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Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
heard of the return of Butler from Fort Fisher, and, mistaking our little party of five for the General and his staff, gave this Salute with shotted guns. We returned to General Butler's Headquarters at twilight, where we found George D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal, who had just come through the lines from Richmond. With him and Captain Clarke, of Butler's staff, we journeyed the next day on horseback to Aiken's Landing, crossed the James on a pontoon bridge, rode to Bermuda Hundred, and then went up the Appomattox to Point of Rocks in the Ocean Queen, which the general placed at our disposal. There we mounted to the summit of the signal-tower delineated on page 547, and viewed the marvelous lines of intrenchments in that vicinity; and saw plainly the church-spires at Richmond and Petersburg. We passed that night on the barge of the United States Sanitary Commission, at City Point, and the next morning went down to Fortress Monroe, bearing an order from General B
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
there met a prominent and reliable man from Baltimore, who was well acquainted with Marshal Kane, brought to light. Societies were formed in Baltimore, and various modes, known to and practiced omunicated by Miss Dix and the gentleman from Baltimore, rested upon a foundation of fact, and that nce over the Northern Central road by way of Baltimore, and thence to Washington. We were then inf branch, and Mr. Stearns, whom I had sent to Baltimore, so informed me by telegraph in cipher. Theeorge Stearns, started on the train to go to Baltimore, and hand it over, with its contents, to man William Stearns, who awaited its arrival in Baltimore. Before the train reached Gray's Ferry bride sleeping-car and train over to William, in Baltimore, and William, as had been previously arrange 1865. we started for that city, and were in Baltimore on the night when the President was murdered conveyances entering into or departing from Baltimore, because search was a-making for the assassi[7 more...]
Abbeville, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
the Catawba, with their faces toward the Gulf of Mexico, for the way to the Mississippi and beyond, was barred. George Davis, the Attorney-General, resigned. his office at Charlotte; Trenholm gave up the place of Secretary of the Treasury on the banks of the Catawba, when Davis appointed his now useless Postmaster-General, Reagan, to take Trenholm's place, temporarily. On they went, the escort continually dwindling. Delays, said one of the party, were not now thought of; and on toward Abbeville, by way of Yorkville, in South Carolina, the party struck, taking full soldiers' allowance of turmoil and camping on the journey, only intent on pushing to certain points on the Florida coast. Rumors of Stoneman, rumors of Wilson, rumors of even the ubiquitous Sheridan, occasionally sharpened the excitement. The escort, for the sake of expedition, was shorn of its bulky proportions, and by the time we reached Washington, May 4. in Georgia, there was only enough to make a respectable rai
Morehead City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
from the presence of our victorious armies, and left them in a condition to renew their efforts to overthrow the United States Government and subdue the loyal States whenever their strength was recruited and any opportunity should offer. General Grant was immediately sent to Raleigh to declare the rejection of the Memorandum, to relieve General Sherman of command if he should think it best to do so, and to direct an immediate and general resumption of hostilities. When Grant reached Morehead City, he telegraphed to Sherman the decision of the Government. Pressing forward he reached Sherman's Headquarters, at Raleigh, on the morning of the 24th, April, 1865. and directed that officer to communicate the decision of the Government to Johnston, immediately, and notify him that the truce would close within forty-eight hours after the message should reach the Confederate lines. The notification was accompanied by a demand for the immediate surrender of Johnston's army, on the terms
Jetersville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
and on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1865. he struck the Danville road at Jetersville, seven miles southwest of Amelia Court-House, when some of his cavalry swepnchburg and the mountains beyond, by taking a westerly course at the left of Jetersville, and recrossing the Appomattox at Farmville, thirty-five miles from Amelia CSheridan was out of the question, for General Meade had joined the latter at Jetersville, with the Second and Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, late that afterward evening, with his cavalry, on a reconnoissance to the left and front of Jetersville. He found a part of Lee's army moving westward from Amelia Court-House, hisand Smith, he extricated himself after some heavy fighting, and fell back to Jetersville. On the morning of the 6th April. nearly the whole of the Army of the Potomac was at Jetersville, and was moved upon Amelia Court-House to attack Lee. Sheridan had returned the Fifth Corps to Meade, and now operated with the cavalry alon
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
patrick's cavalry. Stoneman was ordered to take his command to East Tennessee, and Wilson was directed to march his from Macon to the neighborhood of Decatur, on the Tennessee River. Generals Howard and Slocum were directed to conduct the remainderes. When he reached them, they were approaching Irwinsville, the capital of Irwin County, Georgia, nearly due south from Macon. They had pitched tents for the night, and in one of these the wearied husband and father lay down to rest, intending to retrace his steps before the dawn. Vigilant eyes were now looking for the notable fugitive. General Wilson, at Macon, had been informed of Davis's flight toward the Gulf, and sent out two bodies of horsemen to attempt his capture. One was led ured by Pritchard and his men, and with the rest of the fugitive party, was conveyed to General Wilson's Headquarters, at Macon. The method of Davis's capture, and the account of his disguise, are related by two persons as follows:-- When the
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 21
s avec nous les admirateurs de Lincoln, et les partisans des opinions auxquelles il voua sa vie, et que sa mort a consacrees. Veuillez agreer, Madame, l'hommage de notre profond respect. Les membres du Comite: Etienne Arago, Ch. L. Chassin. L. Greppo, Laurent Pichat, Eng. Despois, L. Kneip, C. Thomas Albert, J. Michelet, Jules Barni, T. Delord, V. Chauffour, E. Littre, V. Schoelcher, V. Joigneaux, V<*> Mangin, Edgar Quinet, Louis Blanc, Eugene Pelletan, Victor Hugo. Translation. Paris, October 13, 1866. Madam:-- We have been charged with the duty of presenting to you the medal in honor of the great and honest man whose name you bear, and which 40,000 French citizens have caused to be struck, with a desire to express their sympathy for the American Union, in the person of one of its most illustrious and purest representatives. If France possessed the liberty enjoyed by republican America, we would number with us not merely thousands, but millions of the admirers of L
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
sippi River, especially at Vicksburg, Port. Hudson, and New Orleans; what at Mobile, Pensacola, Key West, along the Florida sea-board, the sea-coast Islands, Charleston, and the borders of North Carolina, and even in holding Fortress Monroe and Norfolk? The energy displayed by the Navy Department, under the chief management of Gustavus Vasa Fox, See page 308, volume I. the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was most remarkable. The weakness and the position of the navy in the spring of 18church-spires at Richmond and Petersburg. We passed that night on the barge of the United States Sanitary Commission, at City Point, and the next morning went down to Fortress Monroe, bearing an order from General Butler for a tug to take us to Norfolk. We spent New Year's day in that city, and then went homeward by way of Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Soon after the news of the evacuation of Richmond reached us, early in April, 1865. we started for that city, and were in Ba
Farmville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
the left of Jetersville, and recrossing the Appomattox at Farmville, thirty-five miles from Amelia Court-House, where the Soutoo late for Lee to indulge much hope of escape by way of Farmville, for Sheridan was operating in the direction of the Appome morning of the 6th, Ord was directed to move quickly on Farmville. He sent forward a column of infantry and cavalry, under General Theodore Read, to destroy the bridges near Farmville. These troops met the van of Lee's army there, and attacked it succeeded in crossing the Appomattox over the bridges at Farmville that night, April 6 and 7, 1865. with his dreadfully sha stage and plank roads to Lynchburg, a few miles north of Farmville, with strong intrenchments covering these roads, and batt Danville, and a third division, under Crook, was sent to Farmville, where it crossed with difficulty, the horsemen being comf General Miles, Lee received a note from Grant, dated at Farmville, that morning, in which he said: The result of the last w
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ne, who personified Illinois, the home of the dead President. She was clad in deep mourning. They all wore diadems that glittered with golden stars. They came in a wagon prepared for the occasion, from one of the towns of the county. From a platform in the Park, the regiment was welcomed in a speech, by Judge Emott, of the Circuit Court of New York, to which Colonel Smith replied. The soldiers then partook of a collation, when the war-worn flags which had first been rent by bullets at Gettysburg, had followed Sherman in his great march from Chattanooga to Atlanta, thence to the sea and through the Carolinas, and had been enveloped in the smoke of battle at Bentonsville, were returned to the ladies of Dutchess County (represented by a committee of their number present), from whom the regiment received them on the day before its departure. Such was the reception given at Poughkeepsie, to the returned defenders of the Republic. Such was the greeting given to them everywhere, by t
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