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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 178 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 84 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 98 (search)
nfantry, under Captain Campbell, and went to Pilot Knob. Major James Wilson, Third Missouri State mis were to have Major Wilson endeavor to hold Pilot Knob against any mere detachment of the enemy, bu of which, and about a mile from the town of Pilot Knob, is the village of Ironton. Through this gammanding the best approaches. On reaching Pilot Knob at noon of Monday, September twenty-sixth, Iks of the Iron Company, at the north base of Pilot Knob had been fired by the enemy, and the immenserdered Shelby's division down from Potosi to Pilot Knob, to take part in a second attack, and that tn, we reached Webster, thirty-one miles from Pilot Knob, and rested until midnight. From informationof endurance. Nearly an hundred citizens of Pilot Knob and Ironton (among whom were General McCormild the same opinion, and he ordered Ewing to Pilot Knob, with a brigade of A. J. Smith's command, buValley. General Ewing saved the stores at Pilot Knob, and sent them to St. Louis in safety; he sa[20 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
es superior to those of Price, and no doubt was entertained he would be able to check Price and drive him back; while the forces under General Steele, in Arkansas, would cut off his retreat. On the twenty-sixth day of September, Price attacked Pilot Knob, and forced the garrison to retreat, and thence moved north to the Missouri river, and continued up that river toward Kansas. General Curtis, commanding department of Kansas, immediately collected such forces as he could to repel the invasion o time, and the incalculable mischief done by him, shows to how little purpose a superior force may be used. There is no reason why General Rosecrans should not have concentrated his forces, and beaten and driven Price before the latter reached Pilot Knob. September twentieth, the enemy's cavalry, under Forrest, crossed the Tennessee near Waterloo, Alabama, and on the twenty-third attacked the garrison at Athens, consisting of six hundred men, which capitulated on the tenty-fourth. Soon afte
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 123 (search)
join us, and we came up to the rebels, General Meade changed his mind, again refused to attack, and marched the army back to Culpepper. Shortly after this campaign I was ordered to the Department of the Missouri, and my connection with the Army of the Potomac ceased. campaign of Price in Missouri. The rebel General Price, with twenty-five thousand men and eighteen pieces of artillery, invaded the State of Missouri, from Arkansas, in October, 1864. He attacked the field-work near Pilot Knob, in the south-eastern part of the State and, although he was repulsed, the garrison abandoned the work and fled to Rolla, some sixty miles to the south-west, where two brigades of cavalry were stationed. Price then moved up toward Franklin, and threatened Saint Louis. General A. J. Smith's command was thrown out to Franklin to cover that place, when Price turned off to Jefferson City, destroying the railroads as he went along; and, on arriving at Jefferson City, he besieged it for several
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 124 (search)
him freely as to my movemements, that his might be cooperative. On the second of the same month, and before it was possible for any considerable preparation to have been made for the execution of this order, the following telegraphic despatch was received: St. Louis, November 2, 1861. To Brigadier-General Grant: Jeff. Thompson is at Indian ford of the St. Francis river, twenty-five miles below Greenville, with about three thousand men. Colonel Carlin has started with force from Pilot Knob. Send a force from Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point to assist Carlin in driving Thompson into Arkanas. By order of Major-General Fremont. Chauncey McKeever, Assistant Adjutant-General. The force I determined to send from Bird's Point were immediately designated, and Colonel R. J. Oglesby, Eighth Illinois volunteers, assigned to the command, under the following detailed instructions: headquarters District South-East Missouri, Cairo, November 8, 1861. Colonel R. J. Oglesby, com
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 157 (search)
re. On the twenty-fourth Shelby was reported south of Pilot Knob, moving toward Farmington, with five thousand men and fotrate the troops in the southern part of his district at Pilot Knob and Cape Girardeau, and to verify the accuracy of this rd to a point on the Iron Mountain railroad as far toward Pilot Knob as he deemed compatible with certainty that his positionrequested to organize and arm. General Ewing was sent to Pilot Knob, with directions to use his utmost exertions to find outsion was in South-east Missouri, and to that end to hold Pilot Knob until he was certain. With a soldierly comprehension ofhen information of Ewing's fight and Price's presence at Pilot Knob came to hand, General Smith, discovering the enemy in hig its apparently formidable intrenchments, warned by his Pilot Knob experience in storming earthworks, he declined attacking for military judgment, courage and gallantry in holding Pilot Knob till he had certainty of the enemy's force, as well as f