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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Longstreet at Knoxville. (search)
eft. At the close range Taylor made the rails fly at every shot, and the enemy began to desert them rapidly and run back over the hill. Then the 2d and 3d South Carolina regiments of Kershaw's brigade rose from their cover and dashed at them. Sanders and his officers rallied their men gallantly and brought most of them back to the line, and poured a heavy fire upon the Carolinians. The latter advanced rapidly without returning it until they reached two cedar-trees within thirty yards of the the collar-bone. He had been a captain in Her Majesty's 24th regiment, and came to the Confederacy to get a taste of active service, and on other occasions than this also fully sustained the reputation of British pluck. The Federal general, Sanders, was mortally wounded in this skirmish. He was from Mississippi, and I believe was a distant relative of President Davis. We had been intimate at West Point, and had met in San Francisco in 1861, as I was about resigning to cast my fortunes wi
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
n the south side of the Holston, owing to the gallant bearing of some. of the troops of General W. P. Sanders, of Kentucky, who was in immediate command at Knoxville. Knoxville is on the northern considering, was an unfinished work, afterward known as Fort Sanders, so named in honor of General Sanders, who lost his life near. College Hill was fortified with a. strong work carrying a piece oon the morning of the 18th, Longstreet opened some guns on the National works, sharply attacked Sanders's advanced right, composed of four regiments, The One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois, Forty-fiuarters. mile from Fort Sanders, planted batteries a little in advance of it. In the attack on Sanders's right, that leader was killed, General Sanders was killed in a field, a short distance froGeneral Sanders was killed in a field, a short distance from the residence of Mr. Armstrong, on the left of the road leading to the town. The bullet that killed him was from a sharp-shooter (supposed to have been young Gist, mentioned in the next note), sen
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xviii. The Chattanooga campaign.—Middle and East Tennessee. (search)
ainly on its west side; but the day of rushing naked infantry in masses on formidable earthworks covering heavy batteries was nearly over with either side. The defenses were engineered by Capt. Poe, and were signally effective. Directly on getting into position, a smart assault was delivered on our right, held by the 112th Illinois, 45th Ohio, 3d Michigan, and 12th Kentucky, and a bill carried; but it was not essential to the defenses. Our loss this day was about 100; among them was Gen. W. P. Sanders, of Kentucky, killed. Shelling and skirmishing barely served to break the monotony for ten weary days, when — having been reenforced by Sam Jones, and one or two other small commands from Virginia — Longstreet delivered an assault, Nov. 28-9. by a picked storming party of three brigades, on an unfinished but important work known as Fort Sanders, on our left. but was bloodily repelled by Gen. Ferrero, who held it — the loss of the assailants being some 800, including Col. McElroy, <
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 21 (search)
is over. Our long, anxious suspense, the siege, the campaign, and, I devoutly trust and believe, the culminating crisis of the rebellion. The dead point of danger is past; the position of East-Tennessee is assured to the Union. The Smoky Mountains will hereafter become our military front. The advance of our reenforcements, under Sherman, arrived yesterday morning. Granger is on the way. Longstreet's hours in East-Tennessee are numbered. His chief care since that glorious Sunday before Sanders has been, as I suggested, to escape from the trap in which he was involved by that blundering humbug Bragg. Our faith in Grant has not been in vain or misplaced. A cavalry brigade, in command of Colonel Long, Fourth Ohio volunteer cavalry, is marching across our pontoon while I write. From Major Smith and Dr. Owens, of the Fifth Ohio volunteer cavalry, I learn the particulars of the utter demoralization of Bragg. A reconnoissance of our front is now out. The result will probably be to
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), S (search)
, 354; VI., 125, 291, 310. San Lucas Spring, Texas, VII, 30. Sanborn., J. B., L, 147. Sanborn, W, X., 217. Sand battery on Gulf Coast Viii., 161. Sand-bag fortifications of Confederates at Yorktown, Va., I., 265. Sanders, Capt. C. S. A., VII., 123. Sanders, W. P., II., 316; X., 139. Sanders, W. W., I., 147. Sanderson, J. M., VI., 45, 55. Sandersville, Ga., III., 338. Sands, B. F. VI., 61. Sandusky Bay, Ohio: prison at, VII., 44Sanders, W. P., II., 316; X., 139. Sanders, W. W., I., 147. Sanderson, J. M., VI., 45, 55. Sandersville, Ga., III., 338. Sands, B. F. VI., 61. Sandusky Bay, Ohio: prison at, VII., 44; Fort Johnson in, VII., 69. Sanford, E. S., VIII., 344, 346 seq. Sanger, E. F., VII., 77, 149, 167. Sanger, W. D., I., 248. Sanitary Commission (see United States Sanitary Commission), VII., 17 seq. Sanitation: work of, in camp, VIII., 231. Santa Fe, N. Mex., I., 360. Santa Rosa, Fla., I., 352. Santa Rosa Island, Fla.: VI., 111; VIII., 156. Santee,, U. S. S.: I., 354; VI., 44, 45, 268, 310. Santiago de Cuba,, U. S. S.: III., 342; IV., 21