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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 8.89 (search)
it was through the whole Southern army. Captain W. M. Polk, from data furnished him by General Marc He divided his army into two wings; he gave to Polk the right wing, consisting of the corps of Hillto him to conduct him to Cleburne's right. General Polk, however, as wing commander, gave General Bnd my chief-of-staff gave me a message from General Polk that my corps had been put under his comman and the whole of my staff to that effect. General Polk had issued an order for an attack at daylig the first time nineteen years afterward in Captain Polk's letter to the Southern Historical Societywho was to be posted there to conduct me to General Polk, I sent Lieutenant Morrison, aide-de-camp, r hours. At 7:25 an order was shown me from General Polk, directed to my major-generals, to begin the, and that my men were getting their rations. Polk soon after came up, and assented to the delay. ants or the assailed. He said angrily, I found Polk after sunrise sitting down reading a newspaper
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., General Polk at Chickamauga. (search)
Polk, of his staff. The reason given by General Polk for the delay in attack on the morning of Sill's corps was not ready for the assault. General Polk sent General Hill an order at midnight to are reported to be). Upon learning this fact General Polk issued an order, dated 5:30 A. M., direct tare derived from the official statements of General Polk, Captain Wheless, and of John H. Fisher, onRecords office. As to the whereabouts of General Polk, on the morning of the 20th: General Polk lry 8th, 1873: The staff-officer sent to General Polk (Major Lee, A. I. G.) to urge his complianceneral Bragg's message to General Polk, at his (Polk's) camp in the woods, at Alexander's Bridge, 12 I will also add of my own knowledge that General Polk had ridden from one end of his line to the he failure to attack on the 13th, the object of Polk's movement was to intercept Crittenden before h impression that Crittenden's escape was due to Polk's tardiness in moving rather than to his own ta[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Reenforcing Thomas at Chickamauga. (search)
with the intermingled dead of friend and foe. The morning of Sunday, the 20th, opened with a cloudless sky, but a fog had come up from the warm water of the Chickamauga and hung over the battle-field until 9 o'clock. A silence of desertion was in the front. This quiet continued till nearly 10 o'clock; then, as the peaceful tones of the church-bells, rolling over the land from the east, reached the meridian of Chiekamauga, they were made dissonant by the murderous roar of the artillery of Bishop Polk, who was opening the battle on Thomas's front. Granger, who had been ordered at all hazards to hold fast where he was, listened and grew impatient. Shortly before 10 o'clock, calling my attention to a great column of dust moving from our front toward the point from which came the sound of battle, he said, They are concentrating over there. That is where we ought to be. The corps flag marked his headquarters in an open field near the Ringgold road. He walked up and down in front of hi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Notes on the Chickamauga campaign. (search)
to advance upon our divisions in succession, and involve the whole in one common ruin. Their right wing was commanded by Polk, and their left by Longstreet. Polk was ordered to begin the battle at day-break, but the first shots were not heard bePolk was ordered to begin the battle at day-break, but the first shots were not heard before 8:30; and, in an hour, the action at the left became furious. Polk's right division began to envelop our left and to appear upon our rear; but Thomas hurried some reserves against it and drove it away in disorder. Having been able, in the absePolk's right division began to envelop our left and to appear upon our rear; but Thomas hurried some reserves against it and drove it away in disorder. Having been able, in the absence of Negley's division, to find the way to our left and rear, the enemy would naturally reappear there with decisive numbers. Thomas, therefore, knowing nothing of Negley's conduct, and wishing to add only a division to his left, sent again and ag, again turn, and then overwhelm Reynolds, and attack the rear of Palmer, Johnson, and Baird, who were still confronted by Polk. Wood coolly changed front under fire, so as to face south instead of east, and caused one of his brigades to charge with
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 6: (search)
question: New York, June 25th, 1874. Dr. W. M. Polk, 288 Fifth Avenue, New York. Dear Sir:-opolis, Alabama, to that town to join Lieutenant General Polk, commanding the Army of Mississippi, nd a quarter northeast on a prolongation of General Polk's line, and from half a mile to threequartee, and from forty to sixty feet higher than General Polk's. The batteries of the enemy were posted oConfederate lines would be advanced. Lieutenant General Polk expressed himself entirely willing an decision to cross the river, stating that Generals Polk and Hood had informed him that they could wo hours if attacked in the morning. Lieutenant General Polk again explained .the facts as existed present position. Upon these points Lieutenant Generals Polk and Hood entirely agreed, urging the e south side of the Etowah. Lieutenant General Polk called to his A. A. General to issue orders to mand was withdrawn. I was instructed by General Polk to place this detail along that part of the[19 more...]
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 7: (search)
to our right than it had done the day before. Polk's Corps was transferred to the right of Hood's.ght, where it was formed on the prolongation of Polk's line. Kelly's Cavalry, composed of Allen's aen he commits the unpardonable error of placing Polk's Corps during the whole of this affair near Ne I was not only on the right, where he places Polk, but sent to him for a good division, with the sition General Johnston erroneously assigns General Polk during the 26th, 27th and 28th, I received the two remaining corps commanders, Hardee and Polk, who shortly joined us. They were instructed toenemy's left flank remaining as represented. Polk was then, for the first time, ordered to my posemy. I presume he had in remembrance Lieutenant General Polk's and my urgent recommendation that h in mind that tile animus displayed towards General Polk and myself, never became apparent till afteountain, that we lost the brave and magnanimous Polk, and with him much of the history of this remar[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Facts connected with the concentration of the army of the Mississippi before Shiloh, April, 1862. (search)
at delay was specially due to the action of General Polk's corps. The writer says: General Polk's cGeneral Polk's corps, which was ordered to move with the others at midday, though under arms and ready, was kept at one of your staff [General Beauregard's] to General Polk to inquire why he had not put his corps in use the nature of the country was such, and General Polk's troops were so placed, as to make it impoe advances of the remainder of the army. General Polk's corps consisted of two divisions, of two use roads running from Corinth to the right of Polk. From this it will be seen that on August 3dt the very order in question, the copy sent General Polk on April 3d, 1862, is before me, (it is thete road to the left, called the Ridge road; and Polk, with his one division, was to follow him, in fand Hardee could not then have been waiting for Polk to move. From this it will be seen that no matnexplicable delay in the movements, not only of Polk's corps, but of Bragg's also, so that on the ni[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Cleburne and his division at Missionary ridge and Ringgold gap. (search)
cupied by Smith's (Texas), Liddell's (Arkansas), and Polk's (Tennessee) brigades. The right flank was protectserve in the centre of the gap. Only a portion of Polk's brigade was with the division, and this, consistinridge. Information of this movement was sent to General Polk, in rear of the gap, with orders to meet and check it. General Polk had learned of this movement, and with soldierly instinct and discretion had anticipated t right, and General Lowry was moved up to strengthen Polk and prolong the right of the line on the ridge. Iw brought up the other regiments of his brigade, and Polk brought up the other two regiments of his command. avy surface, and rushed up it in heavy columns. General Polk, with the assistance of General Lowry, as quicklsiles and captured. Apprehending another attack General Polk rapidly threw up some slight defences in his fro, as far as I know, did his whole duty. To Brigadier-Generals Polk and Lowry, and Colonels Govan and Granbury
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The concentration before Shiloh-reply to Captain Polk. (search)
The concentration before Shiloh-reply to Captain Polk. By General Daniel Ruggles. [We need scaruggles's division did not come up promptly, and Polk's corps was held motionless by the delay. ThRuggles's division did not come up promptly and Polk's corps was held motionless by its delay. We fpresent at that time. It was charged on General Polk, but the plucky old bishop unhorsed his acc resuming the thread of events we note that General Polk states that General Bragg was present durin division, as well as that of General Clark, of Polk's First corps, would be a violent presumption ats performance. Colonel Johnston states that Polk's answer was sufficient — that Clark's division find the additional statement that his orders (Polk's) were to wait for the passage of Bragg's corpn rear of Major-General Hardee's corps. Major-General Polk's being just in our rear. Here referenc Johnston, when he directed the road cleared of Polk's reserves, and ordered my advance, to which my[24 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of General M. P. Lowry of battle of Taylor's Ridge. (search)
bined to strike terror to the foe, and he fled in confusion. The Thirty-third Alabama Regiment was soon brought up, and formed on the left of the Thirty-second and Forty-fifth Mississippi, and the Forty-fifth Alabama on their left, while Brigadier-General Polk came up with two regiments, and formed them on the right. The enemy, in the meantime, was pressing up the hill with great determination, but the heavy fire, from our advantageous position, rendered their ascent impossible; but as they continued to move to the right, it was necessary for our line also to move to the right, and to leave a bare line of skirmishers to hold the crest of the hill. When Brigadier-General Polk was severely pressed, he sent to me, in great haste, for assistance, when I moved the Forty-fifth Alabama regiment in double quick to his support; and the general said, as his ammunition was nearly exhausted, they were just in time to save the position. When my ammunition was nearly exhausted, and I had sent fo
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