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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
On that same day he telegraphed to General Grant at City Point: It will be a physical impossibility to protect the n the 2d of November received (at Rome) this dispatch: City Point, November 1, 1864, 6 P. M. Major-General Sherman. Doived, in answer to the Rome dispatch, the following: City Point, Va., November 2, 1864, 11:30 A. M. To Major-General Sherm for starting. On the 8th I received this dispatch: City Point, Va., November 7, 1864, 10:30 P. M. Major-General Sherman.gested the following modification of his plan: City Point, Va., September 10, 1864. Major-General Sherman: As sooBay: headquarters armies of the United States, City Point, Va., October 4, 1864. Major-General Halleck, Chief of Stas telegram of October 11th, heretofore quoted: City Point, Va., October 11, 1864, 11:30 P. M. Major-General Sherman. day General Grant again telegraphed as follows: City Point, October 12, 1864, 1 P. M. General Sherman, Kingston.
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 12: (search)
pe of Hardee, it was guardedly acknowledged by Grant as follows, under date of December 26th: General: Your very interesting letter of the 22d inst., brought by Major Gray, of General Foster's staff, is just at hand. As the Major starts back at once, I can do no more at present than simply acknowledge its receipt. The capture of Savannah with all its immense stores must tell upon the people of the South. All well here. Under the same date Secretary Stanton telegraphed Grant at City Point: I wish you a merry Christmas, if it is not too late, and thank you for the Savannah news. It is a sore disappointment that Hardee was able to get off his fifteen thousand from Sherman's sixty thousand. It looks like protracting the war while their armies continue to escape. I hope you will give immediate instructions to seize and hold the cotton. Thomas has been nominated for Major-General. Of the approach to the coast, General Sherman writes: The weather was fine, th
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 13: (search)
as cold and sleety, the ground was covered with ice and snow, and both parties for a time rested on the defensive. Thus matters stood at Nashville, while we were closing down on Savannah, in the early part of December, 1864; and the country, as well as General Grant, was alarmed at the seeming passive conduct of General Thomas; and General Grant at one time considered the situation so dangerous that he thought of going to Nashville in person, but General John A. Logan, happening to be at City Point, was sent out to supersede General Thomas. Luckily for the latter, he acted in time, gained a magnificent victory, and thus escaped so terrible a fate. It seems never to have occurred to General Sherman that much of this trouble came to General Thomas through the misrepresentations he himself had made to General Grant of Thomas' force, in the dispatch of November 1st, and others of a similar purport. After narrating the demand on Hardee to surrender Savannah, his refusal and subse
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
causes which produced the dissatisfaction at City Point and Washington, over the apparent slowness os opening dispatch was as follows: City Point, Va., November 21, 1864, 4 P. M. Major-Genera1864, 11 A. M. Lieutenant General Grant, City Point, Va. Your dispatch of 4 P. M. yesterday juser 2, 10:30 A. M. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point. The President feels solicitous about the. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. City Point, Va., December 2, 1864, 1:30 P. M. Major-Geneer 6, 1864. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. Your telegram of 6:30 P. M., December 5,der for an attack was telegraphed: City Point, Va., December 6, 1864, 4 P. M. Major-General64, 9 P. M. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. Your dispatch of 4 P. M. this day receivDecember 8, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point. If you wish General Thomas relieved giveed. H. W. Halleck, Chief of Staff. City Point, Va., December 9, 1864, 5:30 P. M. Major-Gene[18 more...]
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 15: (search)
he business to be promptly and properly attended to, and that every reflection made upon him by General Sherman in the above extract is utterly unfounded, will now be made to appear. Secretary Stanton's first dispatch, upon learning of the capture of Savannah, related to the care of this cotton, and a copy of it was immediately sent to General Sherman and its receipt acknowledged by him. It was as follows: War Department, Washington, December 26, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point. I wish you a merry Christmas if not too late, and thank you for the Savannah news. It is a sore disappointment that Hardee was able to get off his fifteen thousand from Sherman's sixty thousand. It looks like protracting the war while their armies continue to escape. I hope you will give immediate instructions to seize and hold the cotton. All sorts of schemes will be got up to hold it under sham titles of British and other private claimants. They should all be disregarded; and it
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 16: (search)
The battle of Bentonville affords one of the most marked examples of carelessness in the management of a great army which can be found in the history of the war. Unlike the march from Atlanta to the sea, that from Savannah northward through the Carolinas originated with General Sherman. And in all respects it was a wonderful movement. The first instructions of General Grant contemplated an entrenched camp near Savannah, and the transportation of the bulk of Sherman's force by sea to City Point. General Sherman was very anxious, however, to capture Savannah, and then march northward by land. The reasons he gave Grant were such as to induce the latter to accept Sherman's plan as better than his own. The campaign from Savannah was in every way more difficult and hazardous than the march from Atlanta. In coming down to the sea there had been no veteran enemy in front, nor indeed, any force worthy of mention, nor had there been important garrisons on either flank to threaten or
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
some side conversation, lie handed one of the papers to me. It was in Reagan's handwriting, and began with a long preamble and terms, so general and verbose that I said they were inadmissible. Then recalling the conversation of Mr. Lincoln at City Point, I sat down at the table and wrote off the terms, which, I thought, concisely expressed his views and wishes, and explained that I was willing to submit these terms to the new President, Mr. Johnson, provided that both armies should remain in sange you deem best. Very respectfully your obedient servant, T. S. Bowers, Assistant Adjutant-General. The part of the report thus alluded to was as follows: headquarters Military division of the Mississippi, in the field, City Point, Va., May 9, 1865. General: * * * * It now becomes my duty to paint, in justly severe characters, the still more offensive and dangerous matter of General Halleck's dispatch of April 26th, to the Secretary of War, embodied in his to General