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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
. Upon one occasion you made two days rations last seven. We may have to do the same thing again. . . . . Sherman is now moving out on the Auburn and Raymond road, and will reach Fourteen-mile creek to-night. When you arrive at Raymond, he will be in close supporting distance. I shall move McClernand to Fourteen-mile creek, early to-morrow, so that he will occupy a place on Sherman's left. The following instructions were also sent on the 11th, to Sherman: It will be necessary to guard Hall's ferry with a regiment of infantry and a company of cavalry, until our positions are fully taken, after which cavalry alone can watch the rear. McClernand is directed to guard Baldwin's ferry. I will direct Tuttle to send a regiment for this duty, so that you need not make any further detail until you want his relieved by some other troops. And at fifteen minutes past eight P. M.: McClernand is ordered to move up by the Telegraph road, also a road to the left of that, to Fourteen-mile cre
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 30: (search)
still not of the upper class. The prosperous part of the population of Liverpool is not aristocratic; it is connected with trade. But the ovation General Grant at once received in that city was prodigious. He was taken to the Custom House, and ten thousand respectable citizens crowded into the hall to give him the first promise of what was to follow all over the land. The next day the scene was repeated; and so it went on. At Manchester he was the guest of the city and lodged in the Town Hall, which had never been occupied by State guests before. Banquets and processions were made for him, orations delivered; he was taken to the places of public interest—always by people of the great middle class. Not a lord appeared until he reached London. When he entered a theatre the orchestra played Hail Columbia, and the actors stopped the performance while the audience rose as they would for a sovereign. He had the same sort of reception in every one of the great towns of England. In
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A sketch of the life of General Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate States. (search)
ed by the Secretary of War for this commission. Military movements then in progress caused delay, and finally the matter was dropped, and it is only referred to here as showing the broad and comprehensive views of General Gorgas. In the notes above referred to it is shown that when General Gorgas assumed his place as Chief of Ordnance, he found in all the arsenals within the Confederacy only fifteen thousand rifles and 120,000 inferior muskets, with some old flint muskets at Richmond, and Hall's rifles and carbines at Baton Rouge. There was no powder, except small quantities at Baton Rouge and at Mt. Vernon, relics of the Mexican war. There was very little artillery, and no cavalry arms or equipments. As was said by General Joseph E. Johnston, in speaking of General Gorgas, He created the Ordnance Department out of nothing, or by General Bragg: I have always asserted that you (General Gorgas) organized the only successful Military Bureau during our national existence, and this i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
as held at the Washington artillery armory, of the proceedings of which the following official minute gives a full account and forms the appropriate close of this sketch: Official minutes of the Association. R. E. Lee Monumental Association, February 22, 1884. Immediately after the dispersion by the storm of the immense audience gathered to participate in the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue of Lee, the Directors of this Association met at the Washington Artillery Hall to determine what course should be pursued with reference to the ceremonies. After consideration and discussion, the following resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted: Whereas, the immense audience assembled this day at Lee Statue has signalized the veneration and respect in which the people of New Orleans hold the memory of Robert E. Lee, and the enthusiastic approval with which they regard the erection of the monument to him; and, whereas, a postponement of the ceremonies co
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Stonewall brigade at Chancellorsville. (search)
is time caused the enemy to give way on his left; and this, combined with the unflinching determination of his men, carried the day and gave him possession of the works. Not being supported, he was exposed still to a galling fire from the right, with great danger of being flanked. Notwithstanding repeated efforts made by him and by myself in person, none of the troops in his rear would move up until the old Stonewall brigade arrived on the ground and gallantly advancing in conjunction with the Thirtieth North Carolina regiment, Colonel Parker, of Ramseur's brigade, which had been detached to support a battery, and was now on its return. Occupying the works on the right of Ramseur, and thus relieving him when his ammunition was expended, the Stonewall brigade pushed on and carried the Chancellorsville heights—making the third time that they were captured. They, in turn, were forced to fall back, but recaptured several of the prisoners and one of the flags taken from Colonel Hall.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
e. It was only when, a few miles farther on, after the Lacy house had been left in the distance and Palmer's field, which was once covered with dead bodies, had been passed, that the procession of carriages, turning into the woods, encountered a real wilderness. In the midst of an indescribable tangle of trees and undergrowth, the old trenches could still be seen, although how men fought under such circumstances was then and is still a wonder. In the clearing was the house of a man named Hall, an old farmer, with a typical long, white beard, who had his story to tell of escaping from Union Cavalry while he was trying to carry his family and his household goods into the forest by hiding behind a rock. At night the Chewning house was reached, a building conspicuous on the military maps, for all around it were the Confederate works. In the morning the line of march was taken up along a private road which led into the Orange turnpike. There are said to be about 20,000 acres in t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
etailed brigade teamster. Herring, John Henry. Hill, William H., wounded in hand, Second Manassas, August 30, 1862. Hall, Henry J., killed in battle at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Hall, William S., wounded in right shoulder, Gaines Mill, JuneHall, William S., wounded in right shoulder, Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862. Hall, Joseph M., enlisted March 28, 1862. Hall, E. B., honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harris, William, honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harlow, Lucian M., enlisted May 10, 1861. JohnsonHall, Joseph M., enlisted March 28, 1862. Hall, E. B., honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harris, William, honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harlow, Lucian M., enlisted May 10, 1861. Johnson, W. W., died Chimborazo Hospital, typhoid fever, June 27, 1864. Johnston, William W., captured at Yorktown, April 26, 1862; exchanged August 5, 1862. Jones, B. C. Kendricks, J. M. Kite, William H., enlisted October 30, 1864; transferred Hall, E. B., honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harris, William, honorably discharged and detailed to other service. Harlow, Lucian M., enlisted May 10, 1861. Johnson, W. W., died Chimborazo Hospital, typhoid fever, June 27, 1864. Johnston, William W., captured at Yorktown, April 26, 1862; exchanged August 5, 1862. Jones, B. C. Kendricks, J. M. Kite, William H., enlisted October 30, 1864; transferred to Thirty-ninth Battallion, Virginia Cavalry. Leake, William J., enlisted May 11, 1861. Leake, John W., wounded May 5, 1862, in battle of Williamsburg: mortally wounded in Battle of Seven Pines, June 1, 1862; died in Richmond Hospital, June 3,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Work of the Ordnance Bureau of the war Department of the Confederate States, 1861-5. (search)
lery ammunition, etc., were thus secured. The small arms from the fields of the Seven Days battles below Richmond and the second battle of Manassas, and from the capture of Harper's Ferry by Genl. Jackson, were, in 1862, of immense value. In the scramble of the early part of the war to obtain at once arms of some kind, both at home and abroad, a most heterogeneous collection was gathered. There were in the hands of the troops Springfield and Enfield muskets, Mississippi and Maynard rifles, Hall's and Sharp's carbines, and arms of English, German, Austrian and Belgian manufacture, of many different calibres. I had at one time samples of more than twenty patterns of infantry weapons alone. Much the same state of things existed as to artillery, both seacoast and field guns. As an illustration I may mention that when I joined Genl. R. E. Rodes' brigade for field service, the battery of Capt. (afterwards Col.) Thos. H. Carter, which was attached to the brigade, had a scratch lot of g
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
only representative of a scheme whose prospects were so inviting and so brilliant. Capt. Bulloch again wanted Capt. Murdaugh detailed to command one of three vessels to make an attack on the New England ports. In a letter to the Secretary of the Navy from London, January 10, 1865, Capt. Bulloch says: I have long thought that a severe blow might be struck at New Bedford, Salem, Portland and other New England towns by sending from this side ships prepared with incendiary shells and Hall's rockets. If you will send out Commodore Davidson and Lieut. J. Pembroke Jones and will detail Lieut. Murdaugh, who is now in Europe, these three officers to command the ships, and each having not more than two subordinates of prudence and experience, I think the expedition could be secretly managed in the spring or early summer. This scheme was never consummated, coming as it did so soon before the termination of the war. What I have here recorded does not do justice to the naval ca
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
is me, my stolen daughters! 1838. Pennsylvania Hall. Read at the dedication of Pennsylvania Hall, PhHall, Philadelphia, May 15, 1838. The building was erected by an association of gentlemen, irrespective of sect or paonly, gathering here, We dedicate our fair and lofty Hall, Pillar and arch, entablature and wall, As Virtue's No tear of pity rusted on his chain! But this fair Hall to Truth and Freedom given, Pledged to the Right bef of the True and Right. And fitting is it that this Hall should stand Where Pennsylvania's Founder led his balast, And her free tresses to our sunshine cast, One Hall should rise redeemed from Slavery's ban, One Temple illions from their chains unbound; Then, though this Hall be crumbling in decay, Its strong walls blending witght from a fragment of the wood-work of Pennsylvania Hall which the fire had spared. token of friendship trueed at the great anti-slavery meeting in Pennsylvania Hall, May 17, 1838, when the Hall was surrounded by a fur
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