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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Index. (search)
Mayor, of New Orleans234 Malcolm, Dr., on Slavery248 Maryland, The Union Party in260 Mallory, Secretary280 McClellan, General, as a Pacificator370 Mercury, The Charleston399 Netherlands, Deacon17 North, Southern Notions of the144 Olivieri, The Abbe, on Negro Education56 Pierce, Franklin29 Pollard, Mr., his Mammy 63 Palfrey, General, in Boston73 Perham, Josiah, his Invitation97 Parker, E. G., his Life of Choate108 Patents Granted in the South134 Polk, Bishop172 Parties, Extemporizing242 Platform Novelties in Boston247 Paley, Dr., on Slavery808 Pitt, William, an Abolitionist329 Rogersville, the Great Flogging in16 Roundheads and Cavaliers151 Russell, William H158, 187 Repudiation of Northern Debts162 Red Bill, a New Orleans Patriarch318 Romilly, Sir Samuel828 Robertson, Dr., on Slavery803 Screws, Benjamin, Negro Broker8, 88 Society for Promoting National Unity186 Stevens, Alexander H148 Secession, T
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, V. (search)
cure this state, if possible. But no sooner did General Polk with that aim move upon Columbus on the river, t The Mississippi was closed from Columbus down. If Polk should get Paducah, the Ohio would be locked up too.ough his prompt sagacity the Ohio was locked against Polk. He now wanted to keep moving, according to his vieont could not see that Columbus should be taken, and Polk was allowed to fortify there and to send some forcesHe had surprised and destroyed the enemy's camp; but Polk crossed with re-enforcements from Columbus, and, regprivate. There's a Yankee, if you want a shot, said Polk to his men; but they, busy firing at the crowded boaes which are failures. It accomplished its object. Polk did not send the troops into Missouri, as he intendeng labyrinth of action. He wished at once to strike Polk at Columbus. Halleck prescribed caution; and Polk, Polk, unhindered, escaped south to Corinth, where under Sidney Johnston the South was massing all the strength it co
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 3: (search)
he last boat, and Grant rode aboard under a heavy, but happily an ineffectual, fire from the enemy. It appeared afterwards that the enemy had seen Grant, and that Polk, the rebel general, had called upon some of his troops to try their aim on him, though not knowing that he was an officer. Grant had accomplished his purpose, tgain when, with more troops, he undertook to intercept the Union forces on their return to the boats, they were dispersed. When, with further reinforcements under Polk himself, they attacked the transports, the heavy fire of shell and grape from the gunboats yet again routed them with severe loss. With three thousand troops Granan his own, besides the destruction of their camp and the capture of guns. Besides this he accomplished the principal object of the movement, which was to prevent Polk from sending reinforcements to Price. But, as in the seizure of Paducah, Grant did not receive the credit which he deserved for this movement. Inexperienced so
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
uld have made them extremely difficult-indeed, almost impossible. The quantity of rain that fell, and of snow, always melting quickly, made a depth of mud rarely equaled. The Confederate troops fought bravely and well wherever they encountered those of the United States, in 1861. At Bethel, under Magruder and D. H. Hill; at Oakhill, under Price and McCulloch; on the Gauley, under Floyd; on the Greenbrier, under H. R. Jackson; on Santa Rosa Island, under R. H. Anderson; at Belmont, under Polk and Pillow; on the Alleghany, under Edward Johnson, and at Chastenallah, under McIntosh. On all these occasions they were superior to their adversaries, from greater zeal and more familiarity with the use of fire-arms. The thorough system of instruction introduced into the United States army gradually established equality in the use of fire-arms, and our greater zeal finally encountered better discipline. Had the Confederate troops in Arkansas been united under a competent, or even a me
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
federate right, Breckenridge's division, faced this left, and was separated from Polk's corps, forming the centre, by the little river, the course of which there crose north. General Rosecrans's report. The attack was taken up by the brigades of Polk's corps successively, from left to right, but they encountered a more determinedan obstinate contest, and at the price of much blood. When the right brigade of Polk's corps had become fully engaged, the Federal right and centre, except the left detachments of two brigades each, drawn from the Confederate right. Lieutenant-General Polk's report. The fight was not renewed. On the 1st of January it was a hill in front of the Confederate right, that commanded the right of Lieutenant-General Polk's position. Major-General Breckenridge was directed to drive the enemarmy was put in motion about mid. night, and marched quietly across Duck River, Polk's corps halting opposite to Shelbyville, and Hardee's at Tullahoma. General
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
roops at Demopolis, and on the 20th those at Enterprise. While there he transferred Lieutenant-General Hardee back to the Army of Tennessee, and assigned Lieutenant-General Polk to the position he had occupied in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. With Lieutenant-General Hardee he transferred Pettus's and Moore's bf General Ross's brigade of Texan cavalry near Bolton's Depot, directing me to transfer the command of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana to Lieutenant-General Polk, and to repair to Dalton and assume that of the Army of Tennessee; and promising that I should find instructions there. In obedience to these orders, assume that of the Army of Tennessee; and promising that I should find instructions there. In obedience to these orders, I transferred my command to Lieutenant-General Polk as soon as possible, proceeded to Dalton without delay, arrived in the evening of the 2G6th, and assumed the command of the Army of Tennessee on the 27th.
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
will be directed to aid in your supply, and General Polk will be instructed to afford from your latech general aid as it may be in the power of General Polk to render, with whom consultation, as to thn is not an important one. Therefore Lieutenant-General Polk, from interest in this army, is anxioepartment of Mississippi, promised by Lieutenant-General Polk. The army depends for subsistenceruary, intelligence was received from Lieutenant-General Polk that General Sherman was leading an aom the President, directing me to aid Lieutenant-General Polk, either by sending him reenforcementsthreatened, enough infantry to enable Lieutenant-General Polk to beat the detachment which the enemorps, with instructions to unite with Lieutenant-General Polk as soon as possible. This order was e 22d, intelligence was received from Lieutenant-General Polk's headquarters, at Demopolis, that Shrch on his return to Vicksburg, while Lieutenant-General Polk's troops were on the Tombigbee. As t
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
ongstreet's command would necessarily take part in it. Other troops might be drawn from General Beauregard's and Lieutenant-General Polk's departments. The infantry of the latter is so small a force that what would remain after the formation of proavalry.Total. Your own command33,0003,0005,00041,000 General Martin's cavalry, now en route to you3,0003,000 From Lieut.-Gen. Polk5,0005,000 From Gen. Beauregard10,00010,000 From Gen. Longstreet's command12,0002,0002,00016,000 60,0005,00010,000pi precede any advance from this point so much as to enable those troops to cross the Tennessee before we move? Lieutenant-General Polk thought at the end of February that he could send fifteen thousand cavalry on such an expedition. Even two-thirenemy was advancing upon us in great force, I again urged the Administration, by telegraph, to put about half of Lieutenant-General Polk's infantry under my control, and ordered Major-General Martin, with his division, from the valley of the Etowah
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
turbed. As the army was formed (in two lines), Polk's and Hardee's corps were west of the place andter of the ground, in the presence of Lieutenant-Generals Polk and Hood, who had been informed of mye 18th, Hardee's corps marched to Kingston; and Polk's and Hood's, following the direct road, halted upon the left flank of those troops as soon as Polk attacked them in front. An order was read to eorps116850966 In Hood's corps2831,5641,847 In Polk's corps46529675 3,388 As the interventionoroa, through Dallas, to Atlanta; and Lieutenant-General Polk to move to the same road, by a route hed the point designated to him that afternoon; Polk's was within four or five miles of it to the ea to our right than it had done the day before. Polk's corps was transferred to the right of Hood's,were given the assembled corps commanders, Generals Polk, Hood, and myself, for a general engagemendred and fifty-nine. by General Hardee; none by Polk, whose corps had not belonged to this army befo[37 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
The remaining troops of that army were corning through Georgia in little parties, or individually, unaided by the Government; most of them were united at Augusta afterward, by Lieutenant-General Lee, and conducted by him to the army near Smithfield, N. C. That spirited soldier, although still suffering from a wound received in Tennessee, had taken the field in this extremity. At least two-thirds of the arms of these troops had been lost in Tennessee. Lieutenant-General Stewart and Brigadier-General Polk, oral statement. They had, therefore, depended on the workshops of Alabama and Georgia for muskets, and had received but a partial supply. But this supply, and the additions that the Ordnance Department had the means of making to it, left almost thirteen hundred of that veteran infantry unarmed, and they remained so until the war ended. These detachments were without artillery and baggage-wagons, and consequently were not in condition to operate far from railroads. In acknowled
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