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Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
es of food. Foreseeing this before leaving Mississippi, I applied for permission to bring Major W.e purchase and impressment of provisions in Mississippi. So that Major Moore's position is not an t, added to the two brigades last sent from Mississippi, and the cavalry sent back by Longstreet, wrles's and Baldwin's brigades, sent back to Mississippi by the President two weeks after. and the cabout fifteen hundred when they returned to Mississippi. had been sent from it in Longstreet's corpother land, the two last brigades sent from Mississippi had an effective total of three thousand, a difficulty, I think, in advancing from Northern Mississippi, avoiding the mountains. I can see king officers present. My experience in Mississippi was, that impressed negroes run away whenev Baldwin's brigades, the last two sent from Mississippi, returned to that department in obedience h, to dispatch Lieutenant-General Hardee to Mississippi with Cheatham's, Cleburne's, and Walker's d[5 more...]
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ry and artillery eastwardly from Vicksburg, had crossed Pearl River at Jackson, and was moving along the railroad toward Meridian. Mobile was assumed to be the object of this expedition. Orders by telegraph were received on the same day from the Prce was received from Lieutenant-General Polk's headquarters, at Demopolis, that Sherman's invading column, after passing Meridian, which it destroyed, had turned, and was marching back toward Vicksburg; and Lieutenant-General Hardee's corps, of whiche success, inasmuch as it caused the recalling of the reinforcements sent to oppose General Sherman's expedition against Meridian, I concluded to withdraw my troops to the position they occupied before the reconnaissance. When writing this passage t partial. And as to any relation between General Thomas's operations near Mill-Creek Gap, and General Sherman's against Meridian, the latter was abandoned on the 20th, and the retrograde movement to Vicksburg began on the 21st. In consequence of th
Bridgeport, Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
can give me but little. It is believed by them that the army in our front amounts to about eighty thousand men; occupying Chattanooga, now strongly fortified, Bridgeport, and Stevenson. I find the country unfit for military operations, from the effect of heavy rains. Its condition prevents military exercises — a most important show that about four thousand men have returned to the ranks since the battle of Missionary Ridge. My predecessor estimated the enemy's force at Chattanooga, Bridgeport, and Stevenson, at about eighty thousand. Major-General Wheeler reports that about two-thirds of his cavalry is with General Longstreet. He has about sixteate. This number was estimated to be sixty-five thousand by an officer who belonged to General Grant's staff at Chattanooga. These troops occupied Chattanooga, Bridgeport, and Stevenson. Besides them, the Ninth and Twenty-third Corps, twenty-five or thirty thousand, were at Knoxville. Longstreet's corps and Martin's cavalry div
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
Department of Mississippi, promised by Lieutenant-General Polk. The army depends for subsistence upon an officer at Atlanta (Major Cummings), who acts under the orders of the Commissary-General. The chief commissary of the army reports that tategic advantage. It neither fully covered its own communications nor threatened those of the enemy. The railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga passes through Rocky-Faced Ridge by Mill-Creek Gap, three miles and a half beyond Dalton, but very obliqu of a superior force from Ringgold to Dalton. Between Mill-Creek and Snake-Creek Gaps, this ridge protects the road to Atlanta on the west, but at the same time covers any direct approach from Chattanooga to Resaca or Calhoun-points on the route fs of State troops to the army. They were placed as guards for the protection of the railroad-bridges between Dalton and Atlanta. Intrenchments for this object were then in course of construction, under the direction of the chief-engineer of the ar
Ringgold, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
the opposing army. The brilliant stand made by the rear-guard at Ringgold sustains this belief. In a letter written to me soon after theill, on the railroad, seven miles from Dalton, in the direction of Ringgold; his pickets on Taylor's Ridge, in front, and on the left, but extest of Tunnel Hill, on both sides of the wagon-road from Dalton to Ringgold. Stewart's division had one brigade in front of, one in, and two it offers little obstacle to the advance of a superior force from Ringgold to Dalton. Between Mill-Creek and Snake-Creek Gaps, this ridge pr8th of January, however, a strong body of infantry, advancing from Ringgold, drove in our cavalry outposts and approached Tunnel Hill, closely Federal army, in marching order, had advanced from Chattanooga to Ringgold that day, and that a large body of infantry and artillery, accompg of the 23d. The two bodies of Federal troops united in front of Ringgold in the afternoon, and, advancing upon the Confederate cavalry, dro
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
nt-General Polk that General Sherman was leading an army of thirty-five thousand infantry and artillery eastwardly from Vicksburg, had crossed Pearl River at Jackson, and was moving along the railroad toward Meridian. Mobile was assumed to be the os, that Sherman's invading column, after passing Meridian, which it destroyed, had turned, and was marching back toward Vicksburg; and Lieutenant-General Hardee's corps, of which only the leading troops had reached that place, were about to return. Creek Gap, and General Sherman's against Meridian, the latter was abandoned on the 20th, and the retrograde movement to Vicksburg began on the 21st. In consequence of this, Hardee's troops ( the reinforcements referred to above), only the foremost een on their way back two or three days; or for the relief of Sherman, who was four or five days march on his return to Vicksburg, while Lieutenant-General Polk's troops were on the Tombigbee. As to being outnumbered, the Federal army had four divi
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
t is probable that they may mean to strengthen themselves in the occupation of the portions of Tennessee they have overrun. It is not desirable they should be allowed to do so with impunity, and, asreinforcements. To assume the offensive from this point, we must move either into Middle or East Tennessee. To the first, the obstacles are Chattanooga, now a fortress, the Tennessee River, the ruggman had added twenty-five thousand men to the Federal army, and the march of Longstreet into East Tennessee had reduced ours by twelve thousand. The latter, in his letter to you of the 17th ultimo, was obeyed as promptly as our means of transportation permitted. The Federal commanders in Tennessee seem to have anticipated such a detachment, and to have exaggerated its strength; for, on the e spared from Chattanooga, to cooperate with the Army of the Ohio in driving Longstreet from East Tennessee, countermanded that order, and directed a movement to the immediate front instead, to gain p
Tuscumbia (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ty miles from them, toward Virginia. Besides these, there were about eight hundred and fifty men under General Wharton's command, in a sort of camp for broken-down horses, to the south of Rome, and Brigadier-General Roddy's strong brigade near Tuscumbia. The position of Dalton had little to recommend it as a defensive one. It had neither intrinsic strength nor strategic advantage. It neither fully covered its own communications nor threatened those of the enemy. The railroad from Atlantf the chief-engineer of the army, Brigadier-General Leadbetter. To supply the great want of effective cavalry, Brigadier-General Roddy was ordered to join the army with his brigade, except one regiment, which he was instructed to leave near Tuscumbia. Soon after his arrival, however, I was directed by the Secretary of War to send him back to his former position. I was taught in this way that my authority over that brigade was ostensible only. About one-third of the brigade, under Colonel
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
letter of instruction from Secretary of War at Dalton. my reply. letter from the President. mine camp, Colonel Ives, who has just returned from Dalton, presented a not unfavorable view of the materssionary Ridge had rejoined their regiments at Dalton. According to these figures, forty thousand mh .too favorable. That reply was as follows; Dalton, January 2, 1864. Mr. President: I have recTunnel Hill, on the railroad, seven miles from Dalton, in the direction of Ringgold; his pickets on near Hindman's; Walker's, three miles east of Dalton; and Cheatham's, near and to the south of Walkng brigade near Tuscumbia. The position of Dalton had little to recommend it as a defensive one. Mill-Creek Gap, three miles and a half beyond Dalton, but very obliquely, the course of the road be to Resaca or Calhoun-points on the route from Dalton to Atlanta-or flank movement in that directionimmediate front instead, to gain possession of Dalton, and as far south of that as possible. Genera[21 more...]
Cleveland, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
direction of Ringgold; his pickets on Taylor's Ridge, in front, and on the left, but extending to the right beyond the Cleveland road. Cleburne's division occupied the crest of Tunnel Hill, on both sides of the wagon-road from Dalton to Ringgold. Gap. Breckenridge was between the Gap and Dalton; Hindman's, two miles southwest of Dalton, except a brigade on the Cleveland road; Stevenson's, near Hindman's; Walker's, three miles east of Dalton; and Cheatham's, near and to the south of Walk abandoned Dalton, that he might promptly advance to the place. brigade of cavalry, had, at the same time, marched from Cleveland to Red Clay. To meet these movements, Stewart's and Breckenridge's divisions were posted in the eastern outlet of Mill-Creek Gap, Hindman's in reserve near, and Stevenson's in front of Dalton, on the Cleveland road. This was on the morning of the 23d. The two bodies of Federal troops united in front of Ringgold in the afternoon, and, advancing upon the Confede
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