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Jonesboro (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
he believed to be two corps of the enemy at Jonesboroa. The enemy had reached Jonesboroa before thd early in the day, and urged him to come to Jonesboroa and take command. Communication with Atlantn obedience to this order, and I remained at Jonesboroa with my corps and a body of cavalry under Br-one miles. and Lee's corps on the road from Jonesboroa to Atlanta, fifteen miles from each place anich had been sent for safety from Atlanta to Jonesboroa, and could not now be sent further to the reorps, or even driven it from its position at Jonesboroa, on the 1st September, no organized body of Thomas' army at two points between there and Jonesboroa, and that both were ordered to turn straight for Jonesboroa, tearing up the railroad track as they advanced (Memoirs, volume II, pages 107-108).y were written and sent before the result at Jonesboroa was known, the context furnishes its own comr Hardee's corps was attacked in position at Jonesboroa. The result was the loss of eight guns and [28 more...]
Perryville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
service covered the entire period of its duration. It extended through every grade — from Colonel to Lieutenant-General. It embraced every command, independent and subordinate, from a brigade to a military department. In the outset he declined the position of Adjutant-General, in favor of active service in the field, and throughout the war, from Missouri to North Carolina, as the trusted lieutenant of Albert Sidney Johnston in Kentucky--in charge of the first line of battle at Shiloh-at Perryville — in command of the victorious left wing at Murfreesboroa — in the long and deadly grapple of Sherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — at Bentonville, leading a remnant of the Army of Tennessee in the last charge it ever made — always on duty; always at the post of honor and of danger; always equal to the trusts reposed in him, there is no chapter in the history of the fortunes or the misfortunes of the Western army which does n
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
mportant command, which was simultaneous with his being relieved from duty with the Army of Tennessee, sufficiently evinces that my confidence in him had not been impaired; and his conduct in that separate command fully justified the opinion I continued to entertain. In this connection, it may be appropriate to furnish you with an extract from a letter written by me to General Beauregard on the 4th February, 1865--a period late in the course of the campaign through Eastern Georgia and South Carolina, and long after the events to which you refer: You will assume command of all the forces in the district as defined before your departure to the west; and should you deem it advisable, will direct General Hardee to assume the command of his old corps when it arrives, and add to it any other forces which may be advantageously associated with it. Thus it appears that in the hour of our direst need, I not only turned to General Hardee as a soldier and a patriot, but expected of him, at the
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
General Hood's report, and it is as to these statements only that I quote it. It is as follows: headquarters Hardee's corps, camp near Smithfield, North Carolina. April 5th, 1865. To General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond, Virginia: General — The want of subordinate reports has hitherto prevented me from making an official report of the operations of my corps of the Army of Tennessee, from the opening of the campaign at Dalton to the time of my transfer from that actfully, your obedient servant, W. J. Hardee, Lieutenant-General. He at the same time wrote as follows to the Secretary of War: headquarters camp near Smithfield, N. C., April 5th, 1865. Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: General — I have just concluded, and will to-day forward to General Cooper, a report of the operations of my corps about Atlanta, and intended merely as an answer to the misrepresentations contained in General Hood's report respecting mys
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
nd by education. His career in the old army was long and in a high degree honorable. In the war between the States his military service covered the entire period of its duration. It extended through every grade — from Colonel to Lieutenant-General. It embraced every command, independent and subordinate, from a brigade to a military department. In the outset he declined the position of Adjutant-General, in favor of active service in the field, and throughout the war, from Missouri to North Carolina, as the trusted lieutenant of Albert Sidney Johnston in Kentucky--in charge of the first line of battle at Shiloh-at Perryville — in command of the victorious left wing at Murfreesboroa — in the long and deadly grapple of Sherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — at Bentonville, leading a remnant of the Army of Tennessee in the last charge it ever made — always on duty; always at the post of honor and of danger; always equal to
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
degree honorable. In the war between the States his military service covered the entire period of its duration. It extended through every grade — from Colonel to Lieutenant-General. It embraced every command, independent and subordinate, from a brigade to a military department. In the outset he declined the position of Adjutant-General, in favor of active service in the field, and throughout the war, from Missouri to North Carolina, as the trusted lieutenant of Albert Sidney Johnston in Kentucky--in charge of the first line of battle at Shiloh-at Perryville — in command of the victorious left wing at Murfreesboroa — in the long and deadly grapple of Sherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — at Bentonville, leading a remnant of the Army of Tennessee in the last charge it ever made — always on duty; always at the post of honor and of danger; always equal to the trusts reposed in him, there is no chapter in the history of th
Smithfield, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
matters of mere detail; but it was mainly addressed to certain specific statements contained in General Hood's report, and it is as to these statements only that I quote it. It is as follows: headquarters Hardee's corps, camp near Smithfield, North Carolina. April 5th, 1865. To General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond, Virginia: General — The want of subordinate reports has hitherto prevented me from making an official report of the operations of my corps of the Army , retiring in the open field. I have the honor to be, General, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. J. Hardee, Lieutenant-General. He at the same time wrote as follows to the Secretary of War: headquarters camp near Smithfield, N. C., April 5th, 1865. Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: General — I have just concluded, and will to-day forward to General Cooper, a report of the operations of my corps about Atlanta, and intended merely as an ans
Jonesboro (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
fifteen miles from each place and in supporting distance of neither. The Federal commander, on the other hand, had concentrated his whole army upon my corps at Jonesboro, except the one corps left in front of Atlanta, and was now in position to crush in detail the scattered forces of his unwary antagonist. My position at Jonespartial and bloody, while defeat would have been almost inevitable destruction to the army. The fall of Atlanta does not date from the result of the battle of Jonesboro, but from General Hood's misconception of his adversary's plans. After the 30th of August, General Hood's whole plan of operation was based upon the hypothesis that Sherman was moving only a detachment to Jonesboro, whereas, in reality, he was moving his army. He divided his forces to attack a concentrated enemy. He in effect sent a detachment of his army to attack an enemy who was superior to his whole army. Had it been possible with two corps to have dislodged three corps of the
Olasowski (search for this): chapter 7.62
the time can speak most directly to the point. Colonel D. G. White, who from an early period in the war was a member of General Hardee's staff, and who during all that time was well acquainted with Cleburne, writes as follows: Davidsonville, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, April 6th, 1880. Colonel T. B. Roy, Selma, Alabama: My Dear Sir — Yours of the 21st ultimo received. On the 20th July, 1864, I was ordnance officer on General Hardee's staff. I had been to the office of Colonel Olasowski, Chief of Ordnance, and rejoined General Hardee at or near the time when Cleburne's division got into position to renew the assault. My recollection is that General Hardee and staff were in a small scattered grove near and on the right of the Atlanta road, and a short distance in rear of Cleburne's division, the troops lying down, the skirmishers hotly engaged. After making my report to General Hardee, I was inquiring of another member of the staff (Colonel Samuel Black) about Walker
A. B. Howard (search for this): chapter 7.62
in front of Atlanta. These facts were obtained from Captain Buell, a captured officer of Major-General Howard's staff. On the night of the 31st the following dispatch was received in duplicate fro his report (supra), and he is confirmed by General Sherman, who shows, among other things, that Howard's army had reached the position near Jonesboroa in the evening of August 30th, and that in the ms known, the context furnishes its own commentary. Now, according to the text, the arrival of Howard's army at Jonesboroa on the 30th of August was the signal for general battle. Sherman's position to Atlanta to defend that place from an apprehended attack by Sherman's army; which army, with Howard's three corps already at Jonesboroa on the 30th, had, on the morning of the 31st, struck the rai General Sherman's says of it: Being on the spot, I checked Davis' movement, and ordered General Howard to send the two divisions of the Seventeenth corps (Blair) around by his right rear, to get
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