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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ssion as Republican representative from Massachusetts.] General Orders No. 10, issued from army headquarters by direction of the President, assigning Gen. J. M. Schofield to command 1st Military District; Gen. D. E. Sickles to command 2d Military District; Gen. G. H. Thomas to command 3d Military District; Gen. E. O. C. Ord to command 4th Military District; Gen. P. H. Sheridan to command 5th Military District......March 11-12, 1867 Gen. John Pope assigned to 3d Military District, General Thomas to command Department of the Cumberland......March 15, 1867 Peabody Southern educational fund (a gift of $2,100,000 from George Peabody) transferred to a board of trustees, Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears superintendent......March 22, 1867 Supplementary reconstruction act concurred in March 19, vetoed by President, March 23; is passed over his veto by the House, 114 to 25, and by the Senate, 40 to 7......March 23, 1867 Congress adjourns to July 3, after a session of twenty-six days......M
etermined to find other fields of operation for General Thomas' surplus troops-fields from which they would cooperate with other movements. General Thomas was therefore directed to collect all troops, not essential to headiness for orders. On the seventh of January General Thomas was directed, if he was assured of the departur of the defeat and utter rout of Hood's army by General Thomas, and that, owing to the great difficulty of pro On the morning of the thirty-first of January General Thomas was directed to send a cavalry expedition, unde), on the twenty-seventh of February I directed General Thomas to change his course, and ordered him to repeatebruary the following communication was sent to General Thomas: City Point, Va., February 14, 1865. to this the following communication was sent to General Thomas: City Point, Va., March 7, 1865--9:30 A. nd the army defending it under General Dick Taylor; Thomas was pushing out two large and well-appointed cavalr
Doc. 43. report of Major-General Thomas. Operations of the Army under his command, from September 7, 1864, to January 20, 1865. headquarters Department of the Cumberland, Eastport, Miss., January 20, 1865. Colonel: I have the honor to report the operations of my command from the date of the occupation of Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: From the seventh to the thirtieth of September, the Fourth, Fourteenth, and Twentieth Army Corps, composing the Army of the Cumberland, remained quietly in camp around the city of Atlanta. The enemy was reported posted in the neighborhood of Jonesboroa. During the greater portion of the above-mentioned period an armistice existed between the two armies for the purpose of exchanging prisoners captured on both sides during the preceding campaign. About the twentieth of September the enemy's cavalry, under Forrest,crossed the Tennessee river near Waterloo, Alabama, and appeared in front of Athens, Alabama, on the twenty-third, after havi
r, B. D., 484 Thayer, C. H., 424 Thayer, C. P., 424 Thayer, E. W., 110, 484 Thayer, G. A., 151 Thayer, G. F., 424 Thayer, J. F., 554 Thayer, J. H., 424 Thayer, Josiah, 484 Thayer, L. W., 424 Thayer, N. L., 554 Thayer, N. W., 554 Thayer, R. W., 325 Thayer, W. F., 554 Thissell, J. W., 424 Thoburn, Joseph, 109, 110, 112, 113 Thomas, Adoniram, 484 Thomas, Charles, 554 Thomas, E. C., 554 Thomas, E. L., 484 Thomas, Elijah, 424 Thomas, Francis, 100, 425 Thomas, G. B., 484 Thomas, G. H., 105 Thomas, Henry, 425 Thomas, J. D., 554 Thomas, J. E., 554 Thomas, J. H., 484 Thomas, J. W., 554 Thomas, John, 425 Thomas, Lorenzo, 23 Thomas, R. E., 425 Thomas, Samuel, 563 Thomas, Stephen, 228 Thomas, Weston, 484 Thomas, William, 425 Thompson, A. E., 425 Thompson, A. F., 65 Thompson, A. M., 563 Thompson, Alexander, 425 Thompson, C., 554 Thompson, C. H., 554 Thompson, C. W., 425 Thompson, Charles, 425 Thompson, DeW. C., 160 Thompson, F. W., 22d Mass. Inf., 425
4, 340. Big Creek Gap, Tenn., I., 358. Big Hill, Madison Co., Ky. , II., 322. Big River bridge, Mo., I., 352. Big Sandy River, Ky., I., 180. Big Shanty, Ga., IV., 206. Big Tybee Island, Ga., I., 361; VI., 236. Bigelow, J., II., 106, 250; VI., 25, 291. Bigelow, J., Jr. II., 121. Biglow Papers, J. R. Lowell, IX., 23, 256. Biles, E. R., VIII., 319. Billings, J. S., VII., 223. Billups, J., VII., 123. Billy, horse of G. H. Thomas, IV., 314. Biloxi, Miss., VI., 312. Bird's Point, Mo. (see also Charleston, Mo.), I., 177, 350. Birdsong Ferry, Miss., II., 340. Birge, H. W., X., 197. Birney, D. B.: II., 51, 237; III., 76, 90, 208, 321; X., 187, 212, 290. Birney, W., X., 219. Bisland, La., II., 332. Bivouac in McClellan's Army, IX., 135. Bivouac on a mountain side, Walt Whitman, IX., 132. Bixley, G. H., II., 193. Black, J., VII., 125. Black, J. C.,
Chartres, Due de, I., 115. Chase, S. P., I., 28; X., 12. Chase, W. H.: demands surrender of Fort Pickens, Fla., VIII., 156. Chasseur,, U. S. S., I., 356. Chatfield, S. C., battery at, V., 110, 117. Chattahoochee bridge, Ga., III., 121. Chattahoochee River, Ga.: III., 18, 119, 124, 130, 216, 326. Chattahoochie Creek, bridge over, V., 299. Chattanooga, Tenn.: I., 94, 96, 121, 128, 132, 136; II., 146, 166, 178, 272. 289; headquarters of Gen. G. H. Thomas at, II., 291; famine threatening the Union army before battle of, II., 294; Federal troops in, II., 309; Union and Confederate losses at, II., 318, 346; III., 16, 30, 114, 214, 216, 220, 222, 253, 346; Federal cavalry guarding, IV., 147 seq., 160, 241; V., 50; captured Confederate guns at V., 69, 206, 208, 251, 254, 292, 298, 302; VI., 233, 234; VII., 35, 266, 272; Confederate prisoners at, VII., 37; Confederate food supplies, reinforced, VIII., 52, 103, 207, 208; where Sherman's march
neral Parkhill, ship, VI., 122. General Polk,, C. S. S., VI., 218. General Price,, C. S. S.: I., 237, 238, 241, 242 seq.; VI., 85, 151, 222. General Rusk,, C. S. S., VI., 45. General Sherman,, U. S. S., VI., 233. General Thomas,, U. S. S., VI., 233. General Van Dorn,, C. S. S.: I., 237, 238, 241, 246; VI., 222. Genesee,, U. S. S., VI., 217. Genito, Va., V., 266. George, G. H., IV., 95. George Page,, C. S. S., VI., 84. George Peabo68, 81, 85, 95, 96 seq., 116, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124 seq., 127, 128 seq., 132, 133, 174 seq., 178 seq., 179, 181 seq., 194, 198 seq., 200 seq., 203, 205, 212, 245, 248, 360, 365; II., 11, 142, 183, 188, 193, 198, 199, 203, 205, 226, 234, 264; at Thomas' headquarters, 1863, II., 290 seq., 296, 318, 321, 340,. 345; III., 13, 14, 22, 26; at Meade's headquarters, Brandy Station, Va., III., 29; I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer! III., 33, 45, 46, 52, 53, 59, 60, 62, 68,
, 169, 170, 171. Marches: of the Federal armies, VIII., 202; long, VIII., 204, 214. Marching: and its lessons to the soldier, VIII., 164; and foraging, VIII., 197; appearance of soldiers, VIII., 203; step, length of, VIII., 205; songs, IX., 20; tunes, IX., 342 seq. Marching through Georgia, H. C. Work, IX., 168, 235, 243, 344. Marcey, R. B., V., 75. Maria,, C. S. S., VI., 123. Marianna, Ark., II., 326. Marianna, Fla., III., 332. Marietta, Ga.: G. H. Thomas headquarters at, III., 119; battle of Kenesaw Mountain at Big Shanty, III., 322; VII., 266; VIII., 332. Marines, Confederate, in defense of Richmond, VI., 289. Marines, U. S.: Battalion of, I., 348, on western rivers, VI., 68-9; in land assault on Fort Fisher, VI., 248, 257, 259. Marion Artillery Company, Charleston, S. C. , V., 60. Markham, Mr. I., 233. Marks Mills, Ark., II., 352. Marlborough, J. C., I., 196. Marmaduke, J. S.: II., 326, 330, 332,
ts, VIII., 186. Rinaldo, H. M. S., reception of Confederate Commission on, VI., 312. Ringgold, C., VI., 19. Ringgold, C. W., VII., 133. Ringgold, Ga.: W. P. Carlin and staff at, II., 169, 276, 309, 346; headquarters of General Thomas at, III., 107; camp at, IX., 170. Ringgold's Penn. Cavalry, I., 354; II., 348. Rio Grande River, Tex., VI., 39, 110. Ripley, E. H., X., 307. Ripley, J., V., 126. Ripley, it. S.: II., 67, 320, 324; V., 134, 183, 26C.: III., 54; X., 225, 296. Robinson, J. S., X., 233. Robinson, W., VI., 301. Robinson House, Bull Run, Va. , I., 157. Roche, J. J., IX., 204 seq. Roche, T. G., I., 42. Rock of Chickamauga, name given to General Thomas, II., 288; X., 122. Rock Creek, D. C., V., 94; VIII., 98. Rock Creek, Pa., II., 238. Rock Hill, Va., IV., 243. Rock Island, Ill.: arsenal at, V., l46; prison, VII, 44, 66, 82, 168. Rock Spring, Ga., VI., 147.
a., III., 244. Six Hundred, charge of the. II., 81. Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad, Va. , III, 330. Sixth Brigade Iv., 282. Slack, W. Y., X., 149. Slaughter, J. E., X., 321. Slaughter, J. H., III, 346. Slaughter's house, Cedar Mountain, Va. , II., 29. Slaughter Mountain, Va., II., 26. Slavery: not the South's reason for fighting, VIII., 116; IX., 294, 316; X., 134. Sledd, B., IX., 190. Sledge of Nashville: name given to General Thomas, III., 263. Sleeper, Captain Iii., 71. Sleeping for the flag, XI. C. Work, IX., 344. Sleeping on guard, execution for, VIII., 96. Slemmer, A. J.: I., 4, 86, 347 seq.; V., 59; VIII., 106, 156. Slidell, J.: I., 354; VI., 291, 298, 299, 310, 312. Slocum, H. W.: I., 44, 321, 328; II., 108, 110, 248, 254, 334, 340; III, 138, 222, 232, 244, 347; X., 162, 177, 182. Sloo, A., L, 179. Sloss, R., I, 10. Slough, J. B., X., 195. Slye, D. W.,
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