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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 604 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 570 8 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 498 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 456 2 Browse Search
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. 439 3 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 397 3 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. 368 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 368 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 16: (search)
ral Buell in Kentucky. The former, with armies at Cairo and Paducah, under Generals Grant and C. F. Smith, threatened equally Columbus, the key of the lower Mississisome seven-inch rifled guns carrying eighty-pound shells. On February 2d General Grant started from Cairo with seventeen thousand men on transports. Commodore Foh the landing of the troops commenced three miles or more below Fort Henry. General Grant took command on the east bank with the main column, while General Charles Ft thirty-four hundred men. It is evident that on the 5th he intended to dispute Grant's advance by land; on the 6th, however, before the attack by the gunboats, he ct Sidney Johnston, by his son. Noon was the time fixed for the attack. But Grant, impeded by the overflow of water and unwilling to expose his men to the heavy men. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. The force of General Grant was not less than thirty to thirty-five thousand men. On February 12th he c
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 17: (search)
ch 10th. General C. F. Smith led the advance, with a new division under General Sherman. On the 13th Smith assembled four divisions at Savannah, on the west bank of the Tennessee, at the Great Bend. The ultimate design was to mass the forces of Grant and Buell against our army at Corinth. Buell was still in the occupation of Nashville. On the 16th Sherman disembarked at Pittsburg Landing, and made a reconnaissance to Monterey, nearly half-way to Corinth. On the next day General Grant took General Grant took command. Two more divisions were added, and he assembled his army near Pittsburg Landing, which was the most advantageous base for a movement against Corinth. Here it lay inactive until the battle of Shiloh. The Tennessee flows northwest for some distance until, a little west of Hamburg, it takes its final bend to the north. Here two small streams, Owl and Lick Creeks, flowing nearly parallel, somewhat north of east, from three to five miles apart, empty into the Tennessee. Owl Creek for
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 18: (search)
ral Buell, who was to make a junction with General Grant, deemed it best that his army should marchnnah on Saturday, April 5th, and our attack on Grant at Pittsburg Landing was made on the next day,army at Corinth, and fight the enemy in detail—Grant first, and Buell afterward. The army of Genern designed, it was not too much to expect that Grant's army would have surrendered; that Buell's foground to get at him. Here Colonel Webster, of Grant's staff, had gathered all the guns he could fi resolute movement forward would have captured Grant and his whole army, and fulfilled to the lettethe day he would have crushed and captured General Grant's army before the setting of the sun on th reach the field of battle in time to save General Grant's shattered fugitives from capture or destt, had the attack been vigorously pressed, General Grant and his army would before the setting of t and regret he felt at the order to retire. Grant's army being beaten, the next step of General [2 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 19: (search)
Chapter 19: Retirement of the army remnants of Grant's army its Reenforcements strength of our army strength of Grant's army reorganization Corinth advance of General Halleck siege of Corinth evacuation retreat to Tupelo Generae army of not less than fifty thousand effective men, which Grant had on the west bank of the Tennessee River, not more than o Buell's army. The work of reorganization of fragments of Grant's force also occupied the night. In the morning the arrivaalor; however, after the junction had been effected between Grant and Buell, which Johnston's movement was made to prevent, owounded, 8,012; missing, 959. The effective force of General Grant's army engaged in the battles of April 6th and 7th at Sotal, 70,893. The casualties in the battle of April 6th in Grant's force were as follows: killed, 1,500; wounded, 6,634; mis in the field. A reorganization was effected, in which General Grant's divisions formed the right wing, those of General Bue
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 21: (search)
had so persistently applied, he had received the division which he most valued, and the destruction of the Virginia had left the James River open to his fleet and transports as far up as Drewry's Bluff, and the withdrawal of General Johnston across the Chickahominy made it quite practicable for him to transfer his army to the James River, the south side of which had then but weak defenses, and thus by a short march to gain more than all the advantages which, at a later period of the war, General Grant obtained at the sacrifice of a hecatomb of soldiers. Referring again to the work of the Comte de Paris, who may be better authority in regard to what occurred in the army of the enemy than when he writes about Confederate affairs, it appears that this change of base was considered and not adopted because of General Mc-Clellan's continued desire to have McDowell's corps with him. The count states: The James River, which had been closed until then by the presence of the Virginia, as
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 29: (search)
re of the guns from the rear casemates. One shot carried away a dozen bales of cotton on the right side; the other, a shell, entered the forward porthole and exploded, killing six men and disabling two fieldpieces. Again the Webb followed the Queen, struck near the same spot, pushing aside the iron plates and crushing timbers. Voices from the Indianola announced the surrender, and that she was sinking. The river here sweeps the western shore, and there was deep water up to the bank. General Grant's army was on the west side of the river, and, for either or both of these reasons, Major Brent towed the Indianola to the opposite side, where she sank on a bar, her gun-deck above water. Both boats were much shattered in the conflict, and Major Brent returned to the Red River to repair them. A tender accompanied the Queen and the Webb, and a frail river boat without protection for her boilers, which was met on the river, turned back and followed them, but, like the tender, could be o
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 36: (search)
sent by the United States government to seize localities act providing for the appointment of special agents to seize abandoned or captured property views of General Grant Weakening his strength one third our country divided into districts, and Federal agents appointed. A class of measures was adopted by the government of thansported in accordance with the Treasury regulations was forfeitable. All expenses incurred in relation to the property were charged upon it. The views of General Grant on the operation of this system of measures, as tending to retard the success of subjugation, which was the object of the war, were presented to the Secretary d the proceeds were made to constitute a fund for further purchases. A vigorous traffic sprang up under these regulations, which were suspended by an order of General Grant issued on March 10, 1865, and revoked on April 11th by himself. On April 29, 1865, all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercou
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
used in arming and equipping his command. General Grant was thus forced to abandon his campaign an the land movement referred to. This compelled Grant to retreat to Memphis, and frustrated the comb of turning Vicksburg on the north. After General Grant, descending the Mississippi from Memphis, als. Fresh troops were reported to be joining Grant's army, and one of his corps had been sent to cuate the place. On the morning of the 3d General Grant commenced a pursuit of the retreating forcnd naval forces could be combined were lost to Grant in this interior march which he was making. Scapture the position both before and after General Grant arrived and took command in person. He hat the troops at his disposal available against Grant amounted to twenty-four thousand one hundred, Wilson never sent the notice. An officer of Grant's army, whose rank and position gave opportunites: It was always a matter of surprise to Grant and his commanders that Johnston failed to mak[22 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 40: (search)
captured failure of General Bragg to pursue Reenforcements to the enemy, and Grant to command his description of the situation movements of the enemy conflict Map: battle of Chickamauga. from the army at Vicksburg, and also to assign General Grant to the command in Tennessee. As early as September 23d the Eleventh and Tw of communication from Bridgeport to Nashville. It was on October 23d that General Grant arrived at Chattanooga, and only in time to save their army from starvationalizing the evacuation of Chattanooga, which he had anticipated. The report of Grant thus describes the situation on his arrival: Up to this period our forces i. They could not have been supplied another week. The first movement under Grant was, therefore, to establish a new and shorter line of supplies. For this purprest, and during the night withdrew from the positions on the plain below. General Grant, after advancing a short distance from Chattanooga, dispatched a portion of
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
led with horror during 1865 by two trials held before a military commission in the city of Washington. The first commenced on May 13th, and ended on June 29th. The specification was— That David E. Harold, Edward Spangler, Lewis Payne, John H. Surratt, Michael O'Loughlin, Samuel Arnold, George A. Atzerott, Samuel A. Mudd, and Mary E. Surratt, did on April 15, 1865, combine, confederate, and conspire together to murder President Abraham Lincoln, Vice-President Andrew Johnson, Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. President Lincoln had been shot, and Secretary Seward was badly wounded with a knife. The others were uninjured. The sentence of the commission was that David E. Harold, G. A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Surratt be hanged by the proper military authority, under the direction of the Secretary of War, on July 7, 1865. The others were sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for a term of years or for life. With only one day
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