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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 1 (search)
st meeting with General Grant a conference at Thomas's headquarters Grant's manner of writing desp an orderly brought me a message from General George H. Thomas, Commander of the Army of the Cumberlers and top-boots were spattered with mud. General Thomas approached this officer, and, turning to might supper immediately after his arrival, General Thomas had sent for several general officers and xceedingly interesting group. A member of General Thomas's staff quietly called that officer's atteds were usually no respecters of persons. General Thomas's mind had been so intent upon receiving t departed he had made an appointment with Generals Thomas and Smith and several staff-officers to aeded our expectations. In company with General Thomas and other members of his staff, I was brouto Washington, and in accordance therewith General Thomas issued an order relieving me from duty wit It was a subject of much regret to leave General Thomas, for I had become greatly attached to him,[4 more...]
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 18 (search)
, and spent a couple of days very advantageously in looking over the captured city, and learning many points of interest regarding the marvelous campaign which had secured it. That evening I paid a visit to my old commanding officer, General George H. Thomas, who had quartered himself in a house on Peachtree street, now known as the Leyden House, and passed a very pleasant hour with him. The house was surrounded by a broad porch supported by rows of fluted columns, and was very commodious. arters. There were some capital voices among the officers, and no end of comic songs at hand; and these, with the recitations and improvisations which were contributed, made up a series of variety performances which became quite celebrated. General Thomas was a constant attendant, and would nod approval at the efforts of the performers, and beat time to the music, and when anything particularly comical took place he would roll from side to side and nearly choke with merriment. That day She
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 20 (search)
se to be pursued in the West. Hood had now turned north, and was operating against Sherman's railroad in his rear. Sherman had left the Twentieth Corps in Atlanta to hold that place, and had marched with the rest of his army as far north as Marietta. On October 10 Sherman telegraphed Grant: Hood is now crossing the Coosa, twelve miles below Rome, bound west. If he passes over to the Mobile and Ohio road, had I not better execute the plan of my letter sent by Colonel Porter, and leave General Thomas with the troops now in Tennessee to defend the State? The situation was such, however, that General Grant disliked to see a veteran army like Sherman's marching away from Hood without first crippling him; and he replied to Sherman the next day (the 11th), saying, among other things: . . . If you were to cut loose, I do not believe you would meet Hood's army, but would be bushwhacked by all the old men, little boys, and such railroad guards as are still left at home. Hood would probably
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 22 (search)
sulting in a campaign back to the Ohio River. Thomas replied at 9 o'clock that night: . . . I will Washington had now become so intense regarding Thomas's delay that Grant became more anxious than evhat he was wrong and Thomas right. That night Thomas telegraphed to both Grant and Halleck, explainuntil 4 P. M. on the 11th, when he telegraphed Thomas the following: If you delay attack longer, theAt 12:30 P. M. on the 14th Halleck telegraphed Thomas from Washington, reiterating that it was felt thing but victory could follow the moment that Thomas moved, and he wished that loyal and devoted arvy load from his mind. He at once telegraphed Thomas: I was just on my way to Nashville, but receiveneral sent him a reply, saying: The news from Thomas so far is in the highest degree gratifying. Y did not enable him to stay the impetuosity of Thomas's troops. Battery after battery fell into ther than any one else could know that as soon as Thomas launched his army against Hood's forces he wou[45 more...]
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 25 (search)
was to move down the valley of Virginia for the purpose of destroying the railroads, the James River Canal, and the factories in that section of country used for the production of munitions of war. Stoneman was to start upon a raid from east Tennessee with 4000 men, with a view to breaking up the enemy's communications in that direction. Canby, who was in command at New Orleans, was to advance against Mobile, Montgomery, and Selma. In the movement on Mobile, Canby had at least 45,000 men. Thomas was to send a large body of cavalry under Wilson into Alabama. The movements of our forces in the West were intended not only to destroy communications, but to keep the Confederate troops there from being sent East to operate against Sherman. Sherman was to march to Columbia, South Carolina, thence to Fayetteville, North Carolina, and afterward in the direction of Goldsborough. Schofield was to be transferred from Tennessee to Annapolis, Maryland, and thence by steamer to the Cape Fear