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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
n of the gunboat fleet under command of Flag-Officer Porter, proceed to the reduction of that placeMemphis put yourself in communication with Admiral Porter, and arrange with him for his cooperation. is moving southward. The naval squadron (Admiral Porter) is operating with his gunboat fleet by waickly and effectually. The gunboats under Admiral Porter will do their full share, and I feel everyund of battle above. At midnight I left Admiral Porter on his gunboat; he had his fleet ready andctions, but consented to go with me to see Admiral Porter about it. We got up steam in the Forest Que request for Shirk to command the detachment, Porter said, Suppose I go along myself I answered, if There was a general understanding with Admiral Porter that he was to attack the fort with his thnd General Churchill, in conversation with Admiral Porter and General A. J. Smith, and about this tie of Fort Hindman almost ignored the action of Porter's fleet altogether. This was unfair, for I kn[12 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
noissance up Steele's Bayou, with the admiral (Porter), and five of his gunboats. With some labor ie in charge of the place. Here I overtook Admiral Porter, and accompanied him a couple of miles up h plantations on both sides at intervals. Admiral Porter thought he had passed the worst, and that of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois. Admiral Porter was then working up Deer Creek with his irperations; and that night I got a message from Porter, written on tissue-paper, brought me through tructions below. This picket reported that Admiral Porter had found Deer Creek badly obstructed, had Black Bayou, at Hill's plantation, whence Admiral Porter proceeded to his post at the mouth of the erman having received a communication from Admiral Porter at the mouth of Rolling Fork, asking for aght of April 16th, seven iron-clads led by Admiral Porter in person, in the Benton, with three trans off to her, boarded, had a few words with Admiral Porter, and as she was drifting rapidly toward th[6 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
ville, and on the 19th to Iuka, where, on the next day, I was most agreeably surprised to hear of the arrival at Eastport (only ten miles off) of two gunboats, under the command of Captain Phelps, which had been sent up the Tennessee River by Admiral Porter, to help us. Satisfied that, to reach Athens and to communicate with General Rosecrans, we should have to take the route north of the Tennessee River, on the 24th I ordered the Fourth Division to cross at Eastport with the aid of the gunbomith's, both divisions under the general command of Major-General Blair. General John E. Smith's division covered the working-party engaged in rebuilding the railroad. Foreseeing difficulty in crossing the Tennessee River, I had written to Admiral Porter, at Cairo, asking him to watch the Tennessee and send up some gunboats the moment the stage of water admitted; and had also requested General Allen, quartermaster at St. Louis, to dispatch to Eastport a steam ferry-boat. The admiral, ever
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
Mississippi River would become closed to navigation. Admiral Porter, who was at Cairo, gave me a small gunboat (the Juliett you were preparing for it, I sent a communication to Admiral Porter, and dispatched to General Grant at Chattanooga, askinorce of gunboats and transports directly up Red River. Admiral Porter will be able to have a splendid fleet by March 1st. Iproceeded to Red River, which it ascended, convoyed by Admiral Porter's fleet. General Mower's division was landed near theezvous at the mouth of Red River, and, in concert with Admiral Porter (if he agree), to strike Harrisonburg a hard blow. ly. Proceed to the mouth of Red River and confer with Admiral Porter. Consult with him, and in all the expedition rely on Black River; but as I passed Red River yesterday I saw Admiral Porter, and he told me he had already sent an expedition to H with certainty that you will harmonize perfectly with Admiral Porter and General Banks, with whom you are to act, and there
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
gh from distant points. General Grant, now having lawful control, will doubtless see that all minor objects are disregarded, and that all the armies act on a common plan. Hoping, when this reaches you, that you will be in possession of Shreveport, I am, with great respect, etc., W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. Rumors were reaching us thick and fast of defeat and disaster in that quarter; and I feared then, what afterward actually happened, that neither General Banks nor Admiral Porter could or would spare those two divisions. On the 23d of April, General Corse returned, bringing full answers to my letters, and I saw that we must go on without them. This was a serious loss to the Army of the Tennessee, which was also short by two other divisions that were on their veteran furlough, and were under orders to rendezvous at Cairo, before embarking for Clifton, on the Tennessee River. On the 10th of April, 1864, the headquarters of the three Armies of the Cumberland, T
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
a finale worthy of Sherman's great march through the swamps and deserts of the South, a march not excelled by any thing we read of in modern military history. D. D. Porter, Vice-Admiral. (Written by the admiral in 1866, at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and mailed to General Sherman at St. Louis, Mo.） A expressed himself extremely obliged to me for taking his vessel, as it had relieved him of a most painful dilemma. He explained that he had been detailed by Admiral Porter to escort the President's unarmed boat, the River Queen, in which capacity it became his special duty to look after Mrs. Lincoln. The day before my arrival a(and Kinston as its outpost), and will be prepared to hold Winton and Murfreesboroa as soon as the time arrives for that move. The navy has instructions from Admiral Porter to cooperate, and any commanding officer is authorized to call on the navy for assistance and cooperation, always in writing, setting forth the reasons, of wh