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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 46: negro conditions during the Civil War (search)
oyed in army work. Our armies, made up mostly of volunteers, could not help at any time being participants, more or less pronounced, in the controversies that appeared in the press and the country. Some proslavery officers on various occasions denounced Mr. Lincoln, applying to him all sorts of epithets as, mountebank, old ape, and a consummate tyrant. Extreme abolitionists also impugned his conduct with equal violence on account df his apparent hesitation and slowness. While General Geo. B. McClellan annoyed him by public promises to suppress all servile insurrection by force, and General Don Carlos Buel, in Kentucky, continued to allow slave holders to come within his lines and recover their property, and General Halleck, in Missouri, forbade slaves to enter the lines; other commanders, especially in the West, grew wiser, and before long maintained a sounder war doctrine, viz.; God means us to free all the slaves. We will not succeed in putting down the rebellion till we set
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Appendix (search)
tly angry to see the muskets so injured they cheered Colonel Stannard and his soldiers for their bravery. The next step was for Colonel Stannard to sign the parole for all his men not to take up arms again until regularly exchanged. The colonel on the spot declined to do this, stating that he would give his own parole, but could not be responsible for the men in his regiment. He created delay by one contrivance and another till late in the afternoon, hoping that relief would come from McClellan. At last General Hill told Stannard that if he did not sign at once the men of his regiment would be marched to Richmond and held as prisoners of war. After that threat Colonel Stannard signed the parole. General Stannard at Fort Harrison General T. S. Peck On September 29, 1864, General Stannard assaulted and took Fort Harrison with his division. The fort was located on the north side of the James River, near Chapin's Bluff, four miles from Richmond. At noon on September 30th
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
arren, I, 23, 24, 50, 51. Lott, Chief, II, 483, 484. Lovejoy, Owen, II, 321. Lovejoy Station, Battle of, II, 41-51. Ludlow, Nicholl, II, 506, 507, 509. Ludwig, Karl Friedrick Wilhelm, II, 534. Luke, William C., II, 386. Lynde, D. B., I, 82, 87. McAllister, Fort, II, 86-100. McArthur, Arthur, I, 27, 28. McCall, George A., I, 172, 174. McCandless, William, I, 439. McCarty, Ellen, I, 63. McCauley, J. A., II, 318. McCleery, James, II, 384-386. McClellan, George B., I, 83, 162, 166-172, 174, 177, 179, 182, 186-189, 192-197, 199-207, 209-211, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222, 225, 227, 228, 231, 234, 237, 244, 255-257, 260, 271-274, 277, 278, 288, 289, 291, 294, 298, 302-305, 308, 310-315, 327, 347, 370, 381, 393, 394; II, 169, 581. McClintock, J. M., II, 90. McCook, A. Mc D., I, 105,106,138,588. McCook, Daniel, I, 584, 585, 588. McCook, Ed., I, 501, 542, 544, 566; II, 27, 28. McCoy, H. J., II, 547. McDonald, Private, 1, 190, 215, 569, 5