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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The army before Charleston in 1863. (search)
ple repulse could be converted into overwhelming disaster were measurably lost sight of in the chagrin of defeat. The disheartening fact was that the iron-clads had conspicuously failed in the very work for which they had been supposed to be peculiarly fit, and the country had nothing whatever to take their place. Late in May I was called to Washington, General Gillmore was on leave of absence at this time. From September 18th, 1862, to April, 1863, he had held important commands in Kentucky and West Virginia.--editors. and was informed at the consultations which followed that it was the intention to make another attack with the iron-clads, provided Fort Sumter, which was regarded as the most formidable obstacle and the key of the position, could be eliminated from the conflict, so that the fleet could pass up on the south side of the channel, leaving Fort Moultrie and the other Sullivan's Island works nearly a mile to the right. The army was therefore asked if it could cooper
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 5.35 (search)
o defend Tennessee, and began my systematic preparations for resuming the offensive against Georgia. Repairing the broken railroads, we collected in Atlanta the necessary food and transportation for 60,000 men, sent to the rear all impediments, called in all detachments, and ordered them to march for Atlanta, where by November 4th were assembled four infantry corps, one cavalry division, and 65 field-guns, aggregating 60,598 men. Hood remained at Florence, preparing to invade Tennessee and Kentucky, or to follow me. We were prepared for either alternative. According to the great Napoleon, the fundamental maxim for successful war is to converge a superior force on the critical point at the critical time. In 1864 the main objectives were Lee's and Johnston's armies, and the critical point was thought to be Richmond or Atlanta, whichever should be longer held. Had General Grant overwhelmed and scattered Lee's army and occupied Richmond he would have come to Atlanta; but as I happene
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opening of the Atlanta campaign. (search)
Creek Gap on the 8th. At night on the 9th General Cantey reported that he had been engaged with those troops until dark. Lieutenant-General Hood was dispatched to Resaca with three divisions immediately. It so happened that the brigade of Kentucky cavalry was present at Dug Gap and Snake Creek Gap, and that the regiment I commanded — the 9th Kentucky Cavalry--was in front at both places; and it may not be improper to put on record an account of those affairs, and thereby correct the uninte Tennessee, General McPherson, 24,465; the Army of the Ohio, General Schofield, 13,559. It was a superb army, admirably equipped, abundantly supplied, excellently led. It was veteran, and had known victory. It had pushed its antagonist out of Kentucky with the surrender of Donelson; had captured Tennessee; captured Vicksburg; repossessed the Mississippi River; driven its foe over Missionary Ridge in flight. It knew how to fight, and was willing to fight. On May 7th our cavalry was driven
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Georgia militia about Atlanta. (search)
very perceptibly injured the morale of the Confederate forces before General Johnston was relieved from command. The condition of that army had not been improved by the loss of Atlanta, and its practical efficiency was likely to be ruined if the policy of backing and digging was continued. Hood determined to move against the railroad over which Sherman, in Atlanta, drew all his supplies from Nashville, then invade Tennessee, transfer the theater of operations to that State, and perhaps to Kentucky and the Ohio River. He believed that a change from the defensive, in trenches, to the active offensive would reestablish the morale of his army, present many chances of success, free north Georgia, and probably arrest the previous tide of Federal successes in the West. It seemed to him that the passive policy — waiting for Sherman to manoeuvre the Confederate army back from one position to another — would result in the perhaps slow but certain subjugation and occupation of all Georgia b
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman. (search)
the Cumberland, October 30th, 1862, the Union cavalry in Kentucky and Tennessee had not been organized in a separate commanle, a number of cavalry regiments were being recruited in Kentucky, and that State became a general camp of instruction for rfreesboro‘. A little later in December Morgan moved into Kentucky and destroyed bridges on the Louisville and Nashville Raissage of Cumberland River. The night of the passage four Kentucky cavalry regiments, the 1st, 8th, 9th, and 12th, under Genow Bone, only a few miles west of Burksville. Four noted Kentucky officers commanded these regiments, Frank Wolford, B. H. several other regiments were organized at Camp Nelson in Kentucky by Burnside for an expedition to east Tennessee. It was d by General Edward Hatch. During the Atlanta campaign Kentucky was protected against guerrillas and raiders by General Sarge mounted force, and at the same time Morgan came into Kentucky through Pound Gap. This was Morgan's last raid. He was
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., John Morgan in 1864. (search)
Cincinnati. At Cincinnati they crossed into Kentucky, and, passing southward through New Castle anrarily employed as infantry. Two brigades of Kentucky cavalry, under H. L. Giltner and George B. Coported by a movement already in progress from Kentucky they would return to the attack with greater nstructed me to strike a blow at the enemy in Kentucky. As I was on the eve of executing this orderd from all the garrisons in middle and south-eastern Kentucky. At Louisa there is another force of mation has determined me to move at once into Kentucky, and thus distract the plans of the enemy by bout 2000 men. Morgan accordingly entered Kentucky with Giltner's brigade, the mounted men of the bridges on the Louisville and Lexington and Kentucky Central railroads, to prevent troops from beit from Indiana and Ohio to the defense of central Kentucky. Night fell on the 8th while the column l march on foot. The Federal movement from Kentucky was made as Morgan had anticipated. Burbridg[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 9.64 (search)
nnessee with the hope to establish our line eventually in Kentucky, and determined to make the campaign which followed, unleat other points, were unable to interfere, then move into Kentucky, and take position with our left at or near Richmond, andon I could threaten Cincinnati, and recruit the army from Kentucky and Tennessee; the former State was reported, at this juna long detour by water and land, repair to the defense of Kentucky and Ohio or march direct to the support of Grant. If he es, or follow me directly from Georgia into Tennessee and Kentucky, I hoped then to be in condition to offer battle; and, ifor to execute the projected operations into Tennessee and Kentucky. I adhered to the conviction I had held at Lafayette ande the Confederacy, lay in speedy success in Tennessee and Kentucky, and in my ability finally to attack Grant in rear with mre with my small force to cross the Cumberland River into Kentucky, without first receiving reenforcements from the Trans-Mi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee. (search)
y fatal to his far-reaching hopes. Placing one corps on the north side of the river at Florence, he waited for supplies and for Forrest, who had been playing havoc throughout west Tennessee, from the line of the Mississippi border, northward to Kentucky, and was under orders to join him. Convinced now of Hood's serious intentions, General Sherman also ordered the Twenty-third Corps, ten thousand men, under command of Major-General J. M. Schofield, to report to General Thomas. Reaching Pulaslines all these reserves rushed to the front, and, after a terrific struggle, succeeded in regaining the works. Opdycke's brigade, deploying as it advanced, was involved in as fierce a hand-to-hand encounter as ever soldiers engaged in. The two Kentucky regiments joined in the fight with equal ardor and bravery. A large part of Conrad's and Lane's men, as they came in, though wholly disorganized, turned about and gave the enemy a hot reception. Opdycke's horse was shot under him, and he fough
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Union cavalry in the Hood campaign. (search)
e orders to march out and attack Hood in his intrenched position without further delay. In spite, however, of the doubts at first, and of the urgent orders afterward, Thomas stood fast behind his intrenchments. I sent out through Tennessee and Kentucky to impress horses, which the Secretary of War had cheerfully and promptly authorized me to do at the first intimation of a necessity for such an extreme measure. The cavalry officers did their duty well and rapidly, sparing no man's horses provit was impossible to find remounts, but who were organized as infantry. They were all present for the impending struggle, except the brigades of La Grange and Watkins, which had been sent to drive a raiding party under Lyon and Crossland out of Kentucky. At a meeting of the corps commanders, called by General Thomas the night of the 10th, the feasibility of carrying out General Grant's urgent orders to fight was fully considered. The plan of battle, which had already been outlined by Genera
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. (search)
ich., Capt. Byron D. Paddock; E, 1st Ohio, Lieut. Frank B. Reckard; 20th Ohio, Capt. William Backus; C, 1st Tenn., Lieut. Joseph Grigsby; D, 1st Tenn., Capt. Samuel D. Leinart; A, 2d U. S. Colored, Capt. Josiah V. Meigs. quartermaster's ]division (composed of quarter-master's employees), Col. James L. Donaldson. cavalry Corps, Brig.-Gen. James H. Wilson. Escort: 4th U. S., Lieut. Joseph Hedges. first division (Second and Third Brigades, under Brig.-Gen. E. M. McCook, absent in western Kentucky). First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John T. Croxton: 8th Iowa, Col. Joseph B. Dorr; 4th Ky. (mounted infantry), Col. Robert M. Kelly; 2d Mich., Lieut.-Col. Benjamin Smith; 1st Tenn, Lieut.-Col. Calvin M. Dyer; Ill. Battery, Capt. George I. Robinson. Brigade loss: w, 2. Fifth division, Brig.-Gen. Edward Hatch. First Brigade, Col. Robert R. Stewart: 3d Ill., Lieut.-Col. Robert H. Carnahan; 11th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Abram Sharra; 12th Mo., Col. Oliver Wells; 10th Tenn., Maj. William P. Story,
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