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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 49 (search)
pers-at least he is idle, and wants some diplomatic work on his hands, in the regular way. How to avoid doing anything whatever, diplomatically, with this matter before him, is the very quintessence of diplomacy! He can look at it, read it, handle it, and return it to Lord John, and then diplomatically prove that this government never had any knowledge of its existence! The following official dispatch, from Gen. Lee, was received yesterday: headquarters armies Confederate States, March 20th, 1865. Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War. Gen. J. E. Johnston reports that about 5 P. M. on the 19th inst. he attacked the enemy near Bentonsville, routed him, capturing three guns. A mile in rear, the enemy rallied upon fresh troops, but was forced back slowly until 6 o'clock P. M., when, receiving more troops, he apparently assumed the offensive, which movement was resisted without difficulty until dark. This morning he is intrenched. Our loss is small. The troops behave
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
Bentonsville. Johnston's cavalry were soon dislodged, and Howard moved forward and joined his left to Slocum's right. The Confederates had thrown back their left flank, and had constructed a line of parapet connected with that in front of Slocum, in the form of a bastion, its salient on the main Goldsboroa road, interposing between Slocum on the west and Howard on the east, while the flanks rested on Mill Creek, covering the road back to Smithfield. By four o'clock in the afternoon, March 20, 1865. after more or less skirmishing all day, the Nationals had a strong line of battle confronting this position, and putting Johnston on the defensive. The skirmish line pressed him steadily, and on the following day this pressure became so vigorous, that it almost amounted to a general engagement. There was skirmishing and hard fighting all day long. Meanwhile, Schofield and Terry, as we have seen, See page 494. had been approaching Goldsboroa, and at the very time March 21. when
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
N. C. Union, Twentieth Corps and Kilpatrick's Cav.; Confed., Gen. Hardee's command. Losses: Union, 93 killed, 531 wounded; Confed., 108 killed, 540 wounded, 217 missing. March 19-21, 1865: Bentonville, N. C. Union, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Corps, and Kilpatrick's Cav.; Confed., Gen. J. E. Johnston's army and Wade Hampton's Cav. Losses: Union, 191 killed, 1168 wounded, 287 missing; Confed., 239 killed, 1694 wounded, 673 missing. March 20, 1865 to April 6, 1865: Stoneman's raid into southwestern Va. And North Carolina. Union, Palmer's, Brown's, and Miller's Cavalry Brigades; Confed. No record found. Losses. No record found. March 22, 1865 to April 24, 1865: Wilson's raid, Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga. Union, Gen. James H. Wilson's Cav.; Confed., Forrest's Cav., local garrison and State Militia. Losses: Union, 63 killed, 345 wounded, 63 missing; Confed., 22 killed, 38 wounded, 6766 prisoners. March 2
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6: Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
irst and Second divisions, under Emory, went to Virginia, and entered the Army of the Shenandoah and fought at the Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. This detachment, as it was called until November 7th, was commanded by Brigadier-Generals W. H. Emory and Cuvier Grover, and after the campaign in the Shenandoah, it went, in different sections, to Savannah. Some of the troops were afterward attached to the Tenth Corps; others remained in Savannah until the corps was discontinued on March 20, 1865, and even longer. On November 7, 1864, the portion of the corps that had remained in Louisiana was discontinued, and the designation, Nineteenth Army Corps, passed to the divisions operating in the Shenandoah valley. Most of the troops in Louisiana were put in the Gulf Reserve Corps, which, in February, 1865, became the new Thirteenth Corps, and assisted at the capture of Mobile. Major-General William Hemsley Emory （U. S.M. A. 1831) was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, Sept
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4.29 (search)
Diary of Captain Robert E. Park, Twelfth Alabama regiment. [continued from March Number.] March 20th, 1865 I have suffered severely for several days from cold and hoarseness, with an occasional fever, and Dr. Hays, Chief of our Division, advised and obtained an order for my transfer to the hospital. I reluctantly consented to go, for I had a feeling recollection of my unkind treatment in other Yankee prison hospitals, and shrank from a renewal of my very unpleasant acquaintance with them. Thoughts of Knowles of West's Hospital, and of Heger of Point Lookout Hospital, have caused me to dread my treatment at the Fort Delaware Hospital. Growing worse, however, I went, and was registered in ward 11. All of my clothing was taken from me, and I was clad in shirt and drawers of coarse texture, belonging to the hospital, and which had probably been frequently used before by smallpox and other diseased patients. My crutches were also taken from me. Doctor Miller, a youth of
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 20: battle of the Wilderness (search)
the brigades broke and fell back to the foot of the hill. Meanwhile, the Confederate brigades on the right and left had promptly attacked Upton upon both flanks, and Battle's brigade, brought up from the rear, attacked him in front. He brought up his fourth line in vain in a hard fight, and was finally driven back with loss, which he states as about 1000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners, probably about 20 per cent of his command. Ewell's official report of the affair, dated Richmond, March 20, 1865, says: — The enemy was driven from our works, leaving 100 dead within them and a large number in front. Our loss, as near as I can tell, was 650, of whom 350 were prisoners. The total losses of the Federals for the day were estimated at 4100, and included Gen. Stevenson of Burnside's corps killed by a sharpshooter. Grant believed that the failure of Mott's division to advance had caused Upton's defeat upon the 10th, and on the 11th he planned a much more powerful attack to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bentonville, battle of. (search)
e in Virginia. Had Johnston won at that time the consequence probably would have been the loss of the whole of Sherman's army and the quick and fatal dispersion or capture of Grant's before Petersburg and Richmond. On the night after the battle reinforcements came to the left of the Nationals. The Confederates prepared for another onset, but when Johnston heard of the actual connection of three National armies in the vicinity of Goldsboro, he perceived that all chance for success against Sherman had vanished. There had been hard fighting all day (March 20, 1865), and that night, after having his only line of retreat severely menaced by a flank movement under General Mower, Johnston withdrew and went towards Smithfield in such haste that he left his pickets, wounded in hospitals, and dead behind. The aggregate loss of the Nationals near Bentonville was 1,648. The loss of the Confederates was never reported. The Nationals captured 1,625 of their men, and buried 267 of their dead.
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
G. T. Beauregard: The enemy were attacking General Hardee's position, five miles south of Averysboroa, all day yesterday. Always repulsed. Our loss between four and five hundred. Prisoners taken this morning report Federals at thirty-three hundred. Please hurry S. D. Lee, and desire commanding officer at Salisbury to send our transportation and artillery horses along the railroad, to be taken up wherever they may meet trains. J. E. Johnston. Telegram. Smithfield, March 20th, 1865. To Genl. Beauregard: The 15th and 17th corps were yesterday moving on the road from Fayetteville to Goldsboroa; the 14th and 20th on that from Averysboroa. We attacked the latter force at 3 P. M., routed one corps, capturing three guns; but a mile in rear the enemy rallied on fresh troops. We were able to press all back slowly until six, when, apparently receiving fresh troops, he attempted the offensive, which we resisted without difficulty until dark. Our troops behaved handso
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Arkansas, 1865 (search)
alry (Detachment). March 4: Affair near Pine BluffILLINOIS--13th Cavalry (Detachment). March 10-13: Scout from Little Rock to Clear LakeWISCONSIN--3d Cavalry. March 11: Skirmish, Clear LakeWISCONSIN--3d Cavalry. Union loss, 5 wounded, 11 missing. Total, 16. March 11: Skirmish, Washington(No Reports.) March 12-23: Scout from Lewisburg into Yell and Searcy CountiesARKANSAS--3d Cavalry (Detachment). March 17-20: Exp. from Pine Bluff to Bass PlantationILLINOIS--13th Cavalry (Detachment). March 20: Skirmish, Talbot's Ferry(No Reports.) March 21-23: Scout from Pine Bluff to MonticelloILLINOIS--13th Cavalry (Detachment). April 1-4: Scout from Pine Bluff to Bayou BartholomewILLINOIS--13th Cavalry (Detachment). April 2: Skirmish near Van BurenARKANSAS--1st Cavalry (Detachment). April 2: Skirmish, Hickory StationUNITED STATES--112th Colored Infantry. April 11: Skirmish, St. Charles(No Reports.) April 23: Skirmish on Snake RiverKANSAS--3d Indian Home Guard (Detachment). April 25: Sc
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Georgia, 1865 (search)
1865 Feb. 1: Skirmish, McLemore's CoveTENNESSEE--6th Mounted Infantry. Feb. 10: Skirmish, Johnson's CrookNEW YORK--68th Infantry. Feb. 27: Skirmish, Spring PlaceINDIANA--145th Infantry. March 1: Skirmish, Holly Creek(No Reports.) March 3: Skirmish near Tunnel HillINDIANA--145th Infantry (Detachment). March 14: Skirmish near DaltonILLINOIS--147th Infantry (Detachment). March 20: Affair, RinggoldPicket Attack. April 1-4: Exp. from Dalton to Coosawattie River and Spring Place and skirmishesILLINOIS--147th Infantry. TENNESSEE--6th Mounted Infantry (Detachment). April 16: Action, ColumbusIOWA--3d, 4th and 5th Cavalry. MISSOURI--10th Cavalry. OHIO--1st and 7th Cavalry. UNITED STATES--Battery "I" 4th Arty. Union loss, 6 killed, 24 missing. Total 30. April 16: Action, Fort Tyler, West PointINDIANA--2d and 4th Cavalry; 18th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. KENTUCKY--4th and 7th Cavalry. WISCONSIN--1st Cavalry. Union loss (including Columbus), 13 killed, 53 wounded. Total, 66. April 18: Ski
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