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Jackson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
ant S. K. Watkins, Ordnance Officer, and R. K. Blakemore, Adjutant, rendered valuable service. Morton's battery. T. Saunders Sale, first Lieutenant Commanding, left sick in Mississippi. Joe M. Mason, second Lieutenant, left sick at Jackson, Tennessee. J. W. Brown, third Lieutenant, promoted for gallantry on the field, and wounded four times, was killed near Russellville, Kentucky, in a personal conflict with bushwhackers. Dr. James P. Hanner, Surgeon. Frank T. Reid, Orderly Sergeant. William S. Cowan, Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry C. Field, Hospital Steward. William H. Matthews, first Gun Sergeant, left sick at Jackson, Tennessee. Lemuel Zarring, second Gun Sergeant. Samuel McKay, third Gun Sergeant. C. T. Brady, fourth Gun Sergeant. Joe T. Ballanfant, first Corporal, severely wounded at Harrisburg. W. J. Morris, second Corporal, killed in West Tennessee by Tories Samuel Abney, third Corporal. John H. Dunlap, fourth Corporal. J. D. Vauter, f
Morton (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
we were in easy range of the gunboats, steamboats, and the immense accumulation of stores, and almost directly under point blank range from the lower fort. General Forrest was evidently apprehensive for our safety in this, as he thought, exposed position, which he evinced in his order to Captain Thomas H. Sneed, when he directed this trusty officer to take his glasses and crawl to the river bank, conceal himself behind a log, and report the effect of the shot from the forts and gunboats on Morton, when the signal to fire was made known. We learned subsequently from Captain Sneed that General Forrest remarked to him, I'm afraid they will knock John Morton to pieces up there with their big guns. The several commands of cavalry were concealed behind logs and trees and in ravines in easy supporting distance of the batteries, while a detachment of sharpshooters were selected and deployed close to the river bank to oppose similar forces stationed on the opposite side of the river. M
Russellville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
om the cavalry. The following is an incomplete list of the officers and men who took part in this raid: Lieutenant S. K. Watkins, Ordnance Officer, and R. K. Blakemore, Adjutant, rendered valuable service. Morton's battery. T. Saunders Sale, first Lieutenant Commanding, left sick in Mississippi. Joe M. Mason, second Lieutenant, left sick at Jackson, Tennessee. J. W. Brown, third Lieutenant, promoted for gallantry on the field, and wounded four times, was killed near Russellville, Kentucky, in a personal conflict with bushwhackers. Dr. James P. Hanner, Surgeon. Frank T. Reid, Orderly Sergeant. William S. Cowan, Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry C. Field, Hospital Steward. William H. Matthews, first Gun Sergeant, left sick at Jackson, Tennessee. Lemuel Zarring, second Gun Sergeant. Samuel McKay, third Gun Sergeant. C. T. Brady, fourth Gun Sergeant. Joe T. Ballanfant, first Corporal, severely wounded at Harrisburg. W. J. Morris, second Corporal, kille
Fort Heiman (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
sad havoc with my recollection of old war scenes. I will, however, with pleasure relate them, trusting to you, who was one of the leading spirits of that very spirited affair, to correct any errors in my statement. I will not attempt a description in detail of this brilliant episode, but confine myself to the especial parts in which I was engaged. On the 29th of October, 1864, at daylight, I found myself Captain of a cavalry company attached to General H. B. Lyon's brigade, then at Fort Heiman, on the west bank of the Tennessee river. Until this time I had been continuously employed in the artillery service under General Breckinridge, then consecutively under Generals Bate, Cheatham, Helm, Preston and Lewis, with sixty days service in heavy artillery during the siege of Vicksburg. My battery was familiarly known as the First Kentucky or Cobb's battery. General H. B. Lyon was its original commander, Major Cobb, of Paducah, succeeding him, whilst I in turn became his successor
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
est. Some distance from the river I found a cavalryman, who loaned me his horse to seek the General myself. About three miles from the river I found him sitting with his back to a tree, an oil-cloth drawn over his lap to protect him from the still pouring rain. I approached him and reported: General, your Tennessee-river fleet is no more. He replied: Don't you think you gave it up rather soon? and that was all he said, but a few days afterwards he selected me to carry his report to Chancellorsville and Richmond, where I had the pleasure of describing the main points of the final destruction of Johnsonville to both Generals Lee and Breckinridge. Hoping I have not tired you, and hoping I have not greatly mistaken anything, I will close. Truly, your friend, F. P. Gracey, Captain Cobb's First Kentucky Battery. Our command encamped the night of the 2d two miles below and across the river from Reynoldsburg, which is about four miles from Johnsonville. The cold rain up to t
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
: Gentlemen,--Our last paper brought Forrest on his Tennessee river raid to Paris Landing, where, November 1, our fleet, cville. The announcement of Hood's army crossing the Tennessee river at Florence, Alabama, on his happily conceived, but ilssing of the Memphis and Clarksville railroad over the Tennessee river, the gunboat and transport anchoring under shelter of brigade, then at Fort Heiman, on the west bank of the Tennessee river. Until this time I had been continuously employed in al Lyon's brigade of cavalry concealed on the bank of the Tennessee; a portion of my command had been detailed to assist in wsix-inch Parrott guns sent from Mobile to blockade the Tennessee river. At this time I had not heard Johnsonville whispered,ced in the pilot house in case of injury to my regular Tennessee-river pilot. I could not hear him speak, the din and uproarng rain. I approached him and reported: General, your Tennessee-river fleet is no more. He replied: Don't you think you gav
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
ion of this engagement we take pleasure in presenting Captain Gracey's account, which we desire to incorporate in full in our paper. The following letter will explain itself: Clarksville, Tenn., April 29, 1882. Captain John W. Morton, Nashville, Tenn.: My Dear Captain,--On the receipt of your letter asking me to relate my adventures during the Johnsonville campaign, I supposed you wished to rub up your recollection, and that you would after reading my letter incorporate into your papernville until near noon. In the meantime General Forrest had made a close reconnoissance of the positions along the river bank, above and below Johnsonville. A glance at the map, for which we are indebted to Mr. W. W. Southgate, civil engineer, Nashville, the brief outlines of Johnsonville will be understood. There was no railroad bridge spanning the stream at that time, the railroad terminating a short distance from the east bank of the river, which here is 500 yards wide. The town attaine
Paducah (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
ny attached to General H. B. Lyon's brigade, then at Fort Heiman, on the west bank of the Tennessee river. Until this time I had been continuously employed in the artillery service under General Breckinridge, then consecutively under Generals Bate, Cheatham, Helm, Preston and Lewis, with sixty days service in heavy artillery during the siege of Vicksburg. My battery was familiarly known as the First Kentucky or Cobb's battery. General H. B. Lyon was its original commander, Major Cobb, of Paducah, succeeding him, whilst I in turn became his successor. On the morning previously mentioned I was with General Lyon's brigade of cavalry concealed on the bank of the Tennessee; a portion of my command had been detailed to assist in working the six-inch Parrott guns sent from Mobile to blockade the Tennessee river. At this time I had not heard Johnsonville whispered, nor do I believe, except for the easy triumph of our artillery over the gunboats, that any effort would have been made to
Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
mate, to the value of over eight millions of dollars. The gunboat, Undine, had been previously captured and destroyed, as well as the transports, Cheesman and Mazeppa, and three barges, from which a large amount of subsistence, blankets and shoes, as already stated, had been secured. This had been accomplished with the loss of two twenty-pounder Parrotts, which were captured with the Venus upon her recapture. These guns, however, had been captured by Forrest's cavalry from the enemy at Fort Pillow. Two men from the artillery were slightly wounded, and two men killed, and two from the cavalry. The following is an incomplete list of the officers and men who took part in this raid: Lieutenant S. K. Watkins, Ordnance Officer, and R. K. Blakemore, Adjutant, rendered valuable service. Morton's battery. T. Saunders Sale, first Lieutenant Commanding, left sick in Mississippi. Joe M. Mason, second Lieutenant, left sick at Jackson, Tennessee. J. W. Brown, third Lieutenant,
Dixie (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.81
oats, but opened to a direct and plunging fire from both Federal forts, especially from the upper fort. Colonel E. W. Rucker, who had much experience in locating and planting heavy artillery at Island No.10, on the Mississippi river during the first year of the war, had to cut out similar chambers for Morton's battery, some half mile or three-quarters below Johnsonville, and nearly opposite, but below the mouth of Trace creek. Rice's battery was directed to position near the mouth of Cypress creek, two miles below, to prevent any gunboats from approaching from the north. On rejoining General Forrest at the positions prepared by Colonel Rucker for Morton's battery, he directed that these guns should be immediately placed in the chambers dug out by Colonel Rucker. Morton requested General Forrest to permit him to inspect the river bank from this position up to where Thrall's battery had been placed. This being granted, with an escort from Colonel Rucker we rode rapidly through
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