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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
ng to allow such a phase of insubordination to become a precedent, relieved General McClernand from command, on the 15th of June, and assigned it to General E. 0. C. Ord. Meanwhile Osterhaus and Hovey, on the left of McClernand, had been unsuccessful in their assaults. Porter had joined in the fight from the river with his mortar General Parke. N~Tow the investment of Vicksburg was made absolute, with Sherman's corps on the extreme right, McPherson's next, and extending to the railway, and Ord's (late McClernand's) on the left, the investment in that direction being made complete by the divisions of Herron and Lauman, the latter lying across Stout's Bayouhed the place of meeting was announced by a signal-gun fired by the Nationals, which was answered by the Confederates. Grant was accompanied by Generals McPherson, Ord, Logan, and A. J. Smith; Pemberton, by General Bowen and Colonel Montgomery. They met on the southern slope of Fort Hill, to the left of the old Jackson road; and
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
movements farther down the stream, See page 625, volume II. when Vicksburg was surrendered. Grant at once sent out to Sherman all that, remained of that officer's and McPherson's corps, to drive Johnston from Jackson and the railway. In the afternoon of the 4th of July 1863. the re-enforcements were in motion, and when, the next day, they joined Sherman, that leader had about fifty thousand effective men under his command. With these he crossed the Big Black, July 6. his right, under Ord, passing at the site of the railway bridge; See page 612, volume II. his center, under Steele, at Messenger's Ford, above; and his left, under Parks, still farther up the river. In sweltering heat and blinding dust — men and horses almost maddened by thirst, where little water might be found on account of a parching drought — the army pressed forward over a country which, by Grant's orders, May 26. had been desolated by General Baird for scores of miles around Vicksburg, and pushed Joh
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
latter passed into the temporary command of General Ord, and Wallace resumed the special and most d, of the Eighteenth Corps, was succeeded by General Ord. and Gregg's cavalry division; and for the (commanded respectively by Generals Birney and Ord), and Kautz's cavalry, and attempt, by a suddenrney was to cross the river at Deep Bottom, and Ord at Aiken's Landing, eight miles above. Both we Deep Bottom, and gain the New Market road; and Ord was to capture the works near Chapin's Bluff, ang was undertaken. According to arrangement, Ord and Birney crossed the river on, pontoon bridgermer at Aiken's and the latter at Deep Bottom. Ord pushed along the Varina road at dawn. His chieenforcements were hurrying toward it. This fort Ord stormed and carried, together with a long line neral Burnham was killed; Stannard lost an arm; Ord was severely wounded; and about seven hundred mumed the direction of the Eighteenth Corps when Ord was disabled; and Battery Harrison was named Fo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
lt until supplied; and that he had positive information that Confederate troops, larger in number than the whole military force of the expedition, were nigh at hand. At the request of General Grant, General Butler was relieved, and General E. 0. C. Ord was assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. On being informed that the fleet had not left the vicinity of Fort Fisher, General Grant wrote to Admiral Porter, Dec. 30. asking him to remain, and promising to serman placed Schofield temporarily in chief command of the army, and hastened by railway to Morehead City, and thence by water to Headquarters at City Point, where he arrived on the evening of the 27th of March. There he met Generals Grant, Meade, Ord, and other leading army commanders, and President Lincoln. He learned, he said, the general state of the military world, and then returned to New Berne in a navy steamer, and reached Goldsboroa on the night of the 30th. March. After his wint
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
he 24th of March, Grant issued instructions to Meade, Ord, and Sheridan, these were commanders of three dist armies,--the Potomac, under Meade — the James, under Ord (who had succeeded Butler after the failure to captur1865. three divisions of the Army of the James, under Ord, had already March 27. been withdrawn from the norththe lines before Petersburg, leaving the remainder of Ord's command in charge of General Weitzel. The troops t supported by McKenzie's cavalry. Wright, Parke, and Ord, holding the intrenchments in front of Petersburg, we, with the Sixth Corps, supported by two divisions of Ord's command, assaulted the works on their front at aboueveral thousand men and many guns. In the mean time, Ord's other division had broken the Confederate line on H of Petersburg were assaulted by Gibbon's division of Ord's command, and Forts Gregg and Alexander--two strong on the North side of the James River, with a part of Ord's command, to hold the works there. He had with him
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
r parallel with it on the south. In the mean time, the main body of the Army of the James, under Ord, which had been pressing along the line of the South Side railway, toward Burkesville Station, had reached that point; and on the morning of the 6th, Ord was directed to move quickly on Farmville. He sent forward a column of infantry and cavalry, under General Theodore Read, to destroy the bridates saved the bridges, but Read's attack had caused them the loss of precious time, during which Ord arrived with his main body. Sheridan, meanwhile, had been pushing on at the head of the columne decorated with evergreens, it being the Christmas holidays. We rode to the Headquarters of General Ord, on New Market Heights, where we were joined by Major Seward, of his staff, who accompanied uained several days, gathering up materials for history, the recipient of kind attentions from General Ord (who was in command there), and other officers. We visited and sketched the Capitol, Libby P
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
organ's raid in, 3.94-3.96. Okolona, Gen. W. S. Smith driven back from by Forrest, 3.239. Olustee, battle of, 3.468. Opelousas, Gen. Banks at, 2.600. Orangeburg, Sherman at, 3.458. Orchard Knob, seizure of by Gen. Wood, 3.161. Ord, Gen. E. 0. C., his repulse of Stuart near Drainsville, 2.151. Ordinance of Secession of South Carolina, 1.103; rejoicings in Charleston at the adoption of, 1.104; signatures to (note), 1.107. Oreto, Confederate cruiser, escape of from Mobile, the Potomac against under McClellan, 2.402-2.434; movements against under Keyes and Spear, 3.97; Gen. Butler's plan for the surprise of, 3.287; Kilpatrick's raid against in 1864, 3.288; movement from Deep Bottom against, 3.351, 353; movement of Gens. Ord and Birney against, 3.353; evacuation of, 3.545; conflagration in, 3.546; surrender of to Gen. Weitzel, 3.549; rejoicings at the fall of, 3.550; visit of President Lincoln to after the surrender, 3.562; visit of the author to in 1865, 3.587.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 246 (search)
em distinctly load their pieces. I afterwards learned that the impression that the Bucktails were forming in front was strengthened by the following occurrence: One of the enemy called out, don't fire on us; one of our men imprudently asked, are you Bucktails? --the answer was, yes, we are the Bucktails; don't fire. I enclose surgeon's report of killed and wounded. Your obedient servant, C. Feger Jackson, Colonel Commanding Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Company General E. 0. C. Ord. Col. Kane's report. Headquarters Kane's Rifle Regiment, 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Company, camp Pierpont, December 21, 1861. General: Acknowledging the honor of your orders of December 21, I think I may limit my report to an explanation of my conduct at the commencement of the action, before your own welcome appearance upon the scene to push on the fight and inspirit and direct the brave by your personal example and exertions. We were not quite through with scouring the woods
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
nd Capt. A. L. Pitzer's Virginia cavalry, moved toward Dranesville for the purpose of protecting an expedition of army wagons after hay. At the same time a Federal expedition approached Dranesville, on a similar mission. Upon discovering the presence of the enemy, Stuart sent Pitzer to keep between them and the wagons, and order the latter back, while the main body was disposed for a vigorous attack upon the Federal rear and left flank. The force Stuart encountered at Dranesville was E. O.C. Ord's Pennsylvania brigade of five regiments (including the Bucktails), two squadrons of cavalry and Easton's battery. Stuart took position, screening his infantry in a wood, and when the enemy came up the action was opened by an artillery combat. Then Stuart ordered forward his right wing, and the Alabama regiment rushed with a shout in a storm of bullets. Colonel Forney fell wounded, and Lieut.-Col. J. B. Martin was killed. The other regiments also pushed forward, and a stubborn fight resu
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 30: (search)
, in all weather, the army in front of Petersburg. The extension of our lines across the Weldon railroad compelled the enemy to so extend his that it seemed he could have but few troops north of the James for the defense of Richmond. This railway extension was between two lines of formidable intrenchments, safely guarding it from attack. After reaching the conclusion just mentioned, Grant, on the night of September 28th, sent the Tenth corps, under Birney, and the Eighteenth corps, under Ord, to the north of the James, by the way of Deep Bottom (a way by which he had already so many times sent expeditions for the same purpose), to attack the few troops which he supposed Lee now had at Chaffin's farm, or Fort Harrison, for the defense of his right, resting on the James. The Federal attack was made on the morning of the 29th, as Grant reports, carrying the very strong fortifications and intrenchments below Chaffin's farm, known as Fort Harrison, capturing fifteen pieces of artille