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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 28: (search)
ft. Schofield had first been sent with an entire corps to Johnsonville, and afterwards ordered to leave a portion of his command in that neighborhood; while Breckenridge attracted a large force to Knoxville, in East Tennessee, at the moment when every man, at every hazard, should have been concentrated in front of Hood. For, if the principal rebel army of the West was destroyed, not only Johnsonville and Morristown, but both East and West Tennessee, could easily be regained. On the 12th of November, Sherman severed communication with the forces on the Tennessee, and from this time Thomas received his orders direct from Grant. He was now in command of all the national troops between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies. To him, from this moment, was committed the defence, not only of Tennessee, but of all the territory acquired in the Atlanta, or even in the Chattanooga, campaign. The same army, depleted it is true, but still the same command that had confronted Sherman so long a
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 29: (search)
t the attitude of things in Tennessee. I purposely delayed at Kingston, until General Thomas assured me he was all ready; and my last despatch from him of the 12th November was full of confidence; in this he promised me that he would ruin Hood, if he dared to advance from Florence urging me to go ahead and give myself no concern hat this was contrary to the expectations or wishes of either Grant or Sherman, neither of whom considered the falling back necessary. At any time after the 12th of November, Thomas could have called in his detachments from Chattanooga, Murfreesboroa, and Decatur, leaving the guards at his railroad block-houses, and thus have madprevent Hood from endangering the national interests in my rear. General Sherman to Author, February, 1880. I have no fear, said Thomas to Sherman, on the 12th of November, that Beauregard can do us any harm now, and if he attempts to follow you, I will follow him as far as possible. In fact, when Sherman and Thomas first disc
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 30: (search)
idable character of work fighting on the parapet capture of Fort Fisher losses arrival of Stanton seizure of blockade runners-conduct of troops gallantry of defence harmony of Porter and Terry General observations results. On the 12th of November, Sherman's army stood detached, and cut off from all communication with the rear. It was composed of four corps: the Fifteenth and Seventeenth constituted the right wing under Howard, and the Fourteenth and Twentieth the left wing under Sl was now arranged to forward supplies to the army and heavy ordnance for an assault upon Savannah. On the 15th, Sherman returned to his lines in the rear of the town. It was just one month since the army had started from Atlanta. On the 12th of November, Sherman severed communication with the North; on the 13th of December, he reopened it with Foster and the fleet. In these thirty-one days he had utterly destroyed two hundred miles of railroad, breaking up every connection between the rebe