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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.67 (search)
rter's squadron, which was in readiness. To oppose him, Lieutenant-General Pemberton, who commanded the Department of Mississippi and East Loore General Holmes should be ordered to unite his forces with General Pemberton's without delay. As a reply, he read me a letter of late datments of General Bragg and Lieutenant-Generals E. Kirby Smith and Pemberton, each to command his department under me. In acknowledging this o a telegram from the adjutant-general, informing me that Lieutenant-General Pemberton was falling back before a very superior force; that Lieuficient force from General Bragg's command to the aid of Lieutenant-General Pemberton. I replied that Lieutenant-General Holmes's troops could of his men under Major-General C. L. Stevenson to report to General Pemberton. The order was given as the President's. He then set out to ght — the usual defect of Confederate engineering. Lieutenant-General J. C. Pemberton, C. S. A. From a photograph. He also conferred w
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg. (search)
ectations. This had been anticipated by General Pemberton, and, to a certain extent, provided for ort Hudson in Louisiana was threatened. General Pemberton, just previous to this time, had sent soof controversy between Generals Johnston and Pemberton.--editors. Before he could determine which wapture of Jackson on the 14th. Meantime General Pemberton had left Jackson and gone to Vicksburg. m to be constructed by Captain Thyssens. General Pemberton first thought that Grant would turn nortes could be concentrated, and then beat him. Pemberton wished to take a strong position on the liness in our men, and reporting the fact to General Pemberton, received orders to prepare to destroy t of the interview between Generals Grant and Pemberton. From a photograph. with even more fatal ro reasons to offer. After all had voted General Pemberton said: Well, gentlemen, I have heard your July than any other day of the year. General Pemberton's report repeats this statement; but Gen[16 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.69 (search)
others until it reaches Edwards's Station. Pemberton's lines covered all these roads and faced eang army, and never got back into Vicksburg. Pemberton himself fell back that night to the Big Blac one Johnston would have made had he been in Pemberton's place. In fact, it would have been in coned to take any risk of loosing our hold upon Pemberton's army, while I would have rejoiced at the oime an intercepted dispatch from Johnston to Pemberton informed me that Johnston intended to make ader, and Colonel Montgomery, aide-de-camp to Pemberton, bearing the following letter to me: I hfused. He then suggested that I should meet Pemberton. To this I sent a verbal message saying that if Pemberton desired it I would meet him in front of McPherson's corps, at 3 o'clock that afternosame as proposed in my reply to his letter. Pemberton then said, rather snappishly, The conferencen accordingly had a conference, during which Pemberton and I, moving some distance away toward the [49 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Vicksburg mine. (search)
structed a casemate out of the heavy timbers found in the crater, and upon which the earth was thrown until it was of sufficient depth to resist the destructive effects of the exploding shells. As soon as this work was completed, and a parapet was thrown up across the crater on a line with the face of the casemate, the troops were withdrawn to the new line beyond the range of exploding shells. The crater being secured, again the miners were set at work running a new gallery under the left wing of the Fort. This mine was exploded on the 1st of July, leaving the Fort a total wreck. in the meantime the main sap had been widened sufficiently to admit of the convenient movement of troops in column of fours during the contemplated assault, the necessity for which was happily avoided by the surrender on the following day. Vickssurg, from the River. From a photograph. arrival of General Grant at General Pemberton's Vioksburg House, July 4, 1863. from a Sketoh made at the time.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The terms of surrender. (search)
The terms of surrender. I. By John C. Pemberton, Lieutenant-General, C. S. A. For this lette See General Grant's reply, addressed to General Pemberton, p. 545; also his paper, The Vicksburg cburg or to rescue the garrison, Among General Pemberton's papers was found a copy of the followito furnish me a copy : June 27, 1863. General Pemberton: Your dispatch of the 22d received. Genery respectfully, your obedient servant, John C. Pemberton, Lieutenant-General Commanding. In d near Vicksburg, July 3d, 1863. Lieutenant-General John C. Pemberton, Commanding Confederate Forces,tances. I am, Colonel, very truly yours, J. C. Pemberton. Ii. By Ulysses S. Grant, General, U. most respectfully your obedient servant, J. C. Pemberton. General Grant to General Pemberton: ansion, Washington, January 31, 1874. General J. C. Pemberton, Warrenton, Virginia. General: Your rton: St. Louis, January 24, 1874. General J. C. Pemberton, Fauquier County, Virginia. Dear Gen
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Confederate forces: Lieut.-General John C. Pemberton. (search)
Confederate forces: Lieut.-General John C. Pemberton. First division, The major portion of this division was separated from Pemberton afPemberton after the battle of Champion's Hill, and joined the forces with General Joseph E. Johnston (Pemberton's superior officer) at Jackson, MississipPemberton's superior officer) at Jackson, Mississippi.--editors. Maj.-Gen. W. W. Loring. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Lloyd Tilghman (k), Col. A. E. Reynolds: 1st Confederate Battalion, Maj. command of the departments of Generals Bragg, E. Kirby Smith, and Pemberton). Gregg's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John Gregg: 1st Tenn. Battalion,from Charleston; and the division of Loring, from the force under Pemberton. [See p. 487.] On June 4th Johnston's effectives numbered, accor4th was 29,491. Of course this included all the non-combatants. Pemberton's greatest available force, including the troops confronting Granred over 40,000. General Grant estimated it at nearly 60,000. General Pemberton says in his official report that when he moved within the def
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 7.83 (search)
o Murfreesboro‘. Notwithstanding long marches and fighting, the condition of the troops was very good; and had they been well clad, the Confederate army would have presented a fine appearance. On November 24th, 1862, the commands of Lieutenant-General Pemberton at Vicksburg, and that of General Bragg in Tennessee, were placed under General Joseph E. Johnston, and his official headquarters were established at Chattanooga. Immediately thereafter General Johnston visited Murfreesboro‘, where he 40,000 men. General Johnston's visit, was followed during the second week in December by that of President Davis and his aide, General Custis Lee. The President asked Bragg if he did not think he could spare a division of his army to reeforce Pemberton. Buildings at Murfreesboro‘. from photographs. 1. General Rosecrans's Headquarters. 2. Christian Church, used as a post chapel by the Union army. 3. Soule Female College, used as a hospital. 4. Headquarters of General Bragg; afterward <
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 8.89 (search)
of July. The Federals had been stunned by the defeat at Chancellorsville, and probably would not have made a forward movement for months. A corps could have been sent to General Joe Johnston, Grant could have been crushed, and Vicksburg, the heart of the Confederacy, could have been saved. The drums that beat for the advance into Pennsylvania seemed to many of us to be beating th e funeral march of the dead Confederacy. Our thirty days of mourning were over before the defeat of Lee and Pemberton. Duty, however, was to be done faithfully and unflinchingly to the last. The calmness of our Confederate President may not have been the calmness of despair, but it may have risen from the belief, then very prevalent, that England and France would recognize the Confederacy at its last extremity, when the Northern and Southern belligerents were both exhausted. Should the North triumph, France could not hope to retain her hold upon Mexico. Besides, the English aristocracy, as is well kno
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 9.97 (search)
he had guarded before the fall of Port Hudson. Ransom captured a large amount of ammunition and about five thousand beef cattle that were crossing the river going east for the rebel armies. At this time the country was full of deserters from Pemberton's army, and it was reported that many had also left Johnston. These avowed they would never go back to fight against us again. Many whose homes were west of the river went there, and others went North to remain until they could return with seh Corps were forwarded under Sherman, whose services up to this time demonstrated his superior fitness for a separate command. In his Personal Memoirs (C. L. Webster & Co.) General Grant says: Soon after negotiations were opened with General Pemberton for the surrender of the city, I notified Sherman, whose troops extended from Haynes's Bluff on the left to the crossing of the Vicksburg and Jackson road over the Big Black on the right, and directed him to hold his command in readiness to
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
te forces at and near Vicksburg were under the command of General John C. Pemberton, a Pennsylvanian, who had lately been commissioned a Lieues intended to hold the line of the Tallahatchee River, for there Pemberton had concentrated his forces and cast up fortifications. Grant at stock destroyed, while Grant was pressing in front, disconcerted Pemberton, and he fell back to Grenada, and by the 1st of December Grant hemost imminent peril, and perhaps from destruction. This left General Pemberton at liberty to concentrate his forces at Vicksburg for its def recoil of Grant from Oxford, and the heavy re-enforcements which Pemberton had been sending to Vicksburg. He knew that the line that he was open fields below with ten thousand behind intrenchments above. Pemberton, who had arrived and was in command, had been re-enforced by threec, 1862. a dense fog interposed. The enterprise became known to Pemberton, and it was abandoned. Rumors of Grant's retreat to Grand Juncti
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