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Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
o suffer any of the fatalities of war, a military necessity would not prevent Mrs. Graham from going to him. He answered savagely: Thank you, madam, there is no Mrs. Graham. And I retorted: If there was one intended, I hope she died in her infancy. With fast-falling tears I left headquarters, fully intending to go to Fort Donelson if I had to go in a rowboat, or cross the river and drive overland. When I reached the hotel I found that Governor Yates, of Illinois, and Governor Morton, of Indiana, had both arrived, and were going to charter steamers to go and bring the wounded and the remains of those who had been killed home to their respective States. I hastened to call on them and was assured I could go with either of them. Dear old Colonel Dunlap, of Jacksonville, Illinois, brigade quartermaster of McClernand's brigade was present, and as I passed out of the room he followed me into the hall and whispered to me the name of the steamer which was going first and which was then b
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
on the country. General Logan's headquarters were for some time at Bridgeport, where they had a trying experience from the inclement weather and the hardships of soldiering in the enemy's country. Finally, they reached Huntsville, Alabama, where they were more comfortable, and where all their preparations for the Atlanta campaign and siege were perfected. I had come to look upon the horrors of war with something akin to terror. During the sieges of Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Nashville, Corinth, and all the battles from Memphis to Vicksburg, and during the capture of that stronghold, so many brave men had fallen and so many widows and orphans were all around us, constantly appealing to our sympathies, that we had no respite. That Hope long deferred maketh the heart sick was experienced daily. It took moral courage to face the facts of the situation, and I sometimes think a special Providence must have sustained both the people and the soldiers through these trying tim
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 6
compassed a fortified city than the dauntless Union soldiers who besieged and captured Vicksburg. General Logan and his command had been in the front from the beginning of the expedition; they had furnished the blockade-runners, the assaulting party on May 22, and they made the break in the fortifications by blowing up Fort Hill; consequently, General Grant felt it their due to be the first to occupy the captured city. With the fall of Vicksburg the Mississippi River was open to the Gulf of Mexico, and from that hour the fate of the Confederacy was sealed. The booming of the cannon announced the glorious victory on Independence Day, and the deafening shouts of the triumphant Union army were the death-knells of secession. General Logan was appointed commander of the post at Vicksburg, and immediately began the adjustment of affairs between the conquered and conquerors, desiring in every way in his power, consistent with fidelity to his country, to ameliorate the condition of t
Fort Hill (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
eneral Logan investment of Vicksburg Logan's charge blowing up Fort Hill first in the captured city political campaign of 1863 contrabaogan felt quite sure of success through the mining and sapping of Fort Hill, which was one of the strongest points in the cordon of fortificaatient to begin the work, which was to result in the explosion of Fort Hill and the making of a breach in the walls through which they might ty they achieved the prodigious feat of undermining and exploding Fort Hill. General Logan's old regiment, the 31st Illinois, waited impatieny 22, and they made the break in the fortifications by blowing up Fort Hill; consequently, General Grant felt it their due to be the first ton their admiration and gratitude. As I stood in the crater of Fort Hill, from which point I could see Grant's, Sherman's, and Logan's heae of Fame in the National Cemetery at Vicksburg, in the crater of Fort Hill, at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars, for the preservatio
Carbondale, Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
t loyal to their country, they were easily won away from their temporary disaffection. Colonel R. P. Townes, Major Hotaling, Major Lloyd Wheaton, Major Hoover, and other members of my husband's staff were with us in our home in Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois, almost all the time during General Logan's leave of absence. Dinners, excursions, picnics, balls, parties of all kinds, to which were added political demonstrations, kept all of us busy. Carbondale had an unusual number of prettCarbondale had an unusual number of pretty girls and the very best society south of Springfield, the capital of the State. They were all very patriotic, and had devoted much time to the soldiers, their families, and the refugees. From nearly every family some one had gone into the army or navy; hence they could not do enough for the soldiers and officers to make their brief visit delightful, and were ever ready to join in anything proposed for their entertainment and diversion. A round of pleasure was inaugurated and kept up till th
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Chapter 6: More troops at Cairo expedition up the Tennessee and the Cumberland arrivmore troops were ordered to rendezvous at Cairo, Illinois. General Grant was designated to organizebers were mobilized in and around inhospitable Cairo. Munitions of war and commissary stores were the transports began to come into the port at Cairo. Orders were issued for the troops to be readmy husband's death, I started at once for Cairo, Illinois, determined, if it were possible, to go tery limited, and hundreds of people flocked to Cairo, anxious to go up the Tennessee and Cumberlandg Landing and on to Corinth. On my arrival at Cairo I learned that Colonel Logan was not killed, bus to join him. Going to army headquarters at Cairo, I applied for permission to go up the river. ospital, and in battle from the time they left Cairo, February, 1862, till Vicksburg fell, July 4, sequently, by the time General Logan landed at Cairo his heroism, magnanimity, kindness to his men,
Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ar. The swamps and shallow lakes of that region were fearful for men to pass through. They tried to convert them into canals, hoping they might be able to navigate some kind of a craft through them by which they could transfer the troops to Port Gibson, the point chosen to try to land below Vicksburg. After weeks of struggling with mud and water, with little success, General Logan, after conferring with General Grant, called for volunteers from his command to run the blockade on transports,iver front, on to the port of their destination before the sleeping sentinel knew anything of the daring enterprise. Once below Vicksburg, the transports carried the troops with rapidity from the western to the eastern shore of the river. At Port Gibson the Confederates made their first resistance to the invading army of the Mississippi, but they were completely routed. The bayous, swamps, and impenetrable forests of that whole valley of the Mississippi made it terrible for an army to move a
Jacksonville, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ft headquarters, fully intending to go to Fort Donelson if I had to go in a rowboat, or cross the river and drive overland. When I reached the hotel I found that Governor Yates, of Illinois, and Governor Morton, of Indiana, had both arrived, and were going to charter steamers to go and bring the wounded and the remains of those who had been killed home to their respective States. I hastened to call on them and was assured I could go with either of them. Dear old Colonel Dunlap, of Jacksonville, Illinois, brigade quartermaster of McClernand's brigade was present, and as I passed out of the room he followed me into the hall and whispered to me the name of the steamer which was going first and which was then being loaded at the wharf. He said: Slip down to the boat, tell them you are a member of my family, and that you are to wait for me until I come to the boat a few hours later. After you are on board, hide in one of the staterooms, and you will not be disturbed, as, in the mean wh
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
n. Another anxiety was his knowledge of the fact that an undercurrent of disloyalty still existed among the people on account of their Southern proclivities. The few days intervening between the receipt of his orders and his proceeding to Chattanooga to assume command of the Fifteenth Army Corps General Logan spent in making speeches for the local candidates of the Republican party and in final appeals to the people to defend the Emancipation Proclama- Proclamation which Mr. Lincoln had ishat I had saved at least one poor creature from being maltreated. We had taught him to read and write and trained him to be a good and useful citizen, of whom we have often heard good reports. General Logan was delayed so long in reaching Chattanooga from Vicksburg that he did not arrive there till after the battle, greatly to his disappointment, as he desired to take part in what he felt was to be a brilliant victory. After assuming command of the Fifteenth Corps, Army of the Tennesse
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the Tennessee and the Cumberland arrival of transports fall of Fort Henry siege and capture of Fort Donelson Colonel Logan severely woundld up the river, the troops were landed and proceeded to surround Fort Henry, which was to be attacked by our gunboats. The whole country adj at all; but so dauntless were the troops of Grant's command that Fort Henry soon succumbed. As soon as the fall of Fort Henry was assuredFort Henry was assured, General Grant pushed forward with redoubled vigor, the assault by the gunboats having already begun upon Fort Donelson. The storms of the wt heavily of her officers and soldiers in the expedition against Forts Henry and Donelson. On receipt of the overwhelming news of my husbarge quota of the troops which had been in every engagement from Forts Henry and Donelson to the surrender of Vicksburg, a great many of themrors of war with something akin to terror. During the sieges of Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Nashville, Corinth, and all the battles fr
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