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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 2 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
eep Bottom, will move across that bridge and make an attack upon the enemy's line in the manner hereinafter to be detailed. At the same time the Tenth Corps will cross the pontoon bridge at Deep Bottom and make in like manner, and at the same time, demonstration in connection with the third (3d) division of the Eighteenth Corps from that point. the position and numbers of the enemy. As near as can be ascertained, the enemy hold a line of earthworks starting at a point at or near Cox's Ferry, at a station called by them Signal Hill, running thence easterly in the rear of Cox's overseer's house, from thence to a point in the rear of J. Aikens' house, to the hill in rear of the point marked Newmarket on the map, across the Varina road, partially along the Kingsland road, which line, it is believed, terminates substantially as a continuous intrenched line at that point. Most of the line has abatis but no ditch. The troops holding that line, from all the information gathered,
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866. (search)
s for the past two months. Yours truly, W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Goldsboroa, North Carolina, March 24, 1865. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia. General: I have kept Lieutenant Dunn over to-day that I might report further. All the army is now in, save the cavalry (which I have posted at Mount Olive Station, south of the Neuse) and General Terry's command (which to-morrow will move from Cox's Ferry to Faison's Depot, also on the Wilmington road). I send you a copy of my orders of this morning, the operation of which will, I think, soon complete our roads. The telegraph is now done to Morehead City, and by it I learn that stores have been sent to Kinston in boats, and that our wagons are loading with rations and clothing. By using the Neuse as high up as Kinston, hauling from there twenty-six miles, and by equipping the two roads to Morehead City and Wilmington, I feel certain we c
The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Arrival of the flag of-truce boats. --The steamers Wm. Allison and Schultz brought up from Cox's Ferry 447 paroled prisoners yesterday evening, who have been in confinement at Point Lookout. About 100 of the privates were sick. The officers were generally in good health, and 47 in number. The following is a list of their names: Wiley Driver, lieut co A, 17th Tenn; Jas. M. Nollyer, Lieut co C, 44th Tenn; J. C. Timberlake, Major 53d Va; G. A. Graves, Capt. co G., 22d N. C.; Wm. Propst, Lieut co F., 57th N. C.; J. P. Mills, lieut co G, 21st Miss; H. J. Walker, lieut co B, 13th N. C.; Wm. A. Wright, aide-de-camp to Gen. Wright; P. B. Bedford, Capt. co B., 50th Ga.; P. H. B. Shuler, lieut co A., 2d S. C.; J. J. Miller, Capt.; E. F. Broughton, Capt. co C., 7th Texas; Z. A. Blanton, Capt. co F., 18th Va.; S. P. Donahoe, Capt. Signal Corps; Chas F. Force, Capt co E., 57th Ala. cav; W. A. Ferguson, it co D., 8th cav; J. R. P. Fox, Capt. co G., 1st S. C.; G. L. Harris, It 56th Ga.