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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Exchange of prisoners. (search)
trument, strange as that might appear. I have reason to believe that General Butler urged the adoption of the new cartel with good faith and zeal. It was transmitted by the War Department to General Grant, then in front of Petersburg, for his approval or rejection. It is well known to the country what his action was. General Butler, in his report to the Committee on the Conduct of the War, states that General Grant communicated his rejection to him, giving in substance as his reason that Sherman would be overwhelmed and his own position on the James endangered. Over one hundred thousand officers and men were, at or about that time, in confinement on both sides, the United States holding quite a large majority. When this effort to renew exchanges failed, so anxious were the Confederate authorities to have some plan of relief adopted, that they instructed me to abate our just demands and accede to the offer more than once made by the Federal Agent of Exchange, to exchange offic
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The last Confederate surrender. (search)
y day, meet me at Montgomery, Alabama. The military situation was as follows: Sherman occupied Atlanta, Hood lying some distance to the southwest; Farragut had forcmove his command across the Tennessee river, and use every effort to interrupt Sherman's communications south of Nashville, I proceeded to Mobile to inspect the fortosing scenes of the great drama succeeded each other with startling rapidity. Sherman marched, unopposed, to the sea. Hood was driven from Nashville across the Tennhe Confederacy, that it should be moved to the Carolinas, to interpose between Sherman's advance and his (Lee's) lines of supply, and, in the last necessity, of retr Intelligence of Lee's surrender reached us. Staff officers from Johnston and Sherman came across the country to inform Canby and myself of their convention. Wherility. General Canby dispatched that his government disavowed the Johnston-Sherman convention, and it would be his duty to resume hostilities. Almost at the sam
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Vicksburg during the siege. (search)
S. Gregory. On January 24th, 1862, a fleet bearing the united forces of Generals Grant and Sherman, of, the river, and descending the Mississippi from Memphis, appeared before the terraced city l tradition, by Daniel Webster. The disastrous experiment made in the previous December by General Sherman--of approaching the town on the Yazoo line — was not repeated. The troops were disembarkedrom Jackson by Pemberton, whose headquarters were at Edwards' Depot. On the 30th of April, General Sherman, commanding the Fifteenth Corps, after a slight feint on Haines' Bluff, on the Yazoo, returhed General Johnston before the note previously sent. Meanwhile, no grass was growing under Sherman's feet. On the 14th, Johnston, hearing that the Fifteenth Corps was twelve miles from Jackson, in one hour, said somebody else. One paper gave a detailed statement of the amputation of General Sherman's leg. Another said the citizens demand the surrender of Vicksburg, and Pemberton refuses I
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Flight and capture of Jefferson Davis. (search)
p the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman. The intelligence of this event caused the roint between the armies of Generals Grant and Sherman, and turn upon and defeat one of them, and tad him assistance in his negotiations with General Sherman. General Breckenridge and myself were thence: He says that after he was advised by General Sherman of the armistice which was entered into br that he was advised of its existence by General Sherman, and that it was intended to apply to my s that in a short time he was informed by General Sherman, by telegram, of the termination of hostie 18th of April, and on the 24th of April General Sherman notified General Johnston it would terminhe notice of its termination was given by General Sherman, and until the expiration of the forty-eiiting the result of the negotiations with General Sherman, and afterward the termination of the armses he was, after he had been notified by General Sherman that the armistice was binding on him. An[1 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First attack on Fort Fisher (search)
ions were confirmed by the gathering of the formidable naval force in Hampton Roads. Then they hastened to strengthen Fort Fisher and its dependencies, by erecting new military works and increasing its garrison. The skilful engineer and judicious commander, General W. H. C. Whiting, was in charge of the Confederate forces in that region, in the absence of General Braxton Bragg, who had gone to Georgia with a greater portion of the Confederate troops at and around Wilmington, to oppose General Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea. The fact that General Bragg had gone to Georgia, with most of the troops in Eastern North Carolina, was communicated to General Grant at the close of November, and he considered it important to strike the blow at Fort Fisher in the absence of that general. Grant had held a consultation with Admiral Porter in Hampton Roads, and it was agreed that the lieutenant general should provide 6,500 troops from the Army of the James, then under the command of Gen
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Dalton-Atlanta operations. (search)
son had attacked on the 9th, according to General Sherman's plan, Resaca could easily have been helnowledge. The retreat to the east, which General Sherman supposed that the Confederates would have and, therefore, was advantageous to him (General Sherman), and not to his adversary. On page 3rted that morning by General Wheeler. General Sherman's returns, on pages 24 and 136, shows ninne received. According to the reports of General Sherman's subordinates, they gave but two; or, onnot have been so little as four thousand. General Sherman does not allude to this action. In the et much so, to say the least. On page 48, General Sherman claims to have taken three thousand two hd 18th: By a not unusual error of memory, General Sherman probably attributes to Johnston language liminaries of peace, citing authorities. General Sherman assented, and in less than two hours the day before. With this paper before him, General Sherman wrote rapidly that which was adopted and [31 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Recollections of Grant. (search)
rson, the Bayard of the West, were there; and Sherman, the brilliancy of whose deeds were soon to e was: You don't know me, perhaps. My name is Sherman. My enemies in the North sometimes call me Crazy Sherman; but, in my sane moments, I have said this war may last seventeen years yet; and I knog enemy, and the grand advance of Thomas' and Sherman's armies. I was a prisoner! What I experon made even worse than before. In December, Sherman had made that brilliant march to the sea, andcuation by the rebels, and the grand entry of Sherman's army. Sherman, with his characteristic kinSherman, with his characteristic kindness, sought out myself and others who had been prisoners, and who had escaped, and cared for the met us in answer to a message sent by one of Sherman's scouts to Wilmington. The general seized tI was then questioned as to many a detail of Sherman's last movements. We have been in perfect igeartily. And this, then, was the disaster to Sherman's army, of which the rebels had been boasting[11 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Confederate negro enlistments. (search)
f in favor of the movement, there was no concerted serious attempt to concentrate public opinion in regard to it until the latter part of October, 1864. Two events at that time suddenly waked the Confederates to the gravity of their situation. Sherman began his march to the sea, and the elections in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania showed the rebels that McClellan was certain to be defeated for the Presidency, and that Lincoln would give them four years more of war unless they surrendered. The Confederates hoped much from McClellan's election; they were sanguine that he would be elected, and their disappointment was proportionately great. The march of Sherman in the same way showed them what Grant had several times insisted upon, that the Confederacy was like an empty egg-shell-all its powers of resistance had been drained to keep the frontier line strong. From this time forth, then, even the most sanguine began to lose all hope, and those who still believed in a successful re
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), How Jefferson Davis was overtaken. (search)
sanity, in attempting to hold this city after Sherman's army had flanked it, is difficult to imaginat once, and on the spot, address a letter to Sherman to prepare an interview. No, replied Generalrested by the armistice concluded between Generals Sherman and Johnston, though not till after the cr. Originally organized as a corps under General Sherman, the commanding general of the Military r he might be. It will be remembered that General Sherman, with the main body of his army, was at teived by telegraph, in a short time, from General Sherman, that he had actually concluded an armist, through General Thomas, I received from General Sherman a dispatch, in cipher, informing me of thceipt of the telegram just mentioned from General Sherman. General E. M. McCook, with a detachment to state, that in declaring the armistice of Sherman void, the Secretary of War had directed that l and persistency of Grant, the brilliancy of Sherman, and the solid qualities of Thomas. In the c[5 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The famous fight at Cedar creek. (search)
The famous fight at Cedar creek. General A. B. Nettleton. When in 1864, with Grant and Meade and Sheridan in the East, and Sherman and Thomas in the West, the National army closed with the Confederate, it was in a struggle which all regarded as the final one. In June, after Grant with all his available force had besieged Richmond and Petersburg, Lee, feeling secure behind fortifications, detached an army of twenty-five thousand picked troops under General Jubal A. Early, including the flhole victorious army considered the enemy in the Shenandoah Valley as thoroughly and permanently broken, dispirited and disposed of. The question asked about our camp-fires was: Where shall we be sent next Our success in the Valley, coupled with Sherman's victories in the West, had lighted up the whole horizon and given the nation the first real glimpse of its final triumph and the coming of peace. But such troops as Sheridan could spare was needed before Richmond, and our army began falling b
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