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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 15: generals and staff, army of the Tennessee (search)
t product of our national military school and the best training of the regular army. Dana's official correspondence shows nothing more than a mere mention of General Ord, who, it will be remembered, succeeded McClernand in the command of the Thirteenth army corps, but I personally know that he held that singularly modest and most excellent officer in the highest esteem. Ord belonged to the artillery of the regular army, and served as a corps and army commander till the end of the war with great usefulness and distinction, though it so happened that Dana met him but seldom either in the Vicksburg or Richmond campaign, and had no opportunity to become intimate with him. The simple fact that all complaint in reference to the Thirteenth corps ceased after it passed under Ord's control is conclusive evidence that the change which Dana had urged so persistently was necessary, and that the new commander was a judicious and fortunate selection. Dana's two remarkable letters from Cairo
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 20: Confederate operations in Northern Virginia (search)
I can tell you as a great secret not to be spoken of that Butler is ordered to Fort Monroe and Smith put in command of the troops in the field. Franklin and Ord are here on a visit. Porter has just gone out on a flag of truce. Nothing important. I was out at Petersburg with a lot of senators this morning. The Offlin, the defeat of Wallace at Monocacy, heavy skirmishing by Lowell's cavalry in front of Washington, and great activity on the part of Augur, Gillmore, McCook, and Ord in preparing for the defence of the capital. He reported also a great destruction of mills, workshops, and factories, and the breaking of the Baltimore & Ohio Raiff the enemy for want of a commander, and added that Augur commands the defences of Washington, Wright the Sixth corps, Gillmore a part of the Nineteenth corps, and Ord the Eighteenth corps, but there is no head to the whole, and it seems indispensable that you should appoint one. It then called attention to the fact that Hunter w
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
3, 343, 344, 350, 373, 376, 378, 448, 493. Niagara Falls, 6. Nicholson, John, 501. No force bill! No negro domination! 446. No king, no clown, 449. North American Review, 437. Northanna River, 323. Novalis, 56. Noyes, A. de C. 367, 368. O. Official correspondence. See Official Records. Official Records, 258, 259, 274, 287, 300, 319, 330, 335, 336, 357. Ohio, 30. Olney, Secretary, 171. Omnibus resolution, 98. Opdyke, George, 248. Orchard Knoll, 292. Ord, General, 245, 246, 33-t, 336, 337. Oregon, 120. Orvis, lecturer, 48. Ostend Manifesto, 131. Osterhaus, General, 246. Overland campaign, Grant's, 316, et seq. Owen, General, 329. P. Pacific Railroad, 97, 103-105, 111, 120, 150. Paducah, 351. Paine, Anne, 1. Palma, 499. Palmer, Colonel, 264. Pamunkey, 321, 325. Panic, October, 1857, 48, 58. Paris, Dana in, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70; leaves, 83; returns to, 86, 91, 93, 136, 398. Parke, General, 287. Parker, Ely S., 4,