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wn better, permitted themselves to be carried away by the popular hallucination. The Executive Government approved of Captain Wilkes' conduct—the Secretary of the Navy, whose insane hatred of England was quite remarkable, making haste to write the Captain a congratulatory letter. But an awful collapse was at hand. Mr. Seward, as though he already heard the ominous rumbling of the distant English thunder, which was, anon, to break over his head, in tones that would startle him, on the 30th of November—the outrage had been committed on the 7th,—wrote, as follows, to his faithful sentinel, at the Court of London, Mr. Charles Francis Adams. We have done nothing, on the subject, to anticipate the discussion, and we have not furnished you with any explanation. We adhere to that course now, because we think it more prudent, that the ground taken by the British Government should be first made known to us, here. It is proper, however, that you should know one fact, in the case, without<
ur approach to the northern limit of the trade-wind, crossing which we shall pass into the variables. November 29th.—Thick, ugly weather—this term ugly being very expressive in the seaman's vocabulary. The wind is veering, as before, blowing half a gale, all the time, and a cold rain is pouring down, at intervals, causing the sailors to haul on their woollen jackets, and hunt up their long-neglected sou'westers. We observed in latitude 25° 51′ to-day; the longitude being 57° 36′. November 30th.—The morning has dawned bright, and beautiful, with a perfectly clear sky. The boisterous wind of yesterday has disappeared, and we have nearly a calm—the sea wearing its darkest tint of azure. We are, in fact, in the calmbelt of Cancer, and having no fuel to spare, we must be content to creep through it under sail, as best we may. A sail has been reported from aloft. It is a long way off, and we forbear to chase. December1st.—Another beautiful, bright, morning, with a gla
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
y could where would be the best place to attack the enemy. At the same time that these reconnoissances were made I sent a force, consisting of the 2d corps, under command of Major General Warren— increased by a division of the 6th corps, so that he had a force of 15,000 or 16,000 men—with directions to move upon the enemy's right flank and endeavor to find out how far his line extended, and if possible, to outflank him and to turn him. About 5 or 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th of November, I think, General Sedgwick, on my extreme right, reported to me, through General Wright, that there was a point of the enemy's left which he thought weak and assailable; that the enemy evidently had not expected an attack there, and had not prepared it with the same degree of care that they had prepared other portions of their lines. About this time Major Ludlow, one of my aides-de-camp, and whom I had sent with General Warren, returned from his column and reported to me that General
l Hood's telegram to General Beauregard, in Appendix. See also his report. It was a hard-fought battle, but, withal, a barren Confederate victory. On the 30th of November, in response to his telegram of the 24th, General Beauregard received the following letter from President Davis: Richmond, Nov. 30th, 1864. General Bee space and time which had been lost. Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, vol. II., p. 569. The italics are ours. It may have been too late on the 30th of November; but was it too late on the 12th of October, on the 22d and 24th of the same month, on the 3d and the 6th of November—dates at which both the President and to vague and equivocal, so liable to misconstruction, was the language made use of in Mr. Davis's despatch of November 7th to General Hood, and in his letter of November 30th to General Beauregard, that, had the campaign into Tennessee resulted in success instead of disaster, this same despatch and this identical letter could have b
his book (Advance and Retreat, p. 286 et seq.) General Hood also explains why he was so desirous that General Cheatham should no longer serve with him. In justice to the latter, however, it is but fair to lay before the reader this additional telegram, forwarded both to the Secretary of War and to General Beauregard, and of the same date as the preceding one: Headquarters, six miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, Dec. 8th, 1864. Major-General Cheatham made a failure on the 30th of November, which will be a lesson for him. I think it best he should remain in his position for the present. I withdraw my telegrams of yesterday and to-day on this subject. J. B. HooD, General. Unfortunately, when General Beauregard received the two telegrams he was so much absorbed in the operations along the southern coast of South Carolina and at Savannah, which was then threatened by General Sherman's army, that he could neither go to the Army of Tennessee, nor, at that time, assist Ge
4. Genl. G. T. Beauregard, Care Genl. Cobb: The following just received: Headquarters, Army of Tennessee, six miles from Nashville, on the Franklin Pike, Dec. 3d: via Burton, via Mobile, Dec. 8th, 1864. About 4 o'clock P. M., November 30th, we attacked the enemy at Franklin, drove them from their outer lines of temporary works into their inner works, which they abandoned during the night, leaving their dead and wounded in our possession, and retreated rapidly to Nashville, cloas been a severe lesson to him, by which he will profit in the future. In consideration of this, and of his previous conduct, I think it is best that he should retain, for the present, the command he now holds. Before daylight next morning (November 30th) the entire column of the enemy had passed us, retreating rapidly towards Franklin, burning many of their wagons. We followed as fast as possible, moving by the Columbia and Franklin pike; Lieutenant-General Lee, with the two divisions, and
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Connecticut Volunteers. (search)
Port Bisland, near Centreville, April 12-13. Irish Bend April 14. Opelousas April 20. Expedition to Alexandria and Simsport May 5-18. Near Cheyneyville May 18. Movement to Bayou Sara, thence to Port Hudson May 22-25. Siege of Port Hudson May 25-July 9. Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Surrender of Port Hudson July 9. Operations in Western Louisiana July to September, 1863. Sabine Pass (Texas) Expedition September 4-11. Teche Campaign October 3-November 30. Duty at New Iberia till January, 1864. Move to New Orleans and on veteran furlough till May. Duty at Carrollton till July. Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., thence to Washington, D. C., July 5-13. Snicker's Gap expedition July 14-23. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August to December. Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Winchester, Newtown and Summit Point till April, 1865.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Delaware Volunteers. (search)
e May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. Duty on line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan till October. Advance from line of the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 14. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. New Hope Church November 29. Mine Run November 28-30. At and near Stevensburg till May, 1864. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Po River May 10. Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient Bloody Angle May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-July 1. Jerusalem Plank Ro
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers. (search)
iana, operations in Teche Country October 3-November 30. Vermillion Bayou October 9-10. Opelo6. Waterword, or Lumpkin's Mills, November 29-30. About Oxford December 1-3. Prophet's and d operations in the Teche Country October 3-November 30. Reconnoissance toward Opelousas Octoberia, Duck River, November 24-28. Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15er. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 30. Duty in District of LaFourche and Defen City. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 30. Camp at Franklin till December 19. Ming Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. ing Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. le, Ky., October 12-18, and duty there till November 30. Expedition to Cavalrye City October 31-ing Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. [47 more...]
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Indiana Volunteers. (search)
st. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 30. Reconnoissance toward Opelousas OctoberRiver November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. sland November 17. Fort Esperanza November 27-30. Duty at Mustang Island and Indianola till Ma sea November 15-December 10. Louisville November 30. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Caiver, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. iver, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Western Louisiana Teche Campaign October 3-November 30. Moved to New Orleans, thence to DeCrow'r 31-November 26. Moved to Bledsoe Creek November 30. Pursuit of Morgan December 22, 1862, tobia Ford November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. treville November 27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. [39 more...]