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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 37: Battle of Jonesboro (search)
visions of considerable strength-Ed. McCook's, 3,500 effectives, at Turner's Ferry, where the Chattahoochee was bridged; Stoneman's, 2,500, and Garrard's, 4,000, at or near Decatur, Ga., on his left. The cavalry, except Garrard's, received its raid. McCook had done well at the first onset. He struck the railroad and did much damage, and finding no cooperation from Stoneman, drifted back with over 400 prisoners to Newnan. Here McCook was defeated by General Alexander P. Stewart's infantry and lost his captured Confederates, and reported from Turner's Ferry his own loss as 600. Stoneman, for some unaccountable reason, did not carry out Sherman's instructions at all. Coming from Decatur, he did not join McCook near Jonesboro. Insteadnd the Ocmulgee and went down on the eastern bank. A Confederate dispatch from Macon gave the result of his raid: Stoneman, after having his force routed yesterday, surrendered with 500 men; the rest of his men are scattered and flying toward
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 54: public addresses concerning the freedmen in 1866, advocating education (search)
more pronounced) for the Southern States. This riot beginning Tuesday, May 1st, and continuing over two days, was brought on by the armed city police attempting to check the disorder of some discharged colored soldiers who had been drinking. This beginning resulted in killing that day from fifteen to twenty negroes, in burning eight negro schoolhouses and the churches where schools were taught, and also thirty-five of their private houses. The resulting excitement was so great that General Stoneman, the military district commander, put the city under strict martial law. The Memphis riot naturally excited the members of the American Missionary Association, for it had teachers and agents in every part of the South, and it greatly influenced the anniversary exercises. This riot, coupled with the others a short time before at New Orleans, where many black men perished and much property was destroyed, everyone feared would be extended to other cities. Mr. Lewis Tappan, the senior v
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
67, 479, 494; II, 537. Stetson, Mrs., I, 253. Stevens, Consul, II, 507. Stevens, Isaac I., I, 268, 269. Stevenson, Carter L., I, 598, 610, 611; II, 111, 141. Stewart, Alexander P., I, 521, 604, 618; II, 12, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 57, 141. Stewart, Thomas J., II, 569. Stinson, Alonzo, I, 160. Stinson, Harry M., I, 327, 344, 383, 386, 446, 472, 537, 552; II, 35, 36, 216. Stoever, Professor, I, 443. Stone, Charles P., I, 174. Stone, George A., II, 120, 121. Stoneman, George, I, 219-221, 348, 350, 379, 507-509, 532, 542, 561, 579, 592, 595, 590, 605, 606; II, 27, 28, 328. Stooksbury, W. L., II, 583. Streight, A. D., II, 55. Strong, William E., II, 8, 23, 24, 125, 138, 143, 216. Stuart, J. E. B., I, 53, 147, 156, 173, 196, 198, 216, 259-261, 266, 267, 274, 279, 293, 305, 318, 331, 334, 337, 352, 358, 367, 380-384, 388, 389, 401, 434. Stuart, Owen, II, 82. Sturgis, Samuel D., I, 280, 302-305. Sturgis, William B., II, 387. Sully, Alfred