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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
articles, required for the use of Early's division, as the requisition said, were furnished. Early also proceeded to the extensive iron works of Thaddeus Stevens, member of Congress, in that region, and, because of his eminent services in the National legislature, in providing means for crushing the rebellion, caused his property, to the amount of $50,000, to be destroyed. This was done by fire by the hands of some of Jenkins's cavalry. When the writer was at Marietta, in Georgia, in May, 1866, he met there a captain in that cavalry, by the name of Stevens, who boasted of being one of those who committed the sturdy old patriot's property to the flames. Early directed certificates to be given the citizens of York for property contributed, well knowing that they were as worthless as the Confederate scrip which Lee ordered to be paid for supplies. No man knew better than did Lee, at that time, that a slip of soiled paper would have been as valuable to the citizens of Pennsylvania
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
ass in the Missionaries' Ridge, about five miles from Chattanooga, and was yet standing and well preserved when the writer visited that region and sketched it in May, 1866. It was a long, low building, two stories in height, with heavy stone chimneys. It was called Rossville. A few rods in front of it was the dividing line betweoints of his foe, while his own position was more than half concealed. Bragg concentrated his Crawfish Spring. this is from a sketch made by the author, in May, 1866. the Spring is really the outlet of a large subterranean brook, that here flows out at the foot of a rocky, wooded hill, whose summit is about fifty feet above. Arrangements were made for crossing the Chickamauga at different points simultaneously, Lee and Gordon's Mill. this is from a sketch made by the author in May, 1866. this Mill is on the left bank of the Chickamauga Creek, and near the Lafayette and Rossville road, about twelve miles south of Chattanooga. In this view the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
actually dismounted one of the guns in the Confederate battery on the top of Lookout Mountain, nearly fifteen hundred feet above it. It was now about two o'clock in the afternoon. The mountain was completely enveloped in a dense cloud — so dense as to make further movements perilous, if not impossible. All the morning, while the struggle was going View of Lookout Mountain and Valley from Chattanooga. this is from a sketch from Cameron's hill, at Chattanooga, made by the writer in May, 1866, in which the ruins of Mr. Cameron's house is seen in the foreground. Below is seen the Tennessee River, winding around Moccasin Point. In the distance, at the center, rises Lookout Mountain, on the face of which the white spot indicates the place of Craven's house, on the plateau. In Lookout Valley, to the right, is the hill on which Hooker was stationed during the fight. Farther to the right are seen the northeastern slopes of Raccoon Mountain. on, the mountain was hooded with vapor
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
rallied half way down the other side of the hill, and, supported by re-enforcements, returned to the attack with overwhelming numbers, and drove Turchin from his prize. The Nationals fell back, and Palmer, finding his adversaries gathering in much larger force than his own in his front, and hovering on his flanks, and informed that Johnston, on hearing of Sherman's retreat from Meridian, had Buzzard's Roost and Rocky face. this is from a sketch made by the author from the railway, in May, 1866. the view is from a point a little south of Dalton. ordered back the divisions of Hardee sent to re-enforce Polk, he thought it prudent to retreat to Tunnel Hill. This was done at once, and on the 10th of March his command took post at Ringgold. In this short campaign the Nationals lost three hundred and fifty killed and wounded, and the Confederates about two hundred. The sphere of General Forrest's duties were at this time enlarged, and their importance increased. He was acknowle
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
Dreer and Greble), visited Greenville and other places in the great Valley of East Tennessee, while on our journey, in May, 1866, from the scenes of Sherman's Atlantic campaigns, into Virginia, to visit the theater of the simultaneous campaign agailities of interest in and around that city, Governor Brownlow's House. this is from a sketch made by the author in May, 1866. the Street porch alluded to in the text is seen at the front of the House. The nearer building to the right of it, pxville, Whig, and also by several young Union officers, whose courtesy we can never forget. On the morning of the 23d May, 1866. we rode to the railway station, behind the large, stout, black family horse of Governor Brownlow, which bore General M of Virginia, such notable places were many. Over that region and beyond we passed on the night of the 24th and 25th, May, 1866. and at six o'clock in the morning were at Mount Airy, twenty-eight hundred feet above the Richmond basin, and said to
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
on at the head of a shaded lane leading from the turnpike. The house and its surroundings were in a dilapidated state when the writer visited it at the close of May, 1866. See the next page. Orders were given for a general attack the next morning May 13. but the National line was then so thin that the movement was thought too ha the appearance of the old tavern, on the stage route between Richmond and Petersburg, known as the half-way House, as it appeared when the writer sketched it in May, 1866. with the requisition which deprived him of all power to make further offensive movements, saying the necessities of the Army of the Potomac have bottled me up a they had cast up a line of intrenchments. Their rifle trenches were in the open field, between the chimney and the woods. When the writer visited the spot, in May, 1866, the thin strip of woods mentioned in the text had disappeared. and provisions for Lee's army from the south and southwest, and compel its surrender. His prime
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
summit of great Kenesaw, when the writer sketched it, in May, 1866. in the foreground is seen the remains of a Confederate ed by the ravages of war. When the writer sketched it, in May, 1866, it was occupied as a boarding-house, and was the Headquad of July, as it appeared when the writer sketched it, in May, 1866. it was in the woods seen in front of it, and not more tlway and the Decatur road, and the writer sketched it, in May, 1866. Then advancing rapidly, they broke through the Union linearance of the place when the writer sketched it, late in May, 1866. was found at Lovejoy's, not far distant, strongly intrenpearance of Allatoona Pass when the writer sketched it in May, 1866. the railway there passes through a cut in a ridge, on t 1834, from Dalton to Atlanta, in the delightful month of May, 1866. We left Chattanooga early on the morning of the 15th, May, 1866. by railway. After passing through the tunnel at the Missionaries' Ridge, we crossed the Chickamauga River several
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
ain upon Hood's reckless waste of life at Atlanta, and the probabilities of defeat in all the future. The writer visited the battle-field of Franklin early in May, 1866. He went down from Nashville by railway, at evening, with General James Brownlow, then adjutant-general of Tennessee, who was severely wounded in that battle whantry, but was yet so deficient in cavalry, that he withheld his intended Wood's Headquarters. this is from a sketch made by the writer, at sunset, early in May, 1866, when the beautiful grounds around the mansion, which had been disfigured during the war, were restored, in a great degree, to their former appearance. blow aga, and General Stoneman, with Gillem's command, went back to Knoxville. The writer visited Nashville, and the battle-field in its vicinity, at the beginning of May, 1866, after a voyage on the Cumberland to Fort Donelson and back, See page 226, volume II. and he was placed under many obligations to General Thomas, and members