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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
army. Since my last letter, Captain Williams, of the corps, has arrived, to act as Chief Topographical Engineer, and a young lieutenant by the name of Pope Lieutenant John Pope, of the Topographical Engineers, afterward major-general U. S. Vols., Civil War. is also ordered here. This will make, with Mr. Wood and myself, four officers, of whom I shall be the second in rank. Four others have been sent, I understand, with Colonel Kearney, from St. Louis to Santa Fe, namely, Emory, Warner, Peck and Abert. This makes eight officers of the corps in the field. I suppose you are aware a large cavalry force is being collected at San Antonio de Bexar, which is to be under the command of General Wool, and they are to march from San Antonio to Chihuahua, a large town of fourteen thousand inhabitants, on the highroad from the City of Mexico to Santa Fe, so that the occupation of Monterey, Chihuahua and Santa Fe will give us actual possession of the whole of New Mexico. I have been gi
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
the ironclads to the Mississippi. This order, if ever given, was in my judgment very injudicious, for these vessels will be of no use on that river in reducing the works of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The only service they can be put to there would be to patrol the river between the two places, and prevent supplies to the rebels from the Red River Country. Yesterday the Richmond papers announced the fall of Suffolk, and we were all pretty blue; but this morning we have a telegram from General Peck reporting that he has stormed and carried a battery of six guns that the enemy had built, and had captured a portion of an Alabama regiment that was defending it. This is great news, not so much for the actual amount of the success, as for the facts—first, that it is the reverse of what the rebels had reported, and, second, because it is the first time in this war that our troops have carried a battery in position at the point of the bayonet, an example, I trust, will be speedily and ofte
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
89, 117, 118, 120, 124, 125. Parke, John G., I, 303, 329, 360; II, 281. Parker, Cortlandt, II, 146, 152, 160, 165, 167, 176, 208, 220, 233, 267, 272. Parker, Isaac B., II, 38. Parker, Wm., II, 146. Patrick, Marsena R., I, 12, 266; II, 214, 238. Patterson, Robert, I, 126, 145, 152, 153, 169, 170-178, 180, 184, 191, 315; II, 288. Paul, Gabriel R., II, 49, 53. Paulding, Gouverneur, II, 152. Paulet, Lord, George, I, 263. Pease, Chas. E., II, 382-385, 387-391. Peck, Wm. G., I, 111. Peel, Sir, Robert, I, 123. Peeples, Samuel, II, 88. Pell, Duncan, 322. Pell, Duncan A., I, 322, 323. Pemberton, Israel, I, 19, 39, 95, 141. Pemberton, John, I, 140. Pender, Wm. D., I, 294, 295; II, 26, 48, 52, 53, 69, 108, 129, 383. Pendleton, Mr., II, 150. Pennsylvania Reserves, I, 255, 304, 307-310, 313, 315, 337, 361, 388; II, 313-315. Penrose, Dr., I, 224. Penrose, Wm. M., I, 224. Perkins, Lieut., II, 394. Perrin, A., II, 52, 53. Perry,