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Daniel S. Donelson (search for this): chapter 38
n said to the ambitious Hindman, who had been in the vanguard from the beginning: You have earned your spurs as major-general. Let this day's work win them. Men of Arkansas! he exclaimed to a regiment from that State, they say you boast of your prowess with the bowie-knife. To-day you wield a nobler weapon — the bayonet. Employ it well. It was with such words, as he rode from point to point, that he raised a spirit in that host which swept away the serried lines of the conquerors of Donelson. As he looked around on his soldiers he might well feel more like the chieftain who leads his clansmen to battle than the mere general of an army. Everywhere he beheld men bound to him by ties of ancient friendship or of service on other fields. There was Polk, his life-long friend; Hardee, for the last six years his major, for the last six months his right arm in war; Breckinridge, bound to him by many ties and marked out by him for the highest military distinctions; and Gilmer, his
Wickham (search for this): chapter 38
is coat, and righted him up in the saddle, bending forward as I did so, and, looking him in the face, said, General, are you wounded? In a very deliberate and emphatic tone he answered, Yes, and I fear seriously. At that moment I requested Captain Wickham to go with all possible speed for a surgeon, to send the first one he could find, but to proceed until he could find Dr. Yandell, the medical director, and bring him. The general's hold upon his rein relaxed, and it dropped from his hand. S orderly with two fresh horses; left Fire-eater with the orderly, and mounted one of the fresh horses and proceeded to report to General Beauregard. Other members of the staff confirm all this, with the following slight variations: Captain Wickham assisted Governor Harris in lifting General Johnston from his horse, and then went for a surgeon. General Preston came up before General Johnston's death. Kneeling by him, he cried passionately, Johnston, do you know me? General Johnston s
Comte Paris (search for this): chapter 38
came up in support, but did not attempt to cross this valley of death. The Confederate artillery was said not to have been brought to bear with sufficient effect here ; and, though the musketry-fire was kept up, no impression was made. The Comte de Paris thinks this ought to have been the chief point assailed by the Confederate army en masse; but, as it was the strongest point on the line and virtually impregnable to a direct attack, the course pursued of turning it on the right seems incompaer, and throw him. back on Owl Creek,. where he will be obliged to surrender. It is seen that from the first they were carried out in letter and spirit, and as long as General Johnston lived the success of this movement was complete. The Comte de Paris, following American writers, both Northern and Southern, and their incorrect topographical descriptions, adopts the view that General Johnston should have massed his army on the Federal right, turned that flank, and driven it up the river int
Generals Chalmers (search for this): chapter 38
the bayonet, and drove it back half a mile. Chalmers was about to charge again, when General Johnss it advanced, gaps were left on the flanks. Chalmers occupied that on the right, near Lick Creek. fight, they were driven back down the river. Chalmers's right now rested on the Tennessee River botwas hammering upon this part of the line; and Chalmers, joining in the onset, turned their flank. Aidge, pushed in on Prentiss's left flank; and Chalmers on his rear-and thus intercepted his retreat.again for a final attack, two brigades, under Chalmers and Jackson, on the extreme right, had cleareheir officers, and by the vigorous attacks by Chalmers late that evening and early next morning, aft movements at the front, the last assaults by Chalmers and Jackson. But these were, in fact, only p strength and character of the attack made by Chalmers and Jackson, and the measure of the resistancre, continued the fight alone until dark. Chalmers says, in a memorandum to the writer: On[17 more...]
Speed S. Fry (search for this): chapter 38
ttenden's division. General Buell, in his official report of April 15, 1862, gives the following account of the condition of things at Pittsburg, and of the part taken by himself and his command in the battle of the 6th: The impression existed at Savannah that the firing was only an affair of outposts, the same thing having occurred for the two or three previous days; but, as it continued, I determined to go to the scene of action, and accordingly started with my chief of staff, Colonel Fry, on a steamer which I had ordered to get under steam. As we proceeded up the river, groups of soldiers were seen upon the west bank, and it soon became evident that they were stragglers from the army that was engaged. The groups increased in size and frequency until, as we approached the landing, they amounted to whole companies, and almost regiments; and at the landing the bank swarmed with a confused mass of men of various regiments. The number could not have been less than four or
R. L. Gibson (search for this): chapter 38
e alignment. terrible fighting. Grant's personal movements. Grant and Buell. Federal left falls back. the combat. the Hornet's nest. Wallace and Prentiss. Gibson's assaults. Anderson's, Polk's, and Cheatham's assaults. Hardee and Sherman. the Kentuckians. Cleburne's brigade. confusion there. Confederate centre and ried. the evidence-governor Harris. Hardee and Cleburne. Polk's report. Bragg's report. Bragg's sketch. Jordan's statement. Withers's and Ruggles's reports. Gibson's and Gilmer's letters. Duke's life of Morgan. Jordan's life of Forrest. Chalmers's account. consequences of the mistake. A fruitless field, I.-morninfalling back, I retired with them, just as night set in, to the open field in the rear; and, as I received no further orders, I directed General Anderson and Colonel Gibson to hold their troops in readiness, with their arms cleaned and cartridges supplied, for service the next morning. By reference to Jackson's report of his
J. T. Harris (search for this): chapter 38
eral Federal batteries opposing. Under the terrible fire from Sherman's impregnable line, the Sixth Mississippi and Twenty-third Tennessee suffered a quick and bloody repulse, though the Sixth Mississippi made charge after charge. Its two field-officers, Colonel Thornton and Major Lowry, were both wounded. The impetuous courage and tenacity of this magnificent regiment deserved a better fate. The fighting had been murderous on the left also. The Fifteenth Arkansas had lost its major, J. T. Harris, and many good men. The Twenty-fourth Tennessee had borne itself with steady valor, and the Second Tennessee had been terribly cut up by the iron storm from the hill-top. Just as Cleburne's line first went forward with loud cheers, General Johnston came up from where he had been urging Hindman's attack. General Preston says: General Johnston then passed to the left at a point in front of the camps, near two cabins, subsequently used as a hospital. A field of a hundred acres fr
William Clark (search for this): chapter 38
g up, they were able to repulse a resolute counter-charge. In the mean time Clark, who was with Russell's brigade, received an order from Bragg to take an enfilaloss from shot and canister and the musketry-fire of a heavy infantry support. Clark and Russell then led forward the whole brigade, which charged at a doublequick,he enemy some five hundred yards, when pursuit was checked by the supports, and Clark fell, severely wounded in the shoulder. This was part of the simultaneous adva courage, and contested every inch of ground. The division commander, Brigadier-General Clark, and Brigadier-General B. R. Johnson, were severely wounded. The gallmed in the morning on either side of the Pittsburg road, immediately in rear of Clark's division. He was first ordered to the left, with his Second Brigade, under Cen I was ordered to see that a brigade went promptly to the support of Brigadier-General Clark in Bragg's fight, and, in doing so, had an opportunity of witnessing a
Stevens (search for this): chapter 38
h, and during a portion of the time with Stewart's brigade, was engaged in the same sort of heavy work, driving the enemy, and, in turn, losing the ground he had won, until it had been three times fought over. This was with McClernand's troops, and Buckland's brigade of Sherman's division. Cheatham's division had been formed in the morning on either side of the Pittsburg road, immediately in rear of Clark's division. He was first ordered to the left, with his Second Brigade, under Colonel Stevens, by Polk, to support Bragg, and was ordered thence by Beauregard to the extreme right, to ascertain the point where the firing was heaviest, and there engage the enemy at once. About 10 A. M. he came upon the enemy, strongly posted on the right, and engaged him in an artillery duel for an hour, when Breckinridge came up and formed on his right. At eleven o'clock, Colonel Jordan ordered Cheatham to charge, which he did across an open field. The enemy occupied an abandoned road, beh
Lone Star (search for this): chapter 38
from the favorite gray and domestic butternut to the blue of certain Louisiana regiments, which paid so dearly the penalty of doubtful colors. Over them were flags and pennons as various as their uniforms. Each Confederate regiment had a corps battle-flag. That of Polk's corps was a white cross on a blue field; of Bragg's, a blue cross on a red field; of Hardee's, a white medallion on a blue field. Besides these, or in lieu of them, many of the regiments bore their State flags; and the Lone Star of Texas and the Pelican flag of Louisiana are mentioned as conspicuous among the emblems of the advancing host. On they came, their banners brightly glinting through the pale green of the foliage, but soon to be riddled, and torn, and stained with the blood of the color-bearers. At each charge there went up a wild, appalling yell, heard high above the roar of artillery; only, the Kentuckians, advancing with measured step, poured out in martial chorus the deep, full notes of their war-so
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