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Grant (search for this): chapter 1.34
s that had been organized at the river-side by Grant out of the best material of his broken regimenly formed in line. * * * * Here, too, were Generals Grant, Buell, and Nelson, * * * * General Grant General Grant directed me to support the battery about sixty to one hundred yards to the left of the road, which n rear of the guns, and by direction of Major-General Grant I assumed command of all the troops tha would have been consummated by the capture of Grant's army, * * but for Beauregard's order of withnset in such force as to assure the capture of Grant's army at the river side. I refer to these wonate head which it did on the next day against Grant and Buell's combined armies, up to the moment would have been consummated by the capture of Grant's army without any order of advance from Generrtation at his position, immediately after General Grant invested Fort Henry, to have readily conced therefore been in the condition to fight General Grant at latest on the first instead of the 6th [1 more...]
Fagan (search for this): chapter 1.34
y-eighth Tennessee, chiefly to show that no order reached them to retire, and that, up to the very edge of night, they were being employed on the Confederate left by orders of General Hardee in desultory, resultless, though bloody conflicts. Colonel Fagan, of Gibson's brigade, writing as early as the 9th of April, states: It was late in the afternoon when the enemy was repulsed, and was followed in the direction of the river (after the capture of Prentiss). That night we slept in the enemy's tents, worn with fatigue, decimated in numbers, but elated that such a hard-fought day had such a glorious close. —（Ibid, page 488.) Evidently Colonel Fagan had not heard of the Lost opportunity when he wrote, nor had Colonel H. W. Allen at the date of his report of April 10th, neither had Captain Dubroca (of the Thirteenth Louisiana), 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 latenes
Ammen (search for this): chapter 1.34
which Buell had so opportunely supported with Ammen's fresh brigade. Nor was it materially differpied by Webster's fifty-odd guns, supported by Ammen's brigade of Buell's army, as also by the remarial of his broken regiments. Upon this point Ammen's personal diary, dated on the 7th of April, ilf, who had reached Pittsburg Landing ahead of Ammen, with his Chief of Staff, Colonel Fry, reports on the 15th of April, 1862: It (Ammen's brigade) was immediately posted to meet the attack aume X, Part 1, pages 333-34). The hour that Ammen's brigade marched up the hill from Pittsburg L the Sixth Ohio, under the able conduct of Colonel Ammen, drove back the enemy and restored the linhe hill as quietly as possible, and that under Ammen's orders it was placed in support of a batterytwenty-odd thousand men at least, exclusive of Ammen's brigade, notwithstanding the lateness of the the reports of Generals Buell, Nelson and Colonel Ammen's diary, as also the disclosure of the ava
John C. Breckinridge (search for this): chapter 1.34
with the troops of his own division, but with Colonel Martin, of Breckinridge's division, from which the charitable deduction is, that he was had to seek that night a sleeping place with Colonel Martin, of Breckinridge's reserve division. Of his subordinates, who were in that quae order to fall back for the night reached them! Unhappily, General Breckinridge made no report. But Colonel Trabue, one of his brigade commnfield rifles captured from Prentiss, he moved forward to rejoin Breckinridge, who, with Stratham's and Bowen's brigades, was occupying the frs of the night. （Ibid, page 616). Colonel Martin, who commanded Breckinridge's second brigade, after Bowen was wounded, also reports that whe the troops with him—now united with those of Generals Bragg and Breckinridge, as also Cheatham, with one brigade of his own (Polk's) corps—coere captured. We finally took position, under the orders of General Breckinridge, to aid in the pursuit of the enemy, which was checked by th<
Deas (search for this): chapter 1.34
, unable even to find it the next morning, was assigned by some staff officer, not now recollected (Colonel Jordan, as it happened), to the command of other troops during the Monday's battle.—（Rebellion Records, Volume X, Part I, page 555.) Colonel Deas, commanding another brigade of the same division and corps (Bragg's), reporting as early as the 25th of April, 1862, through Withers, states of this stage of the battle: Here, in the hot pursuit, the Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth Alabamaaher was sent to look for ammunition soon after we took this camp. He did not return, and is supposed to have been taken prisoner. —（Ibid, page 562.) The foregoing statements, especially of the three brigade commanders, Chalmers, Jackson, and Deas, as well as of Colonel Wheeler (a graduate of West Point) and Colonel Moore, certainly give such a picture of the condition of their several brigades and regiments that, had General Withers been brought before a court-martial for the statement in
Buell (search for this): chapter 1.34
illery which Webster had improvised, and which Buell had so opportunely supported with Ammen's fresifty-odd guns, supported by Ammen's brigade of Buell's army, as also by the remains of Hurlbut's, S line. * * * * Here, too, were Generals Grant, Buell, and Nelson, * * * * General Grant directed mebe formed, probably three or four minutes, Generals Buell and Nelson, assisting. The Thirty-Sixth Il to the river and having water in it. General Buell himself, who had reached Pittsburg Landingout three hundred yards from the landing. General Buell selected the position, and was with us whewhich it did on the next day against Grant and Buell's combined armies, up to the moment in the aft enemy's artillery and in such good order that Buell's and Grant's armies did not venture to followas a night was given for the reinforcements of Buell and Lew Wallace to come up. Such a statemenas done, the revelations of the reports of Generals Buell, Nelson and Colonel Ammen's diary, as also
McClernand (search for this): chapter 1.34
ivision 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 also the disclosure of the available Federal defensive resources at the time, to be found in the reports of Generals Hurlbut and McClernand. Any student of history, or soldier, who may follow the same line of research that I have, will see that my summary is essentially judicial, because it sets forth in its integrity all that is officially reported contemporaneously on either side of the question, and I challenge the production of a word that I have omitted which can be said to run counter to the unbroken chain of documentary proof which I have adduced. Into the discussion of the further matters relating to General A. S. Jo
H. W. Allen (search for this): chapter 1.34
licts. Colonel Fagan, of Gibson's brigade, writing as early as the 9th of April, states: It was late in the afternoon when the enemy was repulsed, and was followed in the direction of the river (after the capture of Prentiss). That night we slept in the enemy's tents, worn with fatigue, decimated in numbers, but elated that such a hard-fought day had such a glorious close. —（Ibid, page 488.) Evidently Colonel Fagan had not heard of the Lost opportunity when he wrote, nor had Colonel H. W. Allen at the date of his report of April 10th, neither had Captain Dubroca (of the Thirteenth Louisiana), 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 comm
Eustis (search for this): chapter 1.34
king sword, and strews the ground With headless ranks. What can they do? Or how Withstand his wide destroying sword? And now, in conclusion, I challenge those who have brought on this discussion to make up the issue tangibly as one purely of historical and military import and concern—that is, divested of all family vanities and personal ambitions, for submission, in effect, to the judicial decision of a few such men as Judge Campbell, Secretary Lamar, Senators Vance, Pugh, Colquitt and Eustis, Governor Haygood, General E. P. Alexander, or many score of such other gentlemen of the South whom I could name as capable of deciding according to the clear documentary evidence. But let the issue be made so broad as to embrace several subjects which have not been touched upon in my papers. For example to begin with, Was the military situation on the part of the Confederates in the department under the command of General A. S. Johnston such as to make the loss of Fort Donelson an inevita
Looney (search for this): chapter 1.34
ire from our own troops on the right, which, added to the fire from the enemy, almost disorganized the command. In order to reform, we were compelled to fall back about one hundred and fifty yards to the enemy's main camp, where we rejoined Colonel Looney with his regiment. * * The charge made on the enemy's battery, in which the Eighteenth regiment suffered so severely, was not in accordance with my judgment. * * I was alone (in the quarter of Owl Creek), without anything to support my own reer killed or wounded in this ill-judged charge. This brigade was not in the quarter of the field with General Bragg, and I refer to the reports of Colonel Pond, Colonel Monton, Major Gober (Sixteenth Louisiana), Colonel Marshall J. Smith and Colonel Looney, Thirty-eighth Tennessee, chiefly to show that no order reached them to retire, and that, up to the very edge of night, they were being employed on the Confederate left by orders of General Hardee in desultory, resultless, though bloody confl
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