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Floyd (search for this): chapter 33
ashville. Munford's account. panic and mob. Floyd. retreat. Forrest. Governor Harris. letterle to support Tilghman, and on the 6th ordered Floyd's entire command thither. General Beauregard light, and the army be surrendered by Buckner, Floyd and Pillow having left on steamboats for Nashvthe changed state of affairs. He received Generals Floyd and Pillow with the greatest courtesy, andof approval was the response from the mob. Generals Floyd, Hardee, and myself, had to make speeches ngaged at it until the city was evacuated. Floyd had no common task in holding in check an infuion of the city, and cupidity was triumphant. Floyd says, in his report to General Johnston, that fortitude, patience, and good sense, which General Floyd displayed in his arduous and unenviable tant. Duke illustrates his conclusions about Floyd by details of his conduct, highly creditable t Tennessee, to confer with him. In putting Floyd in command at Nashville, General Johnston used[5 more...]
Wilson Duke (search for this): chapter 33
ry soldiers and the roll of their baggage-wagons were continuous through that dreary day and those which succeeded it. Duke, in his Life of Morgan (page 113), tells what he saw, in his usual animated style. He says: The Tennessee troops wem the north side of the river before the bridges were destroyed on the night of the 19th. Fear was replaced by greed. Duke says, in his graphic way: Excitement and avarice seemed to stimulate the people to preternatural strength. I saw ansion. Forrest came into personal collision with mob-leaders, and his cavalry twice charged the mob with drawn sabres. Duke speaks of Floyd's conduct in terms of the highest commendation. Hie says: Nothing could have been more admirable thville, and I was remarkably impressed by him. . . . He was evidently endowed with no common nerve, will, and judgment. Duke illustrates his conclusions about Floyd by details of his conduct, highly creditable to that general. He continues:
Daniel S. Donelson (search for this): chapter 33
ed without an effort to save it. At Henry and Donelson? The same result would have ensued, for therpt as the gateway of the Tennessee River; nor Donelson, save as an outpost of Nashville. While in striking distance of both Bowling Green and Donelson, which were alike threatened. Floyd was at Dn of the attack on Henry and the surrender of Donelson. He meant to defend Nashville at Donelson, iton told him that if he should lose Henry and Donelson, he should fall back to the line of the Cumbe a time, but the multitudes of fugitives from Donelson who came pouring in soon overtaxed the efforthe 16th, General Johnston sums up the fate of Donelson: At 2 A. M. to-day Fort Donelson surrendered.escribes the announcement of the surrender of Donelson: General Johnston's headquarters were ined by another messenger with dispatches from Donelson. I lighted a candle, and at the general's ren giving coherence to the routed fugitives of Donelson. His duty was, besides, to save from the wre
George B. Crittenden (search for this): chapter 33
with a river in their rear; when, in fact, the last thing he wished was a battle, when the odds were four or five to one. His strategy succeeded. General Johnston held on to Bowling Green till the last moment. But his right flank, under, Crittenden, was broken. Fort Henry was lost. Donelson was about to be attacked, with a doubtful prospect of successful resistance. It was evident that the time for the evacuation of Bowling Green had come. On the 8th of February General Johnston wrotee army reached Nashville only in time to hear of the disaster of their comrades in arms. While mindful of whatever might aid the commanders at Donelson, General Johnston neglected nothing to secure the retreat of his own column. He brought Crittenden's command back within ten miles of Nashville, and thence to Murfreesboro. Besides the general orders for the march, he instructed Hardee to Let it be known that the object is to secure the crossing of the Cumberland, and no apprehension of the
D. C. Buell (search for this): chapter 33
table of probabilities-and led against either Buell or Grant, what would have been the chance of success? Buell had an army 75,000 strong. Grant could not be assailed in his fortifications on thetacked, he had his fleets and 25,000 men, with Buell and Halleck to draw upon for any required rein have ensued, for there was nothing to prevent Buell's advance, except the interposition of the forwer of water-communication enabled Halleck and Buell to cooperate fully, and practically to place wf possible, a crushing blow should be dealt to Buell's army, which was regarded at the time as the ohnston desired, but did not expect, and which Buell was too wary to make. General Johnston's l to him the positions and relative strength of Buell's army and his own, and read to him a good deabattle was raging at Donelson, he assumed that Buell might attack his rear, and placed Bowen's brigtiate, and the formal surrender of the city to Buell took place on Tuesday, the 25th. Nashville pa
Simon B. Buckner (search for this): chapter 33
t the clamor of to-day is converted into the praises of to-morrow by a simple success. All I require to rectify that is to get in position where I can fight a battle, and I think all will be well. The conversation was closed by his assuring me he would hold Bowling Green as long as it was safe to do so-even to the last moment. In a few weeks the enemy's plans were developed just as he had foretold, and that moment came. General John C. Brown informs the writer that he was sent by General Buckner, between the 1st and 4th of February, from Russellville to Bowling Green, in order to have a full conversation with General Johnston touching the reorganization of the troops and some other matters. During this confidential interview, which was frank and extended, General Johnston explained to him the positions and relative strength of Buell's army and his own, and read to him a good deal of his correspondence elucidating these points. Among other things, General Johnston told him tha
D. P. Buckner (search for this): chapter 33
eak, we were awakened by another messenger with dispatches from Donelson. I lighted a candle, and at the general's request read to him the astounding official statement that the place would capitulate at daylight, and the army be surrendered by Buckner, Floyd and Pillow having left on steamboats for Nashville I The general was lying on a little camp-bed in one corner; he was silent a moment, and then asked me to read the dispatch again, which I did. He then ordered the staff to be awakened, sa language, as appears by a memorandum taken at the time by Colonel Mackall: I give you command of the city; you will remove the stores. My only restriction is, do not fight a battle in the city. General Johnston also telegraphed Colonel D. P. Buckner, at Clarksville, February 16th: Do not destroy the army stores, if their destruction will endanger the city. If you can burn the army stores without destroying the city, do it. Thus, in the hour of his own deepest distress, he
John C. Brown (search for this): chapter 33
Hardee. plan of campaign. military prophecy. Colonel Schaller's account. resolve to retreat. Munford's account. John C. Brown. preparations for retreat. protests of the Kentuckians. Colonel Woolley's account of General Johnston's work at Bo last moment. In a few weeks the enemy's plans were developed just as he had foretold, and that moment came. General John C. Brown informs the writer that he was sent by General Buckner, between the 1st and 4th of February, from Russellville to which he afterward carried out, before General Beauregard's arrival. The memorandum quoted and the statements of General Brown and Colonels Schaller and Munford fully prove that the plan of campaign, presented in definite shape to Beauregard anailroad to effect a junction with Polk's command at Corinth. All this was clearly foreshadowed in his conversations with Brown, Munford, Bowen, and Schaller. The preparations for retreat were begun. But these could not be carried out, and the
John C. Breckinridge (search for this): chapter 33
duty or unable to undertake a march. On February 11th, everything being in readiness, the troops began their retreat, Hindman's brigade covering the rear. Breckinridge's command passed through Bowling Green on the 12th, and bivouacked on the night of the 13th two miles north of Franklin. It was on that Thursday night that t and five miles beyond. The Kentuckians retreated sullenly. Thompson's History of the first Kentucky brigade, pp. 16-81. General George B. Hodge, then Breckinridge's assistant adjutant-general, in an interesting account of that brigade, mentions that- The spirits of the army were cheered by the accounts which Generale order for retreat was given, and the first intimation the enemy had of the intended evacuation, so far as has been ascertained, was when Generals Hindman and Breckinridge, who were in advance toward his camp, were seen suddenly to retreat toward Bowling Green. The enemy pursued, and succeeded in shelling the town, while Hindman
John S. Bowen (search for this): chapter 33
f January, 1862, when one day looking with Colonel Bowen upon a map, showing the course of the Tennthe presence of then Colonel (now General) John S. Bowen, commanding the forts and the town of Bowlng. In front of this map, the general and Colonel Bowen were standing, the former giving evidentlyir conversation, General Johnston directed Colonel Bowen's attention to a position upon this map, wr memory in the strongest manner when Brigadier-General Bowen and myself were actually engaged in three months previously predicted. Meeting General Bowen upon the battle-field of Shiloh Church, shortly after he (General Bowen) had been wounded, and while my regiment was replenishing its ammunitdge of the fall of our illustrious leader, General Bowen recalled the circumstances above cited, anowed in his conversations with Brown, Munford, Bowen, and Schaller. The preparations for retread that Buell might attack his rear, and placed Bowen's brigade, which had the head of column, in li
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