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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 91.-General Sherman's expedition. (search)
s Bend, January 4, 1863. General order, No. 5. Pursuant to the terms of General Order, No. 1, made this day by Gen. McClernand, the title of our army ceases to exist, and constitutes in the future the Army of the Mississippi, composed of two ay. All officers of the general staff not attached to my person will hereafter report in person and by letter to Major-General McClernand, commanding the army of the Mississippi, on board the steamer Tigress, at our rendezvous at Gaines's Landing, an the others who were to assist. It was also known to General Sherman that the President had selected and designated Gen. McClernand as his agent to command the expedition. This may account for the haste in which Gen. Sherman started from Memphis breaping all the glory, that on the way down he was quite hilarious over the conceit, and wondered what Mac (meaning General McClernand) would think of it when he found how he had got the start of him? Alas for human vanity! The bladder is punctured
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
Doc. 101.-battle of Arkansas Post. Report of Major-General McClernand. headquarters army of the Mississippi, steamer Tigress, Miss. River, January 20, 186363. sir: I have the honor to inform you that on the fourth of January, General McClernand concluded to move up the river upon the Post of Arkansas, and requested m shots the enemy left the works, and our troops marched in. At two o'clock Gen. McClernand told me the troops would be in position to assault the main fort — a very attack when the troops were in position. At half-past 5 in the afternoon, Gen. McClernand sent me a message, stating that every thing was ready, and the Louisville,redit of doing the most execution. I was informed again this morning by Gen. McClernand, that the army was waiting for the navy to attack, when they would assaulton was needed, and General Sherman was not superseded a moment two soon. General McClernand had taken command in his place. At the mouth there was a pause, and Wh
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 190 (search)
n comparing notes, the route was deemed practicable and so reported to Major-General McClernand. In four days from that date, my division, with the aid of Captain Peearly opposite the Shaffer farmhouse, at that time the headquarters of Major-General McClernand. The first brigade occupied the position in front, nearest the enemy'entre of my line of battle. At this juncture I received orders from Major-General McClernand to hold my division as a reserve until the arrival of the Tenth divisiing almost overwhelming numbers. About seven o'clock A. M., aids from Major-General McClernand came rapidly forward, with orders directing me, without the least delan all were on the alert, eager for the coming fray. At this juncture, Major-General McClernand came dashing to the front, asking a thousand questions as to the posit General Osterhaus having thus secured our rear, by special direction of General McClernand, I ordered the Thirty-third Illinois, commanded by the cool and fearless
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 202 (search)
idable stand at this place. Black River bridge is only important to the rebels as being necessary to hold their communication between Jackson and Vicksburgh. With Jackson in our possession, and the railroad destroyed at several points, it was thought they could gain nothing by fighting for the bridge, which is the only object of the battle commenced to-day. I say commenced to-day, because I believe it will be continued to-morrow, and may last still longer. General Hovey's division of McClernand's corps held the advance on the night of the fifteenth. The rebels were known to be awaiting our approach, in the vicinity of Edwards's Station. This morning, at about seven o'clock, General Hovey commenced moving toward Big Black River. A company of cavalry was thrown out as an advance-guard. They had proceeded but a short distance, when they were met by the enemy's cavalry, supposed to be a part of Wirt Adams's regiment. After a little skirmishing, the rebels fell back. Our cavalry
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 203 (search)
y corps was engaged. It is superfluous to add that the troops comprising this corps fought as they always do, excellently well. In the morning, after a night's bivouac on the hill overlooking the village of Edwards's Station, the column, with McClernand at its head, moved toward Black River bridge. The citizens who were questioned on the subject said the position was most strongly fortified at the crossing, and we naturally thought the enemy would make stubborn resistance there. We were! noengagement. Hastily deploying a heavy line of skirmishers to the right of the road, backed up by the two brigades of Carr's division in line of battle behind it, with General Osterhaus's division on the left of the road similarly disposed, General McClernand gave the order to advance. Soon in the depths of the thick forest the skirmishers of both armies were hotly engaged, while batteries of artillery, planted on the right and left of the road, poured shot and shell into the fort most furiousl
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 210 (search)
Doc. 200.-the charge at Vicksburgh, Miss. General McClernand's letter. headquarters Thirteenth army corps, in the field near Vicksburgh, Miss., May 28, 1863. dear Governor: I snatch a moment, amid pressing and responsible duties, to address you a few lines on the subject of our recent operations. The rattle of musbridge, the man to whom honor is dearer than life, came back with his brigade, his eyes glaring, and the perspiration standing thick upon his haggard face. General McClernand, of a nervous, sensitive temperament, seemed much depressed at the slaughter of his men. Carr, the hero of Pea Ridge, who had freely exposed himself all daybly. Mistakes cannot be avoided in such rapidity of action. The men came back singly or in groups. Some regiments formed a line on the top of the ridge. General McClernand, in a low tone, called his division commanders around him, and while the big drops of rain commenced falling, soldiers were calling on comrades' names and c
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 214 (search)
Doc. 204.-siege of Vicksburgh, Mississippi. Congratulatory order of Gen. McClernand. headquarters Thirteenth army corps, battle-field in rear of Vicksburgh, May 31, 1863. General orders, No. 72. comrades: As your commander, I am proud to congratulate you upon your constancy, valor, and success. History affords no more brilliant example of soldierly qualities. Your victories have followed in such rapid succession that their echoes have not yet reached the country. They will al! Let our common sufferings and glories, while uniting as a band of brothers, rouse us to new and surpassing efforts! Let us resolve upon success, God helping us. I join with you, comrades, in your sympathy for the wounded and sorrow for the dead. May we not trust — nay, is it not so, that history will associate the martyrs of this sacred struggle for law and order, liberty and justice, with the honored martyrs of Monmouth and Bunker Hill? John A. McClernand, Major-General Commanding
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
Austin!” --“Nearly twelve:” --“Then don't you go! Can it be that all this happened — all this — not an hour ago! “There was where the gunboats opened on the dark, rebellious host, And where Webster semicircled his last guns upon the coast-- There were still the two log-houses, just the same, or else their ghost-- And the same old transport came and took me over — or its ghost! “And the whole field lay before me, all deserted far and wide-- There was where they fell on Prentiss — there McClernand met the tide , There was where stern Sherman rallied, and where Hurlbut's heroes died-- Lower down, where Wallace charged them, and kept charging till he died! “There was where Lew Wallace showed them he was of the cannie kin-- There was where old Nelson thundered and where Rousseau waded in-- There McCook sent them to breakfast, and we all began to win-- There was where the grape-shot took me just as we began to win. “Now a shroud of snow and silence over every thing
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Incidents of Vicksburgh, Miss. (search)
housand killed, wounded, and missing. The Fourth Iowa, in Thayer's brigade, and Thirteenth Illinois, in Blair's brigade, suffered most. In these two regiments the killed and wounded amount to near three hundred. The Fifty-eighth Ohio is said to have suffered considerably. Colonel Dresler, one of the best officers in the service, is numbered among the killed. Colonel Wyman, Thirteenth Illinois, was mortally wounded in the action of the twenty-eighth, and has since died. General Morgan L. Smith was wounded on the same day, but not seriously. He is recovering, and will be able to return to his command in a few days. We are not in Vicksburgh yet. A change has been made in the programme. Instead of storming this formidable citadel of rebeldom, we go North. General McClernand has arrived and supersedes Sherman. Such are the mutations of military operations, that correspondents can't help but be mistaken. The army is in excellent spirits. Push forward the columns. Aksarben.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
espatches to the Lieutenant-General giving a report of the condition of affairs; that the fleet could not pass the rapids, that there was no course for the army but to remain for its protection; that the enemy would concentrate all his forces at that point for the destruction of the army and the fleet; and that it was necessary to concentrate our troops west of the Mississippi, and the same point by which the army and navy could be relieved, and the forces of the enemy destroyed. Major-General McClernand, with the largest part of the forces recently at Matagorda Bay, which had been evacuated by order of Lieutenant-General Grant, dated March thirty-first, arrived at Alexandria oh the evening of the twenty-ninth of April. Brigadier-General Fitz Henry Warren, left in command at Matagorda Bay, followed with the rest of the forces in Texas, except those on the Rio Grande, when the batteries of the enemy on the river near Marksville obstructed his passage. Not having sufficient force to
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