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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 10: (search)
sudden conversion of a defeat into a victory. retreat of Grant. his official misrepresentation of the day. prospect of tBelmont the river makes a sudden bend, and behind this bend Grant disembarked his forces, and began to advance towards Belmonrossed, and assumed command. He had scarcely done so, when Grant's advance opened fire, and the fight soon became fierce andr decisive action before reinforcements could reach Pillow, Grant repeatedly hurled his strongest force at the Confederate ceand landing troops far up the river on his line of retreat, Grant immediately began to fall back, but had not proceeded far wct. Under these circumstances resistance was hopeless, and Grant reluctantly ordered a retreat; but while conducting it, he sehood was characteristic. The first part of the day, when Grant pushed the Confederates to the river, was glowingly describ was dismissed in the briefest and most indifferent terms. Grant wrote: The rebels followed in the rear to our place of deba
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 12: (search)
with Johnston. the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. the avenue to Nashville. Grant's ascent of the Tennessee.capture of Fort Henry. noble and gallant conduct of ner. a surrender determined. escape of Floyd and Pillow. Buckner's letter to Grant. Johnston's movement to Nashville. excitement there. retreat of Johnston's ch an enemy advancing from Louisville, he would have had but little to fear; but Grant had command of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, and while he might thus advhe last moment, and to sacrifice the small garrison for the larger number. Gen. Grant was moving up the east bank of the river from his landing three miles below, us attention to Fort Donelson on the Cumberland. Battle of Fort Donelson. Grant approached Fort Donelson, with immense columns of infantry, and with his powerf number surrendered by Gen. Buckner to the enemy less than nine thousand men. Gen. Grant had demanded Unconditional surrender --words, which the Northern populace aft
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 31: (search)
derate women. the battles of the Wilderness. Grant crosses the Rapidan. Lee springs upon his fla results of the day. Gordon's night attack. Grant's whole army on the verge of rout. his immensusand men. gaseous nonsense in New York about Grant's generalship. his operations in May absurd athe city. But there was yet another part of Grant's ambitious and sweeping plan of operations inbetween the North and South Anna Rivers before Grant's army had reached its new destination. Foifinding his agile adversary again in his path, Grant found it necessary, on the 24th May, to make anorth-northeast of the capital. The next day, Grant's forces were across the Pamunkey, marching tohe arms of Lee. When he stood in array against Grant at the Rapidan, his force was not more than fikinridge. The force under Breckinridge, which Grant estimated at fifteen thousand, did not exceed anders had been reversed? The fact was that Grant, notwithstanding his immense preponderance of [13 more...]
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 32: (search)
er advances his position, and is driven back. Grant turns his attention from the fortifications totain advanced positions. On the 2d June, as Grant continued to develop his left flank, the Confethe line of the rifle-pits. The fact was that Grant, in testing the question, whether Lee's army hoah Valley and Lynchburg. On the 12th June, Grant completed his preparations to abandon the latethe opposite shore. Gen. Lee did not attack Grant on his movement to the James. He was probablyn of their works covering Petersburg, and that Grant was left no other resource than to proceed to arged campaign. That campaign was dictated by Grant. It indicated the extension of the auxiliary reat into the mountains of Western Virginia. Gen. Grant wrote: Had Gen. Hunter moved by way of Charl an important moral It became necessary for Grant at once to find troops to meet the new movemen While Early was detached from Lee's lines, Gen. Grant made what may be described as his last attem[21 more...]
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 33: (search)
Chapter 33: Sherman's campaign in Georgia the important correspondent of Grant's in Virginia. the on to Richmond, and the on to Atlanta, the two important movements of 1864. Sherman's demand of numbers. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's command. he proposes an offensive movement. is balked by Bragg at Richmond. statementes of history. invasion of Missouri by Gen. Price. how and why it failed. the Trans-Mississippi sunk out of sight in the war The important correspondent of Grant's campaign in Virginia was that of Sherman in Georgia; the great military effort of 1864 being resolved into two important movements: the On-to-richmond, and the Of Tennessee, the most ill-starred and successless of all our armies, had seen its worst days. In the first days of May, simultaneous with the onward movement of Grant in Virginia, Sherman began his grand march into Georgia. The Federal advance was in three columns-Thomas moving in front, direct upon Johnston's centre at Dalton,
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 42: (search)
armies. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. E. Lee, General C. S. A. To Lieut.-Gen Grant, Commanding Armies of the United States. April 9, 1865. To Gen. R. E. Lee, Commanding C. S. A.:day for that purpose. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. E. Lee, General. To Lieut.-Gen. Grant, Commanding Armies of the United States. April 9, 1865. Gen. R. E. Lee, Commanding. C. A.n in what was said. No man abhorred anything melo-dramatic more than Gen. Lee. His manner with Grant bordered on taciturnity, but not so as to exhibit temper or mortification. His demeanour, writed who came up to claim the benefit of surrender and accept paroles. With remarkable delicacy, Gen. Grant was not present at the ceremony, and had not been visible since his interview of the 9th with enal in the United States, to fire a salute of two hundred guns in celebration of the event. To Grant he despatched: Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory with which He has this day crowne
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 43: (search)
to be the madness of generosity to abolish the confiscation laws, and relieve rebels from all pains and penalties for their crimes. It was at once telegraphed from Washington throughout the country, that Sherman's truce was disregarded, and that Grant would go to North Carolina to compel Johnston's surrender on the same terms as Gen. Lee had accepted. On this basis, the surrender was eventually made; but Gen. Grant was generous enough to forbear taking control of Sherman's army, contenting hiGen. Grant was generous enough to forbear taking control of Sherman's army, contenting himself with prompting that commander to what the Washington Government had declared should be the text of the negotiations. In following the logical chain of consequences of Gen. Lee's surrender, we are led to notice how each section of the Confederate defences gave way with this event. We have already seen how the cordon of the Atlantic States fell with Johnston's surrender; and we shall now see how the system of Confederate defence fell in the Southwest; and how, in a little time thereafter