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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
advance from Louisville John H. Morgan General Sherman succeeds General Anderson his views as d but a few weeks, and was superseded by Gen. W. T. Sherman October 8, 1861. There was impatience iplaints of dilatoriness in Kentucky. But General Sherman, although placed in command in expectatio at 12:30 p. m. and had an interview with General Sherman, commanding the department of the Cumberlinst the rebels, but that he thought that General Sherman overestimated the number and power of the send them to Kentucky; that he begged of General Sherman to assume the offensive and to keep the r we sent to Kentucky, we were informed by General Sherman that they had passed into the hands of thentucky; the remaining 3,200 were sent to General Sherman at Louisville. Negley's brigade at Pittslock p. m., for Lexington, accompanied by General Sherman and Mr. Guthrie, remained there a few hou abstract from the consolidated report of General Sherman's force on November 10, 1861, gives an ag[3 more...]
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
, Polk, Bragg and Breckinridge. As is not uncommon in military experience, the reserve was early in action. Colonel Trabue, with the Kentucky brigade, was sent as reinforcement to General Hardee's right, on the left of General Polk's corps, while the remainder of General Breckinridge's division moved to the support of the extreme right. It was thus that the Kentucky troops found themselves in one of the most stubbornly contested parts of the field, being pitted against the command of General Sherman, where was found the most stubborn resistance. In the first assault Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson and Major Johnston, of the Third Kentucky, were wounded, and Captains Stone, Pearce and Emerson, Lieutenant Bagwell, commanding company, and Acting Lieutenant White, of that regiment, were killed; while Captain Bowman, Adjutant McGoodwin and Lieutenants Ross and Ridgeway were wounded. Later the brigade had a prolonged contest with a heavy force of Ohio and Iowa troops, and drove them with a
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 19: (search)
ny amusements in camp life, which experience had suggested. General Sherman had succeeded Rosecrans in the command of the Federal army. The Atlanta campaign was at an end. The city was evacuated, and General Sherman's victorious army added to the destructive forces of the engincapture of Nashville and to meet his Waterloo at Franklin, leaving Sherman to prosecute his march to the sea, the brigade was detached from thad so long served, and left as part of the forlorn hope to impede Sherman's progress. The effect of the new order mounting the brigade was here was practically no army with which to oppose the march of General Sherman except a weak corps of cavalry commanded by Gen. Joseph Wheelehe picket line near Atlanta, and from the middle of November, when Sherman took up his march, its movements were retrograde for a month until Sherman captured Savannah. Then, when he turned northward, they followed over the ground made famous in the revolution by the cavalry of S
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
e enemy, the capture of several stand of colors and many prisoners and arms. After the fall of Atlanta this famous Kentucky brigade was mounted and placed in Wheeler's cavalry corps. Lewis was with Wheeler in the campaign in Georgia, impeding Sherman's march through that State, and again in North Carolina he was engaged in the final marches and battles that ended at Bentonville. He formed a part of President Davis' escort, and was surrendered near Washington, Ga. Returning to his home, Gene and Seddon. He had done valuable service around Richmond, and presently continued these services under General Beauregard at Charleston, after which he engaged in superintending the Etowah iron works for the armies until they were destroyed on Sherman's advance. Governor Brown, of Georgia, having called out a militia force of about 10,000 men exempt from conscription, the command was given to General Smith, with General Toombs as adjutant-general, both of these officers having resigned their