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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 16: Dana returns to Washington (search)
militia) till darkness covered the field, and it saved everything for us. In this fight the men who most distinguished themselves were Generals Thomas, Granger, Steedman, Brannan, Palmer, Hazen, Turchin, and Colonel Harker. The last — named commanded a brigade which got out of ammunition, and at the end three times repulsed the 0th, as well as from the more deliberate statements of the correspondents and historical writers, there can be no doubt that the fortuitous coming of Granger and Steedman, with five thousand men of the reserve corps, to the right of the line at Chickamauga arrested the progress of Longstreet and saved the Union army from ruin. Dana did all in his power for Granger and Steedman, as he did for many others whose qualities attracted his attention in this campaign. Colonel Harker, whom he mentions with others as having especially distinguished himself, was a young West-Pointer who was promoted to brigadier-general for conspicuous gallantry in this battle. Ma
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 21: administration of War Department (search)
eks from now. About brevets for your officers, I suppose the fact is just the same as with everybody else, Mr. Stanton has been too busy to sign the papers. There is a pile of them about two feet high now lying upon his table, and I presume, though I don't know, that yours are in with the rest. I propose to show your letter to General Grant, but to no one else. Rawlins has gone to Galena with his wife. General Grant has gone to Albany to celebrate the Fourth. General Halleck is here on his way to San Francisco. Slocum is assigned to command Mississippi, and I suppose Steedman will have Georgia. A heap of generals will be mustered out very soon, but you are not in the lot. Poe is here getting up his engineer's work from Sherman's campaigns, but I haven't seen him. Ulffers is with him. He came to see me the other day. Peter Hains got his leave of absence about three weeks since to take command of a New Jersey regiment, so that he is a colonel in spite of everything.
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
319, 320. Springfield Republican, 403, 431, 437. Squatter Sovereignty, 98. Staats & Dana, 4, 9. Stanton, Secretary, preface, 170, 178, 181-189, 193-195, 197, 198, 200, 203-205, 207, 209, 210, 212, 215, 218, 223, 225, 226, 229, 233, 237, 240, 242-249, 255-258, 266, 267, 269, 271, 274, 276, 277, 285, 286, 289, 290, 294, 296, 298-302, 305, 306, 309, 311, 312, 316, 322, 328, 329, 332, 337, 338, 339, 346, 348, 350, 351, 352, 354, 362, 363, 366, 367, 369, 371,382, 383, 473, 474. Steedman, General, 266, 369. Stevenson, Colonel, 246; station, 278. Stevens's Gap, 256, 257. Stoneman, General, 303, 304, 341. Strike of carpenters, 101. Strike in Chicago, 480, 481. Sumner, Senator, 99, 148, 153, 422, 423, 425. Sumter, Fort, 164, 165, 177. Sun, New York, 379-382, 384, 386, 388, 392, 393-395, 397-399, 404, 405, 408, 409, 414-417, 419, 423-425, 427, 428, 430, 431, 433, 438, 439, 443-446, 453, 458, 459, 461, 465, 466, 468-471, 475-478, 484, 490, 495, 511, 514, 515. Sunflo