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Osborn (search for this): chapter 9
ts that were to form the Third Division. The advent of the latter was most timely. They were landed with their artillery three miles below the fort, and, rapidly clearing the woods before them, were standing around Grant's Headquarters soon after Wallace's arrival there. He was at once placed in command of them, This division consisted of two brigades, commanded respectively by Colonels Cruft and John M. Thayer. The first brigade (Cruft's) was composed of the Thirty-first Indiana, Colonel Osborn; Seventeenth Kentucky Colonel McHenry; Forty-fourth Indiana, Colonel Reed; and Twenty-fifth Kentucky, Colonel Shackelford. The second brigade (Thayer's) was composed of the First Nebraska, Colonel McCord; Seventy-sixth Ohio, Colonel Woods; and Fifty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Steadman. Three regiments (Forty-sixth Illinois, Colonel Davis; Fifty-seventh Illinois, Colonel Baldwin; and Fifty-eighth Illinois, Colonel Lynch) came up the next day during the action, and were attached to Colonel Thay
C. B. Logan (search for this): chapter 9
attacking Fort Donelson. The following named officers composed General Grant's personal Staff at this time: Colonel J. D. Webster, Chief of Staff; Colonel J. Riggin, Jr., Volunteer Aid; Captain J. A. Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General; Captains C. B. Logan and W. S. Hillyer, Aids; and Lieutenant-Colonel V. B. McPherson, Chief Engineer. According to the report of the Adjutant-General, Grant had under him in the district of Cairo, on the 10th of January, 1862, 26,875 men, officers and private 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 di
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 9
Steadman. Three regiments (Forty-sixth Illinois, Colonel Davis; Fifty-seventh Illinois, Colonel Baldwin; and Fiwith other divisions of the army. Message of Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress, Feb. 28th, 1862. A General Johnston said in a private letter to Jefferson Davis: Although the command was irregularly transferrd now the disappointment was of corresponding force. Davis, in the communication we are considering, said: I hat can be rendered on the merits of the case. Jefferson Davis's message to his Congress, March 11th, 1862. Davis himself, it has been charged since the close of the rebellion (for all spoke of him during the war withssissippi, who was a fellow-worker in rebellion with Davis in Richmond, no one will be heard to deny that to thferences in great military movements, on the part of Davis, are to be attributed nearly all the principal disasr Department, under the supervision and control of Mr. Davis himself, may safely be charged the calamitous occu
John A. McClernand (search for this): chapter 9
ommission was dated September 3d, 1861. With McClernand's division were the field batteries of Schwaosphere. At an early hour, the divisions of McClernand and Smith, preceded by cavalry, in all aboutlodgment upon the Confederate entrenchments, McClernand, at about noon, ordered Colonel Wallace to c that it should not be in a condition to aid McClernand. Pillow expected, he said, to roll the enemennessee, on the 18th of February, 1862. McClernand's division was well posted to resist the ass In this position they awaited attack, while McClernand's retiring troops, halting near, supplied thlion, by Henry S. Foote. Generals Grant, McClernand, and Wallace For their services in the siege of Fort Donelson. Generals Grant, McClernand, and Wallace were each promoted to Major-General of live in the memory of a grateful people. McClernand, in a field-order (February 18th), said: ted the Headquarters of General Grant. Near McClernand's extreme right, in Hysmith's old field, we [17 more...]
Carron (search for this): chapter 9
ng epaulments, or side works, and Lower water battery. their embrasures were revetted with coffee-sacks filled with sand. The lower or principal battery was armed with eight 32-pounders, and one 10-inch Columbiad; and the other bore a heavy rifled cannon that carried a 128-pound bolt, flanked by two 32-pound carronades. A carronade is a short piece of ordnance, having a large caliber, and a chamber for the powder like a mortar. It is similar to the howitzer. Its name is derived from Carron, a place in Scotland, where it was first manufactured. The only guns in the fort (which was at a mean elevation above the river of nearly one hundred feet) were four light siege-guns, a 12-pound howitzer, two 24-pounders, and one 64-pound howitzer. Back of the fort the forest was cut down, and supporting field works were erected for the use of infantry and artillery. Still farther back, at the mean distance of a mile from the fort, was an irregular and detached line of light intrenchments
Henry S. Foote (search for this): chapter 9
the war. In the gross mismanagement of the War Department, under the supervision and control of Mr. Davis himself, may safely be charged the calamitous occurrences at Forts Donelson and Henry, and at Roanoke Island. --War of the Rebellion, by Henry S. Foote. Generals Grant, McClernand, and Wallace For their services in the siege of Fort Donelson. Generals Grant, McClernand, and Wallace were each promoted to Major-General of volunteers, the commission of the former bearing the date of the troops under the direction of Captain Flood and others, but which was never made use of. From the hill overlooking the water batteries I made the accompanying sketch, and had just finished it when a steamer came in sight below, at the point where Foote's armored vessels, ranged in a line, assailed the Confederate works. Remounting our horses, we hurried back to Dover, reaching there just as the steamer was moored at the gravelly bank. It was the Emma Floyd, one of the most agreeable boats on
April, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 9
rintendent of the mails of the armies of the Republic. Soldiers in camp or on the march, and even under the fire of the enemy, received letters from home with as much regularity as if they had been residents of a large city. That system was not introduced into the Army of the Potomac while McClellan commanded it. One much less perfect and efficient, which he found in operation, was continued. That was established when the troops under the first call began to assemble around Washington, in April and May, 1861. The chaplain of each regiment was recognized as regimental post-master, and he usually called at the Washington City Post-office for the army mail. When the army was increased and fully organized, the commanding officer of each regiment selected a reliable man from the non-commissioned officers or privates to act as mail messenger, and that system was continued until the troops were called to the field in the spring of 1862. Then the mails were brigaded, placed in canvas ba
May, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 9
f the mails of the armies of the Republic. Soldiers in camp or on the march, and even under the fire of the enemy, received letters from home with as much regularity as if they had been residents of a large city. That system was not introduced into the Army of the Potomac while McClellan commanded it. One much less perfect and efficient, which he found in operation, was continued. That was established when the troops under the first call began to assemble around Washington, in April and May, 1861. The chaplain of each regiment was recognized as regimental post-master, and he usually called at the Washington City Post-office for the army mail. When the army was increased and fully organized, the commanding officer of each regiment selected a reliable man from the non-commissioned officers or privates to act as mail messenger, and that system was continued until the troops were called to the field in the spring of 1862. Then the mails were brigaded, placed in canvas bags, labeled
January 10th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 9
time, was making vigorous preparations for attacking Fort Donelson. The following named officers composed General Grant's personal Staff at this time: Colonel J. D. Webster, Chief of Staff; Colonel J. Riggin, Jr., Volunteer Aid; Captain J. A. Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General; Captains C. B. Logan and W. S. Hillyer, Aids; and Lieutenant-Colonel V. B. McPherson, Chief Engineer. According to the report of the Adjutant-General, Grant had under him in the district of Cairo, on the 10th of January, 1862, 26,875 men, officers and privates. Re-enforcements were arriving in Cairo, where they were rapidly gathering. He reorganized his army, with McClernand and Smith at the head of the principal divisions, as before, while a third division was formed of small proportions at first, but destined to be enlarged by six regiments sent around by water. The latter division was under the command of Lewis Wallace, of the famous Eleventh Indiana Zouave Regiment, See page 516, volume I. who was
March 11th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 9
o mood to receive an apology. They had been elated beyond measure by Pillow's premature boast of victory, and now the disappointment was of corresponding force. Davis, in the communication we are considering, said: I have directed, upon the exhibition of the case as presented by the two senior Generals, that they should be relieved from command, to await further orders, whenever a reliable judgment can be rendered on the merits of the case. Jefferson Davis's message to his Congress, March 11th, 1862. Davis himself, it has been charged since the close of the rebellion (for all spoke of him during the war with bated breath), was continually interfering in military affairs, and with the action of skillful commanders most mischievously. So say military experts, and those most intimately acquainted with his official conduct. Twenty years hence, says a politician of Mississippi, who was a fellow-worker in rebellion with Davis in Richmond, no one will be heard to deny that to the
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