Southern History of the War: Official Reports of Battles, as Published by Order of the Confederate Congress at RichmondC. B. Richardson, 1864 - 578 páginas |
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2d brigade action advance Alabama ammunition April arms army arrived artillery assistance attack battalion battery battle of Shiloh boats Bragg Brig.-gen brigade Buckner camp Capt captured cavalry charge Colonel command Corinth corps defence direction division Donelson duty encampment enemy engaged fall back fell field fight flag flank Floyd force Fort Craig Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Jackson forts forward front gallant gallantly guard gunboats guns HEAD-QUARTERS heavy fire honor horses hour hundred yards immediately infantry instant intrenchments Jackson Johnston killed and wounded Lieut Lieut.-col line of battle loss Louisiana Major Major-gen mand ment miles missing Mississippi morning move movement night o'clock obedient servant officers opened ordered pickets pieces Pillow position prisoners Pyron rear received regiment reinforcements respectfully retired retreat rifle-pits rifled river road Ruggles Secessionville sent Sergeant shell shot skirmishers soon staff surrender Tennessee regiment Tennessee river troops woods
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Página 112 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 113 - SIR : — The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
Página 17 - Evans' and Bee's recent encounter with the enemy — some twelve hundred yards to the northward. In reply to the play of the enemy's batteries, our own artillery had not been idle or unskilful. The ground occupied by our guns, on a level with that held by the batteries of the enemy, was an open space of limited extent, behind a low undulation, just at the eastern verge of the plateau, some 500 or 600 yards from the Henry house.
Página 115 - Impressed with the great deficiency in the preparations for defending the passage of the river at Fort Henry, the commanding officer expressed to me his fears that it might cause disaster if the place were vigorously attacked by the enemy's gunboats. This he thought his greatest danger. In conjunction with General...
Página 266 - Without ammunition, and with only their bayonets to rely on, steadily my men advanced, under a heavy fire from light batteries, siege-pieces, and gunboats. Passing through the ravine, they arrived near the crest of the opposite hill, upon which the enemy's batteries were, but could not be urged further without support. Sheltering themselves against the precipitous sides of the ravine, they remained under this fire for some time.
Página 112 - SIR :—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.
Página 18 - I had ordered forward, to a second effort, for the recovery of the disputed plateau, the whole line, including my reserves, which, at this crisis of the battle, I felt called upon to lead in person. This attack was general, and was shared in by every regiment then in the field, including...
Página 225 - But few regiments of my command had ever made a day's march. A very large proportion of the rank and file had never performed a day's labor.
Página 212 - The chief command then devolved upon me, though at the time I was greatly prostrated and suffering from the prolonged sickness with which I had been afflicted since early in February. The responsibility was one which in my physical condition I would have gladly avoided, though cast upon me when our forces were successfully pushing the enemy back upon the Tennessee River, and though supported on the immediate field by such corps commanders as Major-Generals Polk, Bragg, and Hardee, and Brigadier-General...
Página 52 - There was no place within our intrenchments but could be reached by the enemy's artillery, from their boats or their batteries. It was but fair to infer that, while they kept up a sufficient fire upon our intrenchments to keep our men from sleep and prevent repose, their object was merely to give time to pass a column above us on the river, both on the right and the left banks, and thus to cut off all our communications, and to prevent the possibility of egress.