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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 6: (search)
is not known here. General Rosecrans will require all the assistance you can give him to hold Chattanooga. September 22d.—Yours of yesterday is received. I must again urge you to move immediately to Rosecrans' relief. I fear your delay has already prompted Bragg to prevent your communication. Do not allow your troops to be caught by the enemy south of the Tennessee River. To all appearances your only safety is to move down on the north side. Sam. Jones is not likely to move from Danville unless reenforced. If the enemy should cross the Tennessee above Chattanooga you will be separated from Rosecrans, who may not be able to hold out on the south side. Washington, September 27th, headquarters of the Army. Your orders before leaving Kentucky, and frequently repeated telegrams after, were to connect your left on General Rosecrans' right, so that, if the enemy concentrated on one, the other would be able to assist. General Rosecrans was attacked on Chickamauga Cre
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
ired by the occasion. The plan of cutting off a retreat from the direction of Burksville and Danville is hardly worthy one of his military education and genius. When he contemplated an act so quesnd one corps of infantry also, the whole under Sheridan. The infantry need not go further than Danville, unless they receive orders hereafter to do so. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. Generad been disapproved and orders given to resume hostilities, and directed me to move my troops on Danville and Greensboro, precisely as I did move them, there to await his further orders. My instructioduty. 5th. General Sherman sneers at my sending troops from the direction of Burkesville and Danville against Davis in North Carolina as hardly worthy of my military education and genius. However hich he then notified me, and recalled a part of the troops which he had directed me to send to Danville and Greensboro. 9th. There is but one other point in General Sherman's official complaint t