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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, Index. (search)
3,403 Pickett, George E., 407 Pine Mountain, Ga., 404 Pittsfield, Mass., 44 Pleasant Valley, Md., 346 Poems: The Army Bean, 137-38; The Army mule in time of peace, 297; The charge of the mule brigade, 295-97; The substitute, 216; The sweet little man, 26-28; We've drank from the same canteen, 223-24 Point of Rocks, Va., 392 Polk, Leonidas, 404 Pontoons, 381-91 Poolesville, Md., 244,404 Pope, John, 37, 71 Poplar Grove, Va., 393 Port Gibson, Miss., 370 Prentiss, Benjamin M., 301 Preston, N. D., 139 Rations, 108-42,206,226,291,320 Readville, Mass., 44-45 Reams Station, Va., 208,325-27 Revere Copper Company, 270 Reynolds, Thomas, 307 Richmond, 57, 139, 198, 230, 286, 313,320,358,364,391 Rip Raps, Va., 156, 162 Robertson's Tavern, Va., 134, 307 Rome, Ga., 400 Roxbury, Mass., 37-38,270 Saint Augustine, Fl., 248 Saint Louis, Mo., 279 Savannah, Ga., 384 Sawtelle, Charles G., 355 Sayler's Creek, Va, 293 Schouler, Willi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The battle of Shiloh. (search)
y misunderstood, than any other engagement between National and Confederate troops during the entire rebellion. Correct reports of the battle have been published, notably by Sherman, Badeau, and, in a speech before a meeting of veterans, by General Prentiss; but all of these appeared long subsequent to the close of the rebellion, and after public opinion had been most erroneously formed. Events had occurred before the battle, and others subsequent to it, which determined me to make no repord. My old command thus formed the right wing, while the troops directly under Buell constituted the left wing of the army. These relative positions were retained during the entire day, or until the enemy was driven from the field. Major-General B. M. Prentiss. From a photograph. In a very short time the battle became general all along the line. This day everything was favorable to the Federal side. We had now become the attacking party. The enemy was driven back all day, as we had be
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
mile south of the Hamburg and Purdy road, is Prentiss's division (the Sixth) of 2 brigades. It is e order to advance. Previously, however, General Prentiss, still apprehensive, had sent forward Cole first alarm to the divisions of Sherman and Prentiss. The latter promptly formed his division at e powerful pressure upon his left flank, left Prentiss and Wallace with his remaining regiments isolcompassment was complete, and one by one with Prentiss, between half-past 5 and 6 o'clock, they wereoad. Two of his regiments were captured with Prentiss, and the remainder had been driven back from Two of his regiments had been captured with Prentiss. From the reports of the 13th Missouri anity of the remaining regiments of Wallace and Prentiss! From the self-assuring interview in which, eached the very position occupied by Hurlbut, Prentiss, and W. H. L. Wallace at 4 o'clock the previe sacrificed his life in a heroic effort with Prentiss to maintain his front between the enemy and t[11 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Shiloh. (search)
eter J. Sullivan (w), Lieut.-Col. Job R. Parker; 70th Ohio, Col. Joseph R. Cockerill; 72d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Herman Canfield (k), Col. Ralph P. Buckland. Brigade loss: k, 36; w, 203; m, 74 = 313. Cavalry: 1st and 2d Battalions, 4th Ill., Col. T. Lyle Dickey. Cavalry loss: w, 6. Artillery, Maj. Ezra Taylor: B, 1st Ill., Capt. Samuel E. Barrett; E, 1st Ill., Capt. A. C. Waterhouse (w), Lieut. A. R. Abbott (w), Lieut. J. A. Fitch. Artillery loss: k, 2; w, 22 = 24. Sixth division, Brig.-Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss (c). Staff loss: k, 1; m, 2 = 3. First Brigade, Col. Everett Peabody (k): 12th Mich., Col. Francis Quinn; 21st Mo., Col. David Moore (w), Lieut.-Col. H. M. Woodyard; 25th Mo., Col. Robert T. Van Horn; 16th Wis., Col. Benjamin Allen (w). Brigade loss: k, 113; w, 372; mi, 236= 721. Second Brigade, Col. Madison Miller (c): 61st Ill., Col. Jacob Fry; 16th Iowa, Col. Alexander Chambers (w), Lieut.-Col. A. H. Sanders; 18th Mo., Lieut.-Col. Isaac V. Pratt (c). Brigade loss: k,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
officers and men of the Federal army, and General Prentiss had thrown forward Colonel Moore, with thJohn K. Jackson's brigade into the interval. Prentiss's left and Stuart's brigade retreated sullenlent began from the moment of the overthrow of Prentiss's camps. While the front attacks were made ade a final desperate and successful charge on Prentiss's line. The whole Federal front, which had bWallace had advanced about 8 o'clock, so that Prentiss's command found a refuge in the intervals of Breckinridge's left in the last assault when Prentiss was captured. This bloody fray lasted till neir advantage, and, closing in on the rear of Prentiss and Wallace, to finish the battle. But, on tton. （D. Appleton & Co.） his fatal wound and Prentiss was surrounded and captured with nearly three, received the surrender of many troops. General Prentiss gave up his sword to Colonel Russell. BrJackson, proceeding down the river-bank while Prentiss's surrender was going on, came upon this posi[5 more...]<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
held by the divisions of Generals Sherman and Prentiss; three of Sherman's brigades holding the Fedem 16 to 18 guns, and also a cavalry support. Prentiss occupied the intervening space. These two diion of five companies of the 21st Missouri of Prentiss's division dispatched well to the front by GeGeneral Prentiss, of his own motion, as early as 3 A. M. But for this incident, due solely to the inteh prudence been shown. Exactly at 6 A. M. Prentiss's whole division was under fire, and the battdge's whole reserve, soon became engaged, and Prentiss's entire line, though fighting stoutly, was pwent 8 companies of cavalry and 3 batteries. Prentiss's division was met, however, in a somewhat frupon the remains of Wallace's, Hurlbut's, and Prentiss's divisions was sufficient to assure their environment and capture.-G. T. B. This left Prentiss's left flank exposed; Wallace, whose unflinching r-bank, and the indomitable force which under Prentiss still contested the field was being environed[9 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
and with an officer in the uniform of a Federal general, to whom I was introduced. It was General Prentiss. Several hours previously a telegraphic dispatch addressed by Colonel Helm to General Johnthree hundred yards distant from the spot at which I had found General Beauregard. Leaving General Prentiss in my charge, General Beauregard soon after dark took up his quarters for the night with Gement in the morning to be ready for the final stroke. Colonel Thompson and myself, with General Prentiss sandwiched between us, shared a rough makeshift of a bed made up of tents and captured blankets. Prentiss and Thompson had been old acquaintances, and the former talked freely of the battle, as also of the war, with a good deal of intelligence and good temper. With a laugh, he said: You gil early dawn, when the firing first of musketry and then of field-artillery roused us, and General Prentiss exclaimed: Ah! Didn't I tell you so! There is Buell! And so it proved. VIII. up
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
e right, and Colonel Frank Gardner (afterward Major-General) to the left, to inform the brigade and division commanders on either side that a combined movement would be made on the front and flanks of that position. The movements were made, and Prentiss was captured. As Colonel William Preston Johnston says, that capture was a dear triumph to us — dear for the many soldiers we had lost in the first fruitless attacks, but still dearer on account of the valuable time it cost us. The time consumed in gathering Prentiss's command together, in taking their arms, in marching them to the rear, was inestimably valuable. Not only that; the news of the capture spread, and grew as it spread; many soldiers and officers believed we had captured the bulk of the Federal army, and hundreds left their positions and came to see the captured Yanks. But after a while the Confederates were gotten into ranks, and a perfect line of battle was formed, with our left wing resting on Owl Creek and our rig
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Shiloh battle-order and the withdrawal Sunday . (search)
t after General Beauregard became cognizant of the death of General Johnston, he dispatched me to the front with orders that led to the concentration of the widely scattered and disarrayed Confederate forces, which resulted in the capture of General Prentiss and so many of his division after 5 o'clock on the 6th. I also, later in the day, carried orders to Hardee, who was engaged on our extreme left, or Federal right, where I remained with that officer until almost dark, up to which time no hat of General Bragg, to the effect that but for the order given by Beauregard to withdraw from action he would have carried all before him. It so happened that I rejoined General Beauregard at a point near Shiloh Chapel (having escorted General Prentiss from the field to General Beauregard), when General Bragg rode up from the front, and I heard him say in an excited manner: General, we have carried everything before us to the Tennessee River. I have ridden from Owl to Lick Creek, and ther
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6: Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
65. Federal generals—No. 4 Illinois P. S. Post. originally Colonel of the 59th regiment, led a brigade at Stone's River and Nashville. Julius white, originally Colonel of the 37th regiment. James Grant Wilson, originally Colonel of the 4th U. S. Cavalry. John W. Turner, commander of a division at Drewry's Bluff and in the siege of Petersburg. August Mersy, originally Colonel of the 9th Infantry. Leonard F. Ross, originally Colonel of the 17th regiment. Benjamin M. Prentiss, noted for his heroic defense at Shiloh. John Eugene Smith, originally Colonel of the 45th regiment. Richard J. Oglesby, conspicuous at Corinth, where he was wounded. John C. black, originally Colonel of the 37th regiment. Michael K. Lawler, promoted for gallant service throughout the War. Hasbrouck Davis led his command out of the net at Harper's Ferry. Elias S. Dennis, originally Colonel of the 30th regiment; conspicuous at Mobile. Giles A. Smith, commander of a divi
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