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Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
decided to collect his troops at Corinth, Mississippi. Next in command to Johnston was General Beauregard who fought at Bull Run, and who had come from Virginia to aid Johnston. There also came Braxton Bragg, whose name had become famous through thmorrow. Ten thousand stragglers from the Union army were crouching along the banks of the Tennessee. Like the men at Bull Run, this was their first battle, and they had not the courage to endure the rain of bullets about their ears; but unlike the soldiers at Bull Run, they had fled at the beginning, not at the end, of the day's fighting. At the break of day on Monday, April 7th, all was astir in both camps on the field of Shiloh, and the dawn was greeted with the roar of cannon. The tro at Shiloh was astounding to the American people. Never before on the continent had there been anything approaching it. Bull Run was a skirmish in comparison with this gigantic conflict. The losses on each side exceeded ten thousand men. General Gr
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
forces were held back from the Mississippi so as not to embarrass the movements of Grant and the gunboats. Of this unattached cavalry of the Army of the Ohio were the men in the first picture--Company D, Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, enlisted at Louisville, December, 1861. Company D, Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, enlisted at Louisville, December, 1861. Officers of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry General Beauregard made his headquarters. Hour after hour the columns in blue and gray surged to Louisville, December, 1861. Officers of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry General Beauregard made his headquarters. Hour after hour the columns in blue and gray surged to and fro, first one then the other gaining the advantage and presently losing it. At times the smoke of burning powder enveloped the whole field and hid both armies from view. The interesting incidents of this day of blood would fill a volume. General Hindman of the Southern side had a novel experience. His horse was struck by a bursting shell and torn to a thousand fragments. The general, thrown ten feet high, fell to the ground, but leaped to his feet unhurt and asked for another horse.
Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
t Paducah, at Forts Henry and Donelson, and at Shiloh where he collected the artillery near the Landrsy, which we need not Brave southerners at Shiloh In the Southern record of the battle of Shily their faces and the records can show it. At Shiloh, with Anderson's brigade of brave fighters, th, in the belief of many, changed the result at Shiloh and prevented the utter rout or capture of Grad on the life that was yielded on the field of Shiloh. Beauregard succeeded to the command on theal charge The boats that turned the tide at Shiloh photographed a few days after the battle Th high at the close of this first bloody day at Shiloh. Whatever of victory there was at the end of rom Arkansas to join the Confederate forces at Shiloh; but the roads were bad and he was yet far awawork. The news of these two fearful days at Shiloh was astounding to the American people. Never n valor was tried to the full on both sides at Shiloh, and the record shows that it was equal to the[11 more...]
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
econd line of battle at the beginning. Before the action was twenty minutes old he was at the front; and with the advance, galloping over the rough ground, came the Washington Artillery. enter. Certain it is that it was unprepared, and in consequence it fought on the defensive and at a disadvantage throughout the day. General Hardee's corps, forming the first line of battle, moved against the outlying division of the Union army, which was commanded by General Benjamin Prentiss, of West Virginia. Before Prentiss could form his lines Hardee's shells began bursting around him, but he was soon ready and, though pressed back for half a mile in the next two or three hours, his men fought like heroes. Meanwhile the further Confederate advance under Bragg, Polk, and Breckinridge was extending all along the line in front of the Federal camps. The second Federal force to encounter the fury of the oncoming foe was the division of General W. T. Sherman, which was cut to pieces and disor
Donelson (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
erican armies were to engage in a mighty struggle that would measure up to the most important in the annals of Europe. And the pity of it was that the contestants were brethren of the same household, not hereditary and unrelenting enemies. At Fort Donelson the western South was not slain — it was only wounded. The chief commander of that part of the country, Albert Sidney Johnston, determined to concentrate the scattered forces and to make a desperate effort to retrieve the disaster of Donelson. He had abandoned Bowling Green, had given up Nashville, and now decided to collect his troops at Corinth, Mississippi. Next in command to Johnston was General Beauregard who fought at Bull Run, and who had come from Virginia to aid Johnston. There also came Braxton Bragg, whose name had become famous through the laconic expression, A little more grape, Captain Bragg, uttered by Zachary Taylor at Buena Vista; Leonidas Polk who, though a graduate of West Point, had entered the church and
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
No Confederate who fought at Shiloh has ever said that he found any point on that bloody field easy to assail. Colonel William Preston Johnston (Son of the Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh). In the history of America many battles had been fought, but the greatest of them were skirmishes compared with the gigantic conflicts of the Old World under Marlborough and Napoleon. On the field of Shiloh, for the first time, two great American armies were to engage ined by Zachary Taylor at Buena Vista; Leonidas Polk who, though a graduate of West Point, had entered the church and for twenty years before the war had been Episcopal bishop of Louisiana, and John C. Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States. The legions of the South were gathered at Corinth until, by the 1st of April, 1862, they numbered forty thousand. General A. S. Johnston, C. S. A. A brilliant Southern leader, whose early loss was a hard blow to the Confederacy. Albe
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
ridge, former Vice President of the United States. The legions of the South were gathered at Corinth until, by the 1st of April, 1862, they numbered forty thousand. General A. S. Johnston, C. S. A. A brilliant Southern leader, whose early loss was a hard blow to the Confederacy. Albert Sidney Johnston was a born fighter with a natural genius for war. A West Pointer of the Class of 1826, he had led a strenuous and adventurous life. In the early Indian wars, in the border conflicts in Texas, and in the advance into Mexico. he had always proved his worth, his bravery and his knowledge as a soldier. At the outbreak of the Civil War he had already been brevetted Brigadier-General, and had been commander of the military district of Utah. An ardent Southerner, he made his choice, dictated by heart and conscience, and the Federal authorities knew the loss they would sustain and the gain that would be given to the cause of the Confederacy. In 1861 he was assigned to a district inc
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 4.11
the United States. The legions of the South were gathered at Corinth until, by the 1st of April, 1862, they numbered forty thousand. General A. S. Johnston, C. S. A. A brilliant Southern leader, whose early loss was a hard blow to the Confederacy. Albert Sidney Johnston was a born fighter with a natural genius for war. A West Pointer of the Class of 1826, he had led a strenuous and adventurous life. In the early Indian wars, in the border conflicts in Texas, and in the advance into Mexico. he had always proved his worth, his bravery and his knowledge as a soldier. At the outbreak of the Civil War he had already been brevetted Brigadier-General, and had been commander of the military district of Utah. An ardent Southerner, he made his choice, dictated by heart and conscience, and the Federal authorities knew the loss they would sustain and the gain that would be given to the cause of the Confederacy. In 1861 he was assigned to a district including Kentucky and Tennessee wi
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
s last line at Shiloh: guns that held their ground at Pittsburg Landing These heavy guns when this picture was taken had ntop of the bluff from a quarter to a half a mile from Pittsburg Landing. The line of artillery overlooked a deep ravine openion army had moved southward and was concentrating at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee River, an obscure stopping place fot had no idea that the Confederates would meet him at Pittsburg Landing. He believed that they would wait for an attack on t Savannah, a town nine miles by way of the river from Pittsburg Landing. As he sat at breakfast, he heard the distant boom oarching when he was called for. When Grant arrived at Pittsburg Landing, about eight o'clock in the morning, he found a tremethe river. But, instead, they massed solidly back on Pittsburg Landing, huddled together so closely that brigades, and even he The gunboats at Shiloh In the river near Pittsburg Landing, where the Federal transports lay, were two small gun
Bowling Green (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.11
n When the Confederate General Braxton Bragg made his masterly march into Kentucky and succeeded in getting in the rear of General Buell in Middle Tennessee in September, there followed a series of movements that demanded the utmost exertions of the engineers to keep the Federal Army in touch with its base and at the same time to oppose a front to General Bragg. In the first Confederate retreat through Kentucky almost all of the causeways had been destroyed, and when Buell arrived at Bowling Green, which is north of Nashville and on the bank of the Big Barren River, that stream was found to be almost flooding its banks. Here the nineteenth Regiment Michigan Engineers rebuilt the bridge almost at the place where General Mitchell had crossed early in the year. The middle part of the bridge was composed of fourteen pontoons. Federals advancing into Tennessee--1862: Engineers and Infantry busy at the Elk River Bridge Incessantly, through rain or shine, the work on this bridge
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