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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sherman's march from Savannah to Bentonville. (search)
were nearly completed when the Confederates evacuated Savannah. Our troops entered the city before daybreak on the 21st of December. The fall of Fort McAllister placed General Sherman in communication with General Grant and the authorities at Washington, Prior to the capture of Savannah, the plan contemplated by General Grant involved the removal of the infantry of Sherman's army to City Point by sea. On December 6th General Grant wrote to Sherman: My idea now is that you establish a base ossession of General Terry, and had sent two messengers with letters informing Terry when he would probably be at Fayetteville. After Hood had been driven from Tennessee, Schofield was ordered to bring the Twenty-third Corps, General Cox, to Washington, whence it was sent to Fort Fisher, N. C. Schofield assumed command of the combined forces, and captured Wilmington, February 22d, 1865. Thence Cox was sent to New Berne; there he organized a provisional corps and moved via Kinston to Goldsbor
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.113 (search)
d and his son. On Sunday, April 9th, President Lincoln reached Washington on his return from his visit to the field of operations on the Jaowing persons were tried before a military commission convened at Washington, May 9th, 1865, on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate the Prnder, orders were issued for the right and left wings to march to Washington via Richmond. On the evening before we left Raleigh the mails fry corps. After resting a few days near Richmond we started for Washington over the battle-scarred route so familiar to the men who had fougdetailed to bury the dead, and subsequently a party was sent from Washington to complete the work. We went into camp in the vicinity of AlePresident and his Cabinet. All the foreign ministers resident in Washington, the governors of the States, and many other distinguished peopleher losses. Grand reviewing stand in front of the White House, Washington, May 23-24, 1865. from a photograph. Opposing forces in Wil
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.115 (search)
ring without further delay to get out of the country, and not permit other and serious complications to be produced by his capture and imprisonment, and perhaps execution. It was determined that we should resume our march that night for Washington, Georgia, one or two days march distant, and orders were issued. by General Breckinridge to move at midnight. About 10 o'clock I received a message from General Breekinridge that he desired to see me immediately. I went to his quarters, and he inuch money seemed to banish sleep. My brigade received thirty-two dollars per capita, officers and men sharing alike. General Breckinridge was paid that sum, and, for the purpose, was borne on the roll of the brigade. On the next day, at Washington, Georgia, I turned over the residue of the treasure to Mr. M. H. Clarke, acting Treasurer of the Confederate States, and experienced a feeling of great relief. The treasure brought from Richmond included about $275,000 belonging to some Richmond
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Southern Notions of the North. (search)
inly not enough to tempt men from the comforts of home to the discomforts of the field. Nine-tenths of the wealth of the South is in fancy human stock; of no particular value to the soldier of fortune — of no value at all to the patriotic Northern volunteer. Mercenary, indeed! These noble soldiers who have just left home and comfort and their loved ones to fight the battle of the Constitution, asking no recompense but the consciousness of rectitude — mercenaries! If so, then Warren and Washington, then Hamilton and Schuyler were mercenaries! If so, who would not be a mercenary? The men of the North know indeed the value of money. They know what it will do; and they know, as Southern rebels will find out to their cost, just the right time to spend it. History hardly records such a profuse, yet enlightened liberality as that which the Northern States have exhibited. It is hardly an exaggeration to say, that the entire wealth of cities and towns, of private corporation and of in
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 6-7, 1862.-battle of Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, Tenn. (search)
nty-sixth Alabama Infantry. No. 199.-Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers, C. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade. No. 200.-Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson, C. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade. No. 201.-Col. John C. Moore, Second Texas Infantry, commanding temporary brigade. No. 202.-Col. Eli S. Shorter, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry. No. 203.-Col. Joseph Wheeler, Nineteenth Alabama Infantry. No. 204.-Col. John C. Moore, Second Texas Infantry. No. 205.-Capt. Isadore P. Girardey, Washington (Georgia) Light Artillery. No. 206.-Lieut. Gen. WilliamJ. Hardee, C. S. Army, commanding Third Army Corpas No. 207.-Col. R. G. Shaver, Seventh Arkansas Infantry, commanding First Brigade. No. 208.-Maj. R. T. Harvey, Second Arkansas Infantry. No. 209.-Maj. James T. Martin, Seventh Arkansas Infantry. No. 210.-Brig. Gen. P. R. Cleburne, C. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade. No. 211.-Col. William B. Bate, Second Tennessee Infantry. No. 212.-Lieut. Col. D. L. Goodall, Second
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xviii. The Chattanooga campaign.—Middle and East Tennessee. (search)
ably sent against him, he had very recently received advices of an opposite tenor. He had been favored, just before, with the following dispatch; which clearly proves that his rash pursuit of Bragg was dictated from, or at least expected at, Washington: Washington, Sept. 11, 1863. Burnside telegraphs from Cumberland gap that he holds all East tennessee above Loudon, and also the gap of the North Carolina mountains. A cavalry force is moving toward Athens to connect with you. After hWashington, Sept. 11, 1863. Burnside telegraphs from Cumberland gap that he holds all East tennessee above Loudon, and also the gap of the North Carolina mountains. A cavalry force is moving toward Athens to connect with you. After holding the mountain passes on the west, and Dalton, or some other point on the railroad, to prevent the return of Bragg's army, it will be decided whether your army shall move farther south into Georgia and Alabama. It is reported here by deserters that a part of Bragg's army is reenforcing Lee. It is important that the truth of this should be ascertained as early as possible. H. W. Halleck, Commander-in-Chief. Minty, commanding our cavalry on the left, had been scouting nearly to Dalton,
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 28 (search)
Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas. Receiving the order at Memphis, March 14, 1864. he repaired at once to Nashville, where he met the Lt.-General, and accompanied him so far as Cincinnati — Grant being then on his way to Washington to direct thenceforth our operations generally, but more especially those in Virginia. The plans of the superior were freely imparted to and discussed with his most trusted subordinate, ere they parted to enter respectively on their memorable od; but, as he advanced into Georgia, the necessity of maintaining his communications seriously reduced his force at the front. The country between Chattanooga and Atlanta is different from, but even more difficult than, that which separates Washington from Richmond. Rugged mountains, deep, narrow ravines, thick, primitive woods, with occasional villages and more frequent clearings, or irregular patches of cultivation, all traversed by mainly narrow, ill-made roads, succeed each other for so
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 35 (search)
e its foundering ark again rested for a few days; and where, unlike their fare at Greensboroa, the falling President and his Cabinet were received with consideration and hospitality-until, alarmed by the reported approach of Stoneman's cavalry, it resumed its flittings southward, via Yorkville and Abbeville, S. C.; being now compelled to take entirely to horse, and escorted by 2,000 cavalry, who, as well as the Presidential cortege, gradually dwindled by the way: thus reaching May 4. Washington, Ga., where the rapidly dissolving view of a Government was dispensed with-most of the Cabinet itself having by this time abandoned the sinking craft, leaving Davis attended by Reagan (late Postmaster-General, now acting Secretary of the Treasury) and his military staff; and the remaining fugitives, with a small but select escort of mounted men, took their way southward: perhaps intent on joining Dick Taylor or Kirby Smith, should either or both be still belligerent, or, at the worst, hoping
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
ndantly, in a district that had been thought destitute. Early in March, when the wagons of the Army of Tennessee reached Augusta, their number was so large compared with that of the troops, that the officer in charge of them was directed to employ three hundred in the gaps in the line of railroad across South Carolina; and Colonel W. E. Moore At his own suggestion. was desired to use one hundred in collecting provisions to form a line of depots between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Washington, Georgia. Before the 20th, Colonel Moore reported that more than seven hundred thousand rations had been collected in those depots. The meeting between General Sherman and myself, and the armistice that followed, produced great uneasiness in the army. It was very commonly believed among the soldiers that there was to be a surrender, by which they would be prisoners of war, to which they were very averse. This apprehension caused a great number of desertions between the 19th and 24th of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
The following is a copy, verbatim et literatim, of the endorsement upon a copy of the postal laws, returned to the Postmaster General, at Washington, from Flat Rock, Georgia:-- M blair i return this with my contemt ware i in rech of you i'd spitt in your fais for your empertenent presumption p m flat Rock. --Washington Republican.
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