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Essex (search for this): chapter 9
iling kept thousands from openly expressing their attachment to the old flag. Bring us a small organized force, with arms and ammunition, they said, and we can maintain our position. Report of Commodore Foote, Feb. 6th, 1862. The report of this reconnoissance was very cheering, and it was determined to capture Fort Donelson as speedily as possible, and then, with a heavy force, march across Tennessee and penetrate Alabama. Foote had already hurried back to Cairo with the Cincinnati, Essex, and St. Louis, to prepare mortar-boats for the new enter-prise, leaving Commander Walke, of the Carondelet, in charge of a portion of his flotilla at Fort Henry. With the spirit of the old Puritans (from whom he was descended He was a son of Senator Samuel Foote, of Connecticut, whose resolution concerning the public lands occasioned the famous debate in the Senate of the United States between Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne.), who were everr eady to fight or pray, as circumstances m
C. F. Smith (search for this): chapter 9
He reorganized his army, with McClernand and Smith at the head of the principal divisions, as befht wing in the investment of the fort. Two of Smith's Brigades were to follow by the Dover Road, aieman, as soon as they could be sent forward. Smith was directed to occupy the little village of Dan early hour, the divisions of McClernand and Smith, preceded by cavalry, in all about fifteen thoht, with Oglesby's Brigade at the extreme, and Smith's was posted on the left, opposite the northwe were Illinois regiments — the Seventeenth, Major Smith, commanding; the Forty-eighth, Colonel Haynelope the works, the Forty-fifth Illinois, Colonel Smith, were sent to their support on the right. r's command. and posted between McClernand and Smith, thereby (with two of Smith's regiments, underSmith's regiments, under McArthur, posted on McClernand's extreme right) completing the absolute investment of the fort andClernand to retake the hill he had lost, while Smith should make a simultaneous attack on the Confe[1 more...]
George H. Thomas (search for this): chapter 9
e provided with mails with just about as much certainty as people are in large cities, and with about as little delay. The only loss of any moment that occurred to the Post-office Department, on account of this heavy mail service, was in mail-bags. It is estimated that at least thirty thousand of these were sent out which never found their way back to this office, although every effort was made by us to have them returned. The regularity with which the great armies of Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and others in the West were supplied with mails, under the general superintendence of Colonel Markland, was marvelous. He and his assistants seemed to be almost ubiquitous. No danger was so appalling, and no obstructions were so apparently insurmountable as to deter these messengers of good. They endured all that the army endured-perils, fatigues, and privations. The mail was nearly always in advance of the armies, or moving in a direction to meet them, and yet Colonel Markland never lo
J. G. Lauman (search for this): chapter 9
he columns, commanded respectively by Colonels Oglesby and W. H. L. Wallace, of the First division, and Colonels Cook and Lauman, of the Second division (who were acting brigadiers), while moving across the wooded country between the two rivers, met ittle while was severe and stubborn, when the Nationals were repulsed. Similar movements on the left by a portion of Colonel Lauman's brigade were equally unsuccessful, and in both cases the National loss was heavy. The troops, somewhat discouragedr intrenchments on their right. He posted Cavender's heavy guns so as to pour a murderous fire upon these and the fort. Lauman's Brigade formed the attacking column, while Cook's Brigade, posted on the left, was ordered to make a feigned attack. Lauman was directed to carry the heights on the left of the position that had been assailed on Thursday. He placed the Second Iowa, Colonel Tuttle, in the van. These were followed by the Fifty-sixth Indiana as a support. These, in turn, were close
Richmond (search for this): chapter 9
interposition of the Third Division, the plans of the Confederates were frustrated. I speak advisedly, wrote Captain W. S. Hillyer (Grant's Aidde-camp) to General Wallace the next day, on a slip of paper with pencil, God bless you! You did save the day on the right! Poor Pillow, with his usual shallowness, had sent an aid, when McClernand's line gave way, to telegraph to Johnston, that on the honor of a soldier the day was theirs ; On the strength of this, Johnston sent a dispatch to Richmond, announcing a great victory, and on Monday the Richmond Enquirer said: This splendid feat of arms and glorious victory to our cause will send a thrill of joy over the whole Confederacy. and he foolishly persisisted in saying, in his first report, a few days afterward, that the Confederates had accomplished their object, when it was known to all that they had utterly failed. It was at about noon when the Confederates were driven back to their trenches. General Grant seemed doubtful of
A. W. Bill (search for this): chapter 9
e organized as sharp-shooters by General Fremont. Each man was chosen because of his skill as a marksman. The regiment first appeared in action in the siege now under consideration. They were afterward conspicuous at the battle of Shiloh, and the siege of Corinth. They were also in active service in Sherman's Campaign in 1864, where they were highly complimented by Generals McPherson and Logan, for having held a ridge at Resaca against a brigade of Confederates. I am indebted to Lieutenant A. W. Bill, of the regiment, for the sketch from which the engraving on page 210 was made.), who advanced upon the Confederate pickets, and thus disclosed the position of the Nationals. The batteries of the Confederates, on the land side, were at once opened, while the water batteries engaged the Carondelet, a solitary ironclad gun-boat in the river. During a desultory fire from the Confederates, Grant rapidly posted his troops for the most vigorous work. McClernand was placed on the right,
S. L. Phelps (search for this): chapter 9
n Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River. Preparatory to this was a reconnoissance up the Tennessee River. Lieutenant-Commander S. L. Phelps was sent up that river on the evening of the day of battle, Feb. 6, 1862. with a detachment of Foote's flo in charge of them abandoned all, and burned two that were laden with military stores. The first one fired, says Lieutenant Phelps, in his report to Commodore Foote, had on board a quantity of submarine batteries; the second one was freighted witels and destroying Confederate public property as far up as Florence, in Alabama, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals. When Phelps appeared in sight of that town, three Confederate steamers there, loaded with supplies, were set on fire, but a part of tand his men were not savages; and as to the bridge, being of no military account, it should be saved. Returning, Lieutenant Phelps recruited a number of loyal Tennesseeans, seized arms and other Confederate property in several places, and caused
Simon B. Buckner (search for this): chapter 9
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...]
Berge (search for this): chapter 9
overcame their honor, and in the hour of extreme necessity they invested him with the chief command, and deserted him. Berge's sharp-shooter. The morning of the 12th Feb. was like one in spring, so warm and balmy was the atmosphere. At an in readiness for battle before morning, and at dawn Feb. 13, 1862. the attack was commenced by the sharp-shooters of Colonel Berge (Sixty-sixth Illinois Regiment This regiment, armed with the Henry rifle, were organized as sharp-shooters by Gene-boats and Wallace's Third Division. Yet heavy artillery firing and brisk skirmishing were kept up all the forenoon, and Berge's sharpshooters, concealed behind logs and trees, Grant's Headquarters, Fort Donelson. spread terror among the Confedea as a support. These, in turn, were closely followed by the Twenty-fifth Indiana and Seventh and Fourteenth Iowa, while Berge's sharp-shooters were deployed as skirmishers on the extreme right and left of the column. When all were in readiness, G
Henry Coppee (search for this): chapter 9
will not accept it — I will never surrender. While speaking, he turned toward Buckner, who said, I will accept, and share the fate of my command. Sworn statements of Colonel Forest, Major Gustavus A. Henry, Major W. H. Haynes, and Hunter Nicholson, who were present at the council. When the capitulation was determined upon, Floyd and Pillow, who, it has been justly remarked, had already disgraced the name of American citizens, proceeded to disgrace the character of a soldier also, Coppee's Grant and his Campaigns, page 66. by stealing away under cover of the night, deserting, in the most cowardly manner, the soldierly Buckner and the brave men who had defended the post. In order to aid their flight, the latter allowed Forest to attempt to cut his way out with his cavalry. In too much haste to save himself, Floyd did not wait for all of his Virginians to get ready to escape with him, but with a few of them, hastily collected, he embarked on a steamer at Dover, followed by t
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