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Lake Station (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
with the President and Secretary of War. move to the relief of General Pemberton. receive news of the fall of Vicksburg. army retires to Jackson. I set out for Mississippi on the first train that left Tullahoma, after the order of the Secretary of War was received. It was in the morning of the 10th of May. The intelligence of the assassination of the gallant Van Dorn had been received, and General Bragg and myself joined in recommending General Forrest as his successor. At Lake Station, in Mississippi, on the 13th, a dispatch from Lieutenant-General Pemberton, dated Vicksburg, May 12th, was sent to me from the telegraph-office. I was informed in it that the enemy is apparently moving in heavy force toward Edwards's Depot, on Southern Railroad. McClernand's Thirteenth Corps was apparently mistaken for the heavy force. With my limited force I will do all I can to meet him. That will be the battle-field, if I can carry forward sufficient force, leaving troops enough t
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
mbled, the guns of the enemy opened on the works.... I have decided to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the Government may yet be able to assist me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy's free navigation of the Mississippi River. I still conceive it to be the most important point in the Confederacy. Such an estimate of the military value of Vicksburg, expressed five or six weeks earlier, might not have seemed unreasonable; for then the commanders of the United States squadrons believed, apparently, that its batteries were too formidable to be passed by their vessels-of-war. But, when Lieutenant-General Pemberton wrote the letter quoted from, those batteries had been proved to be ineffective, for Admiral Porter's squadron had passed them, and in that way had made the severance of the Confederacy, before the end of April, that General Pemberton apprehended would be permitted, if he obeyed my order, to save his army by withdrawing it to the northeast,
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7 Start for Mississippi. dispatch from General Pemberton. arrival at Jackson. movements sburg. army retires to Jackson. I set out for Mississippi on the first train that left Tullahoma, after theForrest as his successor. At Lake Station, in Mississippi, on the 13th, a dispatch from Lieutenant-General 12th, See page 174. dispatched before I entered Mississippi, and his official report, See General Pemberton' informed of the condition of military affairs in Mississippi, especially of the inadequacy of the forces they t rely on what you have, and the irregular forces Mississippi can afford. On the 8th he asked, on the same subr is it for me to judge which it is best to hold, Mississippi or Tennessee--that is for the Government to deterThe defeat of this little army would at once open Mississippi and Alabama to Grant. I will do all I can, withoithout giving up Jackson, by which we should lose Mississippi.... The want of field .transportation was then
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the practicability of carrying them out. The opinion was unanimously expressed that it was impossible to withdraw the army from this position with such morale and material as to be of further use to the Confederacy. While the council of war was assembled, the guns of the enemy opened on the works.... I have decided to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the firm hope that the Government may yet be able to assist me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy's free navigation of the Mississippi River. I still conceive it to be the most important point in the Confederacy. Such an estimate of the military value of Vicksburg, expressed five or six weeks earlier, might not have seemed unreasonable; for then the commanders of the United States squadrons believed, apparently, that its batteries were too formidable to be passed by their vessels-of-war. But, when Lieutenant-General Pemberton wrote the letter quoted from, those batteries had been proved to be ineffective, for Admiral
Vernon River, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ippi, and his official report, See General Pemberton's report, page 33. prove that before I reached Jackson, where my first order to him was written, he had established his movable army six or seven miles beyond the river; and a large detachment (two brigades) near Raymond, twelve or fourteen miles still farther east. Those papers prove, also, that he had crossed the Big Black to give battle to the enemy, and expected Edwards's Depot to be the battle-field. Early on the 19th, when near Vernon, I received Lieutenant-General Pemberton's reply to my note, conveying to him the order to evacuate Vicksburg. It was dated May 18th. After acknowledging the receipt of that order, General Pemberton said: On the receipt of your communication, I immediately assembled a council of war of the general officers of this command, and having laid your instructions before them, asked the free expression of their opinions as to the practicability of carrying them out. The opinion was unanimously exp
Bakers Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
of the enemy. orders to General Pemberton. battle of Baker's Creek. retreat of General Pemberton across the Big Black to It was not delivered to him until after the battle of Baker's Creek-too late to influence his action. On the 15th the m15th, the army commenced its march, and, after crossing Baker's Creek, encamped near Champion Hill, some three miles from the, however, by the destruction of a bridge by a flood in Baker's Creek. General Pemberton was informed at night, that the ge-train turned and moved as rapidly as possible across Baker's Creek on the road by which they had advanced the day before. time that Stevenson's and Bowen's divisions had crossed Baker's Creek, the Federal troops were so near the stream as to rendee a brief account of the circumstances of the battle of Baker's Creek, and his retreat to the Big Black River, after which herated from the army in the retreat, after the battle of Baker's Creek, reached Jackson on the 20th, and Maxey's brigade, fro
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
rg. investment of Vicksburg by the enemy. Port Hudson invested. siege of Vicksburg. telegraphicson on the 20th, and Maxey's brigade, from Port Hudson, on the 23d. On the 3d of June we had beenof course, with the troops in Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The troops coming from the East, by raen assembled at Baton Rouge were now before Port Hudson, and asking for reinforcements. In reply t. The only intelligence I received from Port Hudson, during the siege, was given by a dispatch that it was of the greatest importance that Port Hudson should hold out as long as possible, to kee much. Grant is receiving reinforcements. Port Hudson is closely invested. The great object of trike Banks first, and unite the garrison of Port Hudson with you, or to secure sufficient cooperatials of the department were in Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Artillery had to be brought from the East then, to march the much longer distance to Port Hudson, even if it had been expedient to do so. Bu[5 more...]
Edward's Depot (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s apparently moving in heavy force toward Edwards's Depot, on Southern Railroad. McClernand's ThirGeneral Pemberton's active forces were at Edwards's Depot, and his headquarters at Bovina; that McP General Grant's army was to the south of Edwards's Depot, I inferred that McPherson's corps had beral Pemberton, dated four miles south of Edwards's Depot, eight o'clock A. M., May 16th, saying thd been ordered peremptorily to march from Edwards's Depot to attack him in rear. He determined, thode to the camp of his army just south of Edwards's Depot, and convened a council of war, composed ed on the road leading from Livingston to Edwards's Depot. Supposing that the Army of Mississippi to give battle to the enemy, and expected Edwards's Depot to be the battle-field. Early on the enridge's, with the floating-bridge, near Edwards's Depot. The cavalry, under General W. H. Jacksoned to move on the morning of the 5th, by Edwards's Depot, to the south of the road-thinking, from [1 more...]
Snyder's Mill (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
re a heavy cannonading is now going on. There are so many points by which I can be flanked that I fear I shall be compelled to withdraw; if so, the position at Snyder's Mill will also be untenable. General Tilghman was killed yesterday. I have about sixty days rations in Vicksburg and Snyder's Mill. I respectfully await your ordSnyder's Mill. I respectfully await your orders. Soon after reading this letter, I received, from good but unofficial sources, intelligence that the army had abandoned the line of the Big Black River, and fallen back to Vicksburg. On this information my fourth order to Lieutenant-General Pemberton was dispatched. It was this: If Haynes's Bluff is untenable, Vicksburg inched, and the enemy in too heavy force for reasonable prospect of success, unless you move in sufficient force to compel him to abandon his communication with Snyder's Mill, which I still hope we may be able to do.... Captain Saunders, who brought the dispatch, told me that he was directed to say, from Lieutenant-General Pemberto
Bridgeport (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
and a temporary one near it, these troops were conducted to Vicksburg by Major-General Stevenson, with his own division. They left the west bank of the Big Black about ten o'clock A. M., after destroying the bridges. This was by Lieutenant-General Pemberton's command. The Federal army crossed the river on the 18th; McPherson's and McClernand's corps on floating-bridges, constructed by them near the railroad, and Sherman's, which left Jackson on the 16th, on a pontoon-bridge laid at Bridgeport. Its advanced troops skirmished in the afternoon with those in the fieldworks of Vicksburg, General Grant's report. and the investment of the place was completed on the 19th. General Grant's report. On the 17th the two brigades with me marched fifteen or eighteen miles in the direction pointed out in Lieutenant-General Pemberton's note of the day before, and bivouacked on the road leading from Livingston to Edwards's Depot. Supposing that the Army of Mississippi had marched the day
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