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William Preston Johnston (search for this): chapter 1.34
an outrightly express blame and criticism, to-wit: Upon the death of General Johnston, the command having devolved upon General Beauregard, the conflict was conion 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 the three corps commanders of the Confederate army at Shiloh, referred to by Colonel Johnston as having believed that the victory was won and would have been consummateday. —（Ibid, page 455). I will close this part of the issue raised with Colonel Johnston, by the statement of Colonel David Urquhart, of the staff of General Braggnute an inquisition, the discussion thus recently revived by Mr. Davis and Colonel Johnston would be as endless as any human affair can be. Colonel Johnston has asserColonel 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
Gedde (search for this): chapter 1.34
hirty-sixth Indiana, supported by the Sixth Ohio, under the able conduct of Colonel Ammen, drove back the enemy and restored the line of bat tle. This was at 6:30 P. M., and soon after the enemy withdrew, owing, I suppose, to the darkness. —（Ibid, page 324). Further, and finally, General Prentiss in his report fixes the hour when he surrendered, 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'clock on the evening of the 6th of April, and marched up the hill as quietly as possible, and that under Ammen's orders it was placed in support of a battery
J. C. Nott (search for this): chapter 1.34
it and the gunboats whose fire swept all the approaches thereto, certainly further credulity must now cease before the words of his staff-surgeon, the eminent Dr. J. C. Nott, of Mobile, written as early as November 6th, 1867. After saying that he had ridden by the side of General Bragg through the greater part of the day; had been with him at the close of the battle, and rode away with him after the battle was over, Dr. Nott added that, when beside Bragg on horseback at the close of the day, he heard him give orders to withdraw the troops from the field, and also for their disposition for the night, and that his impression at the time was that General Bragg gave the order of his own responsibility. * * * Our men, explains Dr. Nott, immediately in front of whom we were standing, were too much demoralized and indisposed to advance in the face of the shells (from the gunboats), which were bursting over us in every direction, and my impression was (this was also the conclusion of Gene
Blake (search for this): chapter 1.34
ent, 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 to fight throughout the day. I was ordered toward evening by Captain Blake (of Polk's general staff) to take my position with what men I had on the extreme (Confederate) left, where I remained (unengaged evidently) until the fighting of the day had ceased; after which I started back to find our hospital, hoping there to find the majority, if not all, of our regiment assembled. —（Ibid, page 427.) He did not find it, however, in the night, and was able next morning only to assemble some sixty-odd of his men. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Bell (Ibid, page 423) confi
Gage (search for this): chapter 1.34
r with that of General Jackson, filed to the right and formed facing the river, and endeavored to press forward to the water's edge, but in attempting to mount the last ridge we were met by a fire from a whole line of batteries protected by infantry, and assisted by shells from the gunboats. Our men struggled vainly to ascend the hill, which was very steep, making charge after charge without success, but continued to fight until night closed hostilities on both sides. During the engagement, Gage's battery was brought up to our assistance, but suffered so severely that it was soon compelled to retire. This was the sixth fight in which we had been engaged during the day, and the men were too much exhausted to storm the batteries on the hill, and they were brought off in good order, formed in line of battle, and slept on the battlefield, where I remained with them. General J. K. Jackson, of the same division (Withers's), of Bragg's corps, reporting on the 26th of April, 1862, or t
Withers (search for this): chapter 1.34
General J. K. Jackson, of the same division (Withers's), of Bragg's corps, reporting on the 26th oe line, I proceeded to obtain orders from General Withers, but before seeing him was ordered by a s as early as the 25th of April, 1862, through Withers, states of this stage of the battle: Heime to find them I received an order from General Withers to form on the extreme left, where I rematatements that were before Generals Bragg and Withers when they wrote their reports. Lieutenant-Conder date of April 19th, 1862, reports to General Withers: After advancing about half a mile several brigades and regiments that, had General Withers been brought before a court-martial for t is to be found to justify Generals Bragg and Withers in the assertion that the forces under them aall night. * * * Major-General Hardee and General Withers came to our encampment where they remainents of every division commander, except one (Withers); of all the brigade and regimental commander[4 more...]
Pugh (search for this): chapter 1.34
lood He dyes his reeking 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
J. H. Bell (search for this): chapter 1.34
was ordered toward evening by Captain Blake (of Polk's general staff) to take my position with what men I had on the extreme (Confederate) left, where I remained (unengaged evidently) until the fighting of the day had ceased; after which I started back to find our hospital, hoping there to find the majority, if not all, of our regiment assembled. —（Ibid, page 427.) He did not find it, however, in the night, and was able next morning only to assemble some sixty-odd of his men. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Bell (Ibid, page 423) confirms Colonel Russell's report, just cited, as also does Colonel A. J. Vaughan, Thirteenth Tennessee, in these terms: At this time 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 und
George Maney (search for this): chapter 1.34
tory of the Lost Opportunity: Broken and routed he (enemy) apparently, from all directions, seemed flying toward the river, and our own forces as generally closing upon him. * * * * With the balance of my command I pressed forward and joined Colonel Maney, who had now become my advance, and had in pursuit captured and sent to the rear many of the enemy. About this time a halt was made for the purpose of some concentration of our forces for a concerted attack upon the enemy, then understood toells from the enemy's gunboats.—（Ibid, pages 439-40.) It goes without saying that all the reports of his officers confirm General Cheatham's lucid explanation of the last hour of the 6th of April, but I will only cite the following from Colonel George Maney, commanding one of Cheatham's brigades: During a constant press forward, the best means of securing the advantage already gained, I made but a short halt (after capture of Prentiss) in the position from which the enemy had been drive
Patton Anderson (search for this): chapter 1.34
son and Colonel Gibson to hold their troops in readiness, with their arms cleaned, and cartridges supplied for service the next day. —（Ibid, page 472 ) General Patton Anderson thus describes the situation with his brigade: The sun was now near the western horizon, the battle around us had ceased to rage. I met General Rugommanding the Florida battalion, as early as April 12th reports that, after the successful affair with Prentiss, his battalion, with a portion of the brigade (Patton Anderson's) proceeded forward within range of the heavy guns on the Tennessee river, where we were for some time exposed to the enemy's shells. * * * We then fell back5). Colonel Charles Jones (Seventh Louisiana), as early as the 11th of April reports that, after taking part in the successful operation against Prentiss, General Anderson, his brigade commander, came up with the Twentieth Louisiana and ordered the line formed: At this moment I was wounded in the left arm with a minie-bal
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