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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
answer to my request they were ordered to me. But the order was changed, and instead of joining me they were sent to General Robert Anderson, then in command at Louisville. The same day I asked Senator Latham, at Washington, to aid my application for three thousand men from California, to be placed at El Paso, to operate against comes imperatively necessary to have the cooperation of the loyal Union forces under Generals Anderson and Nelson, as well as of those already encamped opposite Louisville, under Colonel Rousseau. I have reenforced, yesterday, Paducah with two regiments, and will continue to strengthen the position with men and artillery. As sooto Henderson, and, taking the Henderson and Nashville railroad, occupy Hopkinsville; while General Nelson should go with a force of five thousand by railroad to Louisville, and from there to Bowling Green. As the population in all the counties through which the above railroads pass are loyal, this movement could be made without d
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
authority for himself and W. E. Woodruff, of Louisville, to raise two regiments. They established aest Virginia campaign. The Union Club in Louisville was an important factor in organizing Union eneral Jefferson C. Davis in the Gait House, Louisville. General Davis shot General Nelson, who dieshed his camp on the Indiana shore, opposite Louisville. Nelson, after making arrangements for tto disintegrate: It was no uncommon sight in Louisville, shortly after this, to see a squad of recruy, was invited to remove his headquarters to Louisville, and the State's full quota of volunteers waridge. Buckners movement was supposed in Louisville to have that city for its objective, and gred him that it had begun. The Home Guards of Louisville were at once ordered out for ten days, and, was Griffiths, he was a medical student from Louisville acting as hospital steward, and he had been he railroad to Nolin, fifty-three miles from Louisville, and select a position for a large force. [5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
chief engineer of the Western Department, and the final touches were ordered to be given it. it is to be presumed that General Johnston was satisfied with the defenses thus provided for the Cumberland River. From observing General Buell at Louisville, and the stir and movement of multiplying columns under General U. S. Grant in the region of Cairo, he suddenly awoke determined to fight for Nashville at Donelson. To this conclusion he came as late as the beginning of February; and thereupon of transportation for troops, making concentration a work of but few hours. Still General Johnston persisted in fighting for Nashville, and for that purpose divided his thirty thousand men. Fourteen thousand he kept in observation of Buell at Louisville. Sixteen thousand he gave to defend Fort Donelson. The latter detachment he himself called the best part of his army. it is difficult to think of a great master of strategy making an error so perilous. having taken the resolution to defe
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Sawing out the channel above Island number10. (search)
I reached the flag-ship in the afternoon about dark, and that evening Foote called together all his commanders in council. One or two wanted to run the blockade, but the commodore flatly refused. He explained that his boats, since they were armored solely about the bows, were invincible fighting up-stream, but fighting down-stream were of little account; and that if one of them should be boarded and captured, she could be turned against us, and could whip the whole fleet and place Cairo, Louisville, and St. Louis at her mercy! One of the captains said that if he were allowed to go, he would blow the vessel out of water if the enemy got on board. Another, I think, was quite as emphatic, but Foote was firm. The next day, with two of the tugs of the fleet, I explored the shore carefully on each side: first on the eastern shore, to see if the enemy were securely shut in, which I found to be the case; and then on the western, to see if St. James's Bayou, which emptied into the river
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
d, however, lest it might stir up disaffection among the turbulent Albert Sidney Johnston at the age of 35. from a miniature by Thomas Campbell, painted in Louisville, Ky., in 1838 or 1839. population of the Pacific Coast. He said, I shall do my duty to the last, and, when absolved, shall take my course. All honest and competeproduced the wildest consternation in the Federal lines. Even Sherman, writing thirteen years later, speaks of a picket which burned a bridge thirty miles from Louisville as a division. as late as November 10th, 1861, he said: if Johnston chooses, he could march into Louisville any day. the effect of the movement was for a timeLouisville any day. the effect of the movement was for a time to paralyze the Federal army and put it on the defensive. Camp Burgess, Bowling Green--the 70th Indiana on dress parade. From a lithograph. On the hill are seen the Confederate fortifications erected by General Buckner. General Johnston had made the opportunity required by the South, if it meant seriously to maintain it