From Fort Henry to Corinth, Volumen2C. Scribner's Sons, 1881 - 204 páginas |
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advance army arrived artillery assault attack battalion battery battle Beauregard boats Bragg Breckenridge Brier Creek brigade Brigadier-General Buckland Buckner Buell C. F. Smith camp Captain captured cavalry Colonel Columbus column commanded by Colonel companies Confederate Corinth Corinth road Crittenden detached Donelson eight enemy enemy's engaged eral fell back field fire flank fleet Floyd force Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Thompson Forty-sixth front gade Grant gunboats guns half-past Halleck halted Hardee's Henry hundred yards Hurlbut Illinois Indiana infantry intrenchments Iowa island Johnston killed Lewis Wallace Lieutenant Madrid marched McClernand McCook ments Mississippi Missouri morning moved Nashville Nelson night o'clock Oak Creek Ohio Owl Creek pickets Pillow Polk Pope position Prentiss Purdy pushed ravine rear regiments reinforcements retired retreat returned ridge river Savannah sent Sherman Shiloh Church Sigel skirmishers surrender telegraphed Tennessee timber Tiptonville troops W. H. L. Wallace Wallace's Wood's brigade wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 62 - 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 62 - 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 96 - I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority, and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run.
Página 39 - I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry.
Página 66 - Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson, when the battle was against us, turned the tide and carried the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud.
Página 121 - I have no doubt that nothing will occur to-day, more than some picket-firing. The enemy is saucy, but got the worst of it yesterday, and will not press our pickets far. I will not be drawn out far, unless with certainty of advantage; and I do not apprehend anything like an attack upon our position.
Página 97 - You cannot be relieved from your command. There is no good reason for it. I am certain that all which the authorities at Washington ask is that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. The power is in your hands; use it, and you will be sustained by all above you.
Página 95 - Transports will be sent to you as soon as possible to move your column up the Tennessee River. The main object of this expedition will be to destroy the railroad bridge over Bear Creek, near Eastport, Miss., and also the connections at Corinth, Jackson, and Humboldt. It is thought best that these objects should be attempted in the order named.
Página 28 - but the plan should not be attempted without a large force — not less than 60,000 men.
Página 100 - McClellan, having personally taken the field at the head of the Army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered, he is relieved from the command of the other military departments, he retaining command of the Department of the Potomac.