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Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
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 the loyal people of the land. In those receptions, they who, in the ho
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 21
the horn of plenty in one hand, and the shield of the Republic in the other. Across the face of the latter, on a ribbon, is the name, Fort Donelson. Beneath is a group of military trophies. Around all, and forming a broad circle, is the Mississippi River, on which are gun-boats of different forms; and outside of the whole, at the edge of the medal, are thirteen stars. would be too few The Grant medal. to attest their appreciation of him as one of the chief instruments of the: Almighty in auxiliary, or wholly a secondary force, when, in truth, it was an equal, if not the chief power in gaining a victory. Without it, what might have been the result of military operations at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and all along the Mississippi 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 Norfol
France (France) (search for this): chapter 21
'honneur du grand honnete homme dont vous portez le nom, plus de 40,000 citoyens Francais, desireux de manifester leurs sympathies pour l'union Americaine, dans la personne de l'un de ses plus illustres et de ses plus purs representants. Si la France possedait les liberties dont jouit l'amerique republicaine, ce n'est pas par milliers, mais par millions, que se seraient comptes avec nous les admirateurs de Lincoln, et les partisans des opinions auxquelles il voua sa vie, et que sa mort a conshe 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 Lincoln, and of the partisans of those opinions to which he devoted his life, and which are consecrated by his deat
Decatur (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
he Confederate army was announced; directions given for the cessation of hostilities and relief of the distressed inhabitants near the army, and orders for the return of a greater portion of the soldiers to their homes. General Schofield, commanding the Department of North Carolina, was left there with the Tenth and Twenty-third Corps and Kilpatrick'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 remainder of the army to Richmond, Virginia, in time to resume their march to Washington City by the middle of May. We have observed that all of Johnston's army was surrendered excepting some cavalry under Wade Hampton. In a communication to General Kilpatrick, this leader signed his name Ned Wade Hampton. Major Nichols, in his Story of the Great March, speaking of this notorious rebel, at the first conf
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
raft, those thus chosen for service were allowed to pay a commutation fee. The Provost-Marshal gives the following table of the amounts paid in this way, by the people of the several States:-- Maine $610,200 Connecticut $457,200 Maryland $1,131,900 Indiana $235,500 New Hampshire 286,500 New York 5,485,799 Dis't of Columbia 96,900 Michigan 614,700 Vermont 593,400 New Jersey 1,265,700 Kentucky 997,530 Wisconsin 1,533,600 Massachusetts 1,610,400 Pennsylvania 8,634,300 Ohio 1,978,887 Iowa 22,500 Rhode Island 141,300 Delaware 446,100 Illinois 15,900 Minnesota 316,800               Total             $26,366,316 This sum was collected by the Provost-Marshal's Bureau, at an expense of less than seven-tenths of one per cent., and without the loss of a dollar through neglect, accident, fraud, or otherwise. The whole number of negro troops recruited and enlisted during the war, was 186,017. Of these, about 1,490,000 were in actual service. Of this number, near
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
prehended by considering the fact, that the region between Bull Run and the Rio Grande, had been fought over, lightly or heavily, at almost every league. Sheridan's appearance at New Orleans sent dismay to the hearts of the Confederates in the Trans-Mississippi region, and the men in arms refused longer to follow their leaders in a hopeless struggle. Kirby Smith formally surrendered May 26, 1865. his entire command to General Canby, and thereby rendered an advance of Sheridan into Western Louisiana and Texas unnecessary. Before the surrender was actually effected, Kirby Smith exhibited the bad faith of first disbanding most of his army, and permitting an indiscriminate plunder of the public property. General Grant's Report, July 22, 1865. In closing that report, General Grant said: It has been my fortune to see the armies of both the West and the East fight battles, and from what I have seen, I know there is no difference in their fighting qualities. All that it was possibl
Ferrol (Spain) (search for this): chapter 21
observed, See note 3, page 514. surrendered, to Rear-Admiral Thatcher, the Confederate navy in the Tombigbee River. In the brief account of the Confederate pirate ships, given in Chap. XVI., in which the cruise of the Shenandoah, the last of these vessels afloat, was mentioned [see page 488], a notice of the powerful ram Stonewall was omitted. She was a British built, armed and manned steamer. She depredated upon American commerce for awhile, and was finally blockaded in the port of Ferrol, on the coast of Spain, by the National vessels Niagara and Sacramento. She slipped out, and ran across the Atlantic to Havana, where she arrived after the end of the war. The Spanish authorities there took possession of her, and handed her over to Rear-Admiral Godon, who was then cruising among the West India Islands, with a powerful squadron, in search of her. Godon took her to Hampton Roads, June 12, and handed her over to the Government. The capitulation was followed, the next day,
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
riod, was, as stated in the text, 2,656,558, leaving a deficiency of 102,496, when the war closed which, says the Provost-Marshal-General, would have been obtained in full, in fact in excess, if recruiting and drafting had been continued. We have observed that in enforcing the draft, those thus chosen for service were allowed to pay a commutation fee. The Provost-Marshal gives the following table of the amounts paid in this way, by the people of the several States:-- Maine $610,200 Connecticut $457,200 Maryland $1,131,900 Indiana $235,500 New Hampshire 286,500 New York 5,485,799 Dis't of Columbia 96,900 Michigan 614,700 Vermont 593,400 New Jersey 1,265,700 Kentucky 997,530 Wisconsin 1,533,600 Massachusetts 1,610,400 Pennsylvania 8,634,300 Ohio 1,978,887 Iowa 22,500 Rhode Island 141,300 Delaware 446,100 Illinois 15,900 Minnesota 316,800               Total             $26,366,316 This sum was collected by the Provost-Marshal's Bureau, at an expense
Aiken's Landing (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ning of the 28th of December. 1864. On the following day we went up the James River, with General Butler, on his elegant little dispatch steamer, Ocean Queen, to City Point, where, after a brief interview with General Grant, we proceeded to Aiken's Landing, the neutral ground for the exchange of prisoners. It was dark when we arrived there. We made our way in an ambulance, over a most wretched road, to Butler's Headquarters, See picture on page 362. within seven miles of Richmond, where wer'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 o
Yorkville (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
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 raiding party. History of the L
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