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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
hat point the Confederates had pressed down. Burnside then had a cavalry brigade at Bull's Gap, supof country between the belligerents. While Burnside was thus engaged in spreading his army so as er of Bragg, in detaching Longstreet to fight Burnside, and he resolved to assail the Confederates oere, and pressed on toward the right flank of Burnside, at Lenoir Station. At the same time Wheelery after Longstreet left him, so as to relieve Burnside, but such was the condition of his army — notson. Grant had been somewhat anxious about Burnside's situation, for he could not send him aid whChattanooga. If, as Grant believed he could, Burnside should hold out at Knoxville until Sherman's na, to Knoxville, to communicate his plans to Burnside, and immediately after Sherman's arrival he pere more likely to be moving to the relief of Burnside than to attack his extreme right. The latters severed the communication between Bragg and Burnside. Hooker, meanwhile, had pushed on to Ringg[15 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. Burnside in Knoxville, 171. siege of Knoxville, 172 rom Boyd's Ferry, a heavy raft. Captain Poe, Burnside's able engineer, advised of this work, stretcake Knoxville by storm before aid could reach Burnside. He was now strengthened by the arrival of t, forming the battery of Lieutenant Benjamin, Burnside's chief of artillery; four light 12-pounders,outside of its defenses, by permission of General Burnside, who lent them ambulances to remove the bf the river, with the expectation of crossing Burnside's bridge at Knoxville. Sherman sent forward lle, in the direction of Virginia, pursued by Burnside's forces. Thus ended the siege of Knoxville,eir position and their names, as mentioned in Burnside's order: Battery Noble, south of Kingston roa With the re-enforcements brought by Granger, Burnside felt able to cope with Longstreet, and advisered of whom were prisoners. The failure of Burnside at Fredericksburg prevented any further attem[12 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
ng troops sent to Mobile. The Confederates reported the Army of the Tennessee at 54,000 men of all arms. This included four divisions sent to re-enforce General Polk in the heart of Alabama, and two divisions sent to Mobile, with the entire body of cavalry, under Wheeler, Wharton, and Morgan. Johnston's command embraced all the Confedcrate troops in Georgia. Alabama, and Mississippi, excepting those at Mobile, and others in Tennessee, under Forrest, who had a sort of roving commission. Burnside and Longstreet are confronting each other in East Tennessee. The National forces in the field now Confederate Headquarters at Mobile. this is a view of the Custom-House at Mobile, which was used as the Headquarters of the Confederates in that Department. It is a very fine building of Quincy granite. The picture shows its fronts on Royal and St. Francis streets. numbered about eight hundred thousand. Those of the Confederates numbered about four hundred thousand. The former were
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
ow and cold, a large number of his men being barefooted, now fell back toward Bull's Gap, at the junction of the Rogersville branch with the main railway. General Burnside had now retired from the command of the Army of the Ohio, which was assumed Dec. 11. by General John G. Foster, his successor in North Carolina. The first rebels quailed, parleyed, and then retreated; and over that dwelling was seen floating the last Union flag kept aloft in East Tennessee before the advent of General Burnside. While in Knoxville we visited the various localities of interest in and around that city, Governor Brownlow's House. this is from a sketch made by tm engaged in chasing Price out of that State. Generals Sykes, Newton, French, Kenly, Spinola, and Meredith, were relieved and sent to Washington for orders. General Burnside, who, since his retirement from the command of the Army of the Ohio, at Knoxville, in December, had been at Annapolis, in Maryland, reorganizing and recruiti
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
treet was called up from Gordonsville by Lee. Burnside arrived before daybreak on the morning of the not far from the intrenchments on Mine Run. Burnside took position in the interval between Warren,rd, with Sedgwick on the right of Warren, and Burnside and Hancock on the left. Lee's army remainedd been re-enforced by Stevenson's division of Burnside's corps in addition to that of Wadsworth, andne, and then striking Stevenson's division of Burnside's corps, which had taken position between War. Hancock was to follow him, and Sedgwick and Burnside were to take a little more indirect route, byTavern at an early hour, and two divisions of Burnside's corps, on the left, pushed to the Frederickarren the center, and Sedgwick the left, with Burnside on his left. General Sheridan was sent that the compass, he took post between Wright and Burnside, near the house of Mr. Brown, to be in readinved at six o'clock, and, at eight, Warren and Burnside gallantly attacked the whole Confederate line[3 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
, where they were confronted by A. P. Hill's. Burnside's left on the afternoon of the 21st, after a ced Grant's center. And so it was, that when Burnside's, (Ninth) corps, of that center, attempted trren, on the right, attempted to connect with Burnside, by sending Crawford's division in that direc and loss. The Confederates observed that of Burnside, which took place on the afternoon of the 2d,ith's command adjoining these, and Warren and Burnside on the right, extending to the Tolopatomoy Cro do more than to hold his line intact, while Burnside brought two divisions of the Ninth to bear upassault was made upon the right, then held by Burnside. On the following morning there was a brief II. where he was ferried across. Wright and Burnside crossed the Chickahominy at Jones's. bridge, stormed and carried the ridge on its front. Burnside could make no impression during the night, ann into the town. This menacing projection of Burnside's line was furiously attacked that night, and[9 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
nel Henry Pleasants, of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, of Burnside's corps. He was a practical miner; and a greater portion General Potter, and when that officer proposed it to General Burnside, their corps commander, he heartily approved it. With the mine was ready for use. The advance of the Ninth (Burnside's) Corps was within 200 yards of one of the strongest of mmenced in a hollow within Section of main gallery Burnside's lines, just in the rear of a deep cut of the City Point-operating assault upon the Confederate works in front of Burnside's corps, where, within one hundred and fifty yards of hisby the active mine. This was to be done by a division of Burnside's corps, one of which was composed of negro troops. The , shortly afterward, the brigades of Wilcox and White, of Burnside's corps, came up, General Wilcox was now in command of the Ninth Corps, General Burnside having been relieved a few days before. Hill hastily withdrew. Then Warren recovered the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
turned with many horses and cattle, and about twenty-five hundred slaves. Wild lost thirteen men. The conquests made by Burnside, in 1862, had been in some degree recovered by the Confederates, and very little remained to the Nationals excepting Roaeans of communication with Wilmington during the war; and so early as the beginning of 1864, he laid his plan before General Burnside, then recruiting men in New York and New England to fill up his (Ninth) corps. Burnside was so pleased with and intBurnside was so pleased with and interested in the plan, that he went with it to Washington, and he received from the War Department full permission to carry it out. Mr. Kidder's plan was as follows: Wilmington is thirty miles from the sea, by the Cape Fear River, but only about twe purpose, and was nearly ready to go forward, when General Grant arranged for the campaigns in Virginia and Georgia, and Burnside and the Ninth Corps were The New Ironsides the New Ironsides was a very powerful vessel, built in Philadelphia. It
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
will offering. He worked among the soldiers continually. He was agent for the Young Men's Christian Association of Brooklyn, and for the Ladies of St. George's Church, New York, of which he was a member. During his term of service, he distributed over $27,000 worth of hospital stores, food, books, &c., besides being employed, on several occasions, in important services for the Government.--[See Moss's History, &c., page 101. We have noticed some of Mr. Colyer's labors at New Berne, under Burnside.--See page 309, volume II. was organized and made ready for work, on the same general plan pursued by the Sanitary Commission. Its labors were not wholly confined to spiritual and intellectual ministrations, but, also, to the distribution of a vast amount of food, hospital stores, delicacies, and clothing. It, too, followed the great armies, and was like a twin angel of mercy with the Sanitary Commission. It co-operated efficiently with the chaplains of the army and navy, by supplying th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ing of the Gosport Navy-Yard, 1.396. Burnside, Gen. A. E., at Bull Run, 1.595; his operations on na, 1.285. Hazard, Commander S. F., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. Hazen, Gen., Wm. B., atthe battle of Fredericksburg, 2.493; succeeds Burnside in command of the Army of the Potomac, 2.497;ille, abandoned by Buckner on the approach of Burnside, 3.129; operations of Burnside from, 3.155; LBurnside from, 3.155; Longstreet moves on, 3.156; invested by Longstreet, 3.157; siege of, 3.171-3.175; visit of the authorempt to establish loyal government in, 2.110; Burnside's operations on the coast of, 2.166-2.175; addresses of Burnside and Goldsborough to the people of, 2.177; Burnside's operations in, 2.305-2.312;attle of, 3.580. Parke, Gen. J. G., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. Parker's Cross-Roads, bButler at, 1.444. Reno, Gen. J. L., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. Renshaw, Commodore, dearyville, 2.510. Rowan, Corn. S. C., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. Ruffin, Edward, speech [6 more...]
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