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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
re killed. Halleck, who had determined to make the Tennessee the great strategic line of the Western campaign, now began to concentrate all of his forces on that river and the Mississippi, in order to fight a great battle on the Tennessee, one which would settle the campaign in the West. He consequently ordered Curtis not to advance any farther into Arkansas; and sent out of Missouri all the troops that could be safely taken thence, some of them to Pope on the Mississippi, and others to Grant on the Tennessee. The concentration of Federal armies on the Mississippi portended such danger to Beauregard, who had lately assumed command of the defenses of that river, that General Albert Sidney Johnston ordered Van Dorn to move his army to within supporting distance of Beauregard. This Van Dorn began to do on the 17th of March, on which day he wrote to General Johnston that he would soon relieve Beauregard by giving battle to the enemy near New Madrid, or, by marching boldly and ra
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
e Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. In his written instructions General Grant was directed to act in concert with Commander Rodgers and Colon 4th I sent heavy guns and an artillery officer to Cairo, where General Grant had just arrived from Girardeau. I telegraphed the President i to include Kentucky in my command. September 5th I sent to General Grant a letter of instruction, in which I required him to push forwaree. On the evening of the day on which this letter was sent to General Grant, the officer who had been sent by me within the Confederate line enemy was advancing on Paducah. He judged it right to inform General Grant, urging him to take Paducah without delay. General Grant decidGeneral Grant decided to do so, and in accordance with his instructions of the 28th immediately moved on Paducah with an adequate force and two gun-boats. He r be made without delay or molestation to the troops. Meanwhile General Grant would take possession of the entire Cairo and Fulton railroad,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., General Polk and the battle of Belmont. (search)
before 11 o'clock. With his line well extended Grant bore down upon the Confederate position, and, Belmont a force fully equal to that with which Grant was acting. Finding now that this force was bo Belmont additional reinforcements. Striking Grant upon the flank and rear, he drove him from Phe high ground at Columbus aided materially in Grant's discomfiture; as, after the Confederates werwere able to rake the Federal position. General Grant, in his Personal memoirs (New York: C. L. he discovery and capture of this force. General Grant thus describes the return to the boats: Th similar chain of occurrences and conclusions, Grant was defeated at Belmont. Of the result of t meet my friend Buford. My interview with General Grant was, on the whole, satisfactory. It was anciples on which I thought Reembarkation of Grant's troops after the battle. From a drawing by discovered symptoms of a like weakness in General Grant. After they had been conversing for some [10 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The gun-boats at Belmont and Fort Henry. (search)
e War Department, and acting in cooperation with the army under General Grant, whose headquarters were at Cairo. On the evening of the 6th of November, 1861, I received instructions from General Grant to proceed down the Mississippi with the wooden gun-boats Tyler and Lexingtonntucky, I attacked the Confederate batteries, at the request of General Grant, as a diversion, which was done with some effect. But the suptment. The officers of the vessels were highly complimented by General Grant for the important aid they rendered in this battle; and in his of 1861-62, an expedition was planned by Flag-Officer Foote and Generals Grant and McClernand against Fort Henry, situated on the eastern bankrs to take command of the Fort and hold it until the arrival of General Grant. General Tilghman was a soldierly looking man, a little abors into the water. But few of the garrison escaped unhurt. General Grant, with his staff, rode into the fort about 3 o'clock on the same
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The defense of Fort Henry. (search)
was introduced by my old messmates, Lieutenant-Commanders Gwin and Shirk. Here I first saw General Grant, who impressed me, at the time, as a modest, amiable, kind-hearted but resolute man. While wDid I not know that I laid myself open to punishment, etc., etc. Before I could reply fully, General Grant quietly broke in with, I would be very much surprised and mortified if one of my subordinateWe were detained for several days at the fort and were confined to the same steamer on which General Grant had established his headquarters, and as the officers, Confederate and Federal, messed — togTwo of the younger Confederate officers having obtained liquor became vociferous. At dinner General Grant did not take his seat with the rest, and this restraint being removed, the young men, despitsisted in discussing politics, military men and movements, etc. While they were thus engaged General Grant, unobserved by them, entered, took his seat, and dined without appearing to notice their con
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
d a useful purpose in its time, and a policy that had the respectful consideration of the leading men of that day could not have been so absurd as it seems now. On the 3d of September General Polk, who was in command in western Tennessee, caused Columbus, Kentucky, to be occupied, on account of the appearance of a body of Union troops on the opposite side of the Mississippi. Thus the neutrality of Kentucky was first broken by the Confederates.-editors. Hearing of this, on the 5th General Grant moved from Cairo and occupied Paducah. A few days afterward General Zollicoffer advanced with four Confederate regiments through Cumberland Gap to Cumberland Ford. The Union Legislature had met on the 2d. Resolutions were passed on the 11th requiring the governor to issue a proclamation ordering the Confederate troops to leave the State. They were promptly vetoed and promptly passed over the veto, and the proclamation was issued. In spite of the governor's opposition, acts were pass
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Marshall and Garfield in eastern Kentucky. (search)
have subsisted his troops among the impoverished mountains. Indeed, Colonel Garfield could not have maintained his position a week, without the aid of the river, by which supplies were brought on steamboats. On the 16th of March, 1862, Garfield with 750 men made an attack on a battalion of Virginia militia, occupying Pound Gap, and drove them away and burned the log-huts built for winter quarters. Soon after this he was ordered to report to General Buell, who had gone to the relief of General Grant at Pittsburg Landing. This he did on the 7th of April, 1862, in time to take part in the second day's contest. General Marshall was born January 13th, 1812, in Frankfort, Ky., and came of a most distinguished family, which included Chief-Justice John Marshall of Virginia, the historian Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky, and the orator and lawyer Thomas F. Marshall. He was four times elected to Congress from the Louisville District, and was Minister to China under President Fillmore. I
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
umberland River, a sentinel, in the serviceable butternut jeans uniform of the Confederate army of the West, might that Map of Fort Donelson, as invested by General Grant; based on the official map. By General J. B. McPherson. day have surveyed Fort Donelson almost ready for battle. In fact, very little was afterward done to ittaff. Dover was converted into a depot of supplies and ordnance stores. These dispositions made, Fort Donelson was ready for battle. it may be doubted if General Grant called a council of war. The nearest approach to it was a convocation held on the Glimpse of the Cumberland River where the gun-boats first appeared, lookino the gun-boat Blackhawk. the morning of the 11th of February, a staff-officer visited each commandant of division and brigade with the simple verbal message: General Grant sends his compliments, and requests to see you this afternoon on his boat. minutes of the proceedings were not kept; there was no adjournment; each person ret
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The battle of Shiloh. (search)
C. F. Smith was on the right, also in reserve. General Smith was Map of the field of Shiloh. The map used with General Grant's article on Shiloh, as first printed in The Century Magazine for February, 1885, was a copy of the official map (see page 508) which was submitted by the editors to General Grant and was approved by him. Subsequently General Grant, through his son, Colonel Frederick D. Grant, furnished the editors with a revision of the official map, agreeing in every respect witGeneral Grant, through his son, Colonel Frederick D. Grant, furnished the editors with a revision of the official map, agreeing in every respect with the map printed in the Memoirs, here reproduced. In response to an inquiry by the editors for the reasons which influenced General Grant in making the substitution, Colonel Grant wrote as follows, under date of Chicago, Ill., March 20th, 1887: rmy to prove or disprove the high estimate that had been placed upon his military ability. In his Personal memoirs General Grant says: I once wrote that nothing occurred in his brief command. of an army to prove or disprove the high estimate tha
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
The next steamer is the Tigress, which was General Grant's headquarters boat during the Shiloh campe it secure against a superior adversary. General Grant continued his headquarters at Savannah, leles below (North of) Pittsburg Landing. General Grant's headquarters were in the Cherry mansion, as I had at Fort Donelson. I did not see General Grant that evening-probably because he was at Pihe landing about 1 o'clock. I inquired for General Grant and was informed that he was on his headquivial question, of little moment to either General Grant or myself; but perhaps the value attached lm review of the battle, not unfriendly to General Grant, and written some years after the occurren15th, General Thom called the attention of General Grant to certain criticisms which General Shermawith which the battle has been reviewed by General Grant and his friends. The idea is again indicars can do when an emergency demands it. If General Grant meant to imply that I was responsible that[41 more...]
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