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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 33: before the battle. (search)
les distant. though there was reason to expect an attack. I suppose Colonel McDowell and myself had become tired of his constant prognostications, and paid no attention to him, especially when we were positively informed by men like Buckland, Kilby Smith, and Major Ricker, who went to the front to look for enemies, instead of going to the landing ... On Friday, the 4th, nor officer, nor soldier, looked for an attack, as I can prove. . . . For weeks and months we had heard all sorts of repos division (the First), with its right partially masked by Sherman's left. Some two miles in rear of the front line, and about three-quarters of a mile in advance of Pittsburg, were encamped to the left, Hurlbut's (the Fourth), and to the right, Smith's (the Second) division, the latter under General W. H. L. Wallace. The Federal front was an arc or very obtuse angle extending from where the Purdy road crossed Owl Creek to the ford near the mouth of Lick Creek, which was guarded by Stuart's b
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Red River campaign. (search)
th two divisions of the Sixteenth Corps under Mower, and Kilby Smith's division of the Seventeenth Corps, the whole under comonce up the river, arriving off Alexandria on the 15th. Kilby Smith followed on the transports with the remainder of the fle four marches of Shreveport, and it was agreed to go on. Kilby Smith's division, 1700 strong, remained with the transports, uarched on the 7th, and the same day Admiral Porter, with Kilby Smith and six light-draught; gun-boats carrying about seventeeat once ordered a retreat, and sent messengers to notify Kilby Smith and Porter. Emory marched at midnight Major-General Aws of the misfortune at Pleasant Hill. The next morning Kilby Smith received written orders to return to Grand Ecore. On th, by the guns of the Lexington and Osage and the fire of Kilby Smith's infantry and part of his artillery on the transports. On the 13th Porter and Kilby Smith re-turned to Grand Ecore, and by the 15th all the gun-boats were back. The river was fal
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The navy in the Red River. (search)
ch were much shorter than those of the transports. On April 3d, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant J. P. Couthouy, commanding the iron-clad Chillicothe, was shot by a guerrilla a few miles above Grand Ecore. He was a brave officer, and his loss was much lamented in the squadron. April 7th, Admiral Porter, on the Cricket, bearing his flag, left Grand Ecore for Shreveport, accompanied by the Osage, Neosho, Fort Hindman, Lexington, and Chillicothe, convoying twenty transports, containing General Kilby Smith's division of the Sixteenth Army Corps; a rendezvous being agreed upon with the army within three days at Springfield Landing, 110 miles by the river below Shreveport. The river was stationary, at a lower stage than usual at this season, and there was barely water to float the gun-boats. April 10th, the fleet, as agreed upon, arrived at Springfield Landing, about 30 miles, as the crow flies, from its destination, meeting with no obstruction beyond the usual amount of bushwhacking.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Red River campaign. (search)
to 40,000 men, when in fact we had less than 20,000, and but little more than 15,000 for actual battle with the enemy. The returns for March 31st, 1864, however, show a total present for duty of 31,303 officers and men, viz.: Headquarters, 67; Engineers, 721; 13th Corps, 4773; 19th Corps, 10,619; Corps d'afrique, 1535; Cavalry, 4653,--total Army of the Gulf, 22,368; detachment Army of the Tennessee, 8935,--grandtotal, 31,303. Deducting Grover's division left at Alexandria (3846), and Kilby Smith's division, which moved with the fleet (1721), it will be seen that the marching column consisted on the 31st of March of 25,736 officers and men of all arms. In his official report Banks says: In these operations (up to April 26th), in which my own command had marched by land nearly 400 miles, the total loss sustained was 3980 men, of whom 289 were killed, 1541 wounded, and 2150 missing. A large portion of the latter were captured. On the return march from Alexandria the loss
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 41: the Red River expedition, under Major-General N. P. Banks, assisted by the Navy under Rear-Admiral David D. Porter. (search)
e wary. It was then agreed upon between General Smith and the Admiral to land the artillery at ong him that he was falling back, and directing Smith to return at once to Grand Ecore and report. end operations in that quarter, leaving General Kilby Smith and some of his transports behind, undeer Selfridge's written report at the time, General Smith merely making the Admiral a verbal report Green, who had his head blown off. General Kilby Smith says, on offering Admiral Porter's letto see what was the matter. He soon met General Kilby Smith coming down, and knowing that Selfridgened to his original position, directing General Kilby Smith to form his transports in order at oncegun-boats Osage and Lexington, to which General Kilby Smith gives in his report the following faintre as soon as they could get afloat. General Kilby Smith now communicated with the Admiral, and thstanding the five hours fire to which General Kilby Smith says they were exposed. The vessels [19 more...]
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 42: Red River expedition.--continued. (search)
dispatches and orders. review of the operations of the Navy. General Banks' story of the expedition. letter of General Kilby Smith. extract from reports by Captain Burns, acting Assistant Adjutant-General. the Confederate view of the situatioendly to the Navy, there is nothing to implicate the latter in anything they were not in duty bound to do. When General Kilby Smith was asked by the committee what he understood to be the object of the expedition, he answered: It has been age of a victorious march to gather up what might naturally fall to the Army or Government in spoils, which is, for General Kilby Smith, a pretty fair way of putting it. That the expedition was also designed to hold some prominent point in Texas t who served under him, in their evidence before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. We insert one letter from General Kilby Smith which corroborates everything that has been said in regard to Banks leaving the Eastport at the mercy of the enemy
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., chapter 14 (search)
was madness; and soon all had sought cover from that deadly fire. Still, the assault was not abandoned; but, swerving to the left, Ewing's men, in the advance, crossed the ditch on the left face of the bastion, and, climbing up its exterior slope, planted their colors near the top, and burrowed in the earth for shelter from the flanking fire of the enemy; while Giles Smith's brigade, turning down a ravine, found cover, formed line, and threatened the parapet still farther to the left; Kilby Smith deploying his men on the off slope of a spur of hill, and keeping up, with Ewing's, a fire on any head that appeared above the parapet. Our artillery and infantry being still at work, our stormers easily held their ground; and, at length, Giles Smith's and Ransom's brigades attempted to carry the parapet by assault; but were repelled with loss. Meantime, Steele's division, which had advanced half a mile farther to the right, was fighting desperately to little profit; yet, on the recei
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., chapter 24 (search)
ortion of the 16th corps, under the command of Gen. Kilby Smith, to move up the river, if it was found practic bodies. Porter reports their loss here at 500. Kilby Smith's land force of course cooperated with the gunboa his retreat to Alexandria and below — the return of Smith's force to the other side of the Mississippi being ith-westward into Texas. Of course, the attack on Kilby Smith, covering our rear, failed also; the Rebel charge renewed. Mower's (16th) corps was in line on Kilby Smith's right, but had no chance to fight. Our loss here at the front was 200: Kilby Smith's, at the rear, was only 50. The enemy's must have been greater. Kilby SmKilby Smith testifies: We took many prisoners, all of whom reported a heavy loss on their part of killed and wounded. Here — as the return of Gen. Smith's force to its proper department had long since been demanded, and w Two weeks earlier, this, with permission to retain Smith's corps, would have been must welcome. But, before
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 3: (search)
tant prognostications, and paid no attention to him, especially when we were positively informed by men like Buckland, Kilby Smith, and Major Ricker, who went to the front to look for enemies, instead of going to the landing; and here I will state that Pittsburgh Landing was not chosen by General Grant, but by Major-General Smith. I received orders from General Smith, and took post accordingly; so did General Hurlbut; so did his own division. The lines of McClernand and Prentiss were selecteGeneral Smith, and took post accordingly; so did General Hurlbut; so did his own division. The lines of McClernand and Prentiss were selected by Colonel McPherson. I will not insult General Smith's memory by criticizing his selection of a field. It was not looked to so much for defense as for ground on which our army could be organized for offense. We did not occupy too much ground. General Smith's memory by criticizing his selection of a field. It was not looked to so much for defense as for ground on which our army could be organized for offense. We did not occupy too much ground. General Buell's forces had been expected rightfully for two weeks, and a place was left for his forces, although General Grant afterward had determined to send Buell to Hamburgh as a separate command. But even as we were on the 6th of April, you
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
ore difficult by fallen trees and entanglements of stakes and vines. A forlorn hope was formed of a hundred and fifty men, who carried poles and boards to cross the ditch. This party was followed closely by Ewing's brigade; Giles Smith and Kilby Smith's brigades bringing up the rear of Blair's division. All marched by the flank, following a road selected the night before, on which the men were partially sheltered, until it became necessary to take the crown of the ridge, and expose themselarry this point, the next brigade, Giles Smith's, was turned down a ravine, and, making a circuit to the left, found cover, formed line, and threatened the parapet at a point three hundred yards to the left of the bastion; while the brigade of Kilby Smith was deployed on the offslope of one of the spurs, where, with Ewing's brigade, it kept up a constant fire against any object that presented itself above the parapet. At about two o'clock, Blair reported that none of his brigades could pass th
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