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Albert Sidney Johnston (search for this): chapter 28
es, and then drove their boats before us. The road was strewed with their dead and wounded, guns, ammunition, and equipments. Our loss, considerable; theirs, heavy. L. Polk, Major-General commanding. To general headquarters, through General A. S. Johnston. This report, made on the day of battle, is substantially accurate, except that the force of the enemy is over-estimated. General Grant represents his purpose and procedure in this movement as follows, in his report from Cairo, ofn under your command, my sincere thanks for the glorious contribution you have just made to our common cause. Our countrymen must long remember gratefully the activity and skill, courage and devotion, of the army at Belmont. J. Davis. General Johnston, in General Order No. 5, after thanks and congratulations to Generals Polk and Pillow, and to the men engaged, concludes: This was no ordinary shock of arms, it was a long and trying contest, in which our troops fought by detachments,
Leonidas Polk (search for this): chapter 28
l Cheatham. I then took over two others in person, to support a flank movement which I had directed. It was a hard-fought battle, lasting from half-past 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. They took Beltzhoover's battery, four pieces of which were recaptured. The enemy were thoroughly routed. We pursued them to their boats, seven miles, and then drove their boats before us. The road was strewed with their dead and wounded, guns, ammunition, and equipments. Our loss, considerable; theirs, heavy. L. Polk, Major-General commanding. To general headquarters, through General A. S. Johnston. This report, made on the day of battle, is substantially accurate, except that the force of the enemy is over-estimated. General Grant represents his purpose and procedure in this movement as follows, in his report from Cairo, of November 12, 1861: On the evening of the 6th instant I left this place with 2,850 men, of all arms, to make a reconnaissance toward Columbus. The object of the expedi
Cheatham (search for this): chapter 28
cover of gunboats, and attacked Colonel Tappan's camp. I sent over three regiments under General Pillow to his relief; then at intervals three others, then General Cheatham. I then took over two others in person, to support a flank movement which I had directed. It was a hard-fought battle, lasting from half-past 10 A. M. t in great disorder, and was hotly pursued by our troops. In this pursuit, Marks's command was aided by the troops that had been rallied by Pillow, and by General Cheatham, who had preceded his brigade, and gave his personal assistance in this action. They assailed the Federals on both flanks, and routed them. Polk, in his rought up were Smith's One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Militia Regiment, Neeley's Fourth Tennessee, and Blythe's Mississippi Battalion. These were part of Cheatham's command. As the Confederates advanced, they found the road strewed with abandoned plunder and material of war. The hospital of the enemy was captured, with so
L. Polk (search for this): chapter 28
he battle of Belmont. Grant's claims. Polk's dispatch. Grant's report. Grant's object. Polk's preparation. Pillow's account of the opening of the battle. Grant's March. the Federal fornder instructions delivered in person by Major-General Polk, on the morning of the 7th inst;, I crosefuge behind this bank, Pillow, who had sent to Polk for an additional regiment, found Knox Walker'snable. At the same time, they learned that General Polk had been crossing reinforcements, and was l merely a parting salute to an escaped foe. Had Polk's force been at that landing half an hour soonecarried off 175 prisoners and two guns. General Polk, writing November 10, 1861, could not be mind but one of his staff escaped untouched. General Polk complimented Pillow and his officers for thhich is doubtless true. Before the battle, General Polk, in the interests of humanity, had proposedNo. 5, after thanks and congratulations to Generals Polk and Pillow, and to the men engaged, conclu[12 more...]
Philip B. Fouke (search for this): chapter 28
e ground, and the men themselves were compelled to employ a looser order. The Federal force was composed of five regiments of infantry, Taylor's battery of light artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry. The cavalry, following the road, in advance and skirmishing, turned the Confederate left. The infantry was arranged as follows: On the right, the Twenty-seventh Illinois, Colonel N. B. Buford; next, the Thirty-first Illinois, Colonel John A. Logan; next, the Thirtieth Illinois, Colonel Philip B. Fouke-making a brigade, under command of Brigadier-General John A. McClernand. The rear of the column, forming the left wing, was composed of the Twenty-second Illinois, Colonel H. Dougherty, and the Seventh Iowa, Colonel Lauman, and was commanded by Colonel Dougherty. The first attack was made by the right wing; but, as it advanced, the Twenty-seventh Illinois, in passing around the head of a pond, was separated from the command, and found itself on the left flank of the Confederates.
Howison (search for this): chapter 28
nder a flag of truce, were engaged at the same labor a large portion of the day. We have near 200 Federal prisoners. Major J. D. Webster, making report to General Grant of the flag of truce sent, asking permission to bury their dead, says he had a working-party on the 9th thus employed; and learns from the Confederate commissioner that the number (of Federals) reported buried by them (the Confederates) on the field yesterday, was 68. General Polk estimates the Federal loss at 1,500. Howison, a careful writer, comparing the current accounts of the day, says: The Federal loss, as stated in their own accounts, was 607; but this is far below the truth. According to this account they had 64 killed, while it is certain more than 200 of their dead were found on the battle-field. According to the usual proportion, their total loss was probably not less than 1,200. Those interpreters of Scripture who find in every event of their own time a fulfillment of prophecy, noted a
Watson (search for this): chapter 28
d be reinforced. Belmont was the inappropriate name given a settlement of three houses on the western bank of the Mississippi River, opposite Columbus. It was situated in a dreary, flat bottom-land, cut up with sloughs, heavily timbered, and approached from the river by two natural terraces or banks. On the upper bank, a clearing had been made in the forest of some 700 acres. In this clearing was the encampment of Colonel Tappan's Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, and a light battery named Watson's, under Colonel Beltzhoover, placed there as an outpost of the stronghold at Columbus. General Polk had information that led him to expect an attack on Columbus. Learning, early on the morning of the 7th, of Oglesby's march, he believed the attack would be general, and this opinion was confirmed by the Federal demonstrations on the Kentucky side of the river. The approach of Grant's gunboats and transports was observed, though a bend in the river and an intervening forest concealed t
Markley (search for this): chapter 28
dition, the victory was complete. General McClernand, with more frankness, says: In passing through the woods, the Thirtieth, the Seventh, and the Twenty-second, encountered a heavy fire on their right and left successively, which was returned with such vigor and effect as to drive back the superior force of the enemy, and silence his firing, but not until the Seventh and Twenty-second had been thrown into temporary disorder. Here Lieutenant-Colonel Wentz, of the Seventh, and Captain Markley, of the Thirtieth, with several privates, were killed, and Colonel Dougherty, of the Twenty-second, and Major McClurken, of the Thirtieth, who was near me, were severely wounded. General McClernand this day lost three horses. Colonel Dougherty says: At this time the Seventh Iowa was in rear of the Twenty-second Illinois, and was somewhat confused; all the field-officers and many of the company-officers of that brave regiment being either killed, wounded, or taken by the en
N. B. Buford (search for this): chapter 28
Taylor's battery of light artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry. The cavalry, following the road, in advance and skirmishing, turned the Confederate left. The infantry was arranged as follows: On the right, the Twenty-seventh Illinois, Colonel N. B. Buford; next, the Thirty-first Illinois, Colonel John A. Logan; next, the Thirtieth Illinois, Colonel Philip B. Fouke-making a brigade, under command of Brigadier-General John A. McClernand. The rear of the column, forming the left wing, was com says, The struggle, which was continued for half an hour with great severity, threw our troops into temporary disorder, but they were promptly rallied. They were, in fact, repulsed by Tappan's and Russell's regiments. On the Confederate left, Buford's Twenty-seventh Illinois, aided by the cavalry, assailed Wright's regiment, which was supported by Beltzhoover's guns, and partially defended by a rough abattis. This attack was also repulsed. Colonel Dougherty led the Second Brigade in suc
John A. McClernand (search for this): chapter 28
B. Fouke-making a brigade, under command of Brigadier-General John A. McClernand. The rear of the column, forming the left and found itself on the left flank of the Confederates. McClernand's other two regiments struck them on the right flank ands corroborated by the reports of the Northern generals. McClernand was disappointed that the movement of the Second Brigade and Thirty-first Illinois and the artillery, led by General McClernand. He says, The struggle, which was continued for halrty-first Illinois, led and encouraged by both Grant and McClernand, thrice attacked, and were thrice driven back by the bayect of the expedition, the victory was complete. General McClernand, with more frankness, says: In passing throughirtieth, who was near me, were severely wounded. General McClernand this day lost three horses. Colonel Dougherty saing to his father soon after the battle, says: General McClernand and myself each had our horses shot under us. Most o
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