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Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
me reported to the War Department the use of Government transportation for getting out cotton for traders, but he did not report it to me. Whitelaw Reid, in his sketch of him in Ohio in the War, no doubt on Mitchel's authority, gives me a credit to which I am not entitled, as having said to Mitchel at Huntsville that I would myself resign rather than that the country should be deprived of his valuable services. General Mitchel was at last assigned to a sort of local command at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and died there from yellow fever under circumstances which inspired general sympathy, within a very few months after his departure from Huntsville. postscript.--The foregoing notes were in the hands of the editors of this work when there appeared a biography of General Mitchel written by his son (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) This biography as well as a book called Daring and suffering by the Rev. William Pittenger, attach great importance to the expedition under Andrews ag
Eastport (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
6 inches in diameter, and 4 to 5 feet long, with valves at the lower end. These matters are of controlling importance in moving and handling troops in that region. Men and animals need hard ground to move on, and must have drinking-water. The strategic importance of Corinth, where the Mobile and Ohio crosses the Memphis and Charleston, ninety-three miles east of Memphis, results from its control of movements either way over these railways, and the fact that it is not far from Hamburg, Eastport, and Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River, to which points good freight steamers can ascend at the lowest stages of water. Corinth is mainly on low, flat ground, along the Mobile and Ohio railway, and flanked by low, rolling ridges, except the cleared patches, covered with oaks and undergrowth for miles in all directions. With few clearings, outside of those made by the Confederate troops in obtaining fuel during their wintering in 1861-2, the country around Corinth, in all directions
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
wished to leave a train which was driven at such a reckless rate, but their wishes were not gratified. Before reaching Dalton we urged Andrews to turn and attack the enemy, laying an ambush so as to get into close quarters that our revolvers mightracy by the way of Richmond — merely gave the plan his sanction without making any attempt to carry it into execution. Dalton was passed without difficulty, and beyond we stopped again to cut wires and obstruct the track. It happened that a regimrendered necessary by our unexpected delay and the pouring rain. We made no attempt to damage the long tunnel north of Dalton, as our enemies had greatly dreaded. The last hope of the raid was now staked upon an effort of a different kind. A fewdirection of Chattanooga — a movement to which, on June 11th, Halleck gave the objective of Chattanooga and Cleveland and Dalton ; the ultimate purpose being to take possession of east Tennessee, in cooperation with General G. W. Morgan. To countera
Huntsville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
Tennessee, twenty-eight miles north of Huntsville, Alabama, and explained to him how his position le at noon on the 10th of April, and reached Huntsville at 6 A. M. on the 11th, capturing, as he repg. On the 1st of May Mitchel reports from Huntsville to the Secretary of War, with whom he had es. Very soon, therefore after his arrival at Huntsville, he was authorized to destroy the Bridgeportew nothing of it at the time. I had been in Huntsville three days, when I received a letter from hiuld give greater security to an advance upon Huntsville. The military portion of the Mitchel bioghaving been at General Mitchel's quarters at Huntsville. It is not improbable, however, that on my southward from Shelbyville and seized Huntsville, in Alabama, on the 11th of April, and then sent ad pass on through Chattanooga to Mitchel, at Huntsville, or wherever eastward of that point he mighting but not reassuring: Mitchel has captured Huntsville and is said to be coming to Chattanooga, and[10 more...]
Ripley (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
Bragg, who was sending a division of infantry to Ripley, Miss., had ordered Chalmers (June 30th) to take some 1 division, a little over 8000 men, came up to Ripley, Mississippi, where, on the 28th of September, he was joiny, confirmation of my report of Price's movement to Ripley, adding that I should move Stanley's division to Rihad a reasonable hope of success. Field returns at Ripley showed my strength to be about 22,000 men. Rosecranrage than marched the Army of West Tennessee out of Ripley on the morning of September 29th, on its way to Core. Hamilton will seize the Hatchie crossing on the Ripley road to-night. A very intelligent, honest young Irafter learning from the front that McPherson was in Ripley, I telegraphed General Grant as follows: General: Yours 8:30 P. M. received. Our troops occupy Ripley. I most deeply dissent from your views as to the mannrds, Vol. XVII., Pt. I., p. 378): Field returns at Ripley showed my strength to be about 22,000 men. It is e
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
Iuka and Corinth. Operations in North Alabama. by don Carlos Buell, Major-General, U. S. V. he enemy's railroad communications through North Alabama. On the 13th a brigade under Colonel John I must abandon the line of railway, and Northern Alabama falls back into the hands of the enemy. a much wider extent, when the army entered North Alabama to advance into East Tennessee in July. d be forced to retire from his position in North Alabama, a contingency of which he frequently exprofficer, nominates a military governor for North Alabama, and wants authority to send rebel citizene seen in the whole of Mitchel's career in North Alabama, and it followed him after his departure. to the governors of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, Beauregard must posed exclusively of troops from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, and one Missup in the only corn country they have west of Alabama, including the Tuscumbia Valley, and to permi[3 more...]
Iuka Springs (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
disciplined his men, Price did not dare to throw them against the fortification s of Corinth, defended by twice their own number commanded by Grant and Rosecrans. All that he could do was to send Armstrong with his cavalry into west Tennessee to harass Grant, and bring back such information as he could get. Dwellings in Iuka. From photographs taken in 1884. 1. General George 11. Thomas's headquarters. 2. Female seminary, used as a hospital. 3. General Price's headquarters. 4. Iuka Springs. 5. Methodist Church, used as a hospital. 6. General Rosecrans's headquarters. 7. General Grant's headquarters. Taking 1600 men, Armstrong reached Holly Springs on the 26th of August, and having been reinforced there by 1100 men under Jackson, struck for Bolivar, Tennessee. There he encountered and defeated a force under Colonel Leggett, who, in his report of this affair, says that after fighting for seven hours with less than 900 he drove from the field over 6000. Armstrong then
Kenesaw (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
e stopped, the conductor, engineer, and many of the passengers hurried to breakfast, leaving the train unguarded. Now was the moment of action! Ascertaining that there was nothing to prevent a rapid start, Andrews, our two engineers, Brown and Knight, and the fireman hurried forward, uncoupling a section of the train consisting of three empty baggage or box cars, the locomotive and tender. The engineers and fireman sprang into the cab of the engine, while Andrews, with Big Shanty (now Kenesaw) Station. Fromi a War-time sketch. hand on the rail and foot on the step, waited to see that the remainder of the band had gained entrance into the rear box car. This seemed difficult and slow, though it really consumed but a few seconds, for the car stood on a considerable bank, and the first who came were pitched in by their comrades, while these, in turn, dragged in the others, and the door was instantly closed. A sentinel, with musket in hand, stood not a dozen feet from the engine wa
San Antonio (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
to have heard any order from him above the rifle's rattle and the cannon's roar at such a distance. I cannot say what General Rosecrans may have said to these regiments about using the bayonet when visiting my lines that morning before the occurrence mentioned, but I do know that I posted them myself, and that Colonel J. W. Fuller, 27th Ohio, commander of the brigade during the heat of the battle, gave the order for his own and the 1th Missouri regiments to charge with the bayonet. San Antonio, Texas, January 19th, 1888. The opposing forces at Corinth, Miss., October 3d and 4th, 1862. The composition, losses, and strength of each army as here stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records. K stands for killed; w for wounded; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured. The Union forces. Army of the Mississippi.--Major-General William S. Rosecrans. Second division, Brig.-Gen. David S. Stanley. Staff loss: v, 1. Firs
Tupelo (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.84
enemy. Beauregard was already on his way to Tupelo, 25 miles farther south, and 52 miles from Cor men present for duty the day after it reached Tupelo than when it began its retreat from Corinth. ment. While Halleck at Corinth and Bragg at Tupelo were engaged in the congenial business of reorsight of the capital, General Price arrived at Tupelo on the 2d of July. On reporting to Bragg, the Price was left with the Army of the West at Tupelo. At the time when Price assumed command of thised to about fifteen thousand. Hardee left Tupelo on the 29th of July, and during the next week d disciplined. July 24th, just before leaving Tupelo, Bragg reviewed them for the first time. Whenn Bolivar and Jackson. He then turned back to Tupelo. On the way he met a force under Colonel Dennay, General Beauregard withdrawing his army to Tupelo, where, June 27th, he was succeeded in the comat they wished to go together to railroad near Tupelo, where they will meet the nine thousand exchan[6 more...]
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