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Union City (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
laves for this purpose had been responded to slowly and feebly, as has been shown. The condition of the Confederates in that quarter may be understood from an extract from a letter of General Polk to General Johnston, dated January 11, 1862: My available force is greatly reduced by sickness and absence . . . There are many regiments in my division who are without arms, and several poorly armed. The unarmed regiments are stationed at Forts Pillow, Donelson, and Henry; at Trenton, Union City, and Henderson Station. In my return you will find embraced the brigade of Brigadier-General Alcorn. His men are sixty-day troops from Mississippi, who are armed with every variety of weapon. They are sick with measles, raw, and undisciplined. This brigade cannot be expected to be very effective. I also send you a weekly report of the troops at this post, and am sorry to remark that they have been much reduced by sickness. My effective force is now, as you will see, only about 12,
Mayfield (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
e on their own immediate front, were not slow to seize the advantage. Early in January, McClellan, the general-in-chief, directed Halleck, commanding the Western Department, to make a demonstration in Western Kentucky which should prevent reinforcements being sent to Bowling Green, toward which Buell was still reaching out. Grant, under orders from Halleck, sent McClernand, with 6,000 men, from Cairo to Milburn, to menace Columbus; and C. F. Smith, with two brigades, from Paducah toward Mayfield and Murray, threatening Fort Henry and the country from there to Columbus. McClernand's expedition occupied the time from January 10th to January 20th, the infantry marching about seventy-five miles, the cavalry farther. Smith's movement took a little longer. These commands were moved with extraordinary precautions. Although there was no fighting, the soldiers suffered greatly from cold, and from the effects of a violent storm of rain and snow. They subsisted chiefly on plunder.
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ts were placed within the limits of Tennessee; Henry on the east bank of the Tennessee, Donelson onr the present, do not move the regiment from Fort Henry. The men are accustomed to the guns. New ohelling the banks, and fired a few shells at Fort Henry, at two and a half miles distance, without eitu from North Alabama. The general came to Fort Henry on the 15th-and then it was, when I left, de. Johnston. At the time of the attack upon Fort Henry, it had been well fortified, though not stroan, was threatened at an early day either at Fort Henry or Fort Donelson, or possibly on both at thein organization and equipment, did not go to Fort Henry. Impressed with the great deficiency in the latter. Subsequently, there arrived at Fort Henry reinforcements from General Polk, the Forty-ain body to Fort Donelson, while the guns of Fort Henry should return the fire of the gunboats. or the movement by standing a bombardment in Fort Henry. For this purpose, he retained his heavy ar[59 more...]
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
stood from an extract from a letter of General Polk to General Johnston, dated January 11, 1862: My available force is greatly reduced by sickness and absence . . . There are many regiments in my division who are without arms, and several poorly armed. The unarmed regiments are stationed at Forts Pillow, Donelson, and Henry; at Trenton, Union City, and Henderson Station. In my return you will find embraced the brigade of Brigadier-General Alcorn. His men are sixty-day troops from Mississippi, who are armed with every variety of weapon. They are sick with measles, raw, and undisciplined. This brigade cannot be expected to be very effective. I also send you a weekly report of the troops at this post, and am sorry to remark that they have been much reduced by sickness. My effective force is now, as you will see, only about 12,000. On the 18th of January Colonel Munford, aide to General Johnston, received the following letter, written the day before, by the Hon. James
Barren river (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ar their dividing line, turns to the north as it approaches the Tennessee, to which it runs parallel to its mouth. At the great bend, on very good ground, Fort Donelson was established; so that the two forts helped mutually to determine their relative locations. The governing considerations were evidently political rather than strategic, and depended more upon geography than topography. Nevertheless, even from a strategic point of view, they were exceedingly well situated. Whether the Barren River, and a line from Bowling Green to Columbus, should be adopted for defense, or that of the Cumberland and thence west to the Mississippi, these points were equally commanding. They were also near to and in front of the railroads from Bowling Green and Nashville, running west. The topography of the two forts was not so good, though not justly amenable to the censure that the defeated generals visited upon it after its surrender. Floyd, in his reports, said of Fort Donelson: It w
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
left flank on the Mississippi can well be used to secure you against such movements. In the latter part of October Major Jeremy F. Gilmer reported to General Johnston, as his chief-engineer. Gilmer was a North Carolinian, and had been graduated at the Military Academy in 1839, fourth in his class, next below H. W. Halleck. After subaltern service, he had served as captain in the Engineer Corps since 1853, and was esteemed an officer of great merit. General Johnston first knew him in California. They met next at Bowling Green. Gilner had skill and judgment, and his military career was full of usefulness to the cause he espoused. At the close of the war he was at the head of the engineer department of the Confederate army. General Johnston was well pleased with this assignment to him of a trained soldier, on whose scientific knowledge he could rely. After a full conference with him on the plan of defense already adopted, he promptly sent him back to establish a second def
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ched 8,000 men, Floyd's brigade and part of Buckner's, from his army at Bowling Green. The infantry, artillery, and baggage, were sent to Russellville by rail, the cavalry and artillery horses moving by land. General Johnston's army at Bowling Green had numbered, December 8th, 18,000 men, including 5,000 sick. December 24th, his effective force had increased to 17,000; December 30th, to 19,000; and January 8th, by reenforcements-Bowen's brigade from Polk, and Floyd's brigade sent from Western Virginia by the War Department-his army attained the greatest strength it ever had, 23,000 effective troops. On January 20th it had fallen off to 22,000 from camp-diseases, and these numbers were again reduced, by the detachment above named, to 14,000. With this force he faced Buell's army, estimated at 80,000 men, for three weeks longer. The following letter from General Johnston to the adjutant-general, written January 22d, gives his own conception of the situation at that time. After r
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
thus set as near its outer edge as was possible under the circumstances. Near their mouths, not far from Smithland and Paducah, the rivers approach within three miles of each other. Here, it is said, an intrenched camp might have commanded both streams; but this position was on the soil of Kentucky, and Tennessee had neither the right to take nor the strength to maintain it. A look at the map will show that the boundary between these two States is nearly a straight line westward from Virginia to the Tennessee River; it then follows this stream almost due south some twelve or fourteen miles, when it resumes its original direction and runs westward to the Mississippi River. Within a mile of the angle of this offset of Kentucky, about sixty miles above Paducah, stood Fort Henry. The Tennessee River traverses Tennessee and Kentucky by a course almost due north. The Cumberland, flowing westwardly near their dividing line, turns to the north as it approaches the Tennessee, to which
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ront of the railroads from Bowling Green and Nashville, running west. The topography of the twoond defensive line along the Cumberland from Nashville to Donelson and thence to Henry, which mights ran: Arrange a plan of defensive works for Nashville, and urge them forward by all the means you rn. Fifteen hundred laborers were needed at Nashville, as many at Clarksville, 1,000 were called f order the impressment of 1,500 negroes near Nashville; but not more than fifty were collected for day before, by the Hon. James E. Saunders: Nashville, January , 17, 1862. dear sir: I am just for their ultimate object, the occupation of Nashville. I have already detached 8,000 men to make can turn my position, and attack and occupy Nashville and the interior of the State, which it is tbject of this force to defend. A reserve at Nashville seems now absolutely necessary to enable me ohnston ordered a regiment, just armed, from Nashville to Donelson, and on the 6th Colonel Smith's [5 more...]
Fort Heiman (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
column; while C. F. Smith, with two brigades — some 5,000 or 6,000 men-landed on the left bank, with orders to take the earthwork opposite Fort Henry, known as Fort Heiman. During the debarkation on the 4th three of the gunboats approached the forts and tried the range of their guns, throwing solid shot and nine-inch shells at a nston, received the following letter, written the day before, by the Hon. James E. Saunders: Nashville, January , 17, 1862. dear sir: I am just starting for Fort Heiman, opposite Fort Henry, where I have been for some time. I was sent for ammunition and equipments (which I have obtained), as none of the officers could be sparets would be equivalent to abandoning Fort Henry. The Alabama troops are raw and undisciplined. In my poor opinion, a disciplined regiment should be sent to Fort Heiman, and another or two to Rickman's furnace, half-way between Forts Donelson and Henry, six miles from each, where there is a village of houses to shelter the men.
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