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Albert Sidney Johnston (search for this): chapter 12
Chapter 12: General character of the military events of the year 1862. the Confederate situation in Kentucky. Gen. A. S. Johnston's command and position. battle of Fishing Creek. the Confederate right in Kentucky. Gen. Crittenden's command in extreme straits. difficulty in subsisting it. the decision to give battle to the enemy. Zollicoffer's brigade. the contested hill. death of Zollicoffer. defeat of the Confederates. Crittenden crosses the Cumberland. his losses.Impms which you propose. The fall of Fort Donelson was the heaviest blow that had yet fallen on the Confederacy. It opened the whole of West Tennessee to Federal occupation, and it developed the crisis which had long existed in the West. Gen. A. S. Johnston had previously ordered the evacuation of Bowling Green; and the movement was executed while the battle was being fought at Donelson. Gen. Johnston awaited the result of the battle opposite Nashville. At dawn of the 16th of February he re
A. S. Johnston (search for this): chapter 12
f the energy in Western Kentucky. popular delusion as to Johnston's strength. hopelessness of his defence. official apathy in Richmond. Beauregard's conference with Johnston. the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. the avenue to Nashville. Granlant conduct of Gen. Tilghman. battle of Fort Donelson. Johnston's reasons for making a battle there. commands of Buckner escape of Floyd and Pillow. Buckner's letter to Grant. Johnston's movement to Nashville. excitement there. retreat of JJohnston's command to Murfreesboroa. panic in Nashville. capture of Roanoke Island by the enemy. Burnside's expedition. Gxecuted while the battle was being fought at Donelson. Gen. Johnston awaited the result of the battle opposite Nashville. A of the fact early in the morning, and had proceeded to Gen. Johnston's Headquarters to advise with him as to the best course the Legislature together elsewhere than at Nashville. Gen. Johnston retreated with his army towards Murfreesboroa, leaving
Tilghman (search for this): chapter 12
vers. the avenue to Nashville. Grant's ascent of the Tennessee.capture of Fort Henry. noble and gallant conduct of Gen. Tilghman. battle of Fort Donelson. Johnston's reasons for making a battle there. commands of Buckner, Pillow, and Floyd. scannon range. But there were more than twenty-five hundred Confederate troops in the vicinity, under the command of Gen. Tilghman; and to cover the retreat of these, it became necessary to hold the fort to the last moment, and to sacrifice the smaposition within four or five hundred yards, which would enable him to enfilade the entire works. The only chance for Gen. Tilghman was to delay the enemy every moment possible, and retire his command, now outside the main work, to Fort Donelson. Tort Henry against an armament of fifty-four guns, and an enemy nearly twenty thousand strong, as long as possible. Gen. Tilghman nobly devoted himself to the fate of the garrison, instead of joining the main body of troops retiring towards Fort D
Albert Sydney Johnston (search for this): chapter 12
uation in Kentucky was one of extreme weakness. Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston had assumed command of the Confederate forces inf the Southern States--an inadequate force under Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston was extended from Bowling Green on the right to n the Confederacy as that with respect to the strength of Johnston's army. The Richmond newspapers could not see why JohnstJohnston did not muster his forces, advance farther into Kentucky, capture Louisville, push across the Ohio, sack Cincinnati, and asing anticipations of an advance movement were indulged, Johnston actually did not have more than twenty-five thousand men.reek, Gen. Beauregard had been sent from the Potomac to Gen. Johnston's lines in Kentucky. At a conference between the two g, Beauregard expressed his surprise at the smallness of Gen. Johnston's forces, and was impressed with the danger of his posiful fleet of gunboats under command of Commodore Foote. Gen. Johnston had devoted the larger part of his army to the defence
Jennings Wise (search for this): chapter 12
of three field-pieces on the left, In this action was killed Capt. 0. Jennings Wise, of the Richmond Blues, a son of Gen. Wise, a young man of brilliant promisGen. Wise, a young man of brilliant promise, prominently connected with the Richmond press before the war, and known throughout the State for his talents, chivalric bearing, and modesty of behaviour. A corriculars of the death of this brilliant young officer: About ten o'clock Capt. Wise found his battalion exposed to the galling fire of a regiment; turning to Caps turned to pass the order, and was shot through the heart, dying instantly. Capt. Wise was wounded, first in the arm and next through the lungs, which latter wound mmunition for any of the large pieces. The forts, built on the island before Gen. Wise was assigned to the command, were all in the wrong places-at the north end ofely avoided by him; that he had paid no practical attention to the appeals of Gen. Wise; and that he had, by plain acts of omission, permitted that general and an in
Foote (search for this): chapter 12
nt of his guns. The brave Confederate commander and the small garrison of forty were taken prisoners, after having sustained a loss of about twenty killed and wounded. The fall of Fort Henry was an unimportant event, of itself; but it was the signal for the direction of the most anxious attention to Fort Donelson on the Cumberland. Battle of Fort Donelson. Grant approached Fort Donelson, with immense columns of infantry, and with his powerful fleet of gunboats under command of Commodore Foote. Gen. Johnston had devoted the larger part of his army to the defence of this important post. He had determined to fight for Nashville at Donelson; and he had given the best part of his army to do it, retaining only to cover his front about eleven thousand effective men. Gen. Buckner had repaired to Fort Donelson with a command embracing most of the troops who had composed the central army of Kentucky. On the 10th of February, Gen. Pillow arrived with a body of Tennessee troops. On t
Jordan (search for this): chapter 12
tricate itself from a besetting peril-provoked public inquiry, and demanded an investigation. The Richmond Enquirer had the following commentary on the Roanoke Island affair. It contains a picture of Confederate improvidence, which was to be repeated at many stages of the war, and to put our scantiness and shiftlessness in frightful contrast with the active zeal and munificent preparations of the enemy: On the island no preparations whatever had been made. Col. Shaw's regiment, Col. Jordan's, and three companies of Col. Marten's regiment, had been on the island for months. These regiments numbered, all present, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. Of these, about one thousand seven hundred were soldiers. There were four hundred and fifty absent and sick, leaving one thousand two hundred and fifty for all duty. From these, five batteries had to be manned, leaving, on the morning of the eighth, only eight hundred and three North Carolina infantry reported for duty. Th
Burnside (search for this): chapter 12
nston's movement to Nashville. excitement there. retreat of Johnston's command to Murfreesboroa. panic in Nashville. capture of Roanoke Island by the enemy. Burnside's expedition. Gen. Wise's estimate of the importance of Roanoke Island. his correspondence and interviews with Secretary Benjamin. defences of the Island. naaries of the Mississippi to the low and melancholy sea-line of North Carolina. Capture of Roanoke Island by the enemy. About the middle of January, 1862, Gen. Burnside entered Pamlico Sound at the head of an expedition, consisting of more than sixty vessels of all kinds, twenty-six of them gunboats, and with at least fifteen on and the disasters he had already sustained, determined the policy of retreat, and under cover of the night, the squadron was drawn off to Elizabeth City. Gen. Burnside gave orders that a landing should be made on the island the next morning. It was accomplished under cover of the gunboats, about the centre of the western sho
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 12
there were provided no means of defence, and still less of escape, though timely notice and a providential warning of twenty-five days had been given. A committee was accordingly ordered in the Confederate Congress to report upon the affair of Roanoke Island. It declared that the Secretary of War, Mr. J. P. Benjamin, was responsible for an important defeat of our arms, which might have been safely avoided by him; that he had paid no practical attention to the appeals of Gen. Wise; and that he had, by plain acts of omission, permitted that general and an inconsiderable force to remain to meet at least fifteen thousand men, well armed and equipped. No defence to this charge was ever attempted by Secretary Benjamin or his friends; and the unanimous conclusion of the committee, charging one of President Davis' Cabinet with a matter of the gravest offence known to the laws and the interests of the country, was allowed to remain on the public record without commentary or consequence.
Thomas (search for this): chapter 12
pon Gen. Crittenden; and he formed the determination to fall upon the nearest column, that under Thomas advancing from Columbia, before the arrival of the troops under General Schoepf from Somerset. ch determined Crittenden with his small army of about four thousand men to risk a battle against Thomas' column, which consisted of two brigades of infantry, and was greatly his superiour in artillerthe force of the enemy at Somerset was cut off by this stream, and could not be expected to join Thomas' column moving from Columbia, until the freshet had subsided. It was unanimously agreed to attack Thomas, before the Somerset brigade could unite with him. The march began at midnight. The first column, commanded by Gen. Zollicoffer, consisted of four regiments of infantry and four guns; thehis position. Buell was in front; the right flank was threatened by a large Federal force under Thomas; while the Cumberland River offered an opportunity to an attack in the rear, and held the key to
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