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Knoxville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
y soldier boys were ready to go into action next day. Over the Cumberland mountains on the march to Chattanooga—September, 1863 A fourth army corps division at sham battle near Missionary Ridge, 1863 A sentry on the ramparts at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864 Their field operations, from beginning to end, extended through seven States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in all of which they fought important battles. Some of their diviWhen he arrived his men were in a most exhausted condition, yet they were ready to go into action the next day. Following almost immediately after the march above mentioned, Sherman moved his men from Chattanooga to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville. The distance was not great, about one hundred and twenty-five miles, but the troops were utterly worn out by their forced march in the intensely cold mountain atmosphere. In February, 1864, General Sherman marched a force of twenty thousan
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
undred miles. The famous marches in this part of the country were forced ones, short in duration, but involving intense fatigue and hardship, and often compelling troops to go into battle without much-needed rest. In the hasty concentration at Gettysburg there were some very noteworthy performances by Meade's army. The Sixth Corps started from Manchester, Maryland, at dark, on July 1st. Without halting, says General Wright, except for a few moments each hour to breathe the men, and one halt of about half an hour to enable the men to make coffee, the corps was pushed on to Gettysburg, where it arrived about 4 P. M. after a march variously estimated at from thirty-two to thirty-five miles. Early in the afternoon of May 4, 1864, Grant telegraphed Burnside to bring the Ninth Corps immediately to the Wilderness. The divisions were stationed along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, but by the morning of the 6th all were on the battlefield. Some of the troops had marched over thirty m
Hornady (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
tty sentences. It seems strange that the throwing up of entrenchments about a city should form an essential part of marching, but so it was in the case of the greatest march of the Civil War, which covered a total distance of a thousand miles in less than six months. Sherman did not dare to leave Atlanta with his 62,000 veterans until his rear was properly fortified against the attacks of Hood. The upper photograph shows some of Sherman's men digging the inner line of entrenchments at Decatur, Alabama, a task in vivid contrast to the comfortable quarters of the officers at the Decatur Hotel shown in the cut below. Their military appearance suffers somewhat from their occupation, but digging was often more important than fighting, for the soldier. Having despatched Thomas to Nashville, and having left strongly entrenched garrisons at Allatoona and Resaca, as well as at Decatur, Sherman launched his army from Atlanta, November 15, 1864. He cherished the hope that Hood would attack o
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
nineteen regiments of infantry. The American volunteers, however, soon acquired the soldierly bearing Of the 3,559 organizations in all branches of the service in the Union armies, the States furnished 3,473. The Eleventh Infantry in the regular army was organized at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, by direction of the President, May 4, 1861, and confirmed by Act of Congress, July 29, 1861. It fought throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac. This photograph was taken at Alexandria, Va., a month before the Wilderness. The regiment participated in every important battle of the Army of the Potomac, and was on provost duty at Richmond, Va., from May to October, 1865. The regiment lost during service eight officers, 117 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and two officers and eighty-six enlisted men by disease. Veterans in camp—the 114th Pennsylvania at Brandy Station. A vivid illustration of the daily Camp life of the Army of the Potomac in the winter of
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
out, the supply being limited to hard bread, bacon, coffee, sugar, and The extremities of the thousand-mile Federal line on the Mississippi. It was from Cairo that the Federals in 1862 cautiously began to operate with large forces in Confederate territory. And it was in New Orleans, the same spring, that the Federal Mils headquarters. Farragut had forced the forts, and the city had fallen. The lower photograph shows the Federal Headquarters at New Orleans, a thousand miles from Cairo. The orderlies on the porch and the flag floating in front of the delicate banquette, of the building, the iron tracery that came over from France, show that the Gulf. The flag can be dimly descried opposite the corner of the building just below the roof. There was evidently enough wind to make it flap in the breeze. Cairo, when the advance began The building used as New Orleans headquarters of the Federal military department of the gulf salt. A three days supply of bread and b
Washington, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ant marches ever made by an organized army, and culminating in the close of hostilities with the surrender of General Johnston. After a few days the march to Washington was begun, a further distance of three hundred and fifty miles, and May 24, 1865, the troops marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in presence of applauding thousands, then to be at once disbanded and never to assemble again. The total distance marched between Atlanta and Washington, in less than six months, was about one thousand miles. General Sherman claimed for his army, in its various marches, beginning at Vicksburg and ending at Washington, a total of twenty-eight hundred miles, inclWashington, a total of twenty-eight hundred miles, including the many detours. With the veteran armies The well-disciplined regulars—a scene of April 3, 1864: men who demonstrated the value of training at gaines' mill: the eleventh U. S. in their trim Camp at Alexandria. They stand up very straight, these regulars who formed the tiny nucleus of the vast Union armies. E
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ext day. Over the Cumberland mountains on the march to Chattanooga—September, 1863 A fourth army corps division at sham battle near Missionary Ridge, 1863 A sentry on the ramparts at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864 Their field operations, from beginning to end, extended through seven States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in all of which they fought important battles. Some of their divisions and brigades operated in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Operations in the West opened early in 1861, with St. Louis and the Ohio River as primary bases. By the summer of 1862, armies under Halleck in Missouri, under Grant in Tennessee, and under Buell in Kentucky had pushed their way hundreds of miles southward. These operations involved much marching, but, in view of later experiences, were not marked with such peculiar incidents as to claim attention here. In September, 1862, occurred a march which alarmed the No
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
battle. There were surprisingly few regulars when 1861 came. The United States regular army could furnish only six regiments of cavalry, sixty batteries of artillery, a battalion of engineers, and nineteen regiments of infantry. The American volunteers, however, soon acquired the soldierly bearing Of the 3,559 organizations in all branches of the service in the Union armies, the States furnished 3,473. The Eleventh Infantry in the regular army was organized at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, by direction of the President, May 4, 1861, and confirmed by Act of Congress, July 29, 1861. It fought throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac. This photograph was taken at Alexandria, Va., a month before the Wilderness. The regiment participated in every important battle of the Army of the Potomac, and was on provost duty at Richmond, Va., from May to October, 1865. The regiment lost during service eight officers, 117 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and two office
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
e held rigidly to this requirement. But the Westerners swung forward with a long sweep of the leg which enabled them to cover great distances at a rapid pace. In November, 1863, Sherman marched his Fifteenth Corps four hundred miles over almost impassable roads from Memphis to Chattanooga; yet his sturdy soldier boys were ready to go into action next day. Over the Cumberland mountains on the march to Chattanooga—September, 1863 A fourth army corps division at sham battle near Missionary Ridge, 1863 A sentry on the ramparts at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864 Their field operations, from beginning to end, extended through seven States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in all of which they fought important battles. Some of their divisions and brigades operated in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Operations in the West opened early in 1861, with St. Louis and the Ohio River as primary bases. By the summer of 186
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rched his Fifteenth Corps four hundred miles over almost impassable roads from Memphis to Chattanooga; yet his sturdy soldier boys were ready to go into action next day. Over the Cumberland mountains on the march to Chattanooga—September, 1863 A fourth army corps division at sham battle near Missionary Ridge, 1863 A sentry on the ramparts at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864 Their field operations, from beginning to end, extended through seven States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in all of which they fought important battles. Some of their divisions and brigades operated in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Operations in the West opened early in 1861, with St. Louis and the Ohio River as primary bases. By the summer of 1862, armies under Halleck in Missouri, under Grant in Tennessee, and under Buell in Kentucky had pushed their way hundreds of miles southward. These operations involved much marching, but, i
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