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prevented the co-operation of Banks, and after Canby took command at the South-West, he also was foer Atlanta had fallen, he proposed that he and Canby should each be reinforced by fifty thousand men; that Canby should move to Montgomery, and he himself towards the same point, and, then forming ao the Gulf of Mexico. On the 10th, he said to Canby: We must have the Alabama river now. . . . Mysed reinforcements for Meade and campaigns for Canby; glanced at the side movemints of Price and Rold strike for Savannah and its river; that General Canby should hold the Mississippi river, and sencity of Savannah from your centre, and let General Canby have command over the Mississippi river an, after capturing Atlanta, should connect with Canby at Mobile. Drawing the Nineteenth corps from f Kirby Smith demanding the presence of all of Canby's surplus forces in another direction, has mad that Sherman should move to Savannah whenever Canby was ready to meet him; but—and this is the gre[14 more...]
d Butler, and Sherman, and Sheridan, and Thomas, and Canby, and Stanton, and Halleck, and the President; and afith Sherman, another with Sheridan, and a third with Canby; and during actual movements in front of Petersburg despatch he gave directions for the coopera-tion of Canby and Foster, and added: Information should be got to 's movements do not turn him, as I think they will. Canby's forces also will be relieved for operations, where that already south of the Tennessee and such as General Canby can send, will be used between the Tennessee rimust direct the movements all over the continent, of Canby and Foster and Rosecrans, as well as of Meade and Bu been intercepted, giving Smith positive orders; and Canby was now directed, not only to prevent the crossing of Sherman awhile. These co-operative movements of Canby and Foster suggested themselves to Sherman as well aes for the same object; the troops of Rosecrans, and Canby, and Foster, were all in motion, and their operation
necessary for the general success that it should be fought at a certain time. Canby's operations in the rear of Hood were intended to be co-operative with Thomas'sstudied by Grant, to divine his course. Meanwhile, the cooperative movement of Canby was delayed, as we have seen. Until Thomas assumed the offensive against Hood, Canby was obliged to hold Vicksburg and Memphis so that they could not be seriously threatened, and his own expedition into the interior was thus postponed. At lasous quarters; and now, if only the success at Franklin was followed up, so that Canby could move into Mississippi, the danger at the West was past. But while thusso sent orders to Sherman to guide him on his arrival at the coast, and he made Canby's movements depend on those of the army in Tennessee. He once declared that hiut. Moreover, so long as Hood occupies a threatening position in Tennessee, General Canby is obliged to keep large forces on the Mississippi river, to protect its na
o North Carolina dissatisfaction with Thomas Canby ordered to move into Alabama Schofield to coo. On the 14th of February, he said to Thomas: Canby is preparing a movement from Mobile bay againsSmith's command. The cavalry you have sent to Canby will be debarked at Vicksburg. It, with the am Eastport, Mississippi, ten thousand cavalry; Canby, from Mobile bay, with about eighteen thousandence; and when Steele returned to Arkansas and Canby arrived at New Orleans, the Nineteenth corps we 25th of January, Grant said to Halleck: When Canby is supplied, horses may be sent up the Tennessnquired of Halleck: Was not the order sent for Canby to organize two corps, naming Steele and A. J.od service being done. On the 9th, he said to Canby himself: I am in receipt of a dispatch . . . i have said, he had not moved at last advices. Canby was sending a force of about seven thousand mean started in East Tennessee, and the same day Canby moved against Mobile; on the 23rd, the junctio[23 more...]
rant excitement of country-grant's friendship for Sherman movements of Stoneman operations of Canby evacuation of Mobile operations of cavalry surrender of all the rebel armies capture of Jeffand to contrast this with what he calls Grant's, of 180,000 men; Sherman's, of 110,000 at least; Canby's, 60,000—odds of seventeen or eighteen to one. Over 70,000 rebels were surrendered by Johnstf the general-in-chief had proceeded to their designed development. The forces of Stoneman and Canby moved on the 20th, and those of Wilson on The 22nd of March. No formidable army opposed either as checked by the news of the surrender of both the great rebel armies. On the 27th of March, Canby's force arrived before Mobile; it was in three divisions, commanded by A. J. Smith, Gordon Grang and Sheridan were approaching from the North. The troops that escaped from Mobile were between Canby and the cavalry, and if they had tried could have done no better than their fellows. The rebell
decidedly of opinion that he ought to operate by Montgomery and Selma, and connect himself with Canby and Farragut on the Alabama river, thus severing the northern part of Georgia and Alabama, and almost Mississippi, from the rebel confederacy. This view was taken in his letters to General Canby, copies of which were sent to the Adjutant-General's office, and in his opinion I fully concurred, and so wrote both to him and Canby, directing them, however, to make no important movements until they received your instructions. I judge, from a dispatch just received from General Sherman, thatas early as possible. Large requisitions have been received within the last day or two from General Canby's staff-officers for water transportation, and quartermaster, commissary, and medical stores more navigable for our gunboats than the Savannah. 5th. The line is more defensible for General Canby's troops than the other. 6th. Montgomery, Selma, and Mobile are, in a military point of
Lieutenant-General. Second Bulletin. War Department, Washington, April 27, 9.30 A. M. To Major-General Dix: The department has received the following dispatch from Major-General Halleck, commanding the Military Division of the James. Generals Canby and Thomas were instructed some days ago that Sherman's arrangements with Johnston were disapproved by the President, and they were ordered to disregard it, and push the enemy in every direction. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. General Hhere have information to-day that Jeff Davis's specie is moving south from Goldsboroa, in wagons, as fast as possible. I suggest that orders be telegraphed, through General Thomas, that Wilson obey no orders from Sherman, and notifying him and Canby, and all commanders on the Mississippi, to take measures to intercept the rebel chiefs and their plunder. The specie taken with them is estimated here at from six to thirteen million dollars. H. W. Halleck, Major—General commanding. Genera
0; W. F. Smith's movement across, 355; crossed by army of Potomac, III., 582. Arkansas, in possession of enemy, II., 2; department of, under Steele, 31, 60, 77; Canby in supreme command of; 204; Price marches through to invade Missouri, III., 44; Price retreats to, 388; operations in, disconnected with principal objects of the w7, 323; relieved from command, 329. Cairo, Grant arrives at, i., 11; Grant in command of district of, 25. Campbell's station, fight at, i., 536. Canby, General E. R. S., supersedes Banks, II., 204; ordered to move against Mobile, 346; ordered to send troops to Pascagoula, III., 41; ordered to act against communications ofand jungles of, 158. Mississippi squadron, saved by Bailey, II., 78. Mississippi valley, character of, i., 156. Mobile, proposed capture of, i., 412, 413; Canby's force before, III., 637; capture of Spanish Fort and Blakely, 637 evacuation of, 637. Montgomery, occupation of, III., 635. Mott General G., at battle of t