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Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
th, something more being understood, the answer was continued: To take from Bragg a force that would make this army fit to oppose Grant's, would involve yielding Tennessee. It is for the Government to decide between this State and Tennessee. A duplicate of this dispatch of the 8th was deciphered and answered on the 15th: I cannTennessee. A duplicate of this dispatch of the 8th was deciphered and answered on the 15th: I cannot advise as to the points from which troops can best be taken, having no means of knowing. Nor is it for me to judge which it is best to hold, Mississippi or Tennessee--that is for the Government to determine. Without some great blunder of the enemy, we cannot hold both. The odds against me are much greater than those you expreTennessee--that is for the Government to determine. Without some great blunder of the enemy, we cannot hold both. The odds against me are much greater than those you express (two to one). I consider saving Vicksburg hopeless. Mr. Seddon replied on the 16th: Your telegram grieves and alarms me. Vicksburg must not be lost without a desperate struggle. The interest and honor of the Confederacy forbid it. I rely on you still to avert the loss. If better resources do not offer, you must attack. It
Yazoo City (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
patch was never delivered, Port Hudson being invested before the arrival of the courier who bore it. On the 24th such demonstrations were made by the enemy, beyond the Big Black and along the Yazoo, that Walker was sent with his division to Yazoo City, with orders to fortify that point. And these demonstrations being repeated, Loring's division was sent to Benton on the 31st. In order to superintend the preparation necessary to enable the troops to march as far as to the position of the arhere were less strong, and the river unguarded, and the chances of success, therefore, much better on that side; although the consequences of defeat would have been more disastrous, as General Sherman's troops, in the line between the bridge and Yazoo, might have intercepted retreat. On the 3d a courier from Vicksburg arrived, but without dispatches from General Pemberton. He had been in such danger of capture, he said, as to think it necessary to destroy the letter he was bringing. He h
Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ance. This telegram contained the first mention of the Federal army made to me by Lieutenant-General Pemberton, since that he dispatched while the contest at Port Gibson was going on. In the mean time, Lieutenant-General Pemberton had ordered Gregg's brigade coming from Port Hudson to Raymond, and W. H. T. Walker's, just arrmberton announced that he would move as early as practicable on the 15th, with a column of seventeen thousand men, to Dillon's, on the main road from Jackson to Port Gibson, for the purpose of cutting the enemy's communications, and compelling them to attack him, as he did not think his force sufficient to justify him in attacking. Clinton in obedience to orders. A minority advocated a plan for seizing the enemy's communications by placing the army on the road from Jackson and Raymond to Port Gibson, to compel General Grant to attack it. Although averse to both opinions, General Pemberton adopted that of the minority of his council, Lieutenant-General Pemb
Livingston (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
oad, and Sherman's, which left Jackson on the 16th, on a pontoon-bridge laid at Bridgeport. Its advanced troops skirmished in the afternoon with those in the fieldworks of Vicksburg, General Grant's report. and the investment of the place was completed on the 19th. General Grant's report. On the 17th the two brigades with me marched fifteen or eighteen miles in the direction pointed out in Lieutenant-General Pemberton's note of the day before, and bivouacked on the road leading from Livingston to Edwards's Depot. Supposing that the Army of Mississippi had marched the day before by the route the general had described, I was confident that we should meet it that day, or early in the next. At night, however, Captain Henderson, who was the commander of General Pemberton's scouts, brought me a letter from that officer, written at Bovina in the morning, in which he said: I notified you, on the morning of the 14th, of the receipt of your instructions to move and attack the enemy towa
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
d remove me from my base, which was, and is, Vicksburg. I did not, however, see fit to place my owsterday. I have about sixty days rations in Vicksburg and Snyder's Mill. I respectfully await youe of the Big Black River, and fallen back to Vicksburg. On this information my fourth order to Lieened on the works.... I have decided to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope thatfar as to the position of the army investing Vicksburg, and at the same time be ready for military izens? An army will be necessary to relieve Vicksburg, and that quickly. Will it not be sent The I wrote on the 29th: I am too weak to save Vicksburg. Can do no more than attempt to save you ane 16th: Your telegram grieves and alarms me. Vicksburg must not be lost without a desperate strugglffs I rely upon you for all possible to save Vicksburg. I explained, on the 24th: There has beenroy the letter he was bringing. He had left Vicksburg on the 28th of June, and the letter had that[34 more...]
Raymond (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
th, McPherson with his corps encountered Gregg near Raymond, and drove him back, after a spirited resistance, c at Bovina; that McPherson's corps had marched from Raymond to Clinton; and was thus interposed between the Armd that another Federal corps, Sherman's, was on the Raymond road, twelve miles from Jackson; and, soon after, ion Jackson, McClernand's divisions were ordered to Raymond, Mississippi Springs, and Clinton. From the eve., and that it found the army on the middle road to Raymond, and that the order to countermarch had been given. two divisions at Jackson, McClernand with three at Raymond, Hovey with one at Clinton, and Blair with one at Nlghman's resisting the advance of the enemy by the Raymond road. Tilghman himself fell in this duty, while en force, say seventeen thousand five hundred, toward Raymond or Dillon's, encamping on the night of the 15th at e river; and a large detachment (two brigades) near Raymond, twelve or fourteen miles still farther east. Thos
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ances-most of the artillery and wagons from Georgia. Some twelve pieces, found without carriages, were mounted on such as could be made in Canton. There was no want of provision and forage in the department, but they were still to be collected; and we had small means of collecting them, and none of transporting them with a moving army. On the 23d, a dispatch was received from Major. General Gardner, dated 21st, informing me that all the Federal forces that had been assembled at Baton Rouge were now before Port Hudson, and asking for reinforcements. In reply to this, I repeated my order to him to evacuate the place, informed him that he could not be reinforced, and told him to march toward Jackson. This dispatch was never delivered, Port Hudson being invested before the arrival of the courier who bore it. On the 24th such demonstrations were made by the enemy, beyond the Big Black and along the Yazoo, that Walker was sent with his division to Yazoo City, with orders to
Stevenson (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
division on the right, Bowen's in the centre, and Stevenson's on the left. In this position the Confederat's division, which assailed the left and centre of Stevenson's. Logan's division, moving by the right of Hovey's, passed the left of Stevenson's line as if to take it in reverse. Stevenson transferred Barton's brigade froe. In the mean time Logan had engaged Barton, and Stevenson's three brigades were forced back by the three Fedvision, unemployed till then, to the assistance of Stevenson's. In the mean time, General McClernand, with t of action, and our defeat thus made certain. Stevenson's and Bowen's troops, and the reserve artillery, won; Featherston's and Buford's brigades protecting Stevenson's and Bowen's divisions in their retreat; and Tilgressed, by his brave example. By the time that Stevenson's and Bowen's divisions had crossed Baker's Creek,eutenant-General Pemberton directed the retreat of Stevenson's division across the Big Black to Bovina, near wh
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
dispatch from General Pemberton. arrival at Jackson. movements of the enemy. orders to General s action, was much regretted. He fell back to Jackson, in conformity to General Pemberton's instrucith Maxey's brigade, would raise the force at Jackson to eleven or twelve thousand men. Under ticer by Captain Yerger, who happened to be in Jackson and volunteered to bear it, informing him of chief quartermaster of the department, was in Jackson; and, foreseeing, from the intelligence receiso, that prisoners reported that the force in Jackson constituted half of Grant's army, and that it that object, McPherson with two divisions at Jackson, McClernand with three at Raymond, Hovey with near the railroad, and Sherman's, which left Jackson on the 16th, on a pontoon-bridge laid at Bridbe speedily reenforced. This was received in Jackson on the 15th. In my reply, he was informed thin consequence of which the army fell back to Jackson, which it reached on the afternoon of the 7th[12 more...]
Clinton (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Bovina; that McPherson's corps had marched from Raymond to Clinton; and was thus interposed between the Army of Mississippi aot, I inferred that McPherson's corps had been detached to Clinton to hold the Confederate line of communication, and preventing him of the position of McPherson's corps between us at Clinton; urging the importance of reestablishing his communicationckson, McClernand with three at Raymond, Hovey with one at Clinton, and Blair with one at New Auburn, were ordered, on the 15 my order of the night before, directing him to march upon Clinton, General Pemberton rode to the camp of his army just southjority of the members of the council voted for moving upon Clinton in obedience to orders. A minority advocated a plan for sons for battle on a line extending from the Raymond to the Clinton road-Loring's division on the right, Bowen's in the centret of your instructions to move and attack the enemy toward Clinton. I deemed the movement very hazardous, preferring to rema
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