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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)
on to Decherd, Brig.-Gen. Robert L. McCook (of Thomas's division; brother to Alex. McD. McCook), whould have placed Bragg between the force under Thomas and the rest of Buell's army. To prevent thisive divisions to concentrate at Altamont. General Thomas reached his destination on the 25th, but, Nashville. On September 7th he intrusted General Thomas with the defense of that city with the divwould be made on Nashville, and he ordered General Thomas to join him with his own division, which hd preparations for an attack. On the 20th General Thomas joined the Federal army with his division.pon Bragg at Bardstown. On September 29th General Thomas had been assigned by President Lincoln to the command of the army, but at Thomas's request the order was revoked, and he was announced in orde town. Crittenden's corps, accompanied by General Thomas and preceded by cavalry, having crossed Gial right wing was under the supervision of General Thomas. General Bragg reached Perryville about[3 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 1862. (search)
The opposing forces at Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 1862. The composition, losses, and strength of each army as here stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records. K stands for killed; w for wounded; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured. The Union forces. Army of the Ohio.--Maj.-Gen. Don Carlos Buell; Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas, second in command. Escort: Anderson (Pa.) Troop, Lieut. Thomas S. Maple; 4th U. S. Cav. (6 co's), Lieut.-Col. James Oakes. Escort loss: m, 1. Unattached: 7th Pa. Cav. (4 co's), Maj. John E. Wynkoop. Loss: w, 4; m,3=7. First Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Alexander McD. McCook. Third division, Brig.-Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau. Staff loss: m, 1. Ninth Brigade, Col. Leonard A. Harris: 38th Ind., Col. Benjamin F. Scribner; 2d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. John Kell; 33d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Oscar F. Moore (w and c), Maj. Frederick J. Lock; 94th Ohio, Col. Joseph W. Frizell; 10th Wis., Col. Alfred R. Chapin;
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville. (search)
prepared by General Mitchel at Decatur. General Thomas with his division was still detained on thed to hold Nashville, under the command of General Thomas. It was ascertained on the 10th that the attack Bragg's position if he should remain. Thomas arrived on the 20th. There was some skirmishial Thomas to succeed me. In a little while General Thomas came to my room and stated his intention tbe about seven miles back, on the left, and to Thomas, who had been ordered to halt the right corps erce contest, a staff-officer arrived from General Thomas and reported two divisions of the right co not yet arrived. The enemy was in front, and Thomas thought it not advisable to leave to report inture him hereafter? Very respectfully, Geo. H. Thomas. saying that finding no water at that poine should report in person after night-fall. Thomas, McCook, and Gilbert met at my headquarters af taken up that night, under the supervision of Thomas, with Crittenden's corps, followed by the othe[16 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 2.21 (search)
s's Brigade of Stonewall Jackson's Corps, at Hamilton's crossing. See map, P. 74. small-arms and artillery. Again the scene of destruction was repeated; still the Federals crossed the railroad, when a gap in Jackson's line between Archer's and Thomas's brigades was discovered by some of the assailants. [See map, p. 74.] This interval was rushed for by a part of Franklin's troops as a haven of safety, while the rest of his command were repulsed in the utmost confusion. The extreme left of Archer's brigade, and the extreme right of Thomas's brigade, that is, the 14th Tennessee and 19th Georgia, commanded by Colonel Forbes, and a part of the 7th Tennessee, commanded by Colonel Goodner, of the former brigade, believing they were about to be surrounded, gave way. Their comrades on the right, unaware of the condition of affairs on the left, and seeing the enemy routed in their front, were amazed at this confusion. Officers and men on the right were enraged at what seemed to be coward
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg. (search)
The defense of Vicksburg. by S. H. Lockett, C. S. A., chief engineer of the defenses. The occupation of Vicksburg was the immediate result of the fall of New Orleans on the 25th of April, 1862. The first troops to go to Vicksburg were from Camp Moore, a rendezvous of the forces which had recently evacuated New Orleans. They were Allen's 4th Louisiana and Thomas's 28th Louisiana. These regiments were soon followed by Marks's 27th Louisiana, De Clouet's 26th Louisiana, Richardson's 17th Louisiana, Morrison's 30th Louisiana, all infantry; and Beltzhoover's Louisiana regiment of artillery, and Ogden's Louisiana battalion of artillery. After these came Mellon's regiment and Balfour's battalion of Mississippi troops. The staff-officers were Major Devereux, Assistant Adjutant-General; Major Girault, Inspector-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Jay, Chief of Artillery; Captain McDonald, Chief of Ordnance, and Lieutenants Harrod and Frost, Aides-de-camp. These troops and officers constitu
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Stone's River, Tenn. (search)
and c), Capt. Samuel Johnson; 27th Ill., Col. Fazilo A. Harrington (k), Maj. Williamn A. Schmitt; 42d Ill., Lieut.-Col. Nathan H. Walworth; 51st Ill., Col. Luther P. Bradley, Capt. Henry F. Wescott. Brigade loss: k, 62; w, 343; m, 161 = 566. Artillery: Capt. Henry Hescock: C, 1st Ill. (3d Brigade), Capt. Charles Houghtaling; 4th Ind. (1st Brigade), Capt. Asahel K. Bush; G, 1st Mo. (2d Brigade), Capt. Henry Hescock. Artillery loss embraced in brigades to which attached. center, Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas. Staff and escort loss: k, 1; w, 1 = 2. Provost-Guard: 9th Mich., Col. John G. Parkhurst. First (late Third) division, Maj.-Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau. Staff and escort loss: w, 2. First (late Ninth ) Brigade, Col. Benjamin F. Scribner: 38th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Daniel F. Griffin; 2d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. John Kell (k), Maj. Anson G. McCook; 33d Ohio, Capt. Ephraim J. Ellis; 94th Ohio, Col. Joseph W. Frizell (w), Lieut.-Col. Stephen A. Bassford; 10th Wis., Col. Alfred R. Chapin. Br
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The battle of Stone's River. (search)
ing within two miles of Murfreesboro' on the night of the 29th; General Thomas's corps by the Franklin and Wilkinson turnpikes, thence by cros General Van Cleve was in reserve near a ford of Stone's River. Of Thomas's two divisions, Negley formed on the right of Palmer, with his rigry raid by General Wheeler around the Union army had engaged two of Thomas's brigades, Starkweather's and Walker's. During the night of the 29f the 31st Colonel M. B. Walker's Union brigade (of Fry's division, Thomas's corps), on its night march from Nolensville to Stewartsboro‘, arre, to attack sufficiently to hold all the forces in his front. General Thomas and General Palmer were to View on the Nashville pike at the h threatened to engulf tie rear. Along this line rode Rosecrans; Thomas, calm, inflexible, from whose gaze skulkers shrank abashed; Crittenkilled, 1533; wounded, 7245 = 8778; and in prisoners, McCook, 2092; Thomas, 576; Crittenden, 821,--total, 3489. Apprehending the possible suc
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Union left at Stone's River. (search)
ck from the stream. Still it was a fairly strong position by reason of the railroad and the railroad cut and the woods. Thomas's position in the center was not so strong as mine; of McCook's, on our right, I knew nothing; that it was less strong thok was driven back two miles or more, the whole right of the army hinging on its center, while the left held its ground. Thomas, with Rousseau's division, including a brigade of regulars (Lieutenant-Colonel O. L. Shepherd's), undertook to support Mcchanged its place somewhat, to conform to our movements on the right, but that line was maintained by stubborn fighting. Thomas was then not far back, and that helped me more. （McCook was too far away for any protection to my flank.) Rousseau's mener the fight on the night of the 31st a number of general officers were assembled by Rosecrans's order, including McCook, Thomas, Stanley, and myself. There was some talk of falling back. I do not remember who started the subject, but I do remember
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee. (search)
infantry, was ordered to trot through the gap, pushing the Confederate pickets before him, while Thomas was directed to follow as closely in his rear as possible. Wilder obeyed his orders literally, General Stewart sent Bushrod Johnson's brigade forward, and a brisk fight ensued. The head of Thomas's column was six miles in the rear, but Wilder's plucky regiments used their Spencer rifles to suard was lost, and that a heavy column was crossing the bridge, fell back upon the main line. Thomas was followed closely by McCook with the Twentieth Corps, Granger with the Reserve Corps holding ed; but the Gap was held by the brigade until relieved by the Twentieth Corps, which then passed Thomas and took the lead on the Manchester road, both corps camping within two miles of Tullahoma. In unable to extricate themselves. But for the heavy rains Crittenden would have joined McCook and Thomas two days earlier, and the campaign might have had a different ending. When he came up, line of
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 8.89 (search)
and to occupy Alpine, east of the mountains. Thomas was ordered to cross the mountain at Stevens'srom McLemore's Cove, into which the columns of Thomas began to pour on the 9th. I placed Breckinridted by Rosecrans at fifty-seven miles, to join Thomas at Stevens's Gap. But the Confederate commando left. Negley and Reynolds, commanders under Thomas, had not come up at the opening of the battle tworks, but was so gallant and persistent that Thomas called loudly for reenforcements, which were posecrans ordered up other troops to the aid of Thomas, in addition to those already mentioned. At 1the Dry Valley road, so as to interpose behind Thomas and cut off his retreat to Chattanooga, at thek upon the front and rear of the stronghold of Thomas. It consisted of the brigades of Deas, Manigahe crest parallel to the Snodgrass Hill, where Thomas was. The other three brigades extended along te of daylight would have insured his capture. Thomas had under him all the Federal army, except the[41 more...]
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