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Boston Harbor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success Camp Douglas. of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose. This was followed by the speedy surrender of the fort, with thirteen thousand five hundred men, as prisoners of war (including the sick and wounded), a large proportion of whom were sent to Camp Douglas, near Chicago ; Generals Buckner and Tilghman, who were captured at Fort Henry, were sent to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor. Leading Unionists of Kentucky asked for the surrender of Buckner to the civil authorities of that State, to be tried for treason against that commonwealth. The application was refused, and he was afterward exchanged. Camp Douglas was so named in honor of Senator Douglas, and was situated on land that had belonged to him. regiments, that performed such signal service, were drilled. It was converted into a prison, and early in April, 1862, after the battle of Shiloh, it contained fu
Colonels Oglesby (search for this): chapter 9
nstitute Wallace's Third Division. The columns, commanded respectively by Colonels Oglesby and W. H. L. Wallace, of the First division, and Colonels Cook and Lauman,s troops for the most vigorous work. McClernand was placed on the right, with Oglesby's Brigade at the extreme, and Smith's was posted on the left, opposite the north two supporting field batteries, and soon began to show strength in front of Oglesby's brigade. Schwartz's battery was first advanced to meet this new danger, andry movement, and Pillow's attempt to throw cavalry in the rear of McArthur, on Oglesby's extreme right, was thwarted. The attack was quick, furious, and heavy. OOglesby's brigade had received the first shock of the battle, and gallantly withstood it until their ammunition began to fail. Colonel W. H. L. Wallace's brigade hastened to their relief, but the pressure was so tremendous that Oglesby's line all gave way, excepting the extreme left, held by the Thirty-first Illinois, whose comm
Greble (search for this): chapter 9
the writer spent most of the day in the pilot-house, listening to the stories of the adventures of these men while they were acting as pilots in the fleets of Farragut and Porter, during those marvelous expeditions on the Mississippi, its tributaries, and its mysterious bayous, carried on in connection with the armies of Grant and Banks. After a delightful voyage of twenty-four hours, we arrived at Nashville, where the writer was joined by his former traveling companions, Messrs. Dreer and Greble, of Philadelphia, with whom he afterward journeyed for six weeks upon the pathways and battle-fields of the great armies in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. The aspect of Nashville, and especially its surroundings, had materially changed since the author was there in 1861. The storm of war had swept (over the country in its vicinity with fearful effect. The city itself had not suffered bombardment, yet at times it had been in imminent danger of such calamity; first on the approach of t
Gustavus A. Henry (search for this): chapter 9
if you are put in command, will you allow me to take out, by the river, my brigade? --If you move before I shall offer to surrender, Buckner replied. Then, sir, said Floyd, I surrender thy command. Pillow, who was next in rank, and to whom Floyd offered to transfer the command, quickly exclaimed, I will not accept it — I will never surrender. While speaking, he turned toward Buckner, who said, I will accept, and share the fate of my command. Sworn statements of Colonel Forest, Major Gustavus A. Henry, Major W. H. Haynes, and Hunter Nicholson, who were present at the council. When the capitulation was determined upon, Floyd and Pillow, who, it has been justly remarked, had already disgraced the name of American citizens, proceeded to disgrace the character of a soldier also, Coppee's Grant and his Campaigns, page 66. by stealing away under cover of the night, deserting, in the most cowardly manner, the soldierly Buckner and the brave men who had defended the post. In orde
O. O. Howard (search for this): chapter 9
ched tide-water, after his march for the sea, the mail for his army was in readiness for distribution; and the first vessel to reach King's Bridge, on the Ogeechee River, was the mail steamer. Subsequently, when Sherman marched through the Carolinas, and after the hard-fought battle of Bentonville, he met the mail for his army on the evening of the day of that battle. Letter to the author by General Markland, August 20, 1866. In a letter to Colonel Markland, written in May, 1865, General O. O. Howard says: For more than a year the Army of the Tennessee has been campaigning in the interior of the Southern States, a great portion of the time far separated from depots of supplies, and connected with home and friends only by a long and uncertain line of railroad, that was, for the most part, overworked to supply provisions, or, moving off without base or lines of communication, the army only touched at points not always previously designated. During all this time, from Chattanooga to
L. F. Ross (search for this): chapter 9
he prognosticated, the enemy surrendered. --Sherman's Letter to the Editor of the United States service magazine, January, 1865. The new movement was immediately begun. McClernand requested Wallace to retake the ground lost in the morning. A column of attack was soon formed, with the Eighth Missouri, Colonel Morgan L. Smith, and the Eleventh Indiana (Wallace's old regiment), Colonel George McGinnis (both led by the former as a brigade), moving at the head. Two Ohio regiments, under Colonel Ross, formed a supporting column. At the same time, Colonel Cruft formed a line of battle at the foot of the hill. The Eighth Missouri led the van, closely followed by the Eleventh Indiana; and when about half way up the hill, they received a volley from its summit. The ground was broken, rough, and partly wooded. The Nationals pressed on, and the struggle was fierce and unyielding for more than an hour. Gradually the Confederates were pushed back, and their assailants soon cleared the
Ransom (search for this): chapter 9
center of Grant's line, and produce the confusion as directed in Floyd's programme. There seemed to be much peril to the National troops in this movement, and the danger seemed more imminent when some frightened fugitives from the battle came crowding up the hill in the rear of Wallace's Division, and a mounted officer dashed along, shouting, We are cut to pieces! It was here that the whole of McClernand's line, including Cruft's men, was rapidly falling back. Colonels Logan, Lawler, and Ransom were wounded, and a large number of subalterns had been killed, yet there was no confusion in that line. This was the crisis of the battle, and it was promptly met. To prevent a panic in his own brigade, Wallace ordered Colonel Thayer to move on by the right flank. Riding at the front, he met the retiring troops, moving in good order and calling for ammunition, the want of which had been the chief cause of their misfortune. He saw that every thing depended upon prompt action. There was n
Carondelet (search for this): chapter 9
the following day by Commander Walke, of the Carondelet, who was sent up by General Grant for. the penter-prise, leaving Commander Walke, of the Carondelet, in charge of a portion of his flotilla at Fpened, while the water batteries engaged the Carondelet, a solitary ironclad gun-boat in the river. of the gun-boat were extremely useful. The Carondelet lay behind a jutting promontory, secure fromrdment on the following day. A shot from the Carondelet, on the morning of the 13th, killed Captain d to the courtesy of Commander Walke, of the Carondelet, for the above sketch showing the position ox hit the Louisville, twenty-six wounded the Carondelet, and twenty shot were received by the Pittsbnouncement of it, Commander Walke, in the Carondelet, carried the first news of the victory to Cag: The Union flag floats over Donelson. The Carondelet, Captain Walke, brings the glorious intelligteamboat, is the promontory behind which the Carondelet lay while bombarding the Confederate works o[2 more...]
Andrew H. Foote (search for this): chapter 9
Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. Gun boat expedition up the Tennessee River, 206. Commodore Foote in the pulpit, 207. preparations for marching against Fort Donelson, 208. character and 8trepngth of Fort Donelson, 209. disposition of forces for battle, 210. the Carondelet opening of the battle, noissance up the Tennessee River. Lieutenant-Commander S. L. Phelps was sent up that river on the evening of the day of battle, Feb. 6, 1862. with a detachment of Foote's flotilla, consisting of the Conestoga, Tyler, and Lexington, to reconnoiter the borders of the stream as far toward its upper waters as possible. When he reachet those in charge of them abandoned all, and burned two that were laden with military stores. The first one fired, says Lieutenant Phelps, in his report to Commodore Foote, had on board a quantity of submarine batteries; the second one was freighted with powder, cannon-shot, grape, balls, &c. Fearing an explosion from the fired
Helen Budd (search for this): chapter 9
te post, in honor of the glorious achievement. The women of St. Louis, desirous of testifying their admiration of General Halleck, in whose Department and by whose troops these victories had been achieved (and because of his energy in suppressing secession in Missouri), ordered an elegant sword to be made by Tiffany & Co., of New York, to be presented to him in their name. This was done in the parlor of the Planters' Hotel, in St. Louis, on the evening of the 17th of March, 1862, by Mrs. Helen Budd, who spoke in behalf of the donors. In his brief reply, General Halleck assured the women of St. Louis that it should be used in defense of their happiness, their rights, and their honor, and solely in behalf of justice. The weapon was an elegant one, richly ornamented with classical designs. Halleck's sword. spreading with speed of lightning over the land, produced intense joy in every loyal bosom. Cities were illuminated, heavy guns thundered forth National salutes; and every —
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