hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
U. S. Grant 1,568 10 Browse Search
William T. Sherman 896 4 Browse Search
George H. Thomas 766 2 Browse Search
Warren Sheridan 712 0 Browse Search
Hood 687 5 Browse Search
P. H. Sheridan 606 2 Browse Search
Meade 460 16 Browse Search
Robert E. Lee 411 9 Browse Search
John Sherman 356 0 Browse Search
G. K. Warren 347 1 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3. Search the whole document.

Found 1,340 total hits in 112 results.

... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
31st (search for this): chapter 8
ight, where Pickett and Bushrod Johnson had already been found in force. On the morning of the 31st, Sheridan replied to Grant's offer: My scouts report the enemy busy all, night in constructing brelon; placing Ayres on the left, then Crawford, and Griffin in the rear. On the morning of the 31st, as Grant had anticipated, the Fifth corps was heavily attacked from the north and west. The assthstanding the orders to suspend operations.—Webb to Warren, 10.30 A. M. On the morning of the 31st, General Warren reported favorably to getting possession of the White Oak road, and was directed . He had been expressly ordered to be on the alert for the attack which had driven him in on the 31st, and had been directed to concentrate his force in anticipation of it; but he thought it wiser to left. On the afternoon of March 30th, Pickett arrived at Five Forks, and, on the morning of the 31st, he advanced towards Dinwiddie, his principal column moving by the western road, and one division
March 25th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 8
Chapter 32: Forces before Richmond and Petersburg, March 25, 1865 Grant's disposi-tions in Virginia and North Carolina order for movement in front of Petersburg rebel attack on Fort Steadman repulse of rebels desperate strategy of Lee movement of Grant to left, March 29th relations of Grant and Sheridan characteristics of Grant's strategy situation, March 30th Sheridan ordered to take Five Forks Lee masses one—third of his army against Grant's left Warren disposes his fod Crawford simultaneous advance of cavalry complete victory of Sheridan rout of rebels-pursuit of rebels Warren relieved from command results of battle-grant's endorsement of Sheridan characteristics of Warren and Sheridan. On the 25th of March, 1865, Lee had still seventy thousand effective men in the lines at Richmond and Petersburg, while the armies of the Potomac and the James and Sheridan's cavalry, constituting Grant's immediate command, numbered one hundred and eleven thousand s
April 1st (search for this): chapter 8
s own absent brigade returned to him late on the 1st of April. On the 20th of February the extra-duty men in ad. For many of the incidents of March 31st and April 1st, such as only an eye-witness could describe, I am ion on the White Oak road till five A. M. on the 1st of April, About five A. M. on the morning of April 1sApril 1st, an order was received through a staff officer to move the First division with all possible despatch via the ht so gallantly to-day. At three A. M. on the 1st of April, supposing Warren to be in the position indicateace at the appointed time. At daylight on the 1st of April, hearing as yet nothing from Warren, but strong ition on the White Oak road, in front of Lee. 1st of April, early in the morning, while still in camp near ion, 3,000 strong, was south of Dinwiddie on the 1st of April, and as far from the battle-field as the left ofn, to Sheridan. But when, on the morning of the 1st of April, he was fully aware of the inefficiency displaye
April 10th (search for this): chapter 8
of March he had an army of 70,000 as good soldiers as ever fought. The field returns of Meade, Ord, and Sheridan for the 30th of March, precisely similar in character to those of Lee, show, in the Present for duty, equipped. Army of the Potomac69, 751 Army of the James27,701 Army of Sheridan13,595 —— Total111,047 See Appendix for the returns of rebel and national commands, complete. After the long campaign through the Carolinas, Sherman could not be ready to move again until the 10th of April, but on that day he was to start for the Roanoke river, and thence either strike the Danville road or join the forces operating against Richmond, as the general-in-chief might determine. Grant's own movement to the left was fixed for the 29th of March, and, unless it was immediately and completely successful, he meant to send Sheridan to destroy the Danville and Southside railroads, and then allow him to move into North Carolina and join Sherman. By this strategy the commands of Lee a
March 5th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 8
ength was probably 8,000; at Sheridan's headquarters the loss was estimated at 700. General Warren reported his numbers at 12,000, and the losses in the Fifth corps were 634. The former adjutant-general of the army of Northern Virginia estimates the rebel losses at 7,000. See Four Years with General Lee. See also Appendix for Official Statement of the Effective Force of the Cavalry under Command of Major-General Sheridan, in the Operations of Dinwiddie Court-House, Va., March 31, 1865, and Five Forks, Va., April, 1865, with remarks. Thus, the daring but desperate manoeuvre of Lee had failed, and, in fact, recoiled on himself. The troops that he had dispatched to crush Sheridan were necessarily separated, as we have seen, from the main rebel line, and although at first they threatened the national cavalry, the prompt action of Grant in forwarding reinforcements gave Sheridan the chance to fall upon this detached force. Sheridan caught eagerly at the opportunity, and, though dis
February 20th (search for this): chapter 8
y and all the cavalry of the rebel army, to destroy the command of Sheridan. The rebel force thus accumulated was nearly eighteen thousand strong, On the 20th of February, Lee reported: Effective. Pickett5,065 Johnson6,936 W. H. F. Lee4,120 Fitz Hugh Lee 1,921 —— Total 18,042 In addition to these commands, Rosser' of March; but a portion of Heth and Wilcox's troops stood ready to support him, and his own absent brigade returned to him late on the 1st of April. On the 20th of February the extra-duty men in Pickett and Johnson's divisions were 1,418 in number. and the attack on Warren was doubtless intended to support the movement, and doubWilcox, W. H. F. and Fitz Hugh Lee, and Rosser were all in front of Warren or Sheridan on the 30th of March. These amounted to 27,500 men. See Lee's return of February 20th. But Pickett's Report, published in Pickett's Men, puts them at 8,000! of his army to the threatened point, and throwing a heavy force against Warren, suffic
November, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 8
ble purpose of turning the enemy out of his present position around Petersburg, and to ensure the success of the cavalry under General Sheridan, . . . in its effort to reach and destroy the Southside and Danville roads. See Appendix for this entire order. First of all, Ord was to proceed on the night of the 27th, to the left of the army of the Potomac, and relieve the Second corps, now under the command of Humphreys. Humphreys had succeeded Hancock in command of the Second corps in November, 1864. On the morning of the 29th, Warren and Humphreys were to move in two columns, taking the roads crossing Hatcher's run nearest the national lines, and both marching at first in a south-westerly direction. At the same time Sheridan, advancing by the Weldon and Jerusalem plank roads far enough south to avoid the infantry, was to pass through Dinwiddie, and then turn to the north and west against the right and rear of the enemy. The Sixth corps would remain in the trenches between Ord an
March 25th (search for this): chapter 8
e Valley, which joined Lee for his last campaign, and all the troops, regular and local, in Richmond. He calculates that, in the attack on Fort Steadman on the 25th of March, Lee lost from 2,500 to 3,000 men, and that during the month of March about 3,000 rebels deserted. Thus, on the 31st of March, says Taylor, Lee had only 33,00 entirely from his base, and move around to the right and rear of Lee, and thus for ever terminate all communication between him and Johnston's army. On the 25th of March, however, Lee made an attack upon the right of Meade's line, in front of the Ninth corps. The point selected was a fort a little more than half a mile from thnown as Fort Steadman, and the opposing lines were not more than a hundred and fifty yards apart, the pickets only fifty yards. At half-past 4 on the morning of March 25th, long before dawn, the rebels moved against Parke's line east of Fort Steadman, with Gordon's corps, reinforced by Bushrod Johnson's division. Parke's Report
March 24th (search for this): chapter 8
gonist down. If assistance was summoned before the final blow, it would be said, and believed by many, that the Eastern troops were unable of themselves to conquer their adversary. But the army of Lee was in reality at the mercy of its old-time foe; there was no need to call in aid, no need to share the victory. The Western men had laurels enough and to spare. Grant thought of the soldiers he had led for a year, and reserved for them alone the reward they had fairly earned. On the 24th of March, the orders for the movement were issued. Parke and Wright were at first to be left in the trenches in front of Petersburg, but all of Meade's command except the Ninth corps was under marching orders. Ord, with three divisions from the army of the James, was also to join the moving column, leaving Weitzel in command north of the river and at Bermuda Hundred. To the force which Sheridan had brought from the Valley, was added the cavalry of the army of the Potomac, under Crook, and eve
March 29th (search for this): chapter 8
of rebels desperate strategy of Lee movement of Grant to left, March 29th relations of Grant and Sheridan characteristics of Grant's strad 2,500 or 3,000 in the attack on Fort Steadman; so that on the 29th of March he had an army of 70,000 as good soldiers as ever fought. The determine. Grant's own movement to the left was fixed for the 29th of March, and, unless it was immediately and completely successful, he mference whatever in Grant's plans. The army was to move on the 29th of March, and the orders remained unchanged. On the night of the 27th, move up the Quaker road to Gravelly run crossing.—Webb to Warren, March 29, 10.20 A. M. I think my skirmishers are out on the Quaker road as infer that you did not understand the last order.—Webb to Warren, March 29, 12 M. I did not understand, till Captain Emory came, that I was to move my corps up the Quaker road.—Warren to Webb, March 29. The roads and fields are getting too bad for artillery, and I do not believe <
... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12