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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
In command in Missouri. John C. Fremont, Major-General, U. S. A. Off to the war. At thehis was first the firm possession of the State of Missouri, freed and protected from the secession was in sympathy with the South, and the State of Missouri was in active rebellion against the natiield. Their movement was intended to overrun Missouri, and, supported by a friendly population of o. General John Pope was fully occupied in North Missouri with nearly all my disposable force, whichon had borne a decisive and important part in Missouri. Together with Francis P. Blair, the youngerr-General U. S. Grant to the command of South-east Missouri, with headquarters at Cairo. He was fuward and obstructing conduct of the people of Missouri had decided me to assert the power of the Govllion and extending martial law over the State of Missouri. By this proclamation the property of pto his Secretary of War, at the close of this Missouri campaign: We met next day at a point between [5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. (search)
Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. William M. Wherry, Sixth U. S. Infantry, Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. V., at Wilson's Creek Aide-de-Camp to General Lyon. About the middle of July, 1861, the Army of the Union in south-west Missouri, under General Nathaniel Lyon, was encamped in and near the town of Springfield, and numbered approximately 6200 men, of whom about 500 were ill-armed and undisciplined Home Guards. The organized troops were in all 5868, in four brigades. By the 9th the entire line maintained its position without flinching, the inexperienced volunteers vieing with the seasoned regulars in tenacity and coolness. This engagement is considered one of the severest of the war. Colonel Snead (in The fight for Missouri ) says: Never before-considering the number engaged-had so bloody a battle been fought upon American soil; seldom has a bloodier one been fought on any modern field. Another participant, a Confederate officer, described it as a mighty mean-fowt
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
s troops to intercept the advancing foe. General Rains's (Missouri) command had the honor of giving the first reception to tunder General Lyon. He was ably supported by the gallant Missouri generals, Slack, McBride, Parsons, and Clark, with their General Lyon had not done so well. General Price and his Missouri troops had borne the brunt of this hard contest, but had day the enemy evacuated Springfield, and Price, with his Missouri troops, occupied it, and had his supplies and wounded movte Government to avoid, if possible, operating in the State of Missouri, which had not seceded. General Price, upon being in, including the capture of Lexington, were conducted with Missouri troops alone. At this time the Federal troops held the Mvent the crossing of the river by the secessionists of north Missouri, who, to the number of 5000 or 6000, were armed and orand desirous of joining the army of General Price in south-west Missouri. To break this blockade became the object of Genera
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The flanking column at Wilson's Creek. (search)
ghborhood. At the first dawn of day we continued our advance for about a mile and a half, the cavalry patrols in front capturing forty men who had strolled into our line while looking for food and water, and who said that twenty regiments of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana troops were encamped not far distant in the valley beyond. Moving on, we suddenly found ourselves near a hill, from which we gained a full view of the camp. We halted a few moments, when I directed four pieces of our at to pieces also.--editors. a part of the infantry had also passed the creek; the piece and caissons were just crossing, when the rattling of musketry announced the presence of hostile forces on both sides of the creek. They were detachments of Missouri and Texas cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Major, Captains Mabry and Russell, that lay in ambush, and now pounced upon our jaded and extended column. It was in vain that Lieutenant-Colonel Albert and myself tried to rally at least a part of th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 8.25 (search)
ounded by a ditch, and protected in front by what were called confusion pits, and by mines. Our men stood firm behind the breastworks, none trembled or paled, and a solemn The hospital. The College, fronting South. The Battle of Lexington, Mo., as seen from General Parsons' Position. After a contemporary drawing. silence prevailed. As Father Butler went round among them, they asked his blessing, received it with uncovered heads, then turned and sternly cocked their muskets. The enct of the Legislature of Missouri, which permitted of the suspension of certain banks on the condition that they should loan the State on its bonds a certain portion of their fund. At the time of the capture of Lexington the State Convention of Missouri had deposed Governor Jackson and elected in his place Hamilton R. Gamble. The Union State Government made demand afterward for the same sum, which was paid and bonds of the State issued therefor, which were redeemed at their face value when due
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
raids. Since the outbreak of the rebellion, Missouri, as a border and slave State, had representedthe United States regulars in 1861. forces of Missouri, the opportunity of taking possession of Spri, the largest city and central point of south-west Missouri, and of advancing with a promiscuous hoy good chance of at least driving them out of Missouri. As it was, the new-fledged Confederates muel R. Curtis. From a photograph. people of Missouri, or rather of the whole West, felt disappointnforced by several thousand recruits from middle Missouri, if they had not been intercepted on theientente cordiale between the two champions of Missouri and Arkansas; the two men were too different te of the great popularity of the champion of Missouri, McCulloch became disgusted in meeting the haSt. Louis to the north-west and south-west of Missouri, and comprising the three campaigns under Genginning of the conflict, the Union element of Missouri, led by a few energetic men, saved the city o[6 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Pea Ridge, Ark. (search)
C. A. Ellis. Loss: k, 2; w, 2; m, 2 = 6. Fourth division, Col. Eugene A. Carr (w). Staff loss: w, 1. First Brigade, Col. Grenville M. Dodge: 35th Ill., Col. Gustavus A. Smith (w), Lieut.-Col. William P. Chandler (c); 4th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. John Galligan (w); 1st Iowa, Battery, Capt. Junius A. Jones (w), Lieut. V. J. David. Brigade loss: k, 35; w, 200; m, 55 = 290. Second Brigade, Col. William Vandever: 9th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. Francis J. Herron (w and c), Major William H. Coyl (w); Phelps's Mo., Col. John S. Phelps (w); 3d 111. Cavalry, Major John McConnell; 3d Iowa Battery, Captain Mortimer M. Hayden. Brigade loss: k, 61; w, 300; m, 30 = 391. Unattached; 3d Iowa Cavalry, Col. Cyrus Bussey (during a part of the battle Col. Bussey had command of other troops in addition to his own regiment), Lieut.-Col. Henry H. Trimble (w); Bowen's Battalion Mo. Cavalry, Major Wm. D. Bowen; 3d Mo. Infantry, Major Joseph Conrad; 24th Mo. Infantry, Major Eli W. Weston. Loss: k, 28; w, 36; m, 18 = 8
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Recollections of Foote and the gun-boats. (search)
ed from Washington. Special agents were dispatched in every direction, and saw-mills were simultaneously occupied in cutting the timber required in the construction of the vessels, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, and Missouri; and railroads, steamboats, and barges were engaged for its immediate transportation. Nearly all of the largest machine-shops and foundries in St. Louis, and many small ones, were at once set at work day and night, and the telegraph lines betwesaid, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in the gun-boats. On arriving at Cairo, I found Representative Elihu B. Washburne, afterward our minister to France, waiting for an opportunity to visit the army, then in Missouri, in the neighborhood of Island Number10, cooperating with Admiral Foote in the reduction of that stronghold. We embarked together on a small tug-boat which carried the mail down to the fleet. We arrived and landed alongside the flag-ship Bento
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., General Polk and the battle of Belmont. (search)
upon Columbus, Kentucky, a strong position then occupied by about ten thousand Confederate troops under General Leonidas Polk. The object of the proposed demonstration was to cover an effort to be made to drive General Jeff. Thompson from south-east Missouri; and at the same time to check the sending of reinforcements to Price. In accordance with this general plan, on the 4th and 6th Grant moved Colonels R. J. Oglesby, W. H. L. Wallace, and J. B. Plummer in the direction of the town of Sikestken in Cairo, Ill., in 1861, and is a remarkably good picture of General Grant as he looked at that time. He had always worn his beard trimmed short until he was appointed colonel of the 21st Illinois; but during the time that he was serving in Missouri he did not trim his beard, nor did he do so on being stationed at Cairo after his appointment as brigadier-general. After he had fought the battle of Belmont, he sent for his family to come on from Galena and make him a visit. This picture had
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
Ward, and Nelson's forces at Camp Dick Robinson,--none of which were ready for service,--the Home Guard Brigade of Louisville, and the scattered companies of Home Guards throughout the State. Opposite Louisville was Rousseau's camp, in which were some two thousand men not yet prepared for the field. Very few troops were in reach. Owing to the neutrality of Kentucky, the regiments recruited in Ohio, Indiana, and the North-west generally had been sent as fast as organized to the Potomac or Missouri armies. Fortunately, Governor Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, had received information, about the 1st, which had led him to reserve a few regiments for Kentucky, and in response to General Anderson's appeal he hurried them forward. Anderson had learned of Buckner's intended advance the day it was made, and the non-arrival of the regular train from the south showed him that it had begun. The Home Guards of Louisville were at once ordered out for ten days, and, assembling at midnight, eighte
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