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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correspondence of Governor Campbell of Tennessee-original letters. from a committee of citizens. (search)
ay we be permitted to request an answer to this note, and to assure you with how much cordiality we unite in the sentiment with the committee of arrangement, whose feelings and opinions we have on this occasion the honor to represent. We are, most respectfully, Josiah Nichol, Chairman of the Committee. J. Overton, Secretary of the Committee. From Andrew Jackson. Hermitage, February 14, 1828. My Dear Sir,--I have just received the letter you had the goodness to write me by Mr. Donelson on the 12th instant, with enclosures, for which I thank you. The reply you have made Mr. M. is such as I approve, and which I would, had I been present, requested you to have made. Indeed, under existing circumstances, delicacy and propriety would admit of no other. My real friends want no information from me on the subject of internal improvements and manufactories but what my public acts has afforded, and I never gratify my enemies. Was I now to come forth and reiterate my politic
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 2: (search)
by the middle or last of February, had been made a success by Grant with a force of seventeen thousand men and four gun-boats. General Sherman closes the chapter in which he treats of the movements on Forts Henry and Donelson as follows: From the time I had left Kentucky General Buell had really made no substantial progress; though strongly reenforced, beyond even what I had asked for, General Albert Sidney Johnston had remained at Bowling Green until his line was broken at Henry and Donelson, when he let go Bowling Green and fell back hastily to Nashville, and on Buell's approach he did not even tarry there, but continued his retreat southward. Three chapters previous to the one containing this unkind allusion to General Buell, General Sherman, writing of his selection as Superintendent of the Louisiana Military College, says: For this honorable position I was indebted to Major D. C. Buell and General G. Mason Graham, to whom I have made full and due acknowledgment. Whil
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 16: (search)
mination of the works at the two forts. He reported that Fort Henry was nearly completed. It was built, not at the most favorable position, but it was a strong work, and, instead of abandoning it and building at another place, he advised that it should be completed, and other works constructed on the high lands just above the fort on the opposite side of the river. Measures for the accomplishment of this plan were adopted as rapidly as the means at disposal would allow. In relation to Donelson, it was his opinion that, although a better position might have been chosen for this fortification on the Cumberland, under the circumstances surrounding the command, it would be better to retain and strengthen the position chosen. General Polk, in a report to General Johnston just previous to the battle of Shiloh, said: The principal difficulty in the way of a successful defense of the rivers, was the want of an adequate force—a force of infantry and a force of experienced artillerists.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 17: (search)
and Hardee, as to the future plan of campaign. It was determined, as Fort Henry had fallen and Donelson was untenable, that preparations should at once be made for a removal of the army to Nashville,and general rains. By the junction of the command of General Crittenden and the fugitives from Donelson, who were reorganized, the force of General Johnston was increased to seventeen thousand men. nd to Murfreesboro, where I managed, by assembling Crittenden's division and the fugitives from Donelson, to collect an army able to offer battle. The weather was inclement, the floods excessive, andot possess. There are yet those who, self-assured, demand why Johnston did not go himself to Donelson and Henry, and why his forces were not there concentrated. A slight inspection of the map woule overestimated. It has been seen how these advantages were utilized by the enemy at Henry and Donelson, and not less did they avail him at Shiloh. As has been elsewhere explained, the condition o
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 15: (search)
en, except as a point of observation, and concentrate as rapidly as possible all readily available troops upon Henry and Donelson, so as to force Grant into a battle in that quarter, with decisive odds against him, and the disadvantage of isolation frotect the supplies; that Buell, being without a pontoon train, and unable to cross the Cumberland between Nashville and Donelson, we could have time to escape from between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and establish ourselves behind the new dat the former places been added to those of the two forts and of other works on both rivers, our resistance at Henry and Donelson, if not finally successful, would have certainly afforded us ample time to retire with the whole of our forces, and to punication immediately exposed, the only course for General Johnston was to concentrate, at the proper time, at Henry and Donelson, and, for that purpose, to hold his forces and means of transportation well in hand, so as to be ready, at a moment's no
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Organization of the Confederate States Forces stationed near Tupelo, Miss., June 30, 1862. (search)
brigade Commander: Colonel Russell---12th Tennessee regiment, 13th Tennessee regiment, 154th Tennessee regiment, and 47th Tennessee regiment, and Bankhead's Light battery. Second brigade Commander: Brigadier-General Stewart---4th Tennessee regiment, 5th Tennessee regiment, 31st Tennessee regiment, and 33d Tennessee regiment and 13th Arkansas regiment, and Stanford's Light battery. Second division Commander: Major-General B. F. Cheatham. First brigade Commander: Brigadier-General Donelson---8th Tennessee regiment, 15th Tennessee regiment, 16th Tennessee regiment, and 51st Tennessee regiment, and Carnes' Light battery. Second brigade Commander: Brigadier-General Manney---1st Tennessee regiment, 6th Tennessee regiment, 9th Tennessee regiment, and 27th Tennessee regiment, and Smith's Light battery. Detached brigade Commander: Brigadier-General Maxey---41st Georgia regiment, 24th Mississippi regiment and 9th Texas regiment, and Eldridge's Light battery. S
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers. (search)
nessee, to January, 1863. District of Columbus, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. Garrison of Clarksville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 5th Subdistrict, Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. Service. Garrison duty at Forts Heiman (2 Companies), Henry (3 Companies) and Donelson, Tenn., till September 20, 1863. Expedition from Fort Donelson to Waverly, Tenn., October 22-25, 1862. Near Waverly and Richland Creek October 23. Cooley's Mill October 23. Near Garrettsburg, Ky., November 6. Fort Donelson Road January 2, 1863. Cumberland Iron Works, repulse of Forest's attack on Fort Donelson, February 3. Right wing moved to Clarksville, Tenn., September 20, 1863. Garrison duty at Clarksville and Fort Donelson and operating against guerrillas in Nor
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
laurels in domestic strife. One half the nation hates him for his talent, and the second half desires to bury him and his services in oblivion. If Naseby and Dunbar had been fought in France instead of in England and Scotland, Cromwell would not have been without his statue. What German ever mentions Waldburg? What Gaul is proud of Guise? Yet hardly any Cavalier denied that Cromwell was a great soldier; and an Englishman cannot hear without surprise and pain that the man who captured Donelson, Vicksburg, and Richmond is not a great soldier. Sheridan, says the President, returning to his lieutenant, is a man of drill and order, who understands the South. But the public have mistaken Sheridan, and they will not see his actions in the proper light. Without saying so in words, he seems to mean that Sheridan is suffering from the general but unjust suspicion under which his Government lies. If so, the President is right. The odium is undoubtedly great; yet Grant is suffering
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, A daring scout and spy. (search)
esence in the neighborhood of so many officers cognizant of his former arrest and escape rendered flight a second time necessary. He now went to the camp of General Donelson, with whom he had some acquaintance, and soon became very friendly there-acting the while in the double capacity of beef contractor for the rebel army, and spy for General Crittenden. Leaving General Donelson after some months' stay, although earnestly requested to remain longer, Morford next found his way to Nashville, where he made numerous expeditions as a spy for General Negley. Buell was at Louisville, and Nashville was then the Federal outpost. Morford travelled about very readily upon passes given him by General Donelson, making several trips to Murfreesboro, and one to Cumberland Gap. Upon his return from the latter, he was arrested near Lebanon, Tennessee, about one o'clock at night, by a party of four soldiers upon picket duty at that point. Halting him, the following conversation occurred:
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
nished wonderful consolation to a good woman, who hurled it at me because I gave her no encouragement for her losses. We found the women here much more violent than the men, but perhaps this was only from the female habit of not suppressing their feelings. The women took a malicious pleasure in expressing to our officers their sentiments of hatred to your president and to your government; and no amount of swearing induced them to believe in our recent victories at Henry, Mill Springs, and Donelson. We found some difficulty, too, in trading with our treasury notes, especially with the lower classes; but when they found it was that or nothing, they took them eagerly. The thin, flimsy-looking currency, issued by the Confederate States, as well as by their municipal corporations, was exchanged among their own people with confidence in its value, although I observed that the knowing ones used it to buy lands of the foolish. Many of the Second Regiment can recall the guard duty, on pi
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