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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
emainder of Maryland, and all of Pennsylvania and Delaware, constituted the Department of Pennsylvania, Headquarters at Baltimore. A Board was also established at this time for the examination of all officers of volunteer regiments. and Lieutenant-General Scott, who was the General-in-Chief of the armies, greatly disabled by increasing infirmities, was, at his own suggestion, relieved from active duties. General McClellan turned over the command of the army in Western Virginia to Brigadier-Gng letter to the President, to which no reply was given. This letter was taken by Captain Thomas H. Taylor, with a flag of truce, to the Headquarters of General McDowell, at Arlington House, when the bearer was conducted to the quarters of General Scott, in Washington City, where the letter was delivered. Under the provisions of that act, Colonel Corcoran and other officers were closely confined as hostages, and treated worse than the pirates were. See note 2, page 557, volume I. The tria
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
al Robert Anderson, commanding in Kentucky, was imploring him to send troops to save Louisville from the Confederates; and a peremptory order was sent by Lieutenant-General Scott Sept. 14, 1861. to forward five thousand well-armed infantry to Washington City, without a moment's delay. There were at that time seventy thousand menmises of abundant success were presented. That check was given on the morning of the 2d of November, when a courier arrived at Headquarters with an order from General Scott, directing General Fremont to turn over his command to General David Hunter, then some distance in the rear. This order came when the army was excited by the ad been gallant on both sides. In a general order, Nov. 8th, General Grant said: It has been my fortune to have been in all the battles fought in Mexico by Generals Scott and Taylor, save Buena Vista, and I never saw one more hotly contested, or where troops behaved with more gallantry. In his report on the 12th, he spoke in h
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
ns for marching on Richmond retirement of General Scott, 130. organization and equipment of the A them there. But the retirement of Lieutenant-General Scott from the chief command of the National Army, Nov. 1. General Scott was then in the 76th year of his age, having been born in June, 1and patriotism. On the 9th of November, General Scott departed for Havre, in the steamship Aragogust 31st. the attention of the President, General Scott, and General McClellan was called to the m stopped in New York, to consult with Lieutenant-General Scott, the astonished veteran, who had not cers. On inquiring, I learned that two of General Scott's family had great influence with him, Colthe General-in-Chief, I communicated that. General Scott had received from other sources urgent war Government utterly unprepared for it. General Scott, after asking me how the details could be it not been for the timely efforts of Lieutenant-General Scott, Brigadier-General Stone, Hon. Wm. H.[10 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
. He gave Mr. Adams leave to read his note, so indicative of a desire to preserve a good understanding with the Cabinet of St. James, to Earl Russell and Lord Palmerston (the Prime Minister), if he should deem it expedient. Mr. Adams did so, Dec. 19, 1861. and yet the British Government, with this voluntary assurance that a satisfactory arrangement of the difficulties might be made, continued to press on its warlike measures with vigor, to the alarm and distress of the people. Lieutenant-General Scott was in Paris at the time of the arrival of the news of the capture of the conspirators. He wrote and published a very judicious letter (Dec. 8), in which he gave assurance of friendly feeling toward great Britain on the part of the Government of the United States. But this semi-official declaration from so high a source was not allowed to have any weight. the fact that such assurance had reached the Government was not only suppressed, but, when rumors of it were, whispered, it was
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
the war, was appointed to the command of the new Department of Missouri. It included Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, and that portion of Kentucky lying west of the Cumberland River. He had arrived in Washington on the 5th, Nov., 1861. and on the 19th took the command, with Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, an eminent engineer officer, as his chief of staff, and Brigadier-General Schuyler Hamilton as assistant chief. Both officers had been on the staff of General Scott. The Headquarters were at St. Louis. General Hunter, whom Halleck superseded, was assigned to the command of the Department of Kansas. This included the State of Kansas, the Indian Territory, west of Arkansas, and the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota. General Don Carlos Buell had superseded General Sherman, and was appointed commander of the Department of the Ohio; This included the State of Ohio, and the portion of Kentucky lying eastward of the Cumberland River, wh
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
, and buried in the mud beyond reach. Patiently the work was carried on under the supervision of General Gillmore, who was in chief command, and on the 9th of April eleven batteries, containing an aggregate of thirty-six guns, were in Siege of Fort Pulaski. readiness to open fire on the fort. These were batteries Stanton and Grant, three 10-inch mortars each; Lyon and Lincoln, three columbiads each; Burnside, one heavy mortar; Sherman, three heavy mortars; Halleck, two heavy mortars; Scott, four columbiads; Sigel, five 30-pounder Parrott, and one 48-pounder James; McClellan, two 84-pounders and two 64-pounders James; Totten, four 10-inch siege mortars. Totten and McClellan were only 1,650 yards from the fort; Stanton was 8,400 yards distant. Each battery had a service magazine for two days supply of ammunition, and a depot powder magazine of 8,000 barrels capacity was constructed near the Martello tower, printed on page 125, which was the landing-place for all supplies on Tyb