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J. G. Pickett (search for this): chapter 16
quantity of provisions and forage stored there, and captured some smuggling vessels. Major-General Pickett, of the Confederate forces, made an attack upon New Berne and our lines at Beaufort, N. e of an outpost, fifty-three of the Second North Carolina (loyal) Regiment were captured by General Pickett. By his order they were tried by court martial and twenty-two of them were hanged. Their d enlisted in the Union army. Upon remonstrance by General Peck, commanding in North Carolina, Pickett replied, that being deserters they were executed by his orders, and if retaliation was attempte the Confederates were deserters from our army, in which case hanging them would be proper. As Pickett himself deserted our army to take up arms in the Rebellion, the exception was quite suggestive e force of the government as exhibited in this transaction, one sufficient answer? Why was not Pickett hanged for these twenty-two deliberate murders when he was captured by us? It is needless to
William F. Smith (search for this): chapter 16
int, Bermuda Hundred, and Petersburg. In consultation with Gen. Wm. F. Smith, as to the movements of the enemy in North Carolina, the subjg it to that State, was discussed with General Grant at his visit. Smith very much favored it, saying our army should be called the Army of Cape Fear River. I learned afterwards from General Smith that General Grant had considerably favored such co-operative movement before he came to Fortress Monroe, and that Smith himself was quite impressed with it, as, among other things, it would be a means of relieving our forceations to North Carolina. With this fact in view, knowing that General Smith had strongly advised a movement into North Carolina instead of and thinking perhaps, also, that he might have desired to give General Smith a separate command, if it would not interfere with mine, I sent General Smith, at his own request, to General Grant, bearing a letter in which I took leave to say that if a movement upon the enemy in Nort
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 16
cupation presidential election of 1864 both Lincoln and Chase offer Butler the Vice-presidency e was in the direct line of my argument with Mr. Lincoln upon the uselessness of his pardons, I addr take place. I have blamed him because, when Lincoln was elected, which determined the fate of theions by every honorable means, providing President Lincoln will let him do it. It is none of my buson, who Simon Cameron. stood very high in Mr. Lincoln's confidence, came to me at Fortress Monroeticket was freely and earnestly discussed. Mr. Lincoln thought and so did I that Mr. Hamlin's posied to Washington and reported the result to Mr. Lincoln. He seemed to regret General Butler's decisetting him? By tipping him out. If I were Lincoln I should say to the Secretary of the Treasurynot go on as they are. You see I think it is Lincoln's fault and not Chase's that he is using the treasury against Lincoln. Right again, said Cameron; I will tell Mr. Lincoln every word you have[8 more...]
Sedgwick (search for this): chapter 16
k as it had been reported, I desired that Lee might be detained from sending any part of his army to Richmond, and asked that the Army of the Potomac lying in front of Lee might make a movement upon him as a feint. General Meade being sick, General Sedgwick, who was in command, was ordered to co-operate with me. But after considerable correspondence he telegraphed that he could not get ready in time. On the 4th of March I received notice that General Kilpatrick had started, with a cavalry fong substantially the same position that they had on the evening of the 5th. After dark, the enemy made a feeble attempt to turn our right flank, capturing several hundred prisoners and creating considerable confusion. But the promptness of General Sedgwick, who was personally present and commanded that part of our line, soon re-formed it and restored order. On the morning of the 7th, reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, cover
Edward W. Smith (search for this): chapter 16
overnment regarding Reprisals Wistar's attempted surprise of Richmond and capture of Davis frustrated advantages of occupying Bermuda hundred noted: Grant and Butler plan its occupation presidential election of 1864 both Lincoln and Chase offer Butler the Vice-presidency embarkation at Yorktown and seizure of City Point Drury's Bluff should have been seized at once fortifying the neck minor demonstrations misleading despatches from the Army of the Potomac Butler's Corps commanders, Smith and Gillmore, insubordinate and hostile the fighting around Drury's Bluff false despatches of Grant's successes Butler supposes him rapidly approaching and acts accordingly On the second day of November, 1863, without solicitation, I was detailed to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, with headquarters at Fortress Monroe. The Union forces were then in occupation of the peninsula between the York and James Rivers, up to the line of Williamsburg, the cities of
G. G. Meade (search for this): chapter 16
und as unprepared for attack as it had been reported, I desired that Lee might be detained from sending any part of his army to Richmond, and asked that the Army of the Potomac lying in front of Lee might make a movement upon him as a feint. General Meade being sick, General Sedgwick, who was in command, was ordered to co-operate with me. But after considerable correspondence he telegraphed that he could not get ready in time. On the 4th of March I received notice that General Kilpatrick haign. It will thus be seen that my opinion, given to the War Department upon taking command of this department, that Plymouth and Washington were worse than useless to us, was unhappily verified. On the 9th of April, General Grant wrote to General Meade a letter See Appendix No. 17. in which he set out his whole plan of campaign, which shows how fully at that time the plan of my operations became a fixed fact, and further, how fully it was determined that General Grant should strike the l
Eppa Hunton (search for this): chapter 16
tried to get that murderer sent to me in exchange for any Confederate the rebels desired me to give, but they, knowing his service to them, always took care of him, and smuggled him to New York to vote the Democratic ticket for them. As the man's pardon was in the direct line of my argument with Mr. Lincoln upon the uselessness of his pardons, I addressed confidentially a note to him explaining all that he had lost by his clemency to this wretch. Upon looking into the reports of Brig.-Gen. Eppa Hunton, who commanded the Confederate forces in Richmond, I find that he was thoroughly puzzled to learn Gen. Godfrey Weitzel what we were up there for, and why if we intended to assault the city we did not do it with more vigor than by a mere reconnoissance of cavalry. We had learned that there was but half a company of artillerymen at Bottom's Bridge, and that there were no forces between Bottom's Bridge and Capitol Square in Richmond, for in less than a week previous trusty men had tr
J. Wilson Shaffer (search for this): chapter 16
ole country. But, notwithstanding his opinion, General Meigs most earnestly and zealously aided our enterprise, and allowed me to procure in my own way all the transportation I deemed necessary to move the army and its supplies. But it was impossible to obtain sufficient transportation to take with us all the supply trains of the army, and it was some days before our whole trains got up, although every exertion was made by Colonel Biggs, chief quartermaster of the department, and Col. J. Wilson Shaffer, my chief of staff, to whose powers of business organization the country is largely indebted for a movement of troops which, for numbers, celerity, distance, and secrecy, was never before equalled, in any particular, in the history of war. On the 30th of April I received from General Grant my final orders, See Appendix No. 23. to start my forces on the night of the 4th of May so as to get up James River as far as possible by daylight the next morning, and to push on with the gr
Fuller (search for this): chapter 16
my in my rear so as to release the large force which I was obliged to leave there for the purpose of covering my rear, I endeavored to supply this deficiency as below set forth. At evening of the 14th General Sheridan was reported by Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller, chief quartermaster, as having arrived at Haxalls, or Turkey Bend, on the opposite side of the river, some fourteen miles below, where he asked to be supplied with rations and forage. I telegraphed to Colonel Fuller to give General ShColonel Fuller to give General Sheridan all the forage and rations he needed. See Appendix No. 50. Later in the day I sent a despatch to General Sheridan requesting that he join me with his command, and suggesting that I wished he might be able to capture Chaffin's farm on his side of the river, where there were about two hundred men. See Appendix No. 51. But in any event I desired that he send up a force along the north bank of the James to search for torpedoes, and the wires and batteries by which they may be discharg
Draper (search for this): chapter 16
these places was by water by travelling a distance of from 120 to 170 miles. This opinion was reported to the War Department, but no action was taken, and I did not feel at liberty to order the evacuation of either place. November 16, an expedition under Colonel Quinn, with 450 men of the One Hundred and Forty-Eighth New York Volunteers, captured a rebel marine brigade organized to prey upon the commerce of Chesapeake Bay, and a dangerous nest of pirates was broken up. November 27, Colonel Draper, with the Sixth U. S. Colored Troops, made a successful raid into the counties lying on the sounds in Virginia and North Carolina, capturing and dispersing organized guerillas. December 4, Brigadier-General Wilde, at the head of two regiments of colored troops, overran all the counties as far as Chowan River, releasing some two thousand slaves and inflicting much damage upon the enemy. December 13, Brigadier-General Wistar sent a force from Williamsburg to Charles City Court-House
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