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D. B. Harris (search for this): chapter 24
n command of Fort Pillow. instructions to Captain Harris. surrender of New Orleans. bombardment o General Beauregard by his Chief-Engineer, Captain Harris. The reader is referred to the several Fort Pillow. As an additional assistance, Captain Harris, Chief-Engineer, was to be put in charge oithers, Stewart, Rust, and Villepigue, to Captains Harris and Lynch, to Lieutenant Meriwether, and 4. Jackson, Tenn., March 21st, 1862. Captain D. B. Harris, Engineers, Fort Pillow: Look as soogard being of opinion that the services of Captain Harris could then be dispensed with at Fort PilloComdg. works at Fort Pillow: Release Captain D. B. Harris, and instruct him to repair to Vicksbur See letter in Appendix. On the 27th Captain Harris answered that no batteries could be placeder celerity. On the very day upon which Captain Harris's answer was penned New Orleans surrendereision with which they served their guns. Captains Harris and McDonald, of a Missouri regiment, wit[2 more...]
Thomas J. Semmes (search for this): chapter 24
regard was under the impression that our gunboats had done all that could have been expected of them. A careful reading of other telegrams, letters, and reports, Confederate as well as Federal, have, since that time, compelled him to modify his opinion. He now thinks that the Confederate flotilla, under Commodore Hollins, did not display the energy, resoluteness, and daring afterwards evinced by many an officer in the Confederate States navy, most conspicuous among whom were the heroic Admiral Semmes, Commodore Maffitt, and Captain Brown of the Arkansas. Among the gunboats brought from New Orleans by Commodore Hollins, or sent to him after he had left, was the celebrated ram Manassas, which, however, could not then be used to any advantage, for the reason, as it appears, that there was no Federal craft of any description south of Island No.10, against which her ramming qualities might be brought into play. Later, and just as she could have been of much use, General Lovell insiste
S. K. Wharton (search for this): chapter 24
m the deck insensible, he was, for the moment, supposed to be killed, but he regained consciousness, and, dauntless as ever, resumed his place and command till the end of the battle. Among the wounded was Lieutenant G. W. Gift, who, with Grimball of South Carolina, the second lieutenant, ably commanded the bow-guns. Lieutenant Stevens, the executive officer, discharged with honor, both in preparation for and during the action, every duty of his responsible position. Barbot, Charles Reid, Wharton, and Dabney Scales, lieutenants who, like their commander, were recently from the United States navy, were alike distinguished for the bravery and precision with which they served their guns. Captains Harris and McDonald, of a Missouri regiment, with sixty of their men, volunteered for the naval service, and though they went on board only forty-eight hours before the battle, and were entirely unused to the exercise of great guns, formed an effective portion of the Arkansas's crew. It is
W. W. Mackall (search for this): chapter 24
62. For the sake of our cause and country, send at once Mackall as Major-General, and three brigadier-generals recommended Beauregard now concluded to apply at once for Brigadier-General W. W. Mackall, then Chief of Staff to General A. S. Johnstonn sustained the application, but could not spare Brigadier-General Mackall, until his own and General Beauregard's forces weoubtful whether it was not too late, on the 31st, when General Mackall assumed command, to accomplish any good result, or proued to be his course, until he was finally relieved by General Mackall, on the 31st, as already explained. He was sent to Med of the Island on the morning of the 7th, by order of General Mackall. Having had news, on the evening of that day, that Geg the march. With such overwhelming odds against him, General Mackall was compelled to surrender with his small force, aggre the situation, not to speak of the additional loss of General Mackall's forces at Island No.10. We were in one of those unf
L. Polk (search for this): chapter 24
rgotten that General Beauregard, in his conference with General Polk, a few days after his arrival at Jackson, Tennessee, su p. 240. and also to his letter of February 23d to Lieutenant-General Polk. Appendix to Chapter XVI. These papers, documenthem. It had been agreed between Generals Beauregard and Polk that Brigadier-General McCown, with some seven thousand menral Trudeau, of Louisiana, acting Chief of Artillery on General Polk's staff. The line of conduct to be adopted and the mod Pillow with a portion of his forces, was authorized by General Polk to assume command there; but General Beauregard, thought telegrams he had received from Commodore Hollins, and Generals Polk and McCown, General Beauregard was under the impressionion, General Beauregard's telegrams and instructions to Generals Polk, Withers, Stewart, Rust, and Villepigue, to Captains HaBeauregard. 3. Jackson, Tenn., March 17th, 1862. Major-General L. Polk, Humboldt: What does McCown mean by his doubt?
J. M. Hawes (search for this): chapter 24
within, and the artillerists waded in mud and water. From Fort Henry to Corinth, p. 80. Lieutenant-Colonel Cook, of the 12th Arkansas, had been placed in command of the Island on the morning of the 7th, by order of General Mackall. Having had news, on the evening of that day, that General Pope's forces had effected a landing on the east bank of the river, and that the Confederate troops had already fallen back, he ordered and effected the evacuation of the work, leaving it in charge of Captain Hawes, of the artillery. Colonel Cook, that night, retreated with his regiment (about four hundred men) along the western shore of Reelfoot Lake, until he reached a ferry landing, near Tiptonville, where General Beauregard had had collected, through the activity and energy of Colonel Pickett, commanding at Union City, quite a number of canoes, skiffs, and other small boats, for such an emergency. With these Colonel Cook succeeded in saving, not only his own command, but several hundred stra
Owen (search for this): chapter 24
l A. P. Stewart, Commanding Fort Pillow: Is water battery unserviceable from high water? If so, remove guns immediately to better position. Put all river batteries in immediate serviceable condition. How many negroes have you? If not enough, call on Captain Adams, Memphis, for more forthwith, also for tools. How are batteries off for ammunition? Look to this. Thomas Jordan, Acting Adjutant-General. 6. Jackson, Tenn., March 22d, 1862. Captain J. Adams, Comdg. Memphis: Send Captain Owen's Arkansas company to Fort Pillow, to report for heavy artillery service. G. T. Beauregard. 7. Jackson, Tenn., March 24th, 1862. Brigadier-General A. P. Stewart, Comdg. Fort Pillow: The General wishes his instructions to engineers and commanding officers at Fort Pillow collected and copied in a book, for information of commanding officer of that post. The land front defences must be shortened, for a total garrison of but three thousand men, as he has repeatedly stated before. Thos
Montgomery (search for this): chapter 24
people to a sense of their duty to furnish the necessary labor in such measure that the work will go on with proper celerity. On the very day upon which Captain Harris's answer was penned New Orleans surrendered to the Federal fleet under Admiral Farragut, after a short and inglorious resistance on the part of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. There had been no adequate assistance from the Confederate gunboats and rams ordered to cooperate with them; nor did the armed vessels known as the Montgomery fleet, with one or two exceptions, show any efficiency whatever. Such a disaster, resulting from so weak a defence, took the whole country by surprise—the North as well as the South; and it is grievous to make even a passing mention of it. Want of foresight and discipline caused this irreparable calamity. It affords us some consolation, however, to be able to state that the Hon. J. T. Monroe, mayor of the unfortunate city, evinced more than ordinary firmness and patriotism in his refusal
Sherman (search for this): chapter 24
and had officially assumed command. This order was carried out; and on the 21st, General Pope's army was encamped at Hamburg, on the Tennessee River, some twelve miles below the celebrated Landing; thus increasing the Federal forces at and around the battle-field of Shiloh, to an aggregate of at least one hundred and twenty thousand men. General Halleck puts the number at one hundred and twenty-five thousand. General Force, in his book, often quoted by us, says one hundred thousand. General Sherman, in his Memoirs, vol. i. p. 251, says that the army must have numbered nearly one hundred thousand men. This was an error on the part of General Halleck; for he certainly had no need of reinforcements at that time, his army being in a state of complete inactivity. General Pope should have been allowed to continue his operations against Fort Pillow, as he had already successfully done against New Madrid, Island No.10, and Madrid Bend. The probabilities are that, with their immense res
J. L. Aubrey (search for this): chapter 24
tion, field bomb-proofs, and a few storehouses and cisterns. Acting Captains John M. Reid and Pattison, also Acting Lieutenant John H. Reid, have been ordered to report to you for the construction of these works. The two Reids (father and son) I am well acquainted with; they were for years employed by me in the construction of my forts in Louisiana. They are very reliable, practical men, and will be of much assistance to you; the other gentleman I am not personally acquainted with. Colonel Aubrey, military commander of Vicksburg, has been ordered to afford you all the assistance in his power, in the collection of men and materials for the construction of said works. About one thousand negroes have been ordered to report to you with their tools, etc., immediately; but, should you not be able to procure them otherwise, you will impress them at once. You must put forth all your energy to complete those works as soon as practicable, and report their progress every week. Respectf
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