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Harrison, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
town to Dupont, where squads were sent out to cut the roads between Vernon and Seymour on the west, Vernon and Lawrenceburg on the east, Vernon and Madison on the south, and Vernon and Columbus on the north. From Vernon Gen. Morgan proceeded to Versailles, capturing five hundred militia there and gathering on the road. From Versailles he moved without interruption across to Harrison, Ohio, destroying the track and burning small bridges on the Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis Railroad. At Harrison he burned a fine bridge. Leaving Harrison at dusk, he moved around Cincinnati, passing between that city and Hamilton, destroying the railroad, and a scout running the Federal pickets into the city, the whole command marched within seven miles of it. Daylight of the 14th found him eighteen miles east of Cincinnati. The adventurous commander had now performed a wonderful circuit; he had traversed two enormous States, destroying property, probably to the extent of ten millions of dollars
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
conditionally. The occupation of Cumberland Gap gave Burnside an uninterrupted line of communication from Knoxville to Chattanooga, and opened the way to the consummation of the plan of the enemy, which was to move against Chattanooga on a double line of operations, and make there a new and formidable front directly against the heart of the Confederacy. The battle of Chickamauga. Chattanooga is one of the great gate-ways through the mountains to the champaign country of Georgia and Alabama. It is situated at the mouth of the valley formed by Lookout Mountain and the Missionary Ridge. The first-named eminence is a vast palisade of rocks, rising twenty-four hundred feet above the level of the sea, in abrupt, rocky cliffs, from a steep, wooded base. East of Missionary Ridge is another valley, following the course of Chickamauga Creek, and having its head in McLemore's Cove. Immediately after crossing the mountains to the Tennessee River, Rosecrans, who was moving with a f
Vernon River, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
ersing the remainder. He then moved without a halt through Salisbury and Palmyra to Salem, where he destroyed the railroad bridge and track and a vast amount of public stores. Then taking the road to Lexington, after riding all night, he reached that point at daylight, capturing a number of supplies, and destroying during the night the depot and track at Vienna, on the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Railroad. Leaving Lexington, he passed on north to the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad near Vernon, where, finding Gen. Manson with a heavy force of infantry, he skirmished with him two hours as a feint, while the main command moved round the town to Dupont, where squads were sent out to cut the roads between Vernon and Seymour on the west, Vernon and Lawrenceburg on the east, Vernon and Madison on the south, and Vernon and Columbus on the north. From Vernon Gen. Morgan proceeded to Versailles, capturing five hundred militia there and gathering on the road. From Versailles he moved w
Corydon (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
hio, keeping in check two gunboats, and dispersing a force of militia posted with artillery on the Indiana shore. When the pursuing column of the enemy, which had increased now to seven regiments and two pieces of artillery, reached the banks of the river, it was to find the passenger boat on which Gen. Morgan had effected a crossing in flames, and to see far back on the opposite shore the rear-guard of his force rapidly disappearing in the distance. On the 9th July Morgan marched on to Corydon, fighting near four thousand State militia, capturing three-fourths of them, and dispersing the remainder. He then moved without a halt through Salisbury and Palmyra to Salem, where he destroyed the railroad bridge and track and a vast amount of public stores. Then taking the road to Lexington, after riding all night, he reached that point at daylight, capturing a number of supplies, and destroying during the night the depot and track at Vienna, on the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Rail
Bradyville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
n frontier of Georgia, would obtain a position that would eventually prove the critical one of the war. With his forces reduced for the defence of Vicksburg, Gen. Bragg insisted upon regarding his army in Tennessee as one merely of observation. Rosecrans was in his front, and Burnside, who commanded what was called the Army of the Cumberland, was in a position, by an advance towards Knoxville, to threaten his rear. In July, Gen. Bragg occupied a ridge extending from Bellbuckle towards Bradyville, very strong by nature on the right and made strong by fortifications on the left, in front of Shelbyville. An injudicious disposition of forces left Hoover's Gap undefended by our army. Rosecrans advanced upon Hoover's Gap. Three brigades of Confederates moved rapidly up, and held them in the Gap over forty hours. This position gained placed Rosecrans on Bragg's flank, who, to save his army, commenced a retreat, which was eventually continued to Chattanooga. Expedition of John Morgan
Cumberland River (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
its immediate event was disaster, was to create an important diversion of Burnside's army, large detachments of which were drawn after Morgan into and through Kentucky, and to prevent that Federal commander from getting in rear of Bragg's army at the time it was menaced in front by Rosecrans, at Shelbyville. In the latter part of the month of June the command of Gen. Morgan, consisting of detachments from two brigades, and numbering nearly three thousand men, approached the banks of the Cumberland. The passage of the river was weakly contested by three Ohio regiments, which had advanced from Somerset, Kentucky. Gen. Morgan was obliged to build a number of boats, and commenced crossing the river on the 1st July. By ten o'clock next morning his whole regiment was over the river; the advance proceeding to Columbia, where, after a brief engagement, the enemy was driven through the town. Passing through Columbia, Gen. Morgan proceeded towards Green River Bridge, and attacked the ene
Sequatchie Valley (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
ed eminence is a vast palisade of rocks, rising twenty-four hundred feet above the level of the sea, in abrupt, rocky cliffs, from a steep, wooded base. East of Missionary Ridge is another valley, following the course of Chickamauga Creek, and having its head in McLemore's Cove. Immediately after crossing the mountains to the Tennessee River, Rosecrans, who was moving with a force of effective infantry and artillery, amounting to fully seventy thousand men, threw a corps by way of Sequatchie Valley — a canon or deep cut splitting the Cumberland range parallel-hoping to strike the rear of Gen. Buckner's command, whilst Burnside occupied him in front. Buckner, however, was directed by Gen. Bragg to withdraw to the Hiawassee; and the enemy then commenced a movement against the Confederate left and rear, showing plainly that he intended a flank march towards Rome. To save the State of Georgia, Chattanooga had to be abandoned. Gen. Bragg, having now united with him the forces of
Jonesville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
med that a large force, said to be sixteen regiments and two trains of artillery, were at Barboursville, Kentucky, en route for the Gap. Not believing that so large a force of the enemy would be sent against him from Knoxville until after successful engagement with Gen. Buckner, Gen. Frazier sent a cavalry regiment to meet the force said to be advancing from Knoxville, engage it, and uncover its strength. This force of cavalry, six hundred strong, was cut off, and compelled to retreat to Jonesville, thirty-six miles distant. On the 7th September, Gen. Shackleford, who had approached the Gap from the south side, demanded its surrender. On the following day, Col. De Coucy, who had come up with a brigade on the Kentucky side, made the same demand on his part. During the afternoon of the 8th September, Gen. Frazier assembled his regimental commanders, and had an informal conference with them. There was no council of war, and no votes were taken. There was a division of opinion a
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
Joseph E. Johnston's prophecy of the fate of Tennessee. character and extraordinary foresight of this commander. how Tennessee was sacrificed to the attempted defence of Vicksburg. Bragg's army fnd administration. Burnside's invasion of East Tennessee. Gen. Frazier in command at Cumberland Gafter the battle of Murfreesboro, our army in Tennessee was as strong as when it fought that battle, in trying to hold the Mississippi River and Tennessee, would lose both, and that the enemy, once pwhich President Davis declared laid open Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia to hostile opecation between the seat of Government and Middle Tennessee --and an event which some of the Richmond the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky into Tennessee at Big Creek Gap, forty miles south of Cumber the recent and emphatic impression that East Tennessee was to be held; and he telegraphed in ciphey were ignorant of recent operations in Eastern Tennessee. I thus perceived that Gen. Jones was i[4 more...]
Cumberland Gap (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
nt of the distinguished captive and his officers. surrender of Cumberland Gap. President Davis' commentary on this event. recoil of seriousnside's invasion of East Tennessee. Gen. Frazier in command at Cumberland Gap. his correspondence with Gen. Buckner. the defences of the Ga to shoot an invader wherever they can see one. Surrender of Cumberland Gap. In the month of September occurred the surrender of CumberlCumberland Gap --a misfortune which President Davis declared laid open Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia to hostile operations, and broke t a close investigation of the subject; and it will be seen that Cumberland Gap is but another instance in which such charges, on a detail of fKentucky into Tennessee at Big Creek Gap, forty miles south of Cumberland Gap, which latter position was held by Gen. Frazier for the Confede Gen. Frazier surrendered unconditionally. The occupation of Cumberland Gap gave Burnside an uninterrupted line of communication from Knoxv
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