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Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Military information and supply Charles King, Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers One of the gravest difficulties with which the Union generals had to contend throughout the war was that of obtaining reliable information as to the strength and position of the foe. Except for Lee's two invasions, Bragg's advance into Kentucky, and an occasional minor essay, such as Morgan's raids in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and Early's dash at Washington, in 1864, the seat of war was on Southern ground, where the populace was hostile, and the only inhabitants, as a rule, who would furnish information were deserters or else the so-called intelligent contrabands, whose reports were in many cases utterly unreliable. Renegade or refugee natives many a time came into the Northern lines cocked, primed, and paid to tell fabulous tales of the numbers and movements of the Southern armies, all to the end that the Union leaders were often utterly misled and bewildered. It may have been the
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and Early's dash at Washington, in 1864, the seat of war was on Southern grty thousand strong, were held up in front of Washington by not more than forty-seven thousand Confed very matter. Southern families abounded in Washington; Southern messengers of both sexes rode the ath of the spy. The Old Capitol Prison in Washington was long the abiding place of men and women the Potomac to the great depots of Aquia and Washington, and Harper's Weekly Photo-engraving so picturesque among the green hills around Washington. The little tente d'abri of the French servdria One of the government mess-houses at Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Employees, transportation office Assistant quartermaster's office Warehouse no. 1—Washington Quartermasters. By water, rail, and horse the busy[3 more...]
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
board. In the lower one to the left stands a sentry guarding the quartermaster's stores at Nashville, Tenn., on the Cumberland, while the sentry on the right is at City Point, Va., on the James. Guarding Federal army supplies at Fort Fisher North Carolina Guarding Federal army supplies at Nashville Guarding Federal army supplies at City Point Again, after Antietam, what tremendous tales of Southern strength must have held McClellan an entire month along the north bank of the Potomac, while Stuart, with less than two thousand troopers, rode jauntily round about him unscathed. It was not until well along in 1863, when the Federals began to wake up to the use of cavalry, that fairy tales gave way to facts, and Hooker and Meade could estimate the actual force to be encountered, so that by the time Grant came to the Army of the Potomac in 1864, he well knew that whatsoever advantage Lee might have in fighting on his own ground, and along interior lines, and with the most d
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
newspapers at A. Of P. headquarters Letter carrier. Salesman for the Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore newspapers. Rosey to Tullahoma and then beyond the Tennessee, well-nigh starved to death in their Bragg-beleaguered camps about Chattanooga, until Hooker came to their relief and established the famous cracker line beyond reach of shot and shell. Then came long weeks in which, day by day, the freight trains, squirming slowly down that long, sinuous, single-track road from the Ohio River, reached the wide supply camps at Chattanooga, dumped their huge crates of bacon and hardtack, or the big boxes of clothing, accouterments, and ammunition, and went rumbling and whistling back, laden with sick or wounded soldiery, creeping to the sidings every thirty miles or so to give the troop and cracker trains right of way. Nearly four long months it took Sherman, newly commanding in the West, to accumulate the vast supplies he would need for his big army of one hundred thousand
Camp Nelson, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
campaign. Field forge, Petersburg Building winter-quarters Field wheelwrights Government workshops at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Corrals at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Reservoir at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Mule-chute at CField wheelwrights Government workshops at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Corrals at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Reservoir at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Mule-chute at Camp Nelson United States Franklin shop S at Nashville, Tennessee Field wheelwrights Government workshops at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Corrals at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Reservoir at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Mule-chute at Camp Nelson United States Franklin shop S at Nashville, Tennessee Field wheelwrights Government workshops at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Corrals at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Government Reservoir at Camp Nelson, Kentucky Mule-chute at Camp Nelson United States Franklin shop S at Nashville, Tennessee
Frederick, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
erman fought on southward, until at last he reached the prize and paused again to draw breath, rations, and clothing at Atlanta before determining the next move. And then, as in the Eastern armies, there loomed up still another factor in the problems of the campaign—a factor that European writers and critics seem rarely to take into account. From the days of the Roman Empire, Italy, France, Switzerland, and even England were seamed with admirable highways. The campaigns of Turenne, of Frederick the Great, of Napoleon were planned and marched over the best of roads, firm and hard, high and dry. The campaigns of Grant, Lee, Sherman, Johnston, Sheridan, Stuart, Thomas, Hood, Hooker, Burnside, and Jackson were ploughed at times Letters from home—the army mail wagon How the soldiers got their letters from home Letters from home were a great factor in keeping up the morale of the army. Wheresoever the armies might be located, however far removed from railroads or from the ord
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nd throughout the war was that of obtaining reliable information as to the strength and position of the foe. Except for Lee's two invasions, Bragg's advance into Kentucky, and an occasional minor essay, such as Morgan's raids in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and Early's dash at Washington, in 1864, the seat of war was on Southern gKentucky, and Ohio, and Early's dash at Washington, in 1864, the seat of war was on Southern ground, where the populace was hostile, and the only inhabitants, as a rule, who would furnish information were deserters or else the so-called intelligent contrabands, whose reports were in many cases utterly unreliable. Renegade or refugee natives many a time came into the Northern lines cocked, primed, and paid to tell fabuloe distant depot. Mail wagon. through seas of mud, through swamp, morass, and tangled wildwood. Southern country roads, except perhaps the limestone pikes of Kentucky and northern Tennessee, were roads only in name, and being soft, undrained, and unpaved, were forever washed out by rains or cut into deep ruts by gun and wagon
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Employees, transportation office Assistant quartermaster's office Warehouse no. 1—Washington Quartermasters. By water, rail, and horse the busy quartermasters traveled during the war. All kinds of river and sea-going craft were employed as transports for army supplies. In the left-hand corner appears a Tennessee River side-wheel steamer of the type that was said to be able to run in a heavy dew, so light was its draught! And in the upper right-hand corner of this page a New York ferryboat is seen at the City Point dock, on the James River, in Virginia. Both boats were engaged in bringing food and other supplies to the Federal armies in the field. Sitting on the box above is Captain T. W. Forsythe, provost-marshal. It was fitting that the army wagons, which had played so important a part in all th
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
wspapers at A. Of P. headquarters Letter carrier. Salesman for the Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore newspapers. Rosey to Tullahoma and then beyond the Tennessee, well-nigh starved to death in their Bragg-beleaguered camps about Chattanooga, until Hooker came to their relief and established the famous cracker line beyond reach of shot and shell. Then came long weeks in which, day by day, the freight trains, squirming slowly down that long, sinuous, single-track road from the Ohio River, reached the wide supply camps at Chattanooga, dumped their huge crates of bacon and hardtack, or the big boxes of clothing, accouterments, and ammunition, and went rumbling and whistling back, laden with sick or wounded soldiery, creeping to the sidings every thirty miles or so to give the troop and cracker trains right of way. Nearly four long months it took Sherman, newly commanding in the West, to accumulate the vast supplies he would need for his big army of one hundred thousand men,
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e Secret service At the headquarters of the New York Herald in the field, August, 1863, sit some of the men who had just conveyed to the breathless nation the tidings of the great battle as it surged to and fro for three days on the field of Gettysburg. No Union general could object to dissemination of such news as this; but wide protest was made against the correspondents' activity at other times, their shrewd guesses at the armies' future movements, that kept the Southern Cabinet so remarkined torrents for nearly three entire days, the country was knee-deep in mud and water, the roads were utterly out of sight. It was the marvelous concentration march of Meade's scattered army corps, however, that made possible the victory of Gettysburg. It was when they struck the hard, white roads of Pennsylvania that the men of the Army of the Potomac trudged unflinchingly their thirty miles or more a day, and matched the records of Napoleon's best. It was Stonewall Jackson's unequaled fo
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