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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 104 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 53 19 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 42 4 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 41 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 5 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 13 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 8 2 Browse Search
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) 4 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 8.58 (search)
ing visit. On the 6th, Governor Sprague was sent to him at Corinth, on a confidential mission, arriving there on the 10th. Meanwhile the President had visited General McClellan and received from his hands the Harrison's Bar letter. On the 11th, General Halleck was appointed General-in-chief. Mr. Chase says in his diary (see Life and public services of S. P. Chase, by J. W. Schuckers, p. 447) that he and Mr. Stanton proposed to the President to send Pope to the James and give [Ormsby M.] Mitchel the command of the front of Washington. . . . The President was not prepared for anything so decisive, and sent for Halleck and made him Commander-in-chief. Secretary Welles says ( Lincoln and Seward, p. 191): Pope also . . . uniting with Stanton and General Scott in advising that McClellan should be superseded and Halleck placed in charge of military affairs at Washington.--Editors. though Mr. Stanton was opposed to it and used some pretty strong language to me concerning General Halleck
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Iuka and Corinth. (search)
y to my orders under certain conditions. General Mitchel's position was an isolated one. It happessity for the burning of the Decatur bridge. Mitchel had been instructed to destroy it in case he f its commander, could engage in these acts. Mitchel's refinement would be shocked by brutality unmeasures — seemed unavoidably to reflect upon Mitchel, and no doubt he felt them keenly, though thaay. But in spite of his peculiarities, General Mitchel was a valuable officer. He was a graduatl Records I knew nothing of the account which Mitchel after he went to Washington was called upon tld be deprived of his valuable services. General Mitchel was at last assigned to a sort of local cs work when there appeared a biography of General Mitchel written by his son (Boston: Houghton, Mif events of the civil war. At that time General O. M. Mitchel, under whose authority it was organize and direction (as the report says) of General O. M. Mitchel, the object of which was to destroy th[12 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Bragg's invasion of Kentucky. (search)
ncluded in this return also belonged to the army. This was the maximum force General Bragg could expect to concentrate at that point. General Halleck, immediately confronting Bragg with the armies of Grant, Pope, and Buell, had in and about Corinth a force of 128,315 men, of which the field return of June 1st showed 108,538 present for duty. A division reporting 8682 for duty, under the Federal General George W. Morgan, was at Cumberland Gap; a division with 6411 for duty, under General Ormsby M. Mitchel, was in north Alabama, and three brigades were located at Nashville, Murfreesboro‘, and other points in middle Tennessee. Buell soon started en route to north Alabama, General Halleck remaining at or near Corinth with seventy thousand men for duty, a force strong enough to hold Corinth and west Tennessee, while Buell could menace or even invade Alabama or north Georgia. The changed condition of the opposing armies during four months should now be considered. In January, 1862,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville. (search)
at Athens on the Nashville and Decatur Railroad on the 28th of June, and one division between the 1st and 6th of July, by a very inefficient ferry prepared by General Mitchel at Decatur. General Thomas with his division was still detained on the Corinth road under General Halleck's orders, and did not join at Huntsville until thch of the time thereafter the troops were on half rations. We could gather some forage from the country, but not enough for the animals. Before my arrival General Mitchel had urgently reported demonstrations of the enemy from the direction of Chattanooga. To the Secretary of War he said, June 21st: I am with difficulty maintai. We had no pontoon train, and the Tennessee was a formidable river, requiring a bridge 1400 yards long. The depredations of the small bands that had harassed Mitchel before my arrival were continued afterward, and soon demonstrated the necessity of defensive works for bridges and other vulnerable points. An inclosed earthwork
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Cumberland Gap. (search)
untains by another path, and, by incredible efforts, reached my headquarters in time to enable me to send couriers at full speed with orders for Spears to fall back toward Barboursville, until his scouts should report that Smith had recrossed the mountains. In order to succeed in the task committed to me it was necessary to compel Kirby Smith, who was at this time concentrating his whole army in my immediate front, to divide his forces. To this end I urged General Buell to direct General O. M. Mitchel to threaten Chattanooga, and thus draw the main force of the Confederates in that direction. About four miles south of Cumberland Gap is a narrow defile formed by an abrupt mountain on one side, and the Cumberland River on the other, through which passes the State Road to Cumberland Gap, and on the edge of the defile was an abandoned cabin, known as The Moss House, situated at the junction of the State Road and a pathway leading to Lambdin's on the main road to Big Creek Gap. On
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
, two regiments of infantry. This large army was divided into four grand divisions, commanded respectively by Brigadier. Generals Alexander McDowell McCook, Ormsby M. Mitchel, George H. Thomas, and Thomas L. Crittenden, acting as major-generals, aided by twenty brigade commanders. These divisions occupied a line across the State,k's, as we have observed, was in the vicinity of Mumfordsville. Brigadier-General William Nelson was about ten miles farther east, with a considerable force, and Mitchel's was held as a reserve to aid McCook in his contemplated attack on Hindman, at Cave City. General Thomas was at Columbia, midway between Bowling Green on the wesuell, Thomas was recalled. The latter turned back, marched westward, and joined Nelson at Glassgow, in Barren County, on Hardee's right flank. In the mean time, Mitchel, with his reserves that formed Buell's center, had moved toward the Green River in the direction of Bowling Green. These developments satisfied Johnston that Bue
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
pired all along the Confederate line by the fall of Fort Henry, and the forward movement of General Mitchel, of Buell's army, from his camp at Bacon's Creek, across the Green River at Mumfordsville, each required the immediate evacuation of these posts. He issued orders accordingly, and when Mitchel, having marched forty-two miles in thirty-two hours, reached the northern bank of the Barren Riin body of Johnston's troops, seven or eight thousand strong, had left it and fled south-ward. Mitchel found the bridges on that stream all destroyed; and when, on the same night, Colonel Turchin cras Rangers, left behind for the purpose, and who were then just moving off on a railway train. Mitchel's troops were exhausted by their forced march in the keen frosty air, and the labor of removingour. Happily for the well-disposed inhabitants, Colonel Kenner, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry, of Mitchel's division, entered the city on Sunday evening, the 23d, and endeavored to restore order. He w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. Grant and hill's Army Morgan, the guerrilla chief, 264. Mitchel's extraordinary March southward, 265. capturft Nashville. A part of his force, under General Mitchel, went in the direction of Huntsville, in fight near the banks of the Tennessee. General Mitchel performed his part of the grand movement southward Ormsby M. Mitchel. with the most wonderful vigor and success. With the engines and cadefeated in a battle near Pittsburg Landing. Mitchel had passed through a very hostile region, butmong the inhabitants, On this day's march, Mitchel's army passed the extensive estate of L. Pope were true, as we shall observe presently. Mitchel had pushed on with his cavalry to within eighrious by their victory before Corinth. General Mitchel's thanks to his soldiers, Camp Taylor, Hucomplished without the loss of a single life, Mitchel was commissioned a Major-General of Volunteer[2 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
ents of the National Army checked by Halleck Mitchel's troops driven from Tuscumbia and Decatur, 2 cause. This dispatch was intercepted by General Mitchel, at Huntsville, and gave, doubtless, a co's occupation of the railway. At this time Mitchel's left was threatened by a considerable forcermish occurred the next day. April 29, 1862. Mitchel, on hearing of the danger to his left, had haation. Having secured the post at Bridgeport, Mitchel wrote to the Secretary of War on the first ofl declined to do so. Oral statement of General Mitchel to the author, in August, 1862. McClethe same-position. When General Buell joined Mitchel, after the close of the siege of Corinth, theacross the Tennessee River. Reports of Generals Mitchel and Negley, May 14th and 18th, 1862. l at Nashville, and that officer directed General Mitchel, then at Murfreesboro, to furnish him witnnessee, was skillful, active, and watchful. Mitchel had asked for re-enforcements, but they were [20 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
the latter part of chapter XIII. and at the same time that river was held by the National forces from Memphis to St. Louis. General Thomas was at the head of a large force holding Southwestern Tennessee, See page 296. and Generals Buell and Mitchel were on the borders of East Tennessee, where the Confederates were disputing the passage of National troops farther southward and eastward than the line of the Tennessee River. Beauregard's army was at Tupelo and vicinity, under General Bragg. See page 294. Halleck had just been called to Washington to be General-in-Chief, and Mitchel was soon afterward transferred to the command of the Department of the South, with his Headquarters at Hilton Head. Although the great armies of the Confederates had been driven from Kentucky and Tennessee, the absence of any considerable Union force excepting on the southern borders of the latter State, permitted a most distressing guerrilla warfare to be carried on within the borders of those co
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