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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,604 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 760 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 530 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 404 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 382 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 346 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 330 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 312 0 Browse Search
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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)
ess, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. Effect of the battle of Bull's Rpersecution of Union men, 35. outrages in East Tennessee, 36. Brownlow and other Loyalists hunted In districts of the Confederacy, such as East Tennessee, where the blight of slavery was but littlt cruelties were exercised. Those who, in East Tennessee, had voted for the Union at the election oon [resistance to Confederate outrages] in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties,infernal, cowardly Lincoln bushwhackers of East Tennessee and Kentucky (who have taken advantage of Bloodhound. camp Comfort, Campbell co., Tenn., Nov. 16. Among the most prominent of the the burning of several railway-bridges in East Tennessee, So eager were the Confederates to impld that the sentiment of the inhabitants in East Tennessee was hostile to the Confederate government,l and fearless patriotism of the people of East Tennessee during the struggle, and the cruel wrongs [1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 2: civil and military operations in Missouri. (search)
The threatening aspect of affairs in loyal East Tennessee at that time so alarmed Harris that he hesnot send troops from here until matters in East Tennessee are settled. Pillow was disappointed and If my movements are to be suspended until East Tennessee ceases to stlk and becomes loyal, it will ble contingency in view of the position of East Tennessee. Without aid from the forces of Middle TeMiddle Tennessee I have not the means of advancing, nor will I attempt it. In ten days the enemy will, in allup of all the rifles in private hands in Western Tennessee, for the purpose of having them made of evolt having been made by the authorities of Tennessee, several months before the election of Mr. Lr, R. E. Moody, and R. Winslow, of Lagrange, West Tenn., the following arms: 64 swords and 128 pisto announcement of the presence of Pillow with Tennessee troops, The sun which shone in its full middd Pillow to abandon New Madrid, and cross to Tennessee with his troops and armament immediately. T[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
ts disappointed the Confederate foothold in Tennessee and Kentucky, 91. Contrary to general expitary organizations and enter the service of Tennessee or of the Confederate States; Many young the war that so long desolated Kentucky and Tennessee might have been averted. Then followed some to expel the Confederates from Kentucky and Tennessee, and carry the National banner victoriously Missouri, and taken position in Kentucky and Tennessee. McCulloch, who had promised an escort for Confederates in the interior of Kentucky and Tennessee, from the Ohio. When Fremont's order for the State authorities. Governor Harris, of Tennessee, was urged to increase his efforts in raisinermined to subjugate first Kentucky and then Tennessee, whom he regarded as twin sisters. With thereat things from you in the future. The East Tennessee patriots were compelled to wait and sufferrn with a victorious host as liberators of East Tennessee. It might have been so, had not General S[16 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
routed by a few Indiana and Ohio troops, under Captain Foote, of the Fourteenth Indiana. The Confederates engaged in this attempt upon the Summit and the Pass were nearly five thousand in number, and were led in person by General Anderson, of Tennessee. General Anderson's brigade consisted chiefly of Tennessee and Arkansas troops, with some Virginians. Those employed against the Summit and the Pass, were the Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiments, Tennessee and Arkansas troops, with some Virginians. Those employed against the Summit and the Pass, were the Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiments, a Virginia battery under Colonels Talliafero and Heck, and the First, Seventh, and Fourteenth Tennessee, under Colonel Manly. The troops that opposed them did not number more than six hundred. General Reynolds, who had hastened around to Elk Water, was ignorant of these important movements on the mountain. He arrived there toward evening, Sept. 12, 1861. and found a large force of Confederates, under General Lee, threatening the position. They were kept at a respectful distance by the Par
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)
December, 1861, consisting of three members of the Senate and four members of the House of Representatives, with instructions to inquire into the conduct of the war. The Committee consisted of B. F. Wade, Z. Chandler, and Andrew Johnson, of the Senate, and D. W. Gooch, John Covode, G. W. Julian, and M. F. Odell, of the House of Representatives. They constituted a permanent court of inquiry, with power to send for persons and papers. When Senator Johnson was appointed Military Governor of Tennessee, his place on the Committee was supplied by Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana. That blockade, so disgraceful to the Government, was continued until the Confederates voluntarily evacuated their position in front of Washington, in March following. As the Army of the Potomac rapidly increased in numbers and equipment in Virginia in front of Washington, it required more space than the narrow strip between the river and the advance posts of the Confederates, and early in September it was determin
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)
West, 196. the Confederates in Kentucky and Tennessee, 197. their fortifications in those States rate line, 199. Thomas's movements toward East Tennessee, 200. expedition against Fort Henry, 201.Fremont for clearing the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas of armed insurgents,e Confederates from Kentucky, and liberating Tennessee from their grasp. We have seen how the lots of infantry and one battery of artillery; Tennessee, two regiments of infantry. This large army ong the hills on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee, while seeking both. Crittenden retreated ft to its northwest corner, and then entering Tennessee, passes through it in a due north course, wh point he penetrated Kentucky far toward the Tennessee line, threatening Columbus and the country irmed, was to be the immediate liberator of East Tennessee. He had crossed the Cumberland River in feneral Tilghman, and Captain Jesse Taylor of Tennessee, who was the commander of the fort, with ten[15 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
t gratifying evidences of genuine Union feeling in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. The river banks in plassible, and then, with a heavy force, march across Tennessee and penetrate Alabama. Foote had already hurried e men. These consisted of thirteen regiments of Tennessee troops, two of Kentucky, six of Mississippi, one oa, four of Virginia, two independent battalions of Tennessee infantry, and a regiment of cavalry, under the aftin's brigade of three regiments of Mississippi and Tennessee troops in advance, followed by four Virginia regim in perfect safety at his home in Columbia, in Middle Tennessee, he sat down a few days afterward to write a rorgotten. On the following day, two regiments of Tennessee Plan of the siege of Fort Donelson. troops, thahe way in the Valley of the Lower Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland. You have carried the flag of pathways and battle-fields of the great armies in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. The aspect of Nashville
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
cky and Missouri, and all of northern and middle Tennessee were lost to the Confederates, and the mocapital, and told the people that henceforth Tennessee was to become the battle-field in which her es that the Nationals would push on toward East Tennessee, and it was for the purpose of confrontingestore the National banner to the Capitol of Tennessee. The Capitol of the State of Tennessee isState of Tennessee is one of the finest of its kind in the United States. It is in the center of four acres of ground inhe flight of the Governor and Legislature of Tennessee from the State capital, and the virtual dissam below. They found the whole Kentucky and Tennessee shore for fifteen miles lined with heavy guntoward Alabama and Mississippi, by way of Middle Tennessee and the Tennessee River, which we shall cparallel with the Mississippi, between Southwestern Tennessee and New Orleans, would be seized by Naing down, the strongholds of rebellion in Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky, the National troops[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
ield, 286. a victim of the wicked rebellion effects of shot and shell on the battle ground, 287. Let us return to Tennessee, and observe what Generals Grant and Buell did immediately after the fall of Fort Donelson, and the flight of the Confe that, no man waited for a second order. We shall meet this bold rider frequently westward of the mountains and in East Tennessee. Here we will notice a single act of his, at about the time we are considering, which illustrates his coolness and dat their head. Re-enforcements had been continually arriving there, while General Buell was making easy marches across Tennessee, to the assistance of Grant, and great uncertainty existed as to the time when he might be expected. On the first ofis thigh, half way between his hip and knee, cutting a wide path, and severing the femoral artery. Governor Harris, of Tennessee (his brother-in-law), who was his chief of staff, was at his side. Ten minutes after he was lifted from his horse he d
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. Situa Alabama, from Florence to the confines of East Tennessee; and the National gun-boats on the Mississach out from Chattanooga a helping hand to East Tennessee in destroying the Confederate forces at Knult be doubtful? Shall we not drive back to Tennessee the presumptuous mercenaries collected for oed Buell to march the combined forces into East Tennessee, but the more cautious General declined toties, and it was confidently expected that East Tennessee would almost immediately be in the same-po do so. Buell would not consent, and again East Tennessee, made confident of speedy liberation by soirby Smith, commanding the Confederates in East Tennessee, was skillful, active, and watchful. Mitcdrew. Reporting to the military governor of Tennessee, he said, The Union people in East Tennesseeheastern Kentucky from the great valley of East Tennessee, and during the war was a position of grea[6 more...]
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