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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
nt we captured about two thousand prisoners. Gen. Wheeler's cavalry routed the enemy in the neighborhood of Decatur to-day, capturing his camp. Our loss is not yet fully ascertained. Major Gen. Walker was killed. Brig Gens. Smith, Gist, and Mercer were wounded. Prisoners report that Gen. McPherson was killed. Our troops fought with great gallantry. J. B. Hood, General. The "Associated Press" dispatch is very muddy, though we presume that the Gens. Smith and Giles mentioned in it are Gens. Smith and Gist mentioned by Gen. Hood. Had the enemy captured East Point that would have completely invested the city, and Sherman could have commenced his siege. The brilliant movement of Wheeler, who is now, it appears, operation on the enemy, 'instead of covering our retreats, if correctly reported, is very damaging to Sherman's army. The supplies for the Yankees are brought across the Chattahoochee, and then wagoned to Decatur, a distance of about 1
The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Fighting in Georgia. (search)
panic-stricken were the vandals that the first line threw down their arms and ran towards our lines, shouting at the top of their voices: "Don't shoot, we surrender!" The prisoners sent to the rear, Hardee attacked the second line and carried it, but with considerable loss to his corps. He held their works for more than a day, no serious effort being made to molest him, and then moved to a more fruitful portion of the field. It was in this fight that Lieutenant Joe Clay Habersham of General Gist's staff, fell, a shell having torn off both legs and horribly mutilated his body. His younger brother, private William Neil Habersham, hearing of the disaster after the battle, resolved to average his brother's death. Being sent on picket duty, he advanced to the front of the enemy's lines, all alone, and poured fire after fire into them until ten shots had been expended, when he fell dead, pierced through the head with a ball. At last accounts his body had not been recovered. The
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
were so closely pressed that at times it was thought the artillery wagon train would have to be abandoned; but, by good management, they were all brought through safely. A telegram, dated Nashville, the 4th instant, which is the latest the Yankees have, says nothing occurred on that day. The Confederates were throwing up breastworks in half a mile of the Yankee works. The same dispatch has the following about the Confederate losses: Prisoners, brought in to-day, say that Brigadier-Generals Gist, Strabl, Granberry and Brown, of the rebel army, were killed at Franklin, and that General Cheatham lost every brigadier in his corps. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial, from Nashville, says Murfreesboro', Bridgeport and Chattanooga are safe.--Nashville and the surrounding country for miles have been converted into huge forts. "The destruction of rebel property to facilitate the defence of the city has been immense. Almost all the rich property holders hereabouts are reb
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
in and drove them from their centre lines of temporary works into the inner lines, which they evacuated during the night, leaving their dead, and wounded in our possession, and retired to Nashville, closely pursued by our cavalry. "We captured several stands of colors and about one thousand prisoners. "Our troops fought with great gallantry. "We have to lament the less of many gallant officers and brave men. "Major-General Cleburne, Brigadier-Generals John Williams, Adams, Gist, Strahi and Granburg were killed; Major-General John Brown and Brigadier-Generals Carter, Manignauir, Quaries Cockerell and Scott were wounded. Brigadier-General Gordon was captured. "J. B. Hood, General." A subsequent telegram from General Hood says that our loss of officers was excessively large in proportion to the loss of men. From Georgia--Fort McAllister taken by Sherman. Official intelligence was received yesterday that the enemy, on Wednesday, carried Fort McA
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate account of the battle of Franklin. (search)
ated this line and retired to Nashville. Our army then occupied this line; and early the next day pushed on towards Nashville; and on the 1st of December, when our informant left, the rear corps was at Breatwood, eight miles from Nashville. "The loss of the enemy could not be ascertained, as they had removed most of their dead. Our loss was heavy — between two and four thousand. The distressing mortality among our generals is confirmed. There were five killed--Cleburne, Strabl, Granberry, Gist and John C. Carter. There were five generals wounded — Quaries, not mortally, as first reported; Brown, slightly; Johnson, and the names of the other two were not remembered by our informant. General Gordon was captured. A large amount of stores were captured, especially at Columbia. Recruits are joining Hood's army in numbers more than sufficient to supply all the losses, and the army is in high spirits. General Pillow arrived at his plantation in time to capture large stores.
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Furloughs in the Navy. (search)
Confederate generals killed and wounded at Franklin. --Major-General Pat. Cleburne was a native of Ireland. He had resided in Arkansas many years before the war, and was a lawyer by profession. Brigadier-General Strahl was, we believe, a native of Ohio, but was residing in Tennessee at the commencement of the war. Major General Gist was a South Carolinian. Brigadier-General Gordon was a Tennessean by birth, but until the commencement of hostilities had resided some years in Texas. At that time he returned to Tennessee and raised a company. Brigadier-General Granbury was from Texas, but whether a native or not, we do not remember. Major General Quarles was a Virginian by birth, but from boyhood had been a resident of Tennessee. He was a lawyer by profession, and had only recently received his promotion as major-general. He is reported mortally wounded. Major-General John C. Brown is a Tennessean, and a lawyer by profession. He is reported only sl
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. (search)
ht, including two at Murfreesboro' and three between Franklin and Spring Hill. It is supposed this is nearly all the artillery Hood had. A large force has been put to work to repair the Decatur railroad, and trains will soon follow the army. A gentleman who conversed with General Cheatham a few days before the battle around this city, gives the following information, gathered from that officer in conversation: The rebels lost six generals at Franklin — Strahl, Granbury, Cleburne, Gist, Adams, and another, whose name is not remembered. General W. A. Quarles had his arm shattered, General John C. Brown was wounded in the thigh, and five other generals were wounded, whose names are not recollected. General Cheatham's corps bore the brunt of the fight, as the provost marshal's roll of prisoners shows, and lost three thousand men; Stewart and Lee's corps lost two thousand, making the grand total of the rebel loss five thousand, by the acknowledgment of one of their le
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], The battle of Franklin--an Authentic Description. (search)
The battle of Franklin--an Authentic Description. The South Carolinian is indebted to an officer of the late General Gist's staff, who has just arrived from the Army of Tennessee, for the following clear and comprehensive account of the battle at Franklin, Tennessee. It is a fight that requires a good deal of explanation, and anything throwing light on it is valuable: "Columbia, Tennessee, was first threatened by Lee's corps. Subsequently, Cheatham's corps arrived. On Sunday eveninss of veterans, the gaps were filled by the living, and the column moved on. "The first line of breastworks was swept clean. Our loss had been great. The noble Cleburne fell, shot through the head with four balls, and died on the ramparts. Gist, previously wounded in the leg, had refused to leave the field, limping along on foot, cheering his men, finally received a ball through the breast, that took away his precious life; while Brown, Manigault, Johnson, Strahl, and scores of field and
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