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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 342 4 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 292 10 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. 278 8 Browse Search
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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 267 45 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 263 15 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) 252 0 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 26: (search)
original idea was kept steadily in mind by both Grant and Sherman. On the 29th of May, Sherman telegraphed from Dallas: Johnston has in my front every man he can scrape, and Mobile must now be at our mercy, if General Canby and General Banks could s, he added, from Cold Harbor: The object of sending troops to Mobile now would be, not so much to assist Sherman against Johnston, as to secure for him a base of supplies, after his work is done. But it was found necessary to transfer A. J. Smith ch, leaving Hood in the rear. In the Vicksburg campaign, it is true, he moved away from Pemberton, but it was to attack Johnston; and when he set out from the Mississippi, he fully intended to turn and crush Pemberton, as soon as Johnston was destroJohnston was destroyed. Had he been in Sherman's place now, he would have been quite as determined to make the march, but not until Hood was annihilated. He felt, however, that he was able to supervise all; to provide troops for Thomas sufficient to withstand Hood,
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 31: (search)
a. Lee was at this very time conferring with Johnston in regard to the union of their commands, andNorth Carolina, were now under the command of Johnston, who was skilful and wary, and familiar with . They evidently hoped to hold Sherman while Johnston concentrated in the rear. It was necessary tlocum had come upon the entire rebel army. Johnston, the night before, had marched his whole comm and Cheatham, under the immediate command of Johnston, without giving an inch of ground, and himsel. He hoped that Slocum would be able to hold Johnston facing west until Howard came up in the rebel These developments occupied the entire day. Johnston now took up a position in the form of the letthe other; and Sherman, being uncertain as to Johnston's strength, was disinclined to invite a battlighting at Bentonsville was on the 19th, when Johnston struck the head of Slocum's column, forcing b hundred and fifty-five wounded and missing. Johnston states his losses to have been two hundred an[17 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 32: (search)
rolina and join Sherman. By this strategy the commands of Lee and Johnston would both be enclosed and driven to a common centre. If they atthe Roanoke by Sherman would be the signal for Lee to leave; and if Johnston and Lee were combined, a long and tedious and expensive campaign, ebel commanders were conferring in order to effect a junction. Johnston's Military Narrative. Sherman had recommended that Grant should watter position for pursuit, but retard the concentration of Lee and Johnston, besides compelling the rebels to abandon important material whichLee, and thus for ever terminate all communication between him and Johnston's army. On the 25th of March, however, Lee made an attack upon on, was to continue the movement to the end. It was suggested that Johnston might march up from the south and attack the rear of the army. I of cavalry at Stony creek station; I think it possible, too, that Johnston may be brought up that road to attack us in rear. They will see n
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 33: (search)
ved. He says the enemy is inactive in his front. He will move at the time stated to you. Thinks Lee will unite his and Johnston's army, and will not coop himself up in Richmond. Would like to be informed if Sheridan swings off, that he may go out 's command that had been left outside. The whole object and aim of the rebel leader now was to effect a junction with Johnston, whose forces were massed at Smithfield, in North Carolina, half-way between Raleigh and Goldsboro, and a little nearer than Sherman's troops to Petersburg. If Lee could possibly succeed in joining Johnston, he would still command a formidable army, and might hope even yet to give the national general serious trouble, or at least secure more favorable terms for the roads, fifty miles from Richmond, and then move still further south towards Danville, to which point he might hope that Johnston would fall back in order to concentrate the two commands. The Appomattox river, rising in the neighborhood of Lynchbu
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 34: (search)
und himself, as he hoped, on the road to join Johnston's command. I have got my army safely out of From there the road was open to Danville and Johnston's army. But at Amelia, Lee found himself e see if we cannot finish the job with Lee and Johnston's armies. Whether it will be better for youus confessed his inability to make his way to Johnston by the road of his own selection, and could nthe hope of finally effecting a junction with Johnston's army; but, as the day waned, it became mani. I shall press the pursuit to the end. Push Johnston at the same time, and let us finish this job for a year, could have but one termination. Johnston, he said, would certainly follow his example,f his adversary, and effect his junction with Johnston. If he succeeded in this, Grant was baffled orces were thrown directly across the road to Johnston's army. And here, if Meade had possessed thee than on this march. The chance of reaching Johnston was quite gone. Lee himself could not have h[5 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 35: (search)
ies, Sherman advanced against Smithfield, and Johnston at once retreated rapidly through Raleigh, wh3th. On the 14th, he received a message from Johnston, dictated by Jefferson Davis, who was living so offered to order Stoneman, now in front of Johnston's army, to suspend any devastation or destrucply to this was received until the 16th, when Johnston agreed to meet Sherman on the following day a by Reagan were presented by Breckenridge and Johnston. Sherman, however, preferred to write his owGrant and Lee. All acts of war on the part of Johnston's army were to cease at once; all arms and puention, and referred only to the surrender of Johnston's command. The great civil questions of amnen of Johnston's army were paroled. Yet General Johnston, one of the most honorable of the rebel c was checked by news of the armistice between Johnston and Sherman, which included Wilson's command.d nothing else to do. He could not run away. Johnston and Maury and Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith [30 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Appendix to Chapter XXVII. (search)
coming back in great confusion, followed by the enemy's, and Breckenridge's force was ordered to the left to repel this cavalry force which had gotten in rear of my left; and this, with the assistance of the artillery, he succeeded in doing. But, as soon as the firing was heard in rear of our left flank, the infantry commenced falling back along the whole line, and it was very difficult to stop them. I succeeded, however, in stopping enough of them in the old rifle-pits constructed by General Johnston to arrest the progress of the enemy's infantry, which commenced advancing again when the confusion in our ranks was discovered, and would have still won the day if our cavalry would have stopped the enemy's; but so overwhelming was the battle, and so demoralized was a larger part of ours, that no assistance was received from it. The enemy's cavalry again charged around my left flank, and the men began to give way again, so that it was necessary for me to retire through the town. Line o
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Appendix to Chapter XXXV. (search)
very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. Johnston, General. General Sherman to General Jleigh, North Carolina, April 14, 1865. General J. E. Johnston, commanding Confederate Army: Generf an agreement made this day between General Joseph E. Johnston and myself, which, if approved by thneral, and satisfied me of the ability of General Johnston to carry out to their full extent the terif we stripped them of all arms. Both Generals Johnston and Breckenridge admitted that slavery wte of North Carolina, by and between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate army, any of the United States in North Carolina. J. E. Johnston, General, Commanding Confederate States Ament entered into between yourself and General J. E. Johnston, for the disbandment of the Southern am's station, North Carolina, between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate army, ang United States Forces in North Carolina. J. E. Johnston, General, Commanding Confederate States F[1 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Index (search)
i, 23, 28; expedition against, 28-30; capture of, 32. Herron, General F. J., arrival of, at Vicksburg, i., 352; operations during siege, 353. Hill, General A. P., at battle of Wilderness, II., 11, 95, 101, 109; death and burial of, III., 532. Hoke, General, in command in North Carolina, III., 312; at Wilmington, 317; at Fort Fisher, first expedition, 320; second expedition 334-343. Holly Springs, Grant at, i., 127; capture of by rebels, 138. Hood, General J. B., supersedes J. E. Johnston, II., 539; assaults on Sherman, 540-542; sends cavalry against Sherman's rear, 544; evacuation of Atlanta, 546; sends Wheeler to cut Atlanta and Chattanooga railroad, III., 42; moves to Palmetto station, 49; movement towards Tennessee, 50, 59, 151, 163, 181-193; campaign in Tennessee, 203-278. Hooker, General, Joseph, sent to support Rosecrans, i., 438; at Wauhatchie, 449; operations in Lookout valley, 497; attack on Lookout mountain, 500; moves on Rossville, 502; crosses the Chattano