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Morton (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
guard back on the main body, when I ordered under arms all my division, and sent word to General McClernand, asking him to support my left; to General Prentiss, giving him notice that the enemy was in our front in force, and to General Hurlbut, asking him to support General Prentiss. At that time--7 A. M.--my division was arranged as follows: First Brigade, composed of the Sixth Iowa, Colonel J. A. McDowell; Fortieth Illinois, Colonel Hicks; Forty-sixth Ohio, Colonel Worthington; and the Morton battery, Captain Behr, on the extreme right, guarding the bridge on the Purdy road over Owl Creek. Second Brigade, composed of the Fifty-fifth Illinois, Colonel D. Stuart; the Fifty-fourth Ohio, Colonel T. Kilby Smith; and the Seventy-first Ohio, Colonel Mason, on the extreme left, guarding the ford over Lick Creek. Third Brigade, composed of the Seventy-seventh Ohio, Colonel Hildebrand; the Fifty-third Ohio, Colonel Appler; and the Fifty-seventh Ohio, Colonel Mungen, on the left of th
Donelson (Indiana, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
nd Buell looked to its capture as an event of great importance. On the 21st General Grant sent General Smith with his division to Clarksville, fifty miles above Donelson, toward Nashville, and on the 27th went himself to Nashville to meet and confer with General Buell, but returned to Donelson the next day. Meantime, General Donelson the next day. Meantime, General Halleck at St. Louis must have felt that his armies were getting away from him, and began to send dispatches to me at Paducah, to be forwarded by boat, or by a rickety telegraph-line up to Fort Henry, which lay entirely in a hostile country, and was consequently always out of repair. On the 1st of March I received the following dtary Academy during the early part of my career there, and afterward commandant of cadets. He was a very handsome and soldierly man, of great experience, and at Donelson had acted with so much personal bravery that to him many attributed the success of the assault. I immediately steamed up the Tennessee River, following the two
Florence, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
ng at Paducah a division for myself when allowed to take the field, which I had been promised by General Halleek. His purpose was evidently to operate up the Tennessee River, to break up Bear Creek Bridge and the railroad communications between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, and no doubt lie was provoked that Generals Grant and Smith had turned aside to Nashville. In the mean time several of the gunboats, under Captain Phelps, United States Navy, had gone up the Tennessee as far as Florence, and on their return had reported a strong Union feeling among the people along the river. On the 10th of March, having received the necessary orders from General Halleck, I embarked my division at Paducah. It was composed of four brigades. The First, commanded by Colonel S. G. Hicks, was composed of the Fortieth Illinois, Forty-sixth Ohio, and Morton's Indiana Battery, on the boats Sallie List, Golden Gate, J. B. Adams, and Lancaster. The Second Brigade, Colonel D. Stuart, was compos
Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
Tennessee, Major-General Grant, at Forts Henry and Donelson; and General S. R. Curtis, in Southern Missouri. gress up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. Fort Donelson surrendered to General Grant on the 16th of Febrifficulty in communicating between St. Louis and Fort Donelson. General Buell had also followed up the rebelofficers should be left to command Forts Henry and Donelson in your absence. I have indicated in general term have small garrisons detailed for Forts Henry and Donelson, and all other forces made ready for the field rom your letter of the 28th, I learn you were at Fort Donelson, and General Smith at Nashville, from which I ineston road, and thus repeat the grand tactics of Fort Donelson, by separating the rebels in the interior from tommenced shelling the battery above the mouth of Indian Creek, but elicited no reply. She proceeded up the ri the morning, saying that, as he had observed at Fort Donelson at the crisis of the battle, both sides seemed d
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
ruggled most determinedly, but, finding him pressed, I moved McDowell's brigade directly against the left flank of the enemy, forced him back some distance, and then directed the men to avail themselves of every cover — trees, fallen timber, and a wooded valley to our right. We held this position for four long hours, sometimes gaining and at others losing ground; General McClernand and myself acting in perfect concert, and struggling to maintain this line. While we were so hard pressed, two Iowa regiments approached from the rear, but could not be brought up to the severe fire that was raging in our front, and General Grant, who visited us on that ground, will remember our situation about 3 P. M.; but about 4 P. M. it was evident that Hurlbut's line had been driven back to the river; and knowing that General Lew Wallace was coming with reinforcements from Crump's Landing, General McClernand and I, on consultation, selected a new line of defense, with its right covering a bridge by wh
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
al Halleck commanded all the armies in the valley of the Mississippi, from his headquarters in St. Louis. These were, the Army of the Ohio, Major-General Buell, in Kentucky; the Army of the Tennessesoners, common to all such occasions, and there was a real difficulty in communicating between St. Louis and Fort Donelson. General Buell had also followed up the rebel army, which had retreated her with General Buell, but returned to Donelson the next day. Meantime, General Halleck at St. Louis must have felt that his armies were getting away from him, and began to send dispatches to me e following dispatch, and forwarded it to General Grant, both by the telegraph and boat: St. Louis, March 1, 1862. To General Grant, Fort Henry: Transports will be sent you as soon as possibm up the Tennessee. G. W. Cullum, Brigadier-General. On the 4th came this dispatch: St. Louis, March 4, 1862. To Major-General U. S. Grant: You will place Major-General C. F. Smith in c
Hamburg, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
n the 18th, Hurlbut disembarked his division and took post about a mile and a half out, near where the roads branched, one leading to Corinth and the other toward Hamburg. On the 19th I disembarked my division, and took post about three miles back, three of the brigades covering the roads to Purdy and Corinth, and the other brigado the rear, and Ilildebrand's own regiment was in disorder. I therefore gave orders for Taylor's battery — still at Shiloh — to fall back as far as the Purdy and Hamburg road, and for McDowell and Buckland to adopt that road as their new line. I rode across the angle and met Behr's battery at the cross-roads, and ordered it immedonging to McAlister's battery, and served as well as guns ever could be. This was about 2 P. M. The enemy had one battery close by Shiloh, and another near the Hamburg road, both pouring grape and canister upon any column of troops that advanced upon the green point of water-oaks. Willich's regiment had been repulsed, but a who
Savannah, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
r myself, and claimed to know more of war than all of us put together. In ascending the river he did not keep his place in the column, but pushed on and reached Savannah a day before the rest of my division. When I reached that place, I found that Worthington had landed his regiment, and was flying about giving orders, as thoughiven entire: headquarters first division, Pittsburg Landing, March 17, 1862. Captain Wm. Mcmichael, Assistant Adjutant-General to General C. F. Smith, Savannah, Tennessee. sir: Last night I dispatched a party of cavalry, at 6 P. M., under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Heath, Fifth Ohio Cavalry, for a strong reconnoissa Sherman, Brigadier-General. headquarters first division, Pittsburg Landing, March 19, 1862. Captain Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General to General Grant, Savannah, Tennessee. Sir: I have just returned from an extensive reconnoissance toward Corinth and Purdy, and am strongly impressed with the importance of this position, bot
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
Who sent Smith's division to Nashville? I ordered it across to the Tennessee, where they are wanted immediately. Order them back. Send all spare transports up Tennessee to General Grant. Evidently the general supposes you to be on the Tennessee. I am sending all the transports I can find for you, reporting to General Sherman fhe Purdy road attacked and driven by Major Bowman yesterday, was about sixty strong. That encountered last night on the Corinth road was about five companies of Tennessee cavalry, sent from Purdy about 2 P. M. yesterday. I hear there is a force of two regiments on Pea Ridge, at the point where the Purdy and Corinth roads come tkasaw as a military position. The people, who had fled during the approach of the gunboats, returned to the village, and said the place had been occupied by one Tennessee regiment and a battery of artillery from Pensacola. After remaining at Chickasaw some hours, all the boats dropped back to Eastport, not more than a mile below,
Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 11
gen, on the left of the Corinth road, its right resting on Shiloh meeting-house. Fourth Brigade, composed of the Seventy-ill, on the right of the Corinth road, its left resting on Shiloh meeting-house. Two batteries of artillery — Taylor's and Waterhouse's — were posted, the former at Shiloh, and the latter on a ridge to the left, with a front-fire over open groun were posted in a large open field to the left and rear of Shiloh meeting-house, which I regarded as the centre of my positiurned, and the enemy was pressing our whole line, I deemed Shiloh so important, that I remained by it and renewed my orders . I therefore gave orders for Taylor's battery — still at Shiloh — to fall back as far as the Purdy and Hamburg road, and fgreen point of timber is about five hundred yards east of Shiloh meeting-house, and it was evident here was to be the strug This was about 2 P. M. The enemy had one battery close by Shiloh, and another near the Hamburg road, both pouring grape an
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