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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. 512 6 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.58 (search)
adsworth, Doubleday, and Robinson. Yet all of these officers, except Reynolds, who was killed, suffered marks of his displeasure or were mentioned with the scantiest recognition of their heroic conduct. In Howard's case Congress interposed to do him justice, when he received its formal vote of thanks for his choice of our position on Cemetery Ridge, the Gibraltar of Gettysburg. Nevertheless, neither Howard nor Slocum was welcome in Meade's army, and they sought service in the West, under Sherman, where both gained much distinction. General Meade was surprised by the attack of Longstreet, on the Union left, on the afternoon of the 2d of July. No preparations whatever were made by the commanding general to meet Longstreet's assault. There was no order of battle. General Meade had not personally reconnoitered the position, though frequently solicited by General Hunt, General Meade's chief of artillery, General Warren, his chief of engineers, and myself, to do so. This appears in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.63 (search)
to move overland against Vicksburg he ordered Sherman, in the absence of McClernand, On the 21st; General Halleck replied, December 9th, that Sherman would be his choice, but that the President mhim promptly, and General Grant's telegram to Sherman, intended to cause him to wait for McClernand, did not reach Memphis until after Sherman with the advance of his troops had started. The capturviding it into two corps, commanded by Major-General Sherman and Brigadier-General George W. Morgansissippi, December 12th to January 4th, under Sherman's command, is given in General Grant's Personve a competent commander in charge, I ordered Sherman, on the 8th of December, back to Memphis to tditors. and on the 23d of December he ordered Sherman to delay his expedition. But Sherman was alrSherman was already on the way to Vicksburg, whence, after making an ineffectual attempt to capture the place [see including those with which Steele had joined Sherman in December, to be sent to Grant, leaving a g[3 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in Arkansas, December 7th, 1862--September 14th, 1863. (search)
iam J. Worthington; 16th Ohio, Capt. Eli W. Botsford; 42d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Don A. Pardee. Artillery: 7th Mich., Capt. Charles H. Lanphere; 1st Wis., Capt. Jacob T. Foster. Ky. Engineers, Capt. W. F. Patterson. Fifteenth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. William T. Sherman. First division, Brig.-Gen. Frederick Steele. Escort: Kane County (111.) Cav., Capt. William. C. Wilder. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Frank P. Blair, Jr.: 13th Ill., Lieut.-Col. A. B. Gorgas; 29th Mo., Col. John S. Cavender; 30th Mo. p. 782): My loss will not exceed 60 killed and 75 or 80 wounded. He also states (ibid, p. 780) that the whole force under his command numbered about 3000 effective men. General McClernand (ibid, p. 708) reports 5000 prisoners captured, and General Sherman (ibid, p. 757) says that 4791 prisoners of war were embarked on transports. Helena, July 4th, 1863. Union: District of eastern Arkansas.--Maj.-Gen. B. M. Prentiss. Thirteenth division (Thirteenth Army Corps), Brig.-Gen. Frederick S
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The assault on Chickasaw bluffs. (search)
f this order by Grant at Oxford, Mississippi, Sherman, who was then at Memphis, in telegraphic commenemy's defenses at that point, says: Had Sherman moved a little faster after landing, or made at gallant regiment lost fifty-seven men. Sherman's army was composed of four splendid divisione extreme haste to get away from Memphis, General Sherman had not provided trestles on which to lay range of the enemy's guns. For a time General Sherman made no reply. At length, pointing towar photograph. else. I told him to say to General Sherman that I would order the assault; that we mion — the impregnable position of the enemy. Sherman says, in his Memoirs, Vol. I., p. 292: Hts led by De Courcy and one by Thayer. General Sherman also says, in his Memoirs, that one bof December. In reply to my suggestion General Sherman said he did not like to ask for a truce, r the war. In his report of the battle General Sherman says: Official Records, Vol. XVII., P[22 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Chickasaw bluffs (or First Vicksburg), Miss.: December 27th, 1862--January 3d, 1863. (search)
stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records. K stands for killed; w for wounded; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured. The Union army. Right wing. Thirteenth army Corps. Major-General William T. Sherman. First division, Brig.-Gen. Andrew J. Smith (also in command of the Second Division December 29th). Escort: C, 4th Ind. Cav., Capt. Joseph P. Lesslie. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge: 16th Ind., Col. Thomas J. Lol. Lafayette McCrillis; Thielemann's (Ill.) Battalion. The total loss of the Union army was 208 killed, 1005 wounded, and 563 captured or missing == 1776. The effective strength of the expeditionary force is estimated at about 33,000 men. General Sherman says ( Official Records, Vol. XVII., Part I., p. 610) that the only real fighting was during the assault by Morgan's and Steele's divisions, and at the time of crossing the 6th Missouri, during the afternoon of December 29th, by the Second
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.67 (search)
all back and place itself behind Duck River, at Manchester, Tullahoma, and Shelbyville. Early in December Grant projected an enterprise against Vicksburg under Sherman's command. He directed that officer to embark at Memphis with about 30,000 men, descend the river with them to the neighborhood of the place, and with the cooperation of Admiral Porter's squadron proceed to reduce it. Sherman entered the Yazoo with his forces on the 26th of December, employed several days in reconnoitering, and on the 29th made a vigorous assault upon the defensive line near Chickasaw Bayou, manned by Brigadier-General S. D. Lee's brigade, which repelled the attack. Besand men. General Grant landed two corps, less than 30,000 men, on the 30th of April and 1st and 2d of May; and it was not until the 8th of May that the arrival of Sherman's corps increased his force to about 43,000 men. The Confederate reinforcements could have been sent as well early in April as late in May; and then, without bad
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg. (search)
to January 3d]. He was forced to retire or starve. Next came General Sherman's attempt to get in rear of Vicksburg by the Chickasaw Bayou rthem blizzards! Last of these flanking expeditions was one of General Sherman and Admiral Porter, via Steele's Bayou, to reach the Sunflowertening aspect to the movement. At the same time a force under General Sherman was again menacing Haynes's Bluff; Grierson's raid Sky parlthe dead and wounded Federal soldiers. On this occasion I met General Sherman for the first time. Naturally, the officers of both armies topet of this work a Federal orderly came up to me and said that General Sherman wished to speak to me. Following the orderly, I reached a grouof our line. One of these came forward, introduced himself as General Sherman, and said: I saw that you were an officer by your insignia of and your engineers have not been slow to discover it. To this General Sherman assented. Intentionally or not, his civility certainly preven
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.69 (search)
; in all not more than twenty thousand men to commence the campaign with. These were soon reinforced by the remaining brigade of Logan's division and by Crocker's division of the Seventeenth Corps. On the 7th of May I was further reenforced by Sherman with two divisions of his, the Fifteenth Corps. My total force was then about thirty-three thousand men. The enemy occupied Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, Haynes's Bluff, and Jackson, with a force of nearly sixty thousand men. My first problem was to cdivision. This was about noon. I ordered him to send one brigade (General John E. Smith's was selected) to support Osterhaus, and Rear-Admiral Porter's flotilla arriving below Vicksburg on the night of April 16, 1863-in the foreground General W. T. Sherman going in a Yawl to the flag-ship Benton. to move to the left and flank the enemy out of his position. This movement carried the brigade over a deep ravine to a third ridge, and when Smith's troops were seen well through the ravine Os
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st-July 4th, 1863. (search)
. Kinsman (k), Col. Samuel L. Glasgow; 11th Wis., Lieut.-Col. Charles A. Wood, Col. Charles L. Harris, Maj. Arthur Platt. Brigade loss: Port Gibson, k, 13; w, 88 = 101. Big Black Bridge, k, 27; w, 194 = 221. Vicksburg, assault May 22d, k, 54; w, 285; m, 29 = 368. Artillery: A, 2d Ill., Lieut. Frank B. Fenton, Capt. Peter Davidson; 1st Ind., Capt. Martin Klauss. Artillery loss: Port Gibson, k, 2. Big Black Bridge, k, 1. Vicksburg, assault May 22d, w, 1. Fifteenth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. William T. Sherman. First division, Maj.-Gen. Frederick Steele. First Brigade, Col. Francis H. Manter, Col. Bernard G. Farrar: 13th Ill., Col. Adam B. Gorgas; 27th Mo., Col. Thomas Curly; 29th Mo., Col. James Peckham; 30th Mo., Lieut.-Col. Otto Schadt; 31st Mo., Col. Thomas C. Fletcher, Maj. Frederick Jaensch, Lieut.-Col. Samuel P. Simpson; 32d Mo., Maj. Abraham J. Seay. Brigade loss: Vicksburg, assault May 19th, k, 1; w, 9 = 10; assault May 22d, k, 2; w, 5 = 7. Second Brigade, Col. Charles R. Woo
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Naval operations in the Vicksburg campaign. (search)
lads, Rattler, Lieutenant-Commander Watson Smith, and Glide, Lieutenant S. E. Woodworth. McClernand's force, comprising Sherman's and Morgan's corps, accompanied the fleet in transports. As a feint the vessels ascended the White River, crossing ovnd Pittsburgh, started on the 14th of March, Porter commanding in person, while a cooperating detachment of troops under Sherman marched through the swamps. After overcoming obstacles that would have been insurmountable to almost any other commandewas attacked by a small force, which was evidently only the advance-guard of a large army on its way up from Vicksburg. Sherman could not come to his assistance, being himself entangled in the swamp. At the same time Porter learned that detached p Vicksburg, where they did good execution under Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Ramsay, enfilading the rifle-pits in front of Sherman's position and rendering them untenable. The lower squadron also took part in this bombardment. In addition to the wor
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