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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter28: Gettysburg-Third day. (search)
e P. M. Its work has been described, but it is important to note that neither of the other corps took part in the battle while the Southern chief stood in view of the attack and near the rear of those corps. So it looks as if the commander of the First Corps was easier to move than any one in his army, rather than harder, and his chief left him to fight the battles alone. After the retreat, and when resting on the south banks of the Rapidan, reading of the progress of the march of General Rosecrans's army towards Georgia, it seemed sinful to lie there idle while our comrades in the West were so in need of assistance, and I wrote the Secretary of War suggesting that a detachment should be sent West from the idle army. General Lee objected, but the suggestion was ordered to be executed. In this instance the subordinate was easier to move than his chief, though the interests of the cause depended largely on the movement of the latter. The forces engaged at Gettysburg were: Co
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 30: Longstreet moves to Georgia. (search)
st Proposes to the Secretary of War to reinforce against Rosecrans from the Army of Northern Virginia makes plan known to Gauga the armies in position Federals in command of Generals Rosecrans, Crittenden, McCook, and George H. Thomas. While thought of turning minds or forces to arrest the march of Rosecrans. To me the emergency seemed so grave that I decided tt military zone. I said that the successful march of General Rosecrans's army through Georgia would virtually be the finishisame service, and strike a crushing blow against General Rosecrans before he could receive reinforcing help; that our interiouisville and Nashville to Chattanooga. On that road General Rosecrans was marching against General Bragg. On the direct roous during part of the 18th and all of the 19th, that General Rosecrans came to understand the plan as well as his adversary,red his lines by log and rail obstructions. The corps of Rosecrans's right formed two lines of rail defences for infantry.
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 31: battle of Chickamauga. (search)
l's division back to its former ground. Reynolds was posted on eminent ground as rear-guard, and organized retreat followed. It was not until after sunset that Rosecrans's order for retreat was issued, as appears from the letter written from Rossville by General James A. Garfield, chief of staff, dated 8.40, three hours and more events and the evidence seem conclusive that it was our artillery practice that made the confusion of Chickamauga forests unbearable, and enforced retreat before Rosecrans order was issued. The Union army and reserve had been fought, and by united efforts we held the position at Snodgrass Hill, which covered McFarland Gap and t from General Lee's army, September 18 and 19 (a large estimate)5,000 Total60,366 Losses on the 18th and 19th1,124 Aggregate for battle on the 20th59,242 General Rosecrans's return of September 20, 1863, showed: Aggregate of infantry, equipped46,561 Aggregate of cavalry, equipped10,114 Aggregate of artillery, equipped4,192 T
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 32: failure to follow success. (search)
hat if, after so threatening as to throw General Rosecrans to full retreat, we found it inconveniench for fruition of our heavy labors. General Rosecrans prepared, no doubt, to continue his retr, to prevent his detaching reinforcements to Rosecrans. The second when I had gone as far as I thoe 20th of September and during the 21st, General Rosecrans reported his condition deplorable, and ee at the time of the October rains that General Rosecrans could not move his artillery over the muld, leaving the battle to their troops. General Rosecrans was generous enough to acknowledge that iver below Chattanooga. On the same day General Rosecrans was superseded in command by General Geot upon the result of the combination against Rosecrans's army in September, after our lines of tranbama, to Central Mississippi. The armies of Rosecrans and Bragg were standing near Murfreesboroa aon, and Johnston should be ordered to strike Rosecrans in overwhelming numbers and march on to the [1 more...]
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 16. (search)
a detachment eastward from Wheeling, to protect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; and at the beginning of June, an expedition of two regiments, led by Colonel Kelly, made a spirited dash upon Philippi, where, by a complete surprise, he routed and scattered Porterfield's recruiting detachment of one thousand Confederates. Following up this initial success, McClellan threw additional forces across the Ohio, and about a month later had the good fortune, on July I I, by a flank movement under Rosecrans, to drive a regiment of the enemy out of strong intrenchments on Rich Mountain, force the surrender of the retreating garrison on the following day, July 12, and to win a third success on the thirteenth over another flying detachment at Carrick's Ford, one of the crossings of the Cheat River, where the Confederate General Garnett was killed in a skirmish-fire between sharp-shooters. These incidents, happening on three successive days, and in distance forty miles apart, made a handsome
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 27. (search)
apter 27. Bell and Bragg Perryville Rosecrans and Murfreesboro Grant's Vicksburg experimal Halleck were already out of patience with Rosecrans for his long previous delay. Bragg's retreauthern Confederacy, and early in August sent Rosecrans peremptory orders to advance. This directioh. Bragg had over seventy-one thousand men; Rosecrans, fifty-seven thousand. The conflict was finy extending his attack toward his right, and Rosecrans meeting the onset with prompt shifting towardent was of course greatly disappointed when Rosecrans telegraphed that he had met a serious disastleck: I think it very important for General Rosecrans to hold his position at or about Chattanmber, was urged by repeated messages to join Rosecrans, and other reinforcements were already on thed about him, and, by practically blockading Rosecrans's river communication, placed him in a state with famine. It having become evident that Rosecrans was incapable of extricating it from its per[19 more...]
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 30. (search)
te of Tennessee, the course of campaign and battle in that State delayed its completion to a later period than in the others. The invasion of Tennessee by the Confederate General Bragg in the summer of 1862, and the long delay of the Union General Rosecrans to begin an active campaign against him during the summer of 1863, kept civil reorganization in a very uncertain and chaotic condition. When at length Rosecrans advanced and occupied Chattanooga, President Lincoln deemed it a propitious tiRosecrans advanced and occupied Chattanooga, President Lincoln deemed it a propitious time to vigorously begin reorganization, and under date of September II, 1863, he wrote the military governor emphatic suggestions that: The reinauguration must not be such as to give control of the State and its representation in Congress to the enemies of the Union, driving its friends there into political exile. . . . You must have it otherwise. Let the reconstruction be the work of such men only as can be trusted for the Union. Exclude all others; and trust that your government so or
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), Report of Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding armies of the United States, of operations march, 1864-May, 1865. (search)
souri. A cavalry force was also, at the same time, sent from Memphis, under command of Colonel Winslow. This made General Rosecrans' forces superior to those of Price, and no doubt was entertained he would be able to check Price and drive him backmmanding Department of Kansas, immediately collected such forces as he could to repel his invasion of Kansas, while General Rosecrans' cavalry was operating in his rear. The enemy was brought to battle on the Big Blue and defeated, with the loss ofincalculable mischief done by him shows to how little purpose a superior force may be used. There is no reason why General Rosecrans should not have concentrated his forces and beaten and driven Price before the latter reached Pilot Knob. SubordinAs soon as it was ascertained that Hood was crossing the Tennessee River, and that Price was going out of Missouri, General Rosecrans was ordered to send to General Thomas the troops of General A. J. Smith's command and such other troops as he could
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 20 (search)
nifested unnecessary anxiety on this subject: but it must be remembered that just one year before, Lee had sent Longstreet's whole corps to northern Georgia; that it was not discovered until it was well on its way to join Bragg's forces against Rosecrans's army at Chickamauga; and that it accomplished the reverse which occurred to our arms on that field. Besides, Grant's mind seemed always more concerned about preventing disasters to the armies of his distant commanders than to the troops undeshort distance below the mouth of the Savannah River. On October 29, finding that the movement of the troops ordered from Missouri to Tennessee was exceedingly slow, the general directed Rawlins to go in person to St. Louis, and confer with Rosecrans, the department commander, and see that all haste was made. The Secretary of War now sent a telegram to General Grant, wishing him to reconsider his order authorizing the march to the sea. In fact, the President and the Secretary had never bee
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 9: the President arrives in Richmond. (search)
Southern troops occurred about this time. On June 11, 1861, at Bethel Church, and on June 18th Colonel Vaughan met the enemy at the twenty-first bridge on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, charged upon his camp, captured and brought off two pieces of artillery and the enemy's flag. While General Johnston was keeping the army under Patterson in check in the Valley, a disaster to the Confederate arms occurred in West Virginia. General Garnett was defeated at Rich Mountain by McClellan and Rosecrans and forced to retreat. General Garnett was killed. The enemy in front of General Johnston were reinforced, and he, anticipating an attack by a superior force wrote, July 9, 1861, to General Cooper, a letter of which the following extract is the last paragraph: If it is proposed to strengthen us against the attack I suggest as soon to be made, it seems to me that General Beauregard might, with great expedition, furnish five or six thousand men for a few days. J. E. J. The ene
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