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Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
ns should be set out. His staff officer found some such cases and reported that the persons ought to be discharged because no charges had been made against them. That was true also, and yet it was for the good of the service. I was not asked why I made the arbitrary arrests and confined parties to close imprisonment, treating them very well in some cases, and I now state I would do so again under the same circumstances and submit my action to the judgment of good. people. There was, at Nassau, a gathering of pilots who knew the harbors of Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington. These harbors, could only be entered by vessels in the charge of pilots who were, expert enough to run in in dark nights only, in order to get by our blockading fleet. The pilots, in the darkest night, could take large blockade runners in through the narrow channel where Porter with all his officers and sixty vessels, four of which had been blockade runners captured there, could not get in in two d
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
irst of which was the remark in his report about your military position at Bermuda Hundred, and the other the matters growing out of the invitation to his family soior with quays and landings for the embarkation of troops at City Point and Bermuda Hundred, report to his general that my army was corked up as if in a bottle so thaask the reader to go back with me for a few moments and look at the map of Bermuda Hundred where the exact configuration, topography, and situation of the peninsula of the Bermuda Hundred is accurately shown. See pp. 659-662. If he will then examine pages 627 and 628 of Chapter XIV., he will find that I met General Grant on the 1st of April, 1864, and with a map of Bermuda Hundred before him explained to him its relation to Petersburg, Richmond, and their vicinage on the James and Appoma actually reflected upon Grant himself. It will also have appeared that Bermuda Hundred, including City Point, was a strategic point where there could be an intre
China (China) (search for this): chapter 20
could give him, and after he knew exactly all that I had done, for I do not know that he complains of anything that I had left undone which I was ordered to do, surely never having met with any disaster in my movements,--let us see, I say, what were Grant's opinions of me and what his view of my military acts in his cool judgment when written through another pen than that of Badeau. In his voyage to the East, he was accompanied by Mr. John Russell Young, afterwards United States Minister to China, as his personal and valued friend. Mr. Young made minutes of his conversations, which with Grant's permission were afterwards published. In one of these Grant said:-- I have always regretted the censure that unwittingly came upon Butler in that campaign, and my report was the cause. I said that General Butler was bottled up, and used the phrase without meaning to annoy the General or give his enemies a weapon. I liked Butler and have always found him not only, as all the world knows,
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
is presence, took place:-- Where have you been, Chaplain Hudson, absent for nearly four months? In New York and Massachusetts. What have you been doing there? I left under orders. Whose orders? From Major-General Gillmore. Produlk, doing nothing but eating their rations. I got a live Yankee and put him in charge as superintendent, and sent to Massachusetts and got prison uniforms, half black and half gray, and scarlet caps, with which to clothe these convicts, so that the administration in New Orleans, yet any motion in my behalf, brought forward by either senator or representative from Massachusetts where all were Republicans, yet remains to be made. The nearest approach to it was this President Lincoln recommende on my part to him. It was referred by the Senate to its military committee, at the head of which was Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. He presented the bill, had it referred to his committee, and put it in one of his pigeon-holes, where it has ever s
Donelson (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
matter in his Memoirs as follows:-- unclear>Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I. p. 325. On the 2d of March, 1862] I received orders [from Halleck] dated March 1 to move my command back to Fort Henry, leaving only a small garrison at Donelson. From Fort Henry expeditions were to be sent against Eastport, Mississippi, and Paris, Tennessee. We started from Donelson on the 4th, and the same day I was back on the Tennessee River. On March 4, I also received the following despatch fromDonelson on the 4th, and the same day I was back on the Tennessee River. On March 4, I also received the following despatch from General Halleck:-- Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant, Fort Henry: You will place Maj.-Gen. C. F. Smith in command of expedition, and remain yourself at Fort Henry. Why do you not obey my orders to deport strength and positions of your command? H. W. Halleck, Major-General. I was surprised. This was the first intimation I had received that General Halleck had called for information as to the strength of my command. On the 6th he wrote to me again: Your going to Nashville without authority, and
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 20
y have been hereinbefore set out. Grant gives his version of the matter in his Memoirs as follows:-- unclear>Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I. p. 325. On the 2d of March, 1862] I received orders [from Halleck] dated March 1 to move my command back to Fort Henry, leaving only a small garrison at Donelson. From Fort Henry expeditions were to be sent against Eastport, Mississippi, and Paris, Tennessee. We started from Donelson on the 4th, and the same day I was back on the Tennessee River. On March 4, I also received the following despatch from General Halleck:-- Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant, Fort Henry: You will place Maj.-Gen. C. F. Smith in command of expedition, and remain yourself at Fort Henry. Why do you not obey my orders to deport strength and positions of your command? H. W. Halleck, Major-General. I was surprised. This was the first intimation I had received that General Halleck had called for information as to the strength of my command. On the 6th he
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
taff who were volunteers. I believed that at that dinner party such discussions might be renewed, so I called Captain Haggerty of my staff, a very bright young lawyer, and told him to go to the library and read the descriptions of one or two of Napoleon's famous battles, naming Marengo, and to ascertain the pivotal point or movement upon which the battles turned, so as to be able clearly to tell me what it was when I asked him. We all came to dinner in a very pleasant mood, but between one or tved that while he was reading some very fine novels, his mind did not turn to military novels, of which there were many in the library. He does not speak of ever having read a single work describing the carrying on of war from Alexander down to Napoleon, or even the battles of the Revolution and our war with Great Britain. He got to be a second lieutenant in a company in the Mexican War, and soon after resigned his command and took employment as clerk in the office of Captain Craig, a quarterm
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
in rebel prisons, and matters of like kind. Norfolk, Hampden, and Yorktown were the points at whiold him to put them to work on the streets of Norfolk. I said to the men: If you will work well anork was done which was charged to the city of Norfolk, for paving, etc., and on the Dismal Swamp Cataken a thousand loads of filth per week from Norfolk, and by this means the yellow fever was kept was made. Again, I found that the poor of Norfolk were cared for in this way: Every commissionet there were a great many poor young women in Norfolk drawing rations from the government, the numbhe expense of this assistance to the needy of Norfolk, under the regulations adopted under my adminman, who had the administration of affairs in Norfolk, and afterwards those of the military district, including the vicinage around Norfolk, Fortress Monroe, and Yorktown, which were claimed to haveit by removing Brigadier-General Shepley from Norfolk to Fortress Monroe to take charge of that dis
Burksville (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
visionally by Sherman and forwarded to Washington for acceptance. The wisdom of that convention is a matter not here and now to be discussed; but President Johnson strongly objected to it and it was returned to Sherman through General Grant with instructions that Johnston should be held to surrender on the same terms as Lee had done, which he afterwards did. Before Grant went down to Raleigh with those instructions, he had ordered Meade to march the armies of the Potomac and James to Burksville, a convenient point from which those armies could move on Johnston and join Sherman in case the negotiations failed. Meanwhile Halleck had got himself appointed to the command of the armies of the Potomac and James, apparently without Grant's knowledge. He immediately went into Virginia, and ordered Meade's armies to move on Johnston, notwithstanding the existence of the truce. Sherman was exceedingly indignant, as he well might have been, and reported to Grant that he would, with his
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 20
n be or is taught at that institution. Tactics is moving troops in sight of the enemy. Grand tactics is moving them at a distance and out of sight of the enemy. It will be observed that while he was reading some very fine novels, his mind did not turn to military novels, of which there were many in the library. He does not speak of ever having read a single work describing the carrying on of war from Alexander down to Napoleon, or even the battles of the Revolution and our war with Great Britain. He got to be a second lieutenant in a company in the Mexican War, and soon after resigned his command and took employment as clerk in the office of Captain Craig, a quartermaster in the army. I am not saying one word of this in any disparagement of General Grant. I am only attempting to show what military education a man may get passing through a course of study at West Point and graduating with such military accomplishments as will entitle him to a command in the regular army, and w
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