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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Bragg's invasion of Kentucky. (search)
76,030. Maximum Confederate forces. General E. Kirby Smith's column taken to Kentucky10,000 Humphrey Marshall, from West Virginia2,160 Stevenson, joining after Perryville7,500 John H. Morgan1,300 Bragg's largest force before crossing Tennessee River — officers and men, for duty27,816   Bragg, Smith, and Marshall48,776 But see other estimates, p. 31.--editors. The above was the reported strength of the Confederate troops when the campaign began, but to make sure and to compensaBuell and maintained himself in the rich and productive plains of Kentucky. On the other hand the Federal Government was, if possible, more severe in denunciation of General Buell, and held that, far from allowing General Bragg to cross the Tennessee River and the mountains into middle Tennessee, Buell should have anticipated these movements, occupied Chattanooga, and, as some even contended, marched his army toward Atlanta. The Government was convinced that he could easily have met and halte
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Morgan's cavalry during the Bragg invasion. (search)
. W. Johnson to drive him out of Tennessee. Of this force 164 were killed and wounded, and a much larger number, including Johnson and his staff, were made prisoners. Morgan had been notified of the intended invasion of Kentucky, and part of his duty was the destruction of the railroad track and bridges between Nashville and Bowling Green, for the purpose of retarding Buell's movements when the latter should begin his retreat to Louisville. On the 28th of August Bragg crossed the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, and pushed northward. General Kirby Smith had previously entered Kentucky, and had ordered Morgan to report to him at Lexington, in the blue-grass region. Morgan marched from Hartsville, Tenn., on the 29th of August, and on the 4th of September reached Lexington, already occupied by General Smith. His command consisted of the 2d Kentucky Cavalry C. S. A., about 700 strong, and Gano's squadron, of 2 companies of Texan cavalry, about 150 strong. It was very largely rec
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville. (search)
the various divisions of this army, i. e.. the five divisions south of the Tennessee River. Some of them have gone off without any authority; others with the permisined under General Halleck's immediate command to occupy the line from the Tennessee River to Memphis; the Army of the Ohio was restored to its original departmental a mountainous and rugged belt of country in which rise the sources of the Tennessee River. The surplus of food products during the war was not large, but was not wdecided advantages. It would avoid the heavy work on the railroads to the Tennessee River, the bridging of the river, and the extremely difficult ground that must ation was in fact at Battle Creek, twenty miles below Chattanooga, with the Tennessee River and a mountain range intervening. To me he telegraphed, June 21st: I thinopposing army was in retreat, it was awaiting his approach from behind the Tennessee River and the mountains. When he imagined it trying to get ahead of him, it was
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.63 (search)
e of the stores destroyed was estimated by Grant at $400,000, and by Van Dorn at $1,500,000. Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken by Van Dorn.--editors. on the 20th of December, and Forrest, by a brilliant raid into east Tennessee, so broke Grant's communications and destroyed his supplies that he was forced to abandon his Map: battle of Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863. movement; On the 11th of December General N. B. Forrest moved with his brigade from Columbia, Tennessee, toward the Tennessee river, at Clifton, crossing on the 15th, under instructions from Bragg, who was at Murfreesboroa, to operate against Grant's communications in west Tennessee. On the 16th Forrest captured Lexington, securing a number of prisoners, including Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and Major L. H. Kerr, 11th Illinois Cavalry. Two detachments were now sent to cut the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at points north and south of Jackson, and on the 19th Forrest, with the remainder of his men, about four hundred, ad
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee. (search)
Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee. by Gilbert C. Kniffin, Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V. The brief campaign which resulted in forcing the Confederate army to evacuate their works at Tullahoma and Shelbyville, Tenn., and retire behind the Tennessee River, began on the 23d of June, was prosecuted in the midst of drenching rains, and terminated July 4th, 1863. Both armies had occupied the time since the battle of Stone's River in recruiting their strength and in fortifying their respective powhen too late, that the advance against Hardee was only a feint to cover the real movement upon his left and rear, and alive to the paramount importance of protecting Chattanooga, General Bragg again faced his army southward, and crossed the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, the mouth of Battle Creek, and at Kelley's Ferry. The advance of the column against Elk River Bridge arrived in time to witness the crossing of the rear of Bragg's army, and on the afternoon of the 3d of July Sheridan's divis
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Notes on the Chickamauga campaign. (search)
ed there till the 16th of August, and between him and Halleck the question of delay was renewed with spirit. Rosecrans justly urged that, before crossing the Tennessee River, his right and rear ought to be protected by the part of our army made idle by the surrender of Vicksburg, because the enemy's superiority in cavalry forced hrevail, and if General Bragg had perceived the advantage to him of Halleck's error, I am sure that the peremptory order by which Rosecrans was sent across the Tennessee River and into the mountains between Bridgeport and Chattanooga would have proved disastrous. If Bragg had stubbornly defended his several positions, he certainless where we really wished to cross; and by the 4th of September the army, followed by its artillery, wagons, and beeves, safely reached the south bank of the Tennessee River. Then, throwing as much energy into his movements as though he had approved them, Rosecrans promptly marched upon Chattanooga. With but slight opposition
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 9.96 (search)
ith all sorts of animals, young and old, broken and unbroken. Many died on the road before reaching Bridgeport.--W. G. L. then the limit of railroad travel, eight miles east of Stevenson. The short reach of 26 miles of railroad, or 28 miles of road that ran nearly alongside the railroad, was now all that was necessary for the security of the important position at Chattanooga. But Rosecrans must first secure possession of the route, and then rebuild the long truss-bridge across the Tennessee River, and the trestle, one-quarter of a mile long and 113 feet high, at Whiteside, or Running Water, which would take longer than his stock of provisions and forage would last. To supply an army of 40,000 or 50,000 men, having several thousand animals, in Chattanooga, by wagons, over country roads 28 miles long, in winter, would be a most difficult, but not an impossible task. Rosecrans determined to build some small, flat-bottomed steamers, that could navigate the river from Bridgeport,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 9.97 (search)
skillfully manoeuvred Bragg south of the Tennessee River, and through and beyond Chattanooga. If ntrenched in Chattanooga Valley, with the Tennessee River behind them, the enemy occupying commandithe road crosses to the south side of the Tennessee River; but Bragg, holding Lookout and Raccoon m. Chattanooga is on the south bank of the Tennessee, where that river runs nearly due west. It st of the army. The two bridges over the Tennessee River,--a flying one at Chattanooga and the newe Memphis and Charleston road strikes the Tennessee River at Eastport, Mississippi. Knowing the dieams called Chickamauga emptying into the Tennessee River east of Chattanooga: North Chickamauga, tithin a few hundred yards of the bank of the Tennessee where the north end of the bridge was to res. It was in full view extending from the Tennessee River, where Sherman had crossed, up Chickamaugorps was to move by the south bank of the Tennessee River to the mouth of the Holston, and up that [3 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Comments on General Grant's <placeName reg="Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee" key="tgn,7017496" authname="tgn,7017496">Chattanooga</placeName>. (search)
t, on the 19th of October I started to make a personal examination of the north side of the Tennessee River below Chattanooga. The object was to find some point on the south side, the holding of whireliminary movements were simple. Sherman was to effect a lodgment on the left bank of the Tennessee River, just below the mouth of the South Chickamauga Creek. This was to be done by landing a brievening of the first day the results could be summed up as follows: Sherman had crossed the Tennessee River at the point selected, but had not turned Bragg's right flank. Thomas had drawn out the Aren Bridgeport and the Raccoon Mountain and the nose of Raccoon Mountain where it struck the Tennessee River, we might use William's Island as a depot of supplies, the transportation from Bridgeport bt have remained a week at Chattanooga, under the then existing lines for obtaining supplies. Military bridge over the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Suilt in October, 1868. from a photograph.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Opposing forces in the Chattanooga campaign. November 23d-27th, 1863. (search)
Lieut. Hiram F. Hubbard; 8th Wis., Lieut. Obadiah German; 10th Wis., Capt. Yates V. Beebe. Second Brigade, Capt. Arnold Sutermeister: 4th Ind., Lieut. Henry J. Willits; 8th Ind., Lieut. George Estep; 11th Ind., Capt. Arnold Sutermeister; 21st Ind., Lieut. W. E. Chess; C, 1st Wis. Heavy, Capt. John R. Davies. cavalry. Corps headquarters and the First and Second Brigades and 18th Ind. Battery, of the First Division., at and about Alexandria, Tenn.; Third Brigade at Caperton's Ferry, Tennessee River. First and Third Brigades and Chicago Board of Trade Battery, of the Second Division, at Maysville, Ala. Second Brigade (Second Division), Col. Eli Long: 98th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Edward Kitchell; 17th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Henry Jordan; 2d Ky., Col. Thomas P. Nicholas; 4th Mich., Maj. Horace Gray; 1st Ohio, Maj. Thomas J. Patten; 3d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. C. B. Seidel; 4th Ohio (battalion), Maj. G. W. Dobb; 10th Ohio, Col. C. C. Smith. Post of Chattanooga, Col. John G. Parkhurst: 44th Ind.,
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