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Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 1.34
February, 1862, cause the loss of Fort Donelson from the outset with the ten thousand troops sent thither after the capture of Fort Henry, and thus make the immediate abandonment of Bowling Green and Columbus absolutely a necessary consequence, with the early abandonment also of Nashville and Middle Tennessee? Let the issue also embrace the question, whether there was not such tardiness and hesitancy on the part of the Confederate movement from Murfreesboro to Corinth, that the junction of Johnson's forces with those of Beauregard at that point, late in March, 1862, was a sheer casualty, due to the want of enterprise on the part of the Federal general to so interpose the forces at his disposition between the divided fragments of his adversary as to make their concentration at Corinth an impossibility? That is to say, was it not in the power of the Confederate commander-in-chief to have assembled his forces a week earlier than he did, and therefore been in the condition to fight Gene
Lew Wallace (search for this): chapter 1.34
ould be as endless as any human affair can be. Colonel Johnston has asserted explicitly that it was the opinion of almost all the officers and men at the front the victory was won, and would have been consummated by the capture of Grant's army without any order of advance from General Beauregard, by the generals actually there, and therefore it was his order of withdrawal which broke up and disintegrated the victorious battle array, as a night was given for the reinforcements of Buell and Lew Wallace to come up. Such a statement becomes simply shameful, under the light of the closely contemporaneous statements of every division commander, except one (Withers); of all the brigade and regimental commanders of each Confederate corps, including the reserve whose reports have reached the light; that is, of nearly all commanders present in the battle. It is also shameful to ignore, as he has done, the revelations of the reports of Generals Buell, Nelson and Colonel Ammen's diary, as al
W. J. Hardee (search for this): chapter 1.34
de by his forces pursuant to an order from General Hardee, he says: This brought my troops und seen in his report of February 7th, 1863, General Hardee connects himself with what I may here propus supposition people are asked to accept, and Hardee is adduced in effect by Colonel William Preston Johnston as having been of that belief. Hardee, who virtually confesses that at sunset his men has, who were in that quarter of the field where Hardee was personally present (the Confederate left),ge 582). Brigadier-General Wood, who commanded Hardee's third brigade, says that under orders from GGeneral Hardee to move to the centre and front, he took his troops under and beyond the shells of theriver, where we stayed all night. * * * Major-General Hardee and General Withers came to our encampmpersonal knowledge of Generals Polk, Bragg and Hardee, I am led to say that General Polk was the onl reached my office—at least those of Bragg and Hardee—essentially free from, or not stuffed and effu[2 more...]<
R. H. Barrow (search for this): chapter 1.34
tham directed a line to be formed in rear of the encampment and await further orders. The gunboats kept up an incessant fire of shot and shell. After waiting in this position some time, orders were received from General Bragg to fall back out of the range of the gunboats and encamp for the night. —（Ibid, page 418.) The Eleventh Louisiana, another regiment of Russell's brigade, having become separated from the other regiments apparently much earlier in the day, its Lieutenant-Colonel, R. H. Barrow, gives a sketch of the disjointed condition in which his regiment, for example, had fallen as early as 3 P. M. The engagement was now general; the fighting desperate; our men hurried from point to point as exigencies required, until those who had up to this time remained together were greatly cut up and divided, rendering it impossible to rally any considerable number upon any one point. From this time and in this manner a large majority, if not all of our men, I believe, continued
W. H. Wallace (search for this): chapter 1.34
), who commanded the regiment at the close of the action. Colonel Hodge, of the Nineteenth Louisiana (Gibson's brigade), is thus specific as to the lateness of the hour: After the enemy were driven from this stronghold (which Prentiss and Wallace had held), we, with several brigades, moved towards the river. It was then nigh sunset. In accordance with your order (Gibson's) we commenced falling back about dusk, and being separated from the brigade, I conducted the regiment to the camp omediate fire of the gunboats, would have been able, before the darkness of night set in, to carry the ridge occupied by Webster's fifty-odd guns, supported by Ammen's brigade of Buell's army, as also by the remains of Hurlbut's, Stuart's and W. H. Wallace's brigades, and certain other fragmentary commands that had been organized at the river-side by Grant out of the best material of his broken regiments. Upon this point Ammen's personal diary, dated on the 7th of April, is much more specific
L. Polk (search for this): chapter 1.34
g, several brigades, composing portions of Generals Polk's and Hardee's commands, filed across the ds until the next morning, and even later. General Polk, it is to be noted, fixes five o'clock as t took place at 5:30 P. M. The details which General Polk describes as incident to that surrender, in as also Cheatham, with one brigade of his own (Polk's) corps—could possibly be ready to advance in ay. However, from my personal knowledge of Generals Polk, Bragg and Hardee, I am led to say that Ge there were really any rational grounds for General Polk's belief that his troops were capable of thally educated soldier, who fell into command of Polk's first division by the disablement of General te command had no part, under the orders of General Polk, he moved toward our left to the support ofnemy in the manner so sanguinely fancied by General Polk, is shown by Colonel Russell, their brigadewas ordered toward evening by Captain Blake (of Polk's general staff) to take my position with what [3 more...]
James A. Neely (search for this): chapter 1.34
ime heavy firing commenced on our right, and I was ordered to support it. I did so, where I met with General Cheatham, who ordered me to remain where I was until further orders. Here I received an order from Colonel Russell to fall back to the rear of his regiment (Twelfth Tennessee), and proceed down the river until we came under the fire of the enemy's gunboats. It being now about dark, I was ordered back to an encampment, where I took quarters for the night. —（Ibid, page 425.) Major James A. Neely commanding Thirteenth Arkansas, of Stewart's brigade, reports that having been severely handled and beaten back in a somewhat early part of the day, until reinforced by General Beauregard, he returned into action and pursued the enemy to near the river, where he remained with the regiment under the bombs from the gunboats until dark. We then repaired southeast, near General Stewart's hospital, at which we encamped for the night. （Ibid, page 432.) And here is a report which certainl<
Grose (search for this): chapter 1.34
th of April, is much more specific and full than his official report, that I must be excused for quoting at length from my former West Point professor as follows: General Nelson went over in the first boat with the Thirty-Sixth Indiana, Colonel Grose; General Nelson ordered me to remain and see my brigade over. * * * * On the top of the banks near some buildings I found the Thirty-Sixth Indiana partly formed in line. * * * * Here, too, were Generals Grant, Buell, and Nelson, * * * * Generendered, after one of the most resolute, obstinate defenses of an untrenched position that was made during the whole war, namely, at 5:30 P. M., while Colonel Gedde, of the Eighth Iowa, did not surrender his forces at this point until 6 P. M. Colonel Grose, of the Thirty-sixth Indiana, also reports, on the 8th of April, that the firing continued until near dusk, (Ibid, page 337); while Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas L. Anderson, Sixth Ohio, reports that his regiment was disembarked at about five o
Cavender (search for this): chapter 1.34
ge 339). General Hurlbut's report (April 12th) likewise serves to throw light upon the Federal and Confederate situation after the capture of Prentiss, and he was forced back to the river: On reaching the 24-pound siege guns in battery, he states, I again succeeded in forming line of battle in rear of the guns, and by direction of Major-General Grant I assumed command of all the troops that came up. Broken regiments and disordered battalions came into line gradually upon my division. Major Cavender posted six of his 20-pound pieces on my right, and I sent my aid to establish the light artillery, all that could be found on my left, * * * many gallant soldiers and brave officers rallied steadily on the new line. * * * In a short time the enemy appeared on the crest of the ridge, led by the Eighteenth Louisiana, but were cut to pieces by the murderous and steady fire of our artillery. Dr. Cornyn again took charge of one of the heavy 24-pounders, and the fire of that gun was the one
McClernard (search for this): chapter 1.34
of Breckinridge's reserve division. Of his subordinates, who were in that quarter of the field where Hardee was personally present (the Confederate left), Brigadier-General Cleburne, as distinguished subsequently for soldierly ability as for personal intrepidity, reports that after having exhausted his ammunition and been obliged to replenish it after much delay, he again advanced and continued to move forward until checked by a heavy fire from the enemy's field artillery (Hurlbut's and McClernard's troops, as may be seen) and gunboats. When this firing ceased, he again advanced until halted by an aid from General Beauregard, who informed him that he was not to approach nearer the river. It was now dark, says Cleburne, so I returned and encamped near the Bark road. Every fifteen minutes the enemy threw two shells from his gunboats, some of which bursted close among my men. （Ibid, page 582). I may also add that from about two thousand seven hundred officers and men on the morning
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