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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
lt to comprehend. That terrible crisis in the life of the nation was promptly met, and the salvation of the Republic was assured. In the mean time, the Confederates, flushed with victory, and satisfied that their so-called attorney-general (Benjamin) had predicted wisely, that pacification through recognition by France or England, or both, would occur in ninety days, and their independence be secured, were wasting golden moments in celebrating their own valor. It is reported that General Buckner, captured at Fort Donelson several months afterward, while on his way to Fort Warren, at Boston, as a prisoner of war, said to a gentleman in Albany: The effect of that battle was to inspire the Southerners with a blind confidence, and lull them into false security. The effect upon the Northerners, on the other hand, was to arouse, madden, and exasperate. Yet, in the manner of that unthriftiness of time and opportunity, there was a potential force that gave amazing strength to the Co
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
neutrality conference between McClellan and Buckner Magoffin encourages the secessionists, 72. reckenridge among the traitors operations of Buckner General Anderson's counter — action, 77. sech its politicians had placed it. He had sent Buckner to confer with General McClellan (then June ly denied ever making any such agreement with Buckner. Letter to Captain Wilson, of the United S and Hickman, speedily followed that act. Simon B. Buckner, the corrupter of the patriotism of largelle to forward re-enforcements. Fortunately, Buckner had been delayed, near Bowling Green, by the ain was thrown from the track. But for this, Buckner might have reached Louisville before Anderson against an invading foe. and in supporting Buckner in his treasonable operations in his native Sng Green, in the heart of Kentucky, under General Buckner, and who at that time were too weak to maNot a platoon of soldiers had gone. out from Buckner's camp in that direction. That retrograde mo[2 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
ng the region which the Nationals abandoned. See page 84. We left Southern Kentucky, from the mountains to the Mississippi River, in possession of the Confederates. Polk was holding the western portion, with his Headquarters at Columbus; General Buckner, with a strongly intrenched camp at Bowling Green, was holding the center; and Generals Zollicoffer and Marshall and others were keeping watch and ward on its mountain flanks. Back of these, and between them and the region where the rebellical events in Kentucky were in progress, military movements in that quarter.were assuming very important features. General Johnston concentrated troops at Bowling Green, and General Hardee was called from Southeastern Missouri, to supersede General Buckner in command there. The forces under General Polk at Columbus were strengthened, and Zollicoffer, having secured the important position of Cumberland Gap, proceeded to occupy the rich mineral and agricultural districts around the upper waters
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
valley, which separated the right wing under Buckner from the right center commanded by Colonel Hind by a succeeding movement on the center, by Buckner, cast the whole beleaguering army into confusthat reached to the river, just above Dover. Buckner was directed to strike Wallace's division, wh roll the enemy in full retreat over upon General Buckner, when, by his attack in flank and rear, their works in confusion. They withdrew, said Buckner, without panic, but in some confusion, to thenor the command; will die first. --Then, said Buckner, coolly, I suppose, gentlemen, the surrender f you move before I shall offer to surrender, Buckner replied. Then, sir, said Floyd, I surrender e sent to Camp Douglas, near Chicago ; Generals Buckner and Tilghman, who were captured at Fort Honists of Kentucky asked for the surrender of Buckner to the civil authorities of that State, to bebordinate officers; and of Floyd, Pillow, and Buckner, and their subordinates. Also written and or[11 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
and Louisville. Breckenridge had been left in Tennessee with a large force of all arms, to retard Buell and invest Nashville, then garrisoned by the divisions of Thomas, Negley, and Palmer, under the command of General Thomas. Bragg's advance under General J. R. Chalmers, about eight thousand strong, with seven guns, pushed on toward Louisville, and on the 14th, Sept. 1862. two brigades Composed of Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama troops. of the division of the Kentucky traitor, S. B. Buckner, under General Duncan, of Mississippi, encountered a little more than two thousand National troops, under Colonel T. J. Wilder, These consisted of about 200 recruits of the Seventeenth Indiana, and Sixty-seventh and Eighty-ninth of the same State, and one company each of the Eighteenth Regulars, of cavalry, and of the Louisville Provost Guards. Their guns consisted of three 12-pounders and a 8-inch rifled cannon, under Lieutenant Mason. The Thirteenth Indiana and Thirty-third Kentuc
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
ee's invasion. The leader of it was the famous guerrilla chief, John H. Morgan, already mentioned. See page 499, volume II. The raid about to be considered had manifold objects in behalf of the Confederacy, namely, to prepare the way for General Buckner, who was in East Tennessee on the borders of Kentucky, to dash into that State and seize Louisville, and, with Morgan, capture and plunder Cincinnati; to form a nucleus for an armed counter-revolution in the Northwest, where the Knights of tad fought and plundered on his way from Lebanon, and his ranks had been swelled by Kentucky secessionists to more than four thousand men, with ten guns. The advance of Rosecrans against Bragg at about this time had prevented the co-operation of Buckner, and Morgan determined to push on into Indiana and Ohio, in an independent movement. At Brandenburg, Morgan captured two steamers The McCombs was first seized, and, while lying in the stream, gave a signal of distress, when the fine steame
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
with Generals B. F. Cheatham, J. M. Withers, and S. B. Buckner as division commanders; and the Second by Lieuteans, then in possession of Chattanooga. General Simon B. Buckner was in command of about twenty thousand trve the abandonment of East Tennessee, Bragg ordered Buckner to evacuate the valley, and hasten to his assistance at Chattanooga. Buckner accordingly fled from Knoxville on the approach of Burnside, and it was his rear-gua possession of the Confederates, and held by one of Buckner's brigades, under General Frazer. That officer was ordered to join Buckner in his flight, but, on the recommendation of the latter, he was allowed to remain, witns back toward the Cumberland or capture his army. Buckner, as we have seen, was ordered to join him. Johnstonway to Ringgold or Dalton to intercept the march of Buckner from East Tennessee, or strike the Confederate rearn of the Southwest ) and J. C. Breckinridge. General S. B. Buckner's corps, two divisions, commanded by General
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
66. the Street porch alluded to in the text is seen at the front of the House. The nearer building to the right of it, partly covered by a high fence, was used by Governor Brownlow for his library and study. For awhile, when the Confederates held Knoxville, the family were absent, having joined the head of it, then in exile. In the gratification of a petty spite toward the stanch patriot, General E. Kirby Smith, when in Knoxville, stabled a pair of mules in Dr. Brownlow's library. When Buckner was holding East Tennessee, at the time Burnside entered it from Kentucky, he had his Headquarters at the pleasant House of the unflinching Unionist, and member of the National Congress, Horace Maynard, on main Street. accompanied by Colonel John Bell Brownlow, then editing his father's newspaper, the Knoxville, Whig, and also by several young Union officers, whose courtesy we can never forget. On the morning of the 23d May, 1866. we rode to the railway station, behind the large, stout,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
; his message of Dec. 30, 1860, 1.64; his indecision, 1. 73, 283; distrusted by the Southern conspirators, 1.143; painful position of, 1.146; changes in his cabinet, 1.146; his message of Jan. 8, 1861, 1.218; disruption of his cabinet, 2.527. Buckner, Gen. Simon B., left in command of Fort Donelson by Floyd and Pillow, 2.219; terms of surrender offered to by Grant, 2.220. Buell, Gen., Don Carlos, in command of the Department of the Ohio, 2.179; operations of, in Kentucky, 2.190-2.195; lea, Major E. A., gallantry of at the battle of Roanoke Island, 2.172. Kinston, N. C., battle near, 3.183. Kirksville, Mo. battle at, 2.532. Knights of the Golden Circle, mischievous influence of in Texas, 1.187. Knoxville, abandoned by Buckner on the approach of Burnside, 3.129; operations of Burnside from, 3.155; Longstreet moves on, 3.156; invested by Longstreet, 3.157; siege of, 3.171-3.175; visit of the author to in 1866, 3.284. Kulp House, battle of, 3.380. L. Lafayett
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 30 (search)
o the United States and to Kentucky. That State Guard, organized by Gen. Simon B. Buckner, under the auspices of Gov. Magoffin, became a mere recruiting and drilipened for their intended service. Ultimately, having corrupted all he could, Buckner followed them into the camp of open treason, The Louisville Journal of Sept. 27th denounced the treachery of Buckner in the following terms: Away with your pledges and assurances — with your protestations, apologies, and proclamations, r needs or their dignity. The climax was reached when June 10th, 1861. Gen. Buckner proclaimed that he had entered into a compact with Gen. McClellan, commandinany such treaty — or, in fact, any treaty at all. He had had an interview with Buckner, at the request of the latter, who had promised to drive out any Confederate force that should invade Kentucky--that was all. No doubt remained that Buckner had drawn largely on his imagination; proclaiming, as agreed on, much that he had scar
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