The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas |
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action advance Alabama artillery assault Asst Atlanta Atlanta campaign attack Battery battle of Chickamauga battle of Nashville believe Bragg brigade Brigadier-General Buell campaign Captain cavalry centre Chattanooga Chickamauga Chief Colonel command Confederate coöperation Crittenden crossed Cumberland Dalton Davis Decatur defeat defense Department despatch detached directed Duck River East Tennessee enemy enemy's fight forces Fourteenth corps Fourth corps Franklin front Georgia Halleck HEADQUARTERS hold Hood Hood's army Hooker infantry Johnston Kentucky left flank Lieut line of battle Lookout Mountain Major-General mand McCook McMinnville ment miles Military Division Missionary Ridge Mississippi move movement Murfreesboro Negley's offensive officers Ohio operations Peach Tree Creek position President pursuit railroad rear rebel reënforcements regiments Resaca retreat right flank road Rosecrans Rossville Schofield sent Sherman Smith soldiers Spring Hill success Tenn Tennessee River Thomas thousand tion troops U. S. Grant Valley victory Virginia Vols Wilson Wood's
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Page 28 - Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, ordained and established at Montgomery, Alabama, on the...
Page 409 - A Prayer for the President of the United States, and all in Civil Authority.
Page 410 - District whence he escaped ; and the better to enable the said Commissioners, when thus appointed, to execute their duties faithfully and efficiently, in conformity with the requirements of the Constitution of the United States, and...
Page 334 - Our line, thus pierced, gave way; soon thereafter it broke at all points, and I beheld for the first and only time a Confederate army abandon the field in confusion.
Page 217 - On the 30th of April, the enemy attacked him while crossing Saline River at Jenkins's Ferry, but was repulsed with considerable loss. Our loss was about six hundred in killed, wounded and prisoners. Major-General Canby, who had been assigned to the command of the "Military Division of the West Mississippi...
Page 56 - Spring, the nation will realize its hopes, and the people of the United States will rejoice to honor every soldier and officer who proves his courage by charging with the bayonet and storming intrenchments, or in the blaze of the enemy's fire.
Page 160 - ... between Dalton and Cleveland. Rations should be ready to issue a sufficiency to last four days the moment Missionary Ridge is in our possession ; rations to be carried in haversacks. Where there are not horses to move the artillery, mules must be taken from the teams, or horses from ambulances ; or, if necessary, officers dismounted, and their horses taken. Immediate preparations should be made to carry these directions into execution. The movement should not be made a moment later than to-morrow...
Page 357 - I hope, in urging me to push the enemy, the department remembers that General Sherman took with him the complete organization of the Military Division of the Mississippi, •well equipped in every respect, as regards ammunition, supplies, and transportation, leaving me only two corps, partially stripped of their transportation, to accommodate the force taken with him, to oppose the advance into Tennessee of that army which had resisted the advance of the army of the Military Division of the Mississippi...
Page 301 - If Hood is permitted to remain quietly about Nashville, we will lose all the roads back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tenenssee River, should he attack you it is all well, but if he does not, you should attack him before he fortifies.
Page 360 - I arrived here at 1 pm, and must leave at 6 pm, having in the mean time spent over three hours with the secretary and General Halleck, I must be brief. Before your last request to have Thomas make a campaign into the heart of Alabama, I had ordered Schofield to Annapolis, Maryland, with his corps. The advance (six thousand) will reach the seaboard by the 23d, the remainder following as rapidly as railroad transportation can be procured from Cincinnati. The corps numbers over twentyone thousand men.