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A. S. Johnston (search for this): chapter 37
st line of battle. personal movements of General Johnston. morning of the 5th. this is not War! the Council of War. Beauregard for retreat. Johnston's decision, and reasons. Confederate array. s nowhere to be seen. About half-past 9, General Johnston sent me to General Bragg to know why the due to their apprenticeship in war, under General Johnston's own eye and inspiration, on outpost dutct, and that was the majestic presence of General Johnston. He looked like a hero of the antique tyBreckinridge's, Ruggles's, and Cheatham's-General Johnston, followed by his staff, passed from one bbly tardy in movement on Saturday, though General Johnston, through his staff, had made every efforteen them was conducted with some warmth. General Johnston joined the group, but not by preconcert, o far as he can remember. He adds: General Johnston appeared much surprised at the suggestioning the night of the 5th in fancied security, Johnston's army of 40,000 men was in close proximity, [47 more...]
Thomas Jordan (search for this): chapter 37
differing in details, agree in all essential facts. The council was held at the cross-roads, a few hundred yards from the headquarters of the night before. Colonel Jordan's account is as follows, and is presumably to be received as General Beauregard's own statement of the matter. Life of Forrest, p. 113. Mentioning in a notrgan's, Forrest's, and Wharton's (Eighth Texas), will be given in its proper place. The army, exclusive of its cavalry, was between 35,000 and 36,000 strong. Jordan, in an official report, made in July, 1862, to the writer, then on inspection-duty, gave the effective total of all arms at 38,773, who marched April 3d. In his orty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, which came up on the 7th. There are apparently some errors in the return of July, 1862. The writer believes that the figures in Jordan's Life of Forrest approach the truth most nearly. It now behooves us to consider the employment of the Federal army during those fateful first days of April,
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 37
Chapter 33: before the battle. General Johnston's prediction. anticipation of battle. strength of Federal position. Beauregard's report. Bragg's sketch of preliminaries. the resolve to attack. its origin. General Lee's letter. preparations. attempt to employ negroes. General Johnston's telegram. orders of March. enthusiasm of troops.--the army marches. field-map. distribution of arms. bad roads. skirmish on April 4th. explanation of orders. providential storm. under arms. reckless fusillade. careless pickets. first line of battle. personal movements of General Johnston. morning of the 5th. this is not War! delay. its causes. rawness of the army. a majestic presence. encouraging the troops. address to army. the Council of War. Beauregard for retreat. Johnston's decision, and reasons. Confederate array. Sherman's theory. reconnaissance. false security. was it a surprise? Federal array. the opponents. On Thursday morning, April 3d,
John A. McClernand (search for this): chapter 37
loh. Among the multitude of roads and cross-roads, running in every direction over the broken surface of the Shiloh plateau, one principal road diverged to the left in rear of Shiloh Church from the direct Pittsburg and Corinth road, and following the ridge led into both the Bark road and the Corinth road by numerous approaches. Across this to Sherman's left, with an interval between them, Prentiss's division (the Sixth) was posted. Covering this interval, but some distance back, lay McClernand's division (the First), with its right partially masked by Sherman's left. Some two miles in rear of the front line, and about three-quarters of a mile in advance of Pittsburg, were encamped to the left, Hurlbut's (the Fourth), and to the right, Smith's (the Second) division, the latter under General W. H. L. Wallace. The Federal front was an arc or very obtuse angle extending from where the Purdy road crossed Owl Creek to the ford near the mouth of Lick Creek, which was guarded by Stuar
James McDowell (search for this): chapter 37
fore, on Friday, two days before the battle, when Colonel Worthington was so apprehensive, I knew there was no hostile party in six miles, Hardee was not more than two miles distant. though there was reason to expect an attack. I suppose Colonel McDowell and myself had become tired of his constant prognostications, and paid no attention to him, especially when we were positively informed by men like Buckland, Kilby Smith, and Major Ricker, who went to the front to look for enemies, instead o to Owl Creek, which it crosses by two bridges. This ridge was thickly set with trees and undergrowth, and fell away by a sharp declivity to a deep ravine, boggy and flooded with the storms of the past month. Sherman's First Brigade, under Colonel McDowell, was on his right, on the Purdy road as a guard to the bridges over Owl Creek. His Fourth Brigade, under Colonel Buckland, came next in his line, with its left resting on the Corinth road at Shiloh. The Third Brigade, under Colonel Hildebr
Meaks (search for this): chapter 37
leven men, officers and privates, taken prisoners, and eight privates wounded. He says he took ten prisoners. He continues: I infer that the enemy is in some considerable force at Pea Ridge (Monterey), that yesterday morning they crossed a brigade of two regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one battery of field-artillery, to the ridges on which the Corinth road lies. They halted the infantry at a point about five miles in my front, sent a detachment to the lane of General Meaks, on the north of Owl Creek, and the cavalry down toward our camp. Though he did not suspect the fact, it was the whole Confederate army which was unfolding along his front. In his report of the battle of Shiloh ( Memoirs, vol. i., p. 235), Sherman says: On Saturday the enemy's cavalry was again very bold, coming well down to our front; yet I did not believe they designed anything but a strong demonstration. General Sherman seems to deny with derision that his command w
Mickey (search for this): chapter 37
t night on the way, he arrived next morning at Mickey's, a house seventeen or eighteen miles, by tha M. on the 4th, but bivouacked that night near Mickey's, in rear of Hardee's corps, with a proper in an interval of half an hour, and to halt near Mickey's. This halt was to allow Bragg's corps, whoseile & Ohio Railroad, and was about as far from Mickey's, the point of concentration, as Corinth was.ave caused the delay. My first division is at Mickey's; and the ignorance of the guide for the secohis route, he could have passed to the left of Mickey's, and deployed without interference or obstrure I can form upon it. I continued: I reached Mickey's at nightfall yesterday, whence I could not m in columns of brigades on the Bark road, near Mickey's; and Breckinridge's on the road from Monterem, did not intervene between Shiloh Church and Mickey's, in front of which Hardee's corps was deployinth, twenty miles away, and only a brigade at Mickey's, when that army was unfolding for an assault[2 more...]
A. B. Moore (search for this): chapter 37
higher and higher. Every soldier knows that camp-rumor has a certain undefined value, that there is something in the Greek idea of the Pheme, the voice that addresses the general consciousness, the voice that heralded across the Aegean the victory of Plataea to the combatants of Mycale. Known facts, inference and imagination, often construct in an army an hypothesis not to be neglected. Possibly upon some such basis General Prentiss acted in throwing to the front ten companies, under Colonel Moore, to watch the approaches to his position. But it is perfectly evident that Grant and Sherman considered themselves above such idle fears. The vulgar apprehension did not touch the victor of Donelson. It never reached either Grant or Sherman. Indeed, the latter, with bitter innuendo, points to it as proof of cowardice in certain officers with whom he was at variance. He swears in his evidence on Worthington's trial. Sherman's historical raid, by Boynton, p. 29. Therefore, o
John H. Morgan (search for this): chapter 37
s brigades. It followed Bragg's line at about eight hundred yards' distance. Breckinridge's reserve was composed of Trabue's, Bowen's, and Statham's brigades, with a total infantry and artillery of 6,439. The cavalry, about 4,300 strong, guarded the flanks, or was detached on outpost duty; but, both from the newness and imperfections of their organization, equipment, and drill, and from the rough and wooded character of the ground, they did little service that day. The part taken by Morgan's, Forrest's, and Wharton's (Eighth Texas), will be given in its proper place. The army, exclusive of its cavalry, was between 35,000 and 36,000 strong. Jordan, in an official report, made in July, 1862, to the writer, then on inspection-duty, gave the effective total of all arms at 38,773, who marched April 3d. In his Life of Forrest he makes it 39,630. Hodge, in his sketch of the First Kentucky Brigade, with a different distribution of troops, puts the total at 39,695, which he says
Moulton (search for this): chapter 37
ulton's Criticism of Boynton's review of Sherman (page 11), which is virtually General Sherman's own utterance, denies any purpose or necessity of contradicting the foolish stories about our forces being surprised by the enemy at its beginning. Moulton continues: No matter what were the reasons for starting them originally in the newspapers or elsewhere, there is not the slightest excuse for reiterating them at this time. He rests his defense on the ground that Sherman's whole line wessee on the 6th of April. Buell's letter, dated January 19, 1865, to United States service Magazine, republished in the New York World, February 29, 1865. Van Horne's Army of the Cumberland, to which General Sherman's special advocate, Mr. Moulton, refers the reader, for a fair and full history of this battle, has the following (page 105): While the national army was unprepared for battle, and unexpectant of such an event, and was passing the night of the 5th in fancied security,
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