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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 29: (search)
d and sixty prisoners. So secure, indeed, did Hood now feel, that, on the 4th, he ordered Forrest to move with two divisions of cavalry, nearly his entire force, The enemy still holding Murfreesboroa with some 6,000 troops, Major-General Forrest, with the larger portion of the cavalry and Bates's division of infantry, was sent there to see if it was practicable to take the place.—Hood to Beauregard, January 9, 1865. On the morning of the 4th I received orders to move with Buford's and Jackson's divisions to Murfreesboro—Forrest's Report, January 24, 1865. and a division of infantry, against Murfreesboroa, thirty miles away. Forrest started on the morning of the 5th, and Thomas's cavalry force was then far superior to that which remained with Hood. On the 4th, the enemy extended his lines and threw up new works; at the nearest point the rebel skirmishers were now only four hundred yards from Thomas's main works. Citizens and negroes were impressed to complete the entrenchmen
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
Iuka, battle of, i., 110, 112-114. Jackson, Miss., importance of, i., 20; battle of, 239-249; Sherman's movement against, 393; second capture of, 396. Jackson, Tenn., position of, i., 109; Grant's Headquarters at, 115. James river, geography of, II., 4, 248, 340; strategical importance of, 45 Butler's operations on, 241t Shiloh, i., 75; his death, 84. Johnston, General Joseph E., in chief command against Grant, May, 1863, i., 212; moves to defend Jackson, 218; strength of, at Jackson, 241; orders Pemberton to attack Grant at Clinton, 241, 242; battle of Jackson, 244-249; scatters his forces, 255; orders Pemberton to join him at Clinton, 256 ma hill, 31; sent to Newmarket, 32; at Tom's brook, 86, 87; at battle of Cedar creek, 90. Trevillian station, battle of, II., 393. Tuttle, General James M. at Jackson, i., 248; assault on Vicksburg, 311; siege of Vicksburg 345. Trade with enemy inimical to success in war, i., 409-411. Unanimity of North, as well as South,