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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 26: transferred to the West; battle of Wauhatchie (search)
dy to take your command. Please acknowledge. By command of Major General Meade S. Williams, Asst. Adj't Gen. General Slocum, commanding the Twelfth Corps, had received substantially the same orders. These two corps were placed upon trains os I went to Washington and reported to Hooker. I found him at Willard's Hotel. He at once informed me that my corps and Slocum's were to move by rail to the west and join Rosecrans as soon as it could be done. I remember, years afterwards, just afs furniture had all been kept back at Nashville in consequence of the brilliant conduct of the inhospitable raiders. General Slocum, too, was still at Nashville, and his command stopped en route and repaired the breakages along the railway. By thntly covered my left. General J. W. Geary was in charge of the division of the Twelfth Corps, which was to follow mine. Slocum had sought and obtained a command on the Mississippi; therefore, before this he had left Hooker's command. The remainder
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 28: Atlanta campaign; battle of Dalton; Resaca begun (search)
qualities of mind and of character which fitted him in the highest degree for the work then in contemplation. Certain subordinate changes affected me personally. On April 5, 1864, with two or three officers, I rode from my camp in Lookout Valley to Chattanooga, some eight or ten miles, and visited General Thomas. He explained that the order was already prepared for consolidating the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps into one body to form the new Twentieth, of which Hooker was to have command. Slocum was in Vicksburg, Miss., to control operations in that quarter, and I was to go to the Fourth Corps to enable Gordon Granger to take advantage of a leave of absence. I was to gain under these new orders a fine corps, 20,000 strong, composed mainly of Western men. It had three divisions. Two commanders, Stanley and T. J. Wood, then present for duty, were men of large experience. A little later General John Newton, who will be recalled for his work at Gettysburg, and in other engagements,
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 36: Battle of Ezra Church (search)
ssigned to this command and were, of course, disappointed, but he at once resumed the command of his Fifteenth Corps. Hooker ostensibly was offended that he, who was my senior in rank, had not received the appointment, and asked to be relieved. Slocum was brought from Vicksburg to replace him at the head of the Twentieth Corps. Stanley succeeded me in the Fourth Corps. Sherman in his Memoirs has put forth his reasons for the changes of organization so simply and so plainly that they shoulr had some reason to believe that we intended to monopolize the higher honors of the war for the regular officers. I remember well my thoughts and feelings at the time, and feel sure that I was not intentionally partial to any class. Of course, Slocum and I had both resigned from the regular army. By the end of five days Sherman had matured his plan to gain ground by extending his right till he had severed Hood's southern railroad connections, as he had just cut the eastern, or Augusta, lin
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 37: Battle of Lovejoy's Station and capture of Atlanta (search)
ich Hardee had retired during the night of September 1st. Slocum, commanding the Twentieth Corps at the Chattahoochee bridgo which he had listened. Sherman, at first, feared that Slocum had approached the city, and perhaps was having an engagem just reached that place when Sherman received a note from Slocum, headed Atlanta. Hood had gone, having destroyed his depoviest explosions. He had hardly evacuated the city before Slocum marched in. The first dispatch to Washington was from SSlocum, September 2d, as follows: General Sherman has taken Atlanta. The Twentieth Corps occupies the city. The main arma and left in the nighttime, when the Twentieth Corps, General Slocum, took possession of the place. So Atlanta is ours andnew Sixteenth Corps --to remain subject to Thomas's call. Slocum took two corps, Davis's (the Fourteenth) and Williams's (try a body of 5,000 horse for the march. I had 33,000 men, Slocum 30,000, and Kilpatrick 5,000-total, 68,--000. This was su
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 39: General Hood's northward march; Sherman in pursuit; battle of Allatoona (search)
with Howard, and be prepared to send into Atlanta all your traps and to move with ten days rations toward Marietta or to Fairburn, as the case may call for; and if Hood has crossed the Chattahoochee with two corps to take our road, and has left one corps on this side near Campbelton, we should interpose. W. T. Sherman, Major General Commanding. Official: A. C. McClurg, A. A. G. As soon as Sherman found out what Hood was undertaking, he set his whole force in motion northward, except Slocum, with his Twentieth Corps, who was left back to keep Atlanta for our return. Sherman's first surmise of only two Confederate corps was incorrect, for Stewart's, Cheatham's, and Stephen D. Lee's corps were all included in the big northward raid. After Stewart had captured some garrisons he drew back to Hood, near Lost Mountain. Now we commenced the pursuit in earnest from Atlanta the morning of October 3d. By the 5th we had reached the vicinity of the battlefield, Kenesaw Mountain. A
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 40: return to Atlanta; the March to the sea; Battle of Griswoldville, ga. (search)
my did not witness the destruction of Atlanta. While Sherman, accompanied by Slocum, commanding the Army of Georgia, were taking their last glimpse of this great renty feet of the corps commander himself, yet the captors escaped in safety. Slocum, with the left wing, had meanwhile reached Milledgeville, where his men had insr, and celebrated the occasion by rich festivals of their own contrivance. General Slocum communicated with me and with Kilpatrick by scouting parties moving across from Slocum's column to mine, the distance being in the neighborhood of ten or twelve miles. Thus far The March to the sea, more serious on my route by the loss of abto pass from my column over toward the left to work forward in conjunction with Slocum. This dispatch was addressed to Sherman. I told him that the Oconee was befor in keeping with his subsequent remarkable career. It was before Sherman and Slocum had reached Milledgeville. In a letter I remarked: To-morrow I will have every
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 41: the march to the sea; capture of Fort McAllister and Savannah (search)
of civilized warfare, and I should deeply regret the adoption of any course by you that may force me to deviate from them in the future. As soon as Hardee's reply reached Sherman he let us go on with our preparations for assaulting the works. Slocum pushed a command across to an island in the Savannah River which more closely threatened the last of Hardee's communications. Then next, on the 19th, he landed a brigade on the South Carolina shore. Hardee's dispatch from Hardeeville, Decembed withdraw it in season. A long detention would have been unfavorable to us in the opening of our next campaign. There was a little contention, a sort of friendly rivalry, as to what troops had gone first into Savannah. Gerry's division of Slocum's army at last carried off the palm. General Sherman took up his headquarters with an English gentleman, Mr. Charles Green, who had very generously tendered his home for this purpose. Sherman had hardly reached the city and become settled in
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 42: March through the Carolinas; Savannah, Ga., to Columbia, S. C. (search)
s. Corse, with the other division, followed Slocum up the Savannah, and came to us after Slocum hSlocum had cleared the way. In a diary that fell into my hands the small loss that we suffered was contras commanders and I was highly complimented. Slocum's delay to get to Robertsville was very favorarm clothing and abundant night cover. While Slocum with his wing was struggling on over similar r her the desired guard. The left wing under Slocum had its own operations. I never received, as on the plains. You know that our old friend Slocum at times could be very much out of sorts. Theappy still. The sight of that soldier, when Slocum's attention was called to him and his surround be happy and gay, surely I ought to be. Then Slocum's good humor returned. From Robertsville, S. C., Slocum's march aimed a little to the north of Columbia, and for the time Kilpatrick's cavalry was beyond his wing northward. Generally Slocum, who sooner struck the upland, had easier marchin[1 more...]
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 43: march through the Carolinas; the taking of Columbia (search)
on it, and the enemy's artillery from the other bank checked our advance. It did not take over half an hour for their furious flames to consume it. We now had Slocum near by. I exchanged greetings with him through a staff officer. As a matter of fact, Slocum had not been far back from Columbia for three or four days, and hadSlocum had not been far back from Columbia for three or four days, and had delayed his approach for our coming. Of course, the next thing we did was to work across the Broad. We sent over one brigade-Colonel Stone's — in boats during the night, drove away the Confederate defenders from the other bank, made a good bridgehead, and commenced laying the bridge itself very early in the morning of February e was at Harrison's Crossroads. From that point I turned to the right to cross the upper waters of the Catawba. Sherman wrote from Winsboro: After crossing, Slocum and the cavalry will have the road from Lancaster to Chesterfield, and you (Howard) from your ferry go straight for Cheraw, dipping a little south to get on the C
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 44: skirmishing at Cheraw and Fayetteville and the Battle of Averysboro (search)
good against my column alone, but at this time Slocum was so near me that Johnston would have had tothe other. As we shall shortly see, he struck Slocum first, because he was handiest, after Slocum h me, and the Seventeenth a little in advance. Slocum's command, the left wing, was not many miles t As our columns came in from the south roads, Slocum's leading corps, the Fourteenth, entered the tRemembering Sherman's wishes, as soon as I met Slocum I retired outside the city limits, and there wort, covered, of course, by the rear guard. Slocum, deviating from our direct march toward Goldsb Kilpatrick's cavalry was clearing the way on Slocum's left and front. Slocum found, March 6th, an front of the enemy's line. Sherman joined Slocum and directed him to send a brigade to the leftrst. Both operations constituted the battle. Slocum skirmished up to the new position, and went ine night Hardee retreated, leaving 108 dead for Slocum to bury and 68 wounded. We lost 12 officers an[5 more...]
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