Browsing named entities in Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3. You can also browse the collection for Pemberton or search for Pemberton in all documents.

Your search returned 8 results in 3 document sections:

Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 26: (search)
s of success, and when he found his great lieutenant so impetuous in his eagerness, he gave the word. Yet he himself would probably never have made the march, 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 destroyed. Had he been in Sherman's place now, he would have been quite as determined to make the Pemberton, as soon as Johnston 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, and supplies to meet Sherman when he emerged; and his confidence in Sherman's generalship determined him to permit the move. Such an army, he said to Stanton on the 13th, and with such a commander, is hard to corner or to capture. This confidence was reciprocal. If Sherman could not have reposed absolutely on Grant, if he had not felt c
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 35: (search)
hese acclamations. Amid them all he preserved the same quiet demeanor, the same simplicity of speech, the same unobtrusive modesty for which he had hitherto been known; and, while he accepted and appreciated the plaudits of the nation, he made haste to escape from the parade and the celebration to the society of his intimates or the retirement of his home. When the war was over, Grant had fought and beaten every important rebel soldier in turn: Buckner at Donelson, Beauregard at Shiloh, Pemberton and Johnston at Vicksburg, Bragg at Chattanooga, Lee in Virginia, and all of them altogether in the last year of the rebellion. From Belmont, the initial battle of his career, he had never been driven from the field, and had never receded a step in any of his campaigns, except at Holly Springs, and then the rebels were in retreat before him, and Grant, unable to follow fast enough to overtake them, withdrew, only to advance on another line. He went on steadily from the start, gaining in
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
Grant, May, 1863, i., 212; moves to defend Jackson, 218; strength of, at Jackson, 241; orders Pemberton to attack Grant at Clinton, 241, 242; battle of Jackson, 244-249; scatters his forces, 255; orders Pemberton to join him at Clinton, 256 marches to join Pemberton 280; orders Pemberton to evacuate Vicksburg 299; at Canton, raising an army to attack Grant's rear, 308; menacing attitude in GranPemberton 280; orders Pemberton to evacuate Vicksburg 299; at Canton, raising an army to attack Grant's rear, 308; menacing attitude in Grant's rear, 354; march against Grant, 360; falls back upon Jackson, 394; withdraws across Pearl river 396; in command of rebel army of Tennessee, 560; at Dalton, Ga., II., 5; campaign against Sherman, Pemberton to evacuate Vicksburg 299; at Canton, raising an army to attack Grant's rear, 308; menacing attitude in Grant's rear, 354; march against Grant, 360; falls back upon Jackson, 394; withdraws across Pearl river 396; in command of rebel army of Tennessee, 560; at Dalton, Ga., II., 5; campaign against Sherman, 533; falls back to Resaca, 534; evacuates Dalton, 534; retreats across the Oostenaula, 535; battle of New Hope church, 536; at Kenesaw mountain, 537; crosses the Chattahoochee, 538 superseded by Hoo Pennypacker, General G., at Fort Fisher, III 336. Pemberton, fort, attack on, i., 172. Pemberton, John C., in command in front of Grant, May, 1863, i., 212; Vicksburg campaign, 212-294; alarm