Found 2,297 total hits in 405 results.
on of, i., 160; McClernand ordered to seize, 194; naval bombardment of, 198; evacuation of, 215; Grant severs communication with, 218.
Granger, General, Gordon, sent to assist Burnside, i., 531; his reluctance and complaint, 532; arrives at Knoxville, 544; operations against Mobile, III., 637.
Granny White road rebel line of retreat at Nashville, III., 254, 259.
Grant, General Ulysses S., birth and family of, i. 7; change of name, 7; education and military training, 7, 8; serves in Mexican war, 8; marriage, 8; a leather merchant at Galena, 9; offers services to government, 9; colonel of volunteers, 9; brigadier-general, 10; in command of South-east Missouri, 10; major-general of volunteers, 54; relations with Sherman, 57, 58, 183, 454, 572; II., 17, 22-24, 502, 503, 551; III., 161, 162 362, 363 436, 631 635, 649, 650; a slaveholder before the war, i., 96; major-general in regular army, 400; relations with Thomas, i., 515; III., 195, 203-222, 233, 237, 239, 240-242, 244-264, 2
e, 545; in command of Ninth corps, II., 489; at Poplar Spring church and Peeble's farm, III., 75, 76; at Hatcher's run, 116-118; in front of Richmond, 441; at Fort Steadman, 445, 447; in front of Petersburg, 452; assaults on Petersburg, 506-519, 532; in Appomattox campaign, 550.
Payne, General, in attack on Fort Fisher, III., 336.
Peace party, disloyal course of, at the North, III., 13.
Peeble's farm, seizure of, III., 75.
Pennypacker, General G., at Fort Fisher, III 336.
Pemberton, fort, attack on, i., 172.
Pemberton, John C., in command in front of Grant, May, 1863, i., 212; Vicksburg campaign, 212-294; alarm at Grant's operations round Vicksburg, 212; at Vicksburg, 219; deceived by Grant's manoeuvres, 237; disobeys Johnston, 241, 255; battle of Champion's hill, 256-271; battle of Black river bridge, 275; flight to Vicksburg 287; siege of Vicksburg, 299, 37; surrender of Vicksburg, 370, 385.
Petersburg, objective point of any force attacking Richmond from the so
ular army 513; at Ream's station, 527-531; at catcher's run, 117-128; in command of Middle Military Division, III., 417.
Hanover ferry, position of, II., 267.
Hanover junction as a strategic point, II., 217.
Hardee, General Wm.
J., in command at Macon, III., 287; at Augusta, 288; at Savannah, 305; evacuates Savannah, 306; abandons Columbia, 422; defeat and retreat from Averysboro, 448.
Harrison, Fort, captured by Ord, III., 71.
Hatch, General, at Franklin, III., 212; at Rutherford creek, 260.
Hatcher's run, battle of, 116-128; declared a defeat by Northern democrats, III., 169.
Hawe's shop, battle of, II., 269.
Hayes, General Rutherford B., service in West Virginia, III., 101-103.
Hazen, General, Wm. B., at Brown's ferry, i., 446; at Fort McAllister, III., 295, 296.
Helena, Miss., Washburne's movement from, i., 131, 132; Yazoo pass expedition, 168.
Henry, Fort, position of, i, 23, 28; expedition against, 28-30; capture of, 32.
Herron, General F. J.
vives grade of lieutenant-general for Grant, i., 569.
Congressional committee, report of, on failure oa mine explosion before Petersburg, II., 490.
Corinth, movement towards, i., 101; counterfeit defences of rebels at, 104; Halleck's incapacity at, 106; movements preliminary to battle of, 116; battle of, 116, 117.
Corse, General John M., at battle of Allatoona, III., 58.
Court of inquiry into failure of mine explosion before Petersburg, II., 489.
Cox, General Jacob D., at Columbia, Tenn., III., 208; operations against Wilmington, 381.
Crawford, General S. W., at Wilderness, II., 103, 106; at Spottsylvania, 142; at North Anna, 228, 230, 231; Weldon road, 515; at Hatcher's run III., 119; at battle of White Oak road, 480; at Five Forks, 482, 487, 490, 494.
Crittenden, General T. S., crosses the North Anna, II., 231; at battle of Cold Harbor, 295.
Crocker General M. M., engages rebels at Jackson, i., 44; Grant's opinion of, 246; at Champion's hill, 264-267.
Croo
onfront Hunter, 345; defeats Sigel in Valley of Virginia, 417; in Early's campaign, 431, 432; in East Tennessee, III., 191; rebel Secretary of War, 395; prepares for evacuation of Richmond, 398; interview with Sherman after fall of Richmond, 629.
Breese Lieutenant-commander, before Fort Fisher, III., 338.
British government, sympathy for rebels of, III., 139, 348.
British industries and contraband commerce, III., 224.
Brown's ferry, W. F. Smith's expedition against, i., 447.
Bruinsburg, Grant lands at, i., 200.
Buckner, General S. B., at Fort Donelson, i., 47; Grant's message to, 49 surrender of Fort Donelson, 49.
Buell, General D. C., in command of department of the Ohio, i., 34; ordered to reinforce Grant, 34; slow movements of, 68; at Shiloh, 82, 86, 88, 89; at Corinth, 105; dispatched after Beauregard, 105; opposes Bragg in Tennessee, 110; outmanoeuvred by Bragg, 431; is relieved, 431; refuses a command, II., 2; dismissed from volunteer army, 52.
Burksville,
burg, 365, 375; Cemetery Hill and the nine, 465, 479-482; granted leave of absence, II., 489.
Butler, General B. F. his part in general campaign of 1864, II. 31, 33, 34, 44-47, 86, 89; visited by & rant at Fort Monroe, 41-45; rebel capture of Plymouth, 56, 57; lands at City Point, 133; reports success 151; movements near Bermuda Hundred, 170; failure, 200; campaign of May, 1864, 241-259; characteristics as a soldier, 246, 253, 255; at Bermuda Hundred, June, 1864, 342; sends two expeditions agII., 467; at battle of Dinwiddie, 470; at battle of Five Forks, 484; narrow escape of, 493; crosses the Appomattox, 518; flight before Sheridan, 547.
Pillow General G. J., at Fort Donelson, i. . 48.
Pillow, fort, capture of, II., 54-56.
Plymouth, capture of, II., 57.
Pocotaligo, seizure of, III., 371.
Polk, General L., breach of neutrality by, i., 11.
Pope, General John, at siege of Corinth, i., 100; ordered to Virginia, 107.
Port Gibson, battle of, i., 206-210.
Port Huds
national railroads, III., 51; moves into Middle Tennessee, 52; capture of Athens, 57, 152, 181 cutscapes from Thomas into Alabama 181; reenters Tennessee, 184; at Port Heiman, 186; movements on Harp, 406; proclaims thanksgiving for success in Tennessee, 546; address to Grant on appointment as lied's army in Tennessee, 187; Thomas's army in Tennessee 188; at battle of Franklin, 212; first Fort eneral Sterling, captures Iuka, i., 110 in West Tennessee, 109-120; defeated at Big Blue river, III.le of Nashville, 251, 257; ordered east from Tennessee, 364; in North Carolina, 379; captures Wilmir-general in regular army, 402; ordered to West Tennessee, 420; march of four hundred miles, 453; m61, 62, 153-162; retrograde movement towards Tennessee, 50-59, 151, 152; relations with Thomas, 153el forces east of Mississippi river, 639.
Tennessee, military situation in, November, 1861, i., ., 163, 165.
Van Dorn, General Earl, in West Tennessee, 109-120.
Vicksburg, strength and impor[21 more...]
aign, 60, 64-74, 80-84, III., 388; at fall of Mobile, 637.
Stoneman, General, George, captured by rebels near Atlanta, II., 543; at Louisville, III., 191; delay of, 411; cuts off Lee's retreat towards Lynchburg, 637.
Stanley, General D. S., in Thomas's army, III., 185; at Pulaski, 186; at Spring hill, 208.
Stuart, General J. E. B., at Spottsylvania, II., 145; opposes Sheridan's movement to James river, 238; death, 239.
Sturgis, General S. D., defeated at Guntown, II., 401.
Sumpter, Fort, attack on, i., 3; fall of, 9.
Tallahatchie river, Grant's movement to, 127-140; expedition to, from Yazoo pass 169-173.
Taylor, General Richard, supersedes Hood, III.; 270; calls for more troops, 287; surrenders all rebel forces east of Mississippi river, 639.
Tennessee, military situation in, November, 1861, i., 23; results in, consequent on capture of Fort Donelson, 55; movements in, after battle of Shiloh, 101-120; occupation and liberation of East, 545; situation in, Novemb
older before the war, i., 96; major-general in regular army, 400; relations with Thomas, i., 515; III., 195, 203-222, 233, 237, 239, 240-242, 244-264, 270-280, 365, 370, 378, 392; lieutenant-generalcy created for, 569; in command of armies of United States, II., 1, 14; relations with Meade, 15, 49, 186; personal traits of, 20; relations with Lincoln, 91, 92, 453; III., 14, 74, 138,166 197 436, 514, 526, 650; relations with Butler, II., 227, 237, 244, 256, 343, 354; III., 226, 227, 235, 236, 31 station, battle of, II., 393.
Tuttle, General James M. at Jackson, i., 248; assault on Vicksburg, 311; siege of Vicksburg 345.
Trade with enemy inimical to success in war, i., 409-411.
Unanimity of North, as well as South, i., 4.
United States, growth of, i., 1.
Upton, General, Emory, at Spottsylvania, II., 163, 165.
Van Dorn, General Earl, in West Tennessee, 109-120.
Vicksburg, strength and importance of, i., 125; canal, proposed in 1862, but unsuccessful, 125; Grant's pl
act against communications of Hood and Beauregard, 175; ordered to destroy factories at Montgomery and Selma, 367; movements on the Mississippi, 388; ordered into Alabama, 390; slowness and disregard of orders, 408, 409; campaign against Mobile, 637.
Cape Fear river, geography of, III., 307; capture of defences of, 343; Schofielional railroads, III., 51; moves into Middle Tennessee, 52; capture of Athens, 57, 152, 181 cuts Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, 152; escapes from Thomas into Alabama 181; reenters Tennessee, 184; at Port Heiman, 186; movements on Harpeth river, 212; at Murfreesboro, 250; in retreat from Nashville, 260, 261.
Foster, General llect cavalry, 163; difficulty in remounting cavalry, 190; in Tennessee campaign, 208-220; at battle of Nashville, 253-258; in pursuit of Hood, 259; campaign into Alabama, 637, 638.
Wood, General T. J., at battle of Nashville, III., 253-260.
Wright, General Horatio G., in command of Sixth corps, II., 150; at Spottsylvania, 16
