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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 2: (search)
ge 219 of Vol. I: Though it was mid-winter, General Halleck was pushing his preparations most vigorously, and surely he brought order out of chaos in St. Louis with commendable energy. I remember one night sitting in his room, on the second floor of the Planters' House, with him and General Cullum, his chief of staff, talking of things generally, and the subject then was of the much-talked — of advance, as soon as the season would permit. Most people urged the movement down the Mississippi River; but Generals Polk and Pillow had a large rebel force with heavy guns in a very strong position at Columbus, Ky., about eighteen miles below Cairo; Commodore Foote had his gun-boat fleet at Cairo; and General U. S. Grant, who commanded the district, was collecting a large force at Paducah, Cairo, and Bird's Point. General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked, Where is the rebel line? Cullum drew the pencil through Bowling Green, Forts Donelson and
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 3: (search)
ept pickets well out on the roads, and made myself familiar with all the ground inside and outside my lines. Of the events immediately preceding the battle, General Sherman writes as follows: I always acted on the supposition that we were an invading army; that our purpose was to move forward in force, make a lodgment on the Memphis & Charleston Road, and thus repeat the grand tactics of Fort Donelson, by separating the rebels in the interior from those at Memphis and on the Mississippi River. We did not fortify our camps against an attack, because we had no orders to do so, and because such a course would have made our raw men timid. The position was naturally strong, with Snake Creek on our right, a deep, bold stream, with a confluent (Owl Creek) to our right front, and Lick Creek, with a similar confluent on our left, thus narrowing the space over which we could be attacked to about a mile and a half or two miles. At a later period of the war we could have rendered
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 5: (search)
ragraph of that order: headquarters Thirteenth Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Miss., December 8, 1862. Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman, commanding Right Wing Army in the Field, present. General: You will proceed with as little delay as practicable to Memphis, Tennessee, taking with you one division of your present command. On your arrival at Memphis you will assume command of all the troops there, and that portion of General Curtis' forces at present east of the Mississippi River, and organize them into brigades and divisions in your own way. As soon as possible move with them down the river to the vicinity of Vicksburg, and with the cooperation of the gun-boat fleet under command of Flag-Officer Porter, proceed to the reduction of that place in such manner as circumstances and your own judgment may dictate. * * * * U. S. Grant, Major-General. On the same day Grant telegraphed to Halleck: General Sherman will command the expedition down the Mississip
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 6: (search)
General-in-Chief. War Department, September 14, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. There are good reasons why troops should be sent to assist General Rosecrans' right wing with all possible dispatch. Communicate with Sherman to assist you, and hurry forward reenforcements as previously directed. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. War Department, September 15, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. All troops that can possibly be spared in Western Tennessee and on the Mississippi River should be sent without delay to assist General Rosecrans on the Tennessee River. Urge General Sherman to act with all possible promptness. If you have boats send them down to bring up his troops. Information just received indicates that a part of Lee's army has been sent to reenforce Bragg. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. War Department, September 19, 1863. Major-General Rosecrans, Chattanooga. * * * On the 15th Hurlbut says he is moving forward toward Decatur. I hear no
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 7: (search)
mers for Vicksburg, I also reembarked for the same destination on the 27th of January. * * * * The object of the Meridian expedition was to strike the roads inland, so to paralyze the rebel forces, that we could take from the defense of the Mississippi River the equivalent of a corps of twenty thousand men, to be used in the next Georgia campaign; and this was actually done. At the same time I wanted to destroy General Forrest, who, with an irregular force of cavalry, was constantly threatenineen fully attained: [special field orders no. 20.] headquarters Department of the Tennessee, Meridian, Miss., February 18th, 1864. 1. Having fulfilled, and well, all the objects of the expedition, the troops will return to the Mississippi River to embark in another equally important movement. 2. * * * * The march will begin on the 20th instant, and the corps commanders will not pass Union and Decatur until they have communicated with each other by couriers across at these point
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
l be able to collect about twenty thousand men from that part of his command now along the Mississippi River available for a movement eastward from Vicksburg. He expects to have these ready to startthis service might be taken from the colored troops. 3d. By properly fortifying on the Mississippi River, the force to guard it from Port Hudson to New Orleans can be reduced to ten thousand men,lmington, you should strike for Savannah and its river; that General Canby should hold the Mississippi River, and send a force to take Columbus, Georgia, either by way of the Alabama or Appalachicolaton and the city of Savannah from your center, and let General Canby have command over the Mississippi River and the country west of it, I will send a force to the Alabama and Appalachicola, providedould-be Confederacy in two again, as it had been cut once by our gaining possession of the Mississippi River. General Sherman's plan virtually effected this object. That part of Sherman's plan h
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
ly apprehended that while Hood, with a part of his forces, held you in check near Nashville, he would have time to cooperate against other important points, left only partially protected. Hence, Lieutenant-General Grant was anxious that you should attack the rebel forces in your front, and expresses great dissatisfaction that his order has not been carried out. 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 navigation, and to hold Memphis, Vicksburg, etc., although General Grant had directed a part of these forces to cooperate with Sherman. Every day's delay on your part, therefore, seriously interferes with General Grant's plans. H. W. Halleck, Major-General and Chief of Staff. On the 14th General Grant himself left City Point for Nashville to assume command, but was met at Washington by the news of Thomas' victory. Nashville, December 14, 1864, 8 P. M.
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 18: (search)
ia and Alabama without our being able to prevent it by any forces now at our disposal. It is believed that we could not at the present moment gather together an army of thirty thousand men by a concentration of all our forces east of the Mississippi River. Our sea-coast is in possession of the enemy, and we can not obtain arms and munitions — from abroad except in very small quantities and by precarious and uncertain means of transportation. We have lost possession in Virginia and Nortill at command, many are unarmed, and the Ordnance Department can not furnish five thousand stand of small arms. I do not think it would be possible to assemble, equip, and maintain an army of thirty thousand men at any point east of the Mississippi River. The contest, if continued after this paper is rejected, will be likely to lose entirely the dignity of regular warfare, many of the States will make such terms as they may, in others separate and ineffective hostilities may be prosecut