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Henry C. Davis (search for this): chapter 1.34
ollow. —（Military Operations of General Beauregard, Volume I, page 551). My summary of so much of the published official documents as bear at all upon the question of the alleged Lost Opportunity, revived so strenuously in sheer assertion by Mr. Davis and his aid-de-camp, is now concluded. Its fullness will be justified to the reflecing, as it could not be shortened without falling fatally short also of the real object which has incited me to write my papers; that is, to present so vigorous history, or from any other cause, may have been at the pains, after reading my papers, to compare their citations with the documents from which they are taken. Without at least as minute 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 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 ca
Strahl (search for this): chapter 1.34
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 certainly does not accord with the story of the readiness and organization of the troops in the advance, after Prentiss was overcome, for a vigorous onset in such force as to assure the capture of Grant's army at the river side. I refer to these words in the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Strahl, commanding the First regiment Tennessee volunteers: I then marched the regiment a short distance to the rear, had the men wipe out their guns, many of them being so dirty they could not load, fill their cartridge-boxes and replenish their canteens with water. We then marched forward into line, and continued in line until after dark, when we fell back in order to get out of reach of the shells from the gunboats. —（Ibid, page 432.) Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Venable, command<
B. L. Hodge (search for this): chapter 1.34
ommand from the fire of the gunboats. In this movement considerable disorder ensued, owing to the fact that all the troops were closely massed. My whole command was kept together for the night, except the Nineteenth Louisiana volunteers, Colonel B. L. Hodge, who, in spite of exertion of his own, did not succeed in reporting to me until after the battle of the 7th. —（Ibid, page 480.) As for Colonel Pond, commanding the Third brigade of Ruggles's division of Bragg's corps, touching his operaFagan 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
Alexander P. Stewart (search for this): chapter 1.34
the most part out of the hand of their proper commanders, from corps to companies, as is not honestly deniable. We must now see, however, from the reports of his several division, brigade and regimental commanders, as to the condition of their respective commands, whether there were really any rational grounds for General Polk's belief that his troops were capable of the vigorous assault that was essential to make the Confederate operations at that late hour a triumphant success. General A. P. Stewart, a professionally educated soldier, who fell into command of Polk's first division by the disablement of General Clark, reports that after the capture of Prentiss, in which his immediate command had no part, under the orders of General Polk, he moved toward our left to the support of some Louisiana regiments (with the Second and Thirty-third and Fifth Tennessee regiments.) In passing through the woods, Stewart continued, the Fifth Tennessee became separated from us. The other t
R. M. Russell (search for this): chapter 1.34
art's division, were to vigorously assail the enemy in the manner so sanguinely fancied by General Polk, is shown by Colonel Russell, their brigade commander, in these definitive words: The prisoners being disposed of, I made preparations to mof 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, ble 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 hmet 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 fir
Marshall J. Smith (search for this): chapter 1.34
t, and so fell back without orders, be it noted, from his corps commander, and slept within a mile of the river, and four hundred yards of the Federal line.—（Ibid, page 58.) It is to be noted that the Eighteenth Louisiana lost two hundred and seven officers and men either 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 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 Pre
Dunlap (search for this): chapter 1.34
ct. （Ibid, page 622). He does not say, however, that any order was given by General Bragg either to advance or to prepare to advance, all this time, or that any advance or assault was made. But he goes on to say: Being near night, I fell back, by an order from General Bragg, to the first encampment in the tents furthest from the river, where we stayed all night. * * * Major-General Hardee and General Withers came to our encampment where they remained all night. — (Ibid, page 622). Dunlap, commanding the Ninth Arkansas of the same brigade, thus reports, April 14th, 1862: Continuing to follow the enemy until the position became of extreme peril, placed, as we were, between two batteries, both pouring destructive volleys of grape and cannister into our ranks. In this position we received orders to fall back to a safe position and await further orders. By this time night came on. Colonel Martin withdrew, * * this closed the fighting of the 6th of April, he stated, a
P. H. Nelson (search for this): chapter 1.34
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; GGeneral 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, * * * * General Grant directed me to support the battery about sixty to one hundred yards to the left of as the line could be formed, probably three or four minutes, Generals Buell and Nelson, assisting. The Thirty-Sixth Indiana, and part of the Sixth Ohio volunteer infrom Pittsburg Landing, and the lateness of the repulse, is thus reported by General Nelson as early as April 10th: At 5 P. M. the head of my column marched up tul 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 defe
W. A. Stanley (search for this): chapter 1.34
wound dressed, I immediately returned to the field in search of my command. Fell in with General Ruggles and reported myself to him. He invited me to remain with him, as the action was drawing to a close. The enemy having retired and left us in possession of the field, and being unable to find more than fifty of my command, I, with my adjutant (also wounded), retired with this small force to the ambulance depot to assist the wounded, and retired for the night. —（Ibid, page 506). Colonel W. A. Stanley (Ninth Texas), of the same brigade and division of Bragg's corps, reported on the 15th of April: In the meantime firing continued incessantly on our right; we were then ordered to join the command in that direction, which was reported to have the enemy badly routed and driving them toward their gunboats. After proceeding some distance we found ourselves in the range of shot and shell fired from the boats and vicinity. At this point night put a close to the action of the day o
A. B. Roman (search for this): chapter 1.34
e of the shells (from the gunboats), which were bursting over us in every direction, and my impression was (this was also the conclusion of General Bragg) that our troops had done all that they would do, and had better be withdrawn. The scene in front of General Bragg and myself was one of considerable confusion. * * * If he had received and disapproved such an order (to retire), it is probable that something would have been said about it. （Military Operations of General Beauregard, by Colonel Roman, page 535.) Captain Clifton H. Smith, who carried to Bragg the order that General Beauregard really did give, states that it was in these words: Ride to the front and instruct General Bragg to arrest the conflict and reform the lines. Smith also writes that he found Bragg in a slight ravine in rear of Ruggles's division, accompanied by his staff and escort. * * * He had evidently but just retired from some portion of his line of battle. General Ruggles himself was immediately at
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