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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4.. Search the whole document.
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Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
Franklin (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams.
In the Bivouac for October, 1885, James Barr, of Company E, 65th Illinois Volunteers, writing from Barwell, Kansas, said:
I was somewhat interested in that terrible affair at Franklin.
I was a prisoner near the cotton-gin for about three or four minutes, was ordered to the rear by some of the Confederates, and would have had a trip to Andersonville had it not been for that devil-may-care counter-charge made by Illinoisans and Kentuckians.
Our aped death or capture.
In the Bivouac for November, 1885, John McQuaide, of Vicksburg, Miss., wrote:
Some time since I called attention to the inaccuracies of current history in regard to the manner of General Patrick Cleburne's death at Franklin.
The subject has been brought to my mind again by Mr. James Barr's letter.
It has been stated that Cleburne and horse were killed on top of the works, which is incorrect.
It was General John Adams, of Loring's division, Stewart's corps.
Earl
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.66
The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams.
In the Bivouac for October, 1885, James Barr, of Company E, 65th Illinois Volunteers, writing from Barwell, Kansas, said:
I was somewhat interested in that terrible affair at Franklin.
I was a prisoner near the cotton-gin for about three or four minutes, was ordered to the rear by some of the Confederates, and would have had a trip to Andersonville had it not been for that devil-may-care counter-charge made by Illinoisans and Kentuckians.
Our Colonel Stewart (65th Illinois) tried hard to save the life of General John Adams, of Mississippi. Colonel Stewart called to our men not to fire on him, but it was too late.
Adams rode his horse over the ditch to the top of the parapet, undertook to grasp the old flag from the hands of our color-sergeant, when he fell, horse and all, shot by the color-guard.
I was a reenlisted veteran, and went through twenty-seven general engagements, but I am sure that Franklin was the hardest-fought fi
Jacob D. Cox (search for this): chapter 9.66
John Adams (search for this): chapter 9.66
The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams.
In the Bivouac for October, 1885, James Barr, of Company E, 65th Illinois Volunteers, writing olonel Stewart (65th Illinois) tried hard to save the life of General John Adams, of Mississippi. Colonel Stewart called to our men not to fire on him, but it was too late.
Adams rode his horse over the ditch to the top of the parapet, undertook to grasp the old flag from the hands were killed on top of the works, which is incorrect.
It was General John Adams, of Loring's division, Stewart's corps.
Early next morning I tting his body in an ambulance; also the body of General Cleburne.
Adams's horse was a bay. It was dead upon the works, with its front legs toward the inner side of the works.
Adams's body was lying outside, at the base of the works, when I helped to pick it up. Cleburne's body w ixty yards from the works, and on nearly a straight line from where Adams fell.
This may appear strange, as the two generals belonged to dif
A. P. Stewart (search for this): chapter 9.66
James Barr (search for this): chapter 9.66
The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams.
In the Bivouac for October, 1885, James Barr, of Company E, 65th Illinois Volunteers, writing from Barwell, Kansas, said:
I was somewhat interested in that terrible affair at Franklin.
I was a prisoner near the cotton-gin for about three or four minutes, was ordered to the rear by some of the Confederates, and would have had a trip to Andersonville had it not been for that devil-may-care counter-charge made by Illinoisans and Kentuckians.
Our ohn McQuaide, of Vicksburg, Miss., wrote:
Some time since I called attention to the inaccuracies of current history in regard to the manner of General Patrick Cleburne's death at Franklin.
The subject has been brought to my mind again by Mr. James Barr's letter.
It has been stated that Cleburne and horse were killed on top of the works, which is incorrect.
It was General John Adams, of Loring's division, Stewart's corps.
Early next morning I assisted in putting his body in an ambulance;