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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 14: siege and capture of Vicksburg (search)
ect. Dana from the first took the ground that Grant could not be withdrawn from his advanced position, and that it would be far better for Rosecrans to retreat to Nashville than for Grant to retreat from the hills of Vicksburg. The government at Washington, however, instead of heeding Dana's timely and far-sighted suggestion, yielded to the fatuous determination of Halleck, backed as it was by popular clamor, and forced its reluctant commander to push his widely separated columns into northern Georgia, where, as might have been expected, they were destined to meet disaster. Of course it was always possible, as pointed out in Dana's despatch of June 12th, for Bragg to send his material to Atlanta, fall back upon Bristol and Chattanooga, and detach the larger part of his army to reinforce Johnston. Fortunately this was not done, and Johnston was left with such insufficient means as he could gather up and put in the field to continue his hopeless campaign against Grant. He was acti
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 16: Dana returns to Washington (search)
ma, and all the country about them untenable by the Confederacy. With Mobile to start from, and gun-boats on the river co-operating with your armies, the war may be ended in Mississippi and Alabama together, and the enemy crowded backward into Georgia. As for the draft in the city of New York, the order was given yesterday to execute it this week. The delay has been caused only by the difficulty in concentrating there the necessary body of troops at the same time that reinforcements in coroled at Vicksburg. No word of this had yet reached Rosecrans. He was unconscious of the storm about to burst upon him. His own army was moving by divergent roads on a front of forty miles or more southeastwardly through the mountains of northwestern Georgia, but with the instinct of a real strategist he foresaw that his columns could not properly support each other in case of a concentration of the enemy against either of them. He saw also that such a concentration was possible, and that the
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 17: campaign of Chattanooga (search)
engineer, and as such had exercised a decisive influence in the formation of the plans which had proven so successful, also took an active part in the conferences in reference to the plans for the winter campaign. Rawlins and others gave their views, so that Dana, while carrying Grant's final decisions, was fully advised as to the opinions of all who might be supposed to have any influence in regard to their determination. The war was clearly over for the winter in east Tennessee and northern Georgia. The Confederate forces, notwithstanding their concentration and partial victory at Chickamauga, had been overwhelmingly defeated at Missionary Ridge and thwarted at Knoxville. Longstreet had begun his toilsome march back to Virginia. Dana, as has been seen, had exerted a tremendous influence upon the reorganization of the Army of the Cumberland, the establishment of the Military Division of the Mississippi, the assignment of Grant to the supreme command, and the concentration of an
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 18: Dana in the War Department (search)
keep a great part of Grant's army usefully employed in cleaning up the Confederate forces and capturing the Confederate strongholds in the Middle South, it received Grant's entire approval. It is believed that this plan of operations contained the germ of the March to the Sea, as it would cut that part of the Confederacy east of the Mississippi in two again, and, if followed by a vigorous campaign from central Alabama, would have taken Atlanta in the rear, compelled the abandonment of northern Georgia, and rendered the Chattanooga-Atlanta campaign of the next year unnecessary. It is important because it also shows, when taken with Halleck's despatch of the next day to Grant, Official Records, Serial No. 56, p. 458, Halleck to Grant, December 21, 1863. that Halleck would not permit Grant to carry out his plan for a campaign in Alabama till Longstreet was driven entirely from east Tennessee. As Longstreet was an able and very deliberate man, slow to move and hard to beat, he took hi
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 21: administration of War Department (search)
of Hood's army letters to Wilson cavalry campaign in Alabama and Georgia Grant's final campaign collapse of Confederacy Dana goes to the behind intrenchments. I had hardly got to my destination in upper Georgia when I received a note from Dana, dated October 10th, running aerman, without opposition worthy of the name, was marching through Georgia. Hood, with an undefeated army which Sherman had failed to bring eported to me. During the cavalry campaign through Alabama and Georgia, in March and April, 1865, I was necessarily cut off from all commion of the war, and with the remarkable situation in which the State of Georgia is left by it. Second, let me inform you that the report whnt's proclamation appointing James Johnson provisional governor of Georgia was issued this morning. I dare say you know a great deal better assigned to command Mississippi, and I suppose Steedman will have Georgia. A heap of generals will be mustered out very soon, but you are
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 22: beginning of a New era (search)
ifficult for the Republican. It was brilliant, able, independent, and interesting; but capital as well as talent was needed, and it soon became evident to Dana that capital in sufficient quantities could not be had to put it firmly on its feet. After a year of struggle and disappointment he resolved to give it up and buy or found a newspaper in New York. On November 6, 1865, he wrote to me that he had received and used certain hints that I had sent him about the condition of affairs in Georgia, that he had just learned that one of the President's private secretaries had been caught selling pardons and stealing otherwise to the amount of thirty thousand dollars; that he had been relieved from his confidential position and ordered back to to his regiment, where he would be permitted to resign in order not to scandalize the President, and that the story was not then public. It seems to be worthy of observation that it afterwards got out, and became somewhat notable as the first of
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 24: Grant's first administration (search)
ewal of the income tax, which had been passed as a war measure with a specific declaration on the part of Congress that it should continue till 1870, and no longer. Dana regarded this as a species of repudiation, alike injurious to the government and the business of the country. Somewhat later the Sun came out strongly against the nomination of Hoar, of Massachusetts and of the cabinet, for a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court, for the circuit formerly represented by Justice Wayne, of Georgia. While it could say nothing against the eminent fitness of Hoar, it opposed his confirmation on account of his locality, and pronounced the appointment as one of the most repugnant cases of carpet-bag-ism which had marked the era of reconstruction. The Republican Senate appears to have agreed with the Sun, for it rejected the nomination with no excuse and but little delay. About this time the Sun condemned Fish for permitting his son-in-law to be counsel for the Spanish government, and
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
lins' speech at, 399. Garfield, General, 270, 439, 445, 447-449, 458; assassination of, 450, 460. Garibaldi, 497. Garland, Attorney-General, 471. Garrard, General, 304. Garrison, William Lloyd, 101, 102, 149. Geary, General, 285. Georgia, 113, 234. German Federation, 85. German language, 36, 57. Germany, 25, 28, 62, 74, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 89. Gettysburg, 248, 249, 310, 316. Giesboro, cavalry depot at, 304. Gilder, Jeannette L., 54. Gillmore, General, 251, 336, pan, 132. Jasper, town of, 277-279. Jefferson, Thomas, 129, 453. Jewell, Postmaster-General, 418. Johnson, Andrew, 254, 306, 357, 371, 372, 377, 379, 383, 389, 390, 392, 393, 397, 401, 402, 408. Johnson, James, provisional governor of Georgia, 368. Johnson, Oliver, 171. Johnston, General Joseph E., 223, 228, 233, 236, 250, 269, 343, 355, 356, 363, 367. Journalism, genius for, 63; lectures on, 512. Journal of Commerce, 105, 106. K. Kansas, 100, 127, 133, 136, 137, 147,
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 7: the shadow of slavery (search)
petuate this most monstrous of monopolies, this worst form of injustice, this utmost of tyrannies. A delusion so inhumane in a class which ought to manifest some degree of independence, intelligence, and freedom from prejudice is the lost conclusive argument that could be presented against slavery. When it fixes its chains even upon the minds of the free mechanics of a State the case is bad, indeed, and a reaction cannot long be delayed. A short time afterwards the white mechanics of Georgia followed the example set by those of Virginia, and this gave Dana a further opportunity to comment upon the essential and ineradicable antagonism between the slave and free labor, and especially upon the degradation these mechanics would fix upon tilling the earth and menial domestic service by limiting those occupations to slaves. Notwithstanding the frequent warnings given by the South that the discussion of the slavery question by the Northern journals was weakening the devotion of th