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Sumner H. Lincoln (search for this): chapter 5.35
He reached the capital on the 7th, had an interview for the first time with Mr. Lincoln, and on the 9th received his commission at the hands of the President, who mhe science of war of which I had knowledge; and, better still, I had pleased Mr. Lincoln, who wanted success very much. But I had not accomplished all, for Hood's a to Raleigh, became vastly important, if not actually conclusive of the war. Mr. Lincoln was the wisest man of our day, and more truly and kindly gave voice to my seourself to decide. So highly do I prize this testimonial that I preserve Mr. Lincoln's letter, every word in his own handwriting, unto this day; and if I know myould have been adjudged ungenerous and unmilitary in me; but the result, and Mr. Lincoln's judgment after the event, demonstrated that my division of force was liberory and peace from Virginia to Texas. He was one of the many referred to by Mr. Lincoln who sat in darkness, but after the event saw a great light. He never reveal
R. E. Lee (search for this): chapter 5.35
he south of James River, Meade straight against Lee, intrenched behind the Rapidan, and I to attacknfederate loss of 11,400--the difference due to Lee's intrenchments and the blind nature of the coue left flank, he crossed James River and penned Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia within the ineaten Lynchburg, a place of vital importance to Lee in Richmond. Butler failed to accomplish what in force rejoined General Grant, who still held Lee's army inside his intrenchments at Richmond andritical time. In 1864 the main objectives were Lee's and Johnston's armies, and the critical pointd. Had General Grant overwhelmed and scattered Lee's army and occupied Richmond he would have comeg to be considered in the grand game of war but Lee's army, held by Grant in Richmond, and the Confton was regarded as trivial. Our objective was Lee's army at Richmond. When I reached Goldsboro‘,all opposition, consumed the very food on which Lee's army depended for life, and demonstrated a po[10 more...]
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 5.35
army behind the Rapidan in Virginia, and Joseph E. Johnston's army at Dalton, Georgia. On reachi,000 men [see also p. 281], commanded by Joseph E. Johnston, who was equal in all the elements of gen and 254 guns. I had no purpose to attack Johnston's position at Dalton in front, but marched frtly, not wholly, successful; but it compelled Johnston to let go Dalton and fight us at Resaca, wherd to push on toward Atlanta by way of Dallas; Johnston quickly detected this, and forced me to fights victim there as surely as at Sevastopol. Johnston had meantime picked up his detachments, and h Still, the result was that within three days Johnston abandoned the strongest possible position andnder me will question the generalship of Joseph E. Johnston. His retreats were timely, in good ordeng dissatisfied with the Fabian policy of General Johnston, it relieved him, and General Hood was sullies convinced him that his predecessor, General Johnston, had not erred in standing on the defensi[1 more...]
Joe Johnston (search for this): chapter 5.35
, Meade straight against Lee, intrenched behind the Rapidan, and I to attack Joe Johnston and push him to and beyond Atlanta. This was as far as human foresight coul absolute dominion. The resistance of Hampton, Butler, Beauregard, and even Joe Johnston was regarded as trivial. Our objective was Lee's army at Richmond. When I the entire Confederate army; but the Confederate armies--Lee's in Richmond and Johnston's in my front-held interior lines, and could choose the initiative. Few milit left to Lee on the chessboard of war: to abandon Richmond; make junction with Johnston in North Carolina; fall on me and destroy me if possible — a fate I did not apast race for life. He then attempted to reach Danville, to make junction with Johnston, but Grant in his rapid pursuit constantly interposed, and finally headed him ded the war, leaving only the formal proceedings of accepting the surrender of Johnston in North Carolina and of the subordinate armies at the South-west. The Cali
Frederick J. Hurlbut (search for this): chapter 5.35
that he should come east to command all the armies of the United States, and give his personal supervision to the Army of the Potomac. On the 10th he visited General Meade at Brandy Station, and saw many of his leading officers, but he returned to Washington the next day and went on to Nashville, to which place he had summoned me, then absent on my Meridian expedition. On February 3d, 1864, General Sherman started from Vicksburg with two columns of infantry under Generals McPherson and Hurlbut, and marched to Meridian, Mississippi, to break up the Mobile and Ohio and the Jackson and Selma railroads. His force was about 20,000 strong. A force of cavalry, 10,000 strong, under General W. Sooy Smith, set out from Memphis on the 11th, intending to cooperate by driving Forrest's cavalry from northern Mississippi, but Smith was headed off by Forrest and defeated in an engagement at West Point, Mississippi, on the 21st. After destroying the railroads on the route, General Sherman aban
David Hunter (search for this): chapter 5.35
rg, a place of vital importance to Lee in Richmond. Butler failed to accomplish what was expected of him; and Sigel failed at the very start, and was replaced by Hunter, who marched up the valley, made junction with Crook and Averell at Staunton, and pushed, on with commendable vigor to Lynchburg, which he invested on the 16th ofwith a force large enough to hold his lines of intrenchment and a surplus for expeditions, detached General Jubal A. Early with the equivalent of a corps to drive Hunter away from Lynchburg. Hunter, far from his base, with inadequate supplies of food and ammunition, retreated by the Kanawha to the Ohio River, his nearest base, thHunter, far from his base, with inadequate supplies of food and ammunition, retreated by the Kanawha to the Ohio River, his nearest base, thereby exposing the Valley of Virginia; whereupon Early, an educated soldier, promptly resolved to take advantage of the occasion, marched rapidly down this valley northward to Winchester, crossed the Potomac to Hagerstown, and thence boldly marched on Washington, defended at that time only by militia and armed clerks. Grant, full
Oliver O. Howard (search for this): chapter 5.35
battle was in progress, Schofield at the center and Thomas on the right made efforts to break through the intrenchments at their fronts, but found them too strong to assault. The Army of the Tennessee was then shifted, under its new commander (Howard), from the extreme left to the extreme right, to reach, if possible, the railroad by which Hood drew his supplies, when, on the 28th of July, he repeated his tactics of the 22d, sustaining an overwhelming defeat, losing 4632 men to our 700. Thesas occupied by Schofield, who had been brought by Grant from Nashville to Washington and sent down the Atlantic coast to prepare for Sherman's coming to Goldsboro‘, North Carolina,--all converging on Richmond. Preparatory to the next move, General Howard was sent from Savannah to secure Pocotaligo, in South Carolina, as a point of departure for the north, and General Slocum to Sister's Ferry, on the Savannah River, to secure a safe lodgment on the north bank for the same purpose. In due tine
Joseph Hooker (search for this): chapter 5.35
w that I had an army superior in numbers and morale to that of my antagonist; but being so far from my base, and operating in a country devoid of food and forage, I was dependent for supplies on a poorly constructed railroad back to Louisville, five hundred miles. I was willing to meet the enemy in the open country, but not behind well-constructed parapets. Promptly, as expected, General Hood sallied from his Peach Tree line on the 20th of July, about midday, striking the Twentieth Corps (Hooker), which had just crossed Peach Tree Creek by improvised bridges. The troops became commingled and fought hand to hand desperately for about four hours, when the Confederates were driven back within their lines, leaving behind their dead and wounded. These amounted to 4796 men, to our loss of 1710. We followed up, and. Hood fell back to the main lines of the city of Atlanta. We closed in, when again Hood, holding these lines with about one-half his force, with the other half made a wide c
John B. Hood (search for this): chapter 5.35
y of General Johnston, it relieved him, and General Hood was substituted to command the Confederate men, to our loss of 1710. We followed up, and. Hood fell back to the main lines of the city of Atlavery much. But I had not accomplished all, for Hood's army, the chief objective, had escaped. Thtrouble. We were in possession of Atlanta, and Hood remained at Lovejoy's Station, thirty miles souKnoxville, while I remained in Atlanta to await Hood's initiative. This followed soon. Hood, sendiHood, sending his cavalry ahead, crossed the Chattahoochee River at Campbelltown with his main army on the 1st ch's division to capture Allatoona. I followed Hood, reaching Kenesaw Mountain in time to see in thtoona, which was handsomely repulsed by Corse. Hood then moved westward, avoiding Rome, and by a ciappened to occupy Atlanta first, and had driven Hood off to a divergent line of operations far to the the doubts he had had.--W. T. S. Meantime Hood, whom I had left at and near Florence, 317 mile[11 more...]
Wade Hampton (search for this): chapter 5.35
same purpose. In due tine — in February, 1865--these detachments, operating by concentric lines, met on the South Carolina road at Midway and Blackville, swept northward through Orangeburg and Columbia to Winnsboro‘, where the direction was changed to Fayetteville and Goldsboro‘, a distance of 420 miles through a difficult and hostile country, making junction with Schofield at a safe base with two good railroads back to the sea-coast, of which we held absolute dominion. The resistance of Hampton, Butler, Beauregard, and even Joe Johnston was regarded as trivial. Our objective was Lee's army at Richmond. When I reached Goldsboro‘, made junction. with Schofield, and moved forward to Raleigh, I was willing to encounter the entire Confederate army; but the Confederate armies--Lee's in Richmond and Johnston's in my front-held interior lines, and could choose the initiative. Few military critics who have treated of the civil war in America have ever comprehended the importance of th
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