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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 30 0 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 24 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 16 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 14 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 12 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 12 0 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 10 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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n, he believed that by crossing his army at Guntersville north of Gadsden, and continuing to tear upal Hood, who is en route to the vicinity of Guntersville, on the Tennessee River. At what time andwill cross future events will determine. Guntersville had been the point designated. The army of yesterday, and left to-day for vicinity of Guntersville. Circumstances will determine when and whe that he would cross the Tennessee River at Guntersville, or its immediate vicinity, to continue the cavalry to report to General Hood, between Guntersville and Decatur. See letter to General Taylostport, on the left, to the eastward beyond Guntersville. On the 23d he addressed a communication ten crossing the Tennessee River, at or near Guntersville. On his way thither he stopped at the homed gone nearly two-thirds of the distance to Guntersville, to his surprise and disappointment, he was the army would be about ninety miles from Guntersville, a distance which it would be necessary to [3 more...]
109 days, or an average of six miles a day, to accomplish. He knew that this had been effected, without material opposition, because of want of forethought on the part of the officers of the War Department, from whom no reinforcements could be obtained, and by reason of whose apathy no concentration could be made at any point, notwithstanding his repeated and urgent appeals. And what added keenness to his regret was the recollection that, had General Hood crossed the Tennessee River at Guntersville when he should have done so, he would have had ample time to destroy the scattered Federal forces in that part of the State, take Nashville, with all the supplies there collected, and march to the Ohio, without encountering serious obstacles. Or possibly he might, after taking Nashville, have crossed the Cumberland Mountains and gone to form a junction with General Lee, so as to strike General Grant before General Sherman could come to his assistance. The success of either movement migh
soon as practicable, for conference. I shall leave to join the General at Gadsden in the morning. Geo. Wm. Brent, Col., and A. A. G. Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 22d, 1864. Lieut.-Genl. R. Taylor, Comdg. Dept., etc., Jacksonville, Ala.: General,—In order to save time, I desire you should attend as soon as possible to the following matters: Order Forrest and Roddy to enter as soon as practicable into communication, by letter or otherwise, with General Hood at some point between Guntersville and Decatur, Ala., and to remain subject to his orders for the present. If necessary, General Hood will order General Jackson's division to report to you meanwhile for the protection of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. You must call at once on the Governors of Alabama and Mississippi for all the assistance possible for the protection of those two roads, establishing garrisons at Corinth, Bear Creek Bridge, and other important points on those ro