion exactly in the inverse ratio o