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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 5: the Jubilee.—1865. (search)
t. Smalls was subsequently introduced to many distinguished gentlemen, to whom he narrated his interesting adventure with lively satisfaction. On the evening of that day, a handsome banquet was given April 14. at the Charleston Hotel, by General Gillmore, to the invited guests who came in the Arago; at the conclusion of which eloquent and stirring speeches were made by Judge Holt, Judge Kelley, Hon. Joseph Hoxie, Lieut.-Governor Anderson, George Thompson, Theodore Tilton, and others. The sped the party at Beaufort. To quote Mr. Beecher: We had returned to Beaufort, and were on the eve of going Lib. 35.84. upon shore to enjoy a social interview, before setting out for Savannah, when a telegram came to Senator Wilson from Gen. Gillmore. As the boy that brought it passed me, I jocosely asked him some questions about it. Presently Senator Wilson came out of his cabin, much agitated, and said, Good God! The President is killed! and read the dispatch. It was not grief, it w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 14 (search)
former slaves should not merely follow good moral examples, but set them. As all men in that day knew, there was a formidable variation in this respect in different regiments, some of the volunteer officers whose military standard was the highest being the lowest in their personal habits. General Saxton would issue special orders from time to time to maintain a high tone morally in the camp, as he did, indeed, in the whole region under his command. He was never in entire harmony with General Gillmore, the military commander of the department, whose interest was thought to lie chiefly in the artillery service; and while very zealous and efficient in organizing special expeditions for his own particular regiments, Saxton kept up, as we thought at the time, a caution beyond what was necessary in protecting the few colored regiments which he had personally organized. When the Florida expedition was planned, which resulted in the sanguinary defeat at Olustee, he heartily disapproved of
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
the cause not only of union, but of liberty also; and not the cause of one nation only, but of civilization. Sumner wrote to E. L. Pierce, Beaufort, S. C., July 1:β€” Horace Greeley, sometimes called General Greeley, is the author of General Gillmore's appointment. To the Department of the South. . . . There will be no change there until he has had his trial. Hooker was relieved at his own request; but he was led to make the request by a disagreement with Halleck. Meade was the choiy ability and in his holdfast character, β€”and yet I confess that to my military eye, so far as I may judge such things, his position does not look right. But what then? His defeat would only postpone, not change, the result. At Charleston General Gillmore has done all that for the present he can do; he now waits for the navy. This is stopped, not by batteries and fire, but by ropes under the water, which are contrived to foul the screws of the monitors, by which they would be rendered unmana
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
s vessel assisted, as a reserve, in the capture of the Atlanta in Wassaw Sound, on June 17, and assisted in covering General Gillmore's batteries on Folly Island, July 10, an engagement in which the Nahant was hit six times. He joined with the others a folly, nay, almost a crime. (War Diary of General G. H. Gordon, p. 289) General Gordon had little patience with General Gillmore, whose military qualities, apart from engineering, were not highly esteemed by those under him. With admirable scoutief object of the enterprise, which was to ascend as high as the Charleston and Savannah railroad and cut it. See General Gillmore's report in Official War Records, 46, p. 8, and Colonel Higginson's report, p. 194. Compare Higginson's Army Life in Artillery. 3d Brigade, 9th Mass. Battery (Capt. John Bigelow). Army of the James (Butler). Tenth Army Corps (Gillmore). First Division.β€”3d Brigade, 24th Mass. (Col. F. A. Osborne). Second Division.β€”1st Brigade, 40th Mass. (Col. Guy
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
ral Hunter undertook operations against Charleston in conjunction with the fleet under the late Admiral Dupont. The land forces, however, effected little, and the great naval contest of the 7th of April ended unsuccessfully for us. In June, General Gillmore relieved General Hunter, and soon afterwards he commenced the series of operations by which he captured Fort Wagner and silenced Fort Sumter. Folly Island was first seized, and then a landing effected on Morris Island, at the northern extremhas been very heavy down to this time, seven A. M. Every regiment in the department, but two or three, is up there on Folly. Six companies only of the Twenty-fourth have gone. Four of us, unlucky ones, are left here in garrison by order of General Gillmore. He said they should be of the Twenty-fourth, and the Colonel, or General Stevenson, said that the four companies should be the four largest. . . . . The society I am in is very good here, but I am inexpressibly disgusted, of course. I hat
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
Fuller, Timothy, I. 72. Fuller, Timothy, Rev., I. 73. Furness, H. H., I. 311. G. Gansevoort, Col., I. 303. Gardner, Francis, II. 43, 208;, 363. Garrison, W. P., II. 159. Gavazzi, Father, II. 45, 46;. Gelray, J. W., Major, II. 137. Gholson, Ann Jane, II. 237. Gholson, S. C., II. 237. Gholson, W. Y., Jr., Capt., Memoir, I. 237-242. Gholson, Thomas, II. 237. Gholson, Thomas, Jr., II. 237. Gibbon, John, Maj.-Gen., I. 92, 430;, 431; H. 100, 428, 454. Gillmore, Q. A., Maj.-Gen., I. 373. Glasgow, Mr., II. 237. Goldsborough, Com. . II. 108, 109;, 110, 254. Goodhue, Clarissa, II. 230. Goodhue, S., II. 230. Goodrich, Allen, I. 126. Goodrich, Charles B., I. 177. Goodrich, J. F., Memoir, I. 126-131. Goodrich, Mary E., I. 126. Goodwin, Lucy C., I. 273. Goodwin, Ozias, I. 273. Goodwin, R. C., Private, Memoir, I. 273, 274;. Also, I. 355; II. 186, 369;. Goodwin, W. W., Prof., II. 304. Gordon, G. H. Maj.-Gen. I. 134, 1
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 27: (search)
the 10th, to prevent Hunter from crossing the Blue ridge toward Charlottesville and destroying the Virginia Central railroad, thus again anticipating and interfering with Grant's plan of campaign. On the 8th, Butler sent a body of cavalry and infantry to capture Petersburg and destroy the bridges across the Appomattox. Grant says of this movement, in his official report: The cavalry carried the works on the south side and penetrated well in toward the town, but were forced to retire. General Gillmore, finding the works which he approached very strong, and deeming an assault impracticable, returned to Bermuda Hundred without attempting one. Thus failed the first Federal attempt to capture the Cockade City. On the 7th of June, Grant sent, as he reports, two divisions of cavalry, under General Sheridan, on an expedition against the Virginia Central railroad, with instructions to Hunter, whom I hoped he would meet near Charlottesville, to join his forces to Sheridan's, and, after th
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
Mine Run Campaign 29 II, 522, 932 Rappahannock River, Va. 29 i, 557 Frick, Kilian: Vicksburg, Miss. 17 i, 611 Fuller, John W.: Atlanta, Ga. 38 III, 479-482 Fuller, W. G.: Ship Island, Miss. 41 IV, 777 Fullerton, Joseph S.: Dallas Line, Ga. 38 i, 866 Marietta, Ga. 38 i, 880 Garrard, Israel: Atlanta, Ga. 38 v, 536 Geary, John W.: Peach Tree Creek, Ga. 38 II, 139 Gibbon, John: North Anna River, Va. 36 III, 188 Gillmore, Quincy A.: Fort Sumter, S. C. 28 i, 25, 29, 597, 601, 603 Gilmer, Jeremy F.: Alabama River obstructions. 15, 1020 Gonzales, Ambrosio Jose: Edisto Island, S. C. 6, 279 James Island, S. C. 28 II, 408, 409 Granger, Gordon: Fort Blakely, Ala., Union works 49 i, 145 Franklin, Tenn 23 i, 225 Gray, A. B.: New Madrid, Mo., and Island no.10 8, 146, 147 Grose, William: Stone's River, Tenn. 20 i, 564 Hains, Peter C.: Fredericksburg, V
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
4 69, 3; 99, 2 Dinwiddie Court-House, Va., March 31, 1865 74, 2 Fisher's Hill, Va., Sept. 22, 1864 99, 2 Five Forks, Va., April 1, 1865 68, 3 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Aug. 7-Nov. 28, 1864 69, 1, 2 Sheridan's cavalry operations, 1864-65 74, 1 Tom's Brook, Va., Oct. 9, 1864 69, 3 Waynesborough, Va., March 2, 1865 72, 3, 7 Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864 99, 1 Gilliss, John R.: Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington and Newport, Ky. 103, 2 Gillmore, Quincy A.: Cape Fear River, N. C., 1864 76, 4 Charleston, S. C., 1863-64 4, 1 Charleston Harbor, S. C., view off North Channel 4, 1 Memphis, Tenn., and environs 114, 6 Morris Island, S. C., July 10-Sept, 7, 1863 38, 2; 44, 1, 2, 4 Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tenn. 114, 4 Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 10-11, 1862 5, 3, 4 Savannah, Ga., and vicinity 133, 3 Gilmer, Jeremy F.: Hanover, Henrico, and Chesterfield Counties, Va. 135, 3 Petersburg, Va
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
was under orders to advance, at day-break, to Port Walthall Junction, three miles nearer. The line of the enemy's forces under Butler, comprising the corps of Gillmore and W. F. Smith (10th and 18th) was generally parallel to our intermediate line of works, somewhat curved, concentric and exterior to our own, they held our own Sumter, trained for the beach of Morris Island, gave notice that another attempt was to be made to throw a column into Wagner by escalade. It was even so. General Gillmore, fully alive to the difficulties which the topographical features of the ground presented for regular approaches, and counting with reason upon the damagingbefore dawn on the 27th, under cover of the flying sap, the trenches were pushed about one hundred yards nearer to the fort. Notwithstanding this success, General Gillmore, in his report, speaks of this period as the dark and gloomy days of the siege, and of the progress made as discouragingly slow, and even painfully uncertain
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