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Wytheville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
You must give him all the aid in your power. September 9th, Major-General Burnside, Knoxville. General Rosecrans is on the Chickamauga River, twenty miles south of Chattanooga. He is expecting a battle, and wants you to sustain his left. Every possible effort must be made to assist him. September 19th.—General Meade is very confident that another part of Ewell's corps has gone to East Tennessee. The forces said to be collecting at Jonesboro are probably those that were at Wytheville, Newbern, etc., under Sam. Jones and Jackson. September 20th.—General Rosecrans had a severe battle yesterday, and expects another to-day. It is of vital importance that you move to his left flank. September 21st.—General Rosecrans telegraphed, at 9 o'clock this morning, that, if your troops do not join him immediately, they will be obliged to move down the north side of the Tennesse River. As the enemy has driven General Rosecrans back to near Chattanooga, Bragg may throw a force <
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
e there to help him. Sptember 15th.—From information received here to-day it is very probable that three divisions of Lee's army have been sent to reenforce Bragg. It is important that all the troops in your department be brought to the front with all possible dispatch, so as to help General Rosecrans. September 18th.—* * * * A part, at least, of Longstreet's corps is going to Atlanta. It is believed that Bragg, Johnston, and Hardee, with the exchanged prisoners from Vicksburg and Port Hudson are concentrating against Rosecrans. You must give him all the aid in your power. September 9th, Major-General Burnside, Knoxville. General Rosecrans is on the Chickamauga River, twenty miles south of Chattanooga. He is expecting a battle, and wants you to sustain his left. Every possible effort must be made to assist him. September 19th.—General Meade is very confident that another part of Ewell's corps has gone to East Tennessee. The forces said to be collecting at Jone<
Chickasaw Bayou (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ce to Rosecrans, Thomas, and the Army of the Cumberland. In a previous chapter it has been seen how coldly, unjustly, and almost contemptuously General Sherman's book treats of Buell and his army at Shiloh—a general and an army that, beyond all room for question, brought salvation to Grant's forces, to which sore disaster had come through a disgraceful surprise, for which Sherman was in person largely responsible. Following him in his book through his excuses for bloody failure at Chickasaw Bayou, his protest against Grant's plan for capturing Vicksburg from the rear, and his assertion that it might have been taken six months earlier by another route, we find him again misrepresenting and sneering at the Army of the Ohio, under its successive commanders, Rosecrans and Thomas, then operating about Chattanooga under its new title, the Army of the Cumberland. With the records of the war at his control, and at his very elbow, this is the version of Rosecrans' movement on, and cap
East Chickamauga Creek (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
m 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 Creek and driven back to Chattanooga, which he holds, waiting for your assistance. Telegram after telegram has been sent to you to go to his assistance with all available force, you being the judge of what troops it was necessary, under the circumstances, to leave in East Tennessee. The route by which you were to reach General Rosecrans was also left to your discretion. When he was forced to fall back on Chattanooga you were advised, not ordered, to move on the north side of the Tennessee
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
of the whole movement were the passes in Missionary Ridge, which controlled the roads to Chattanoog they, as an army, made up the heights of Missionary Ridge, the General of the armies affirms that Gk a hospital inside the lines. All along Missionary Ridge were the tents of the rebel beleaguering eneral Grant pointed out to me a house on Missionary Ridge where General Bragg's headquarters were kccupied, to make sure of their retreat to Missionary Ridge, then faced the ridge for two miles, form, and carry the rifle pits at the foot of Missionary Ridge, and when carried to reform his lines in s to attack the enemy at the north end of Missionary Ridge, and when that is carried, to threaten or attack by Thomas on the left in front of Missionary Ridge. This was made the day before Sherman gowas ordered to occupy on the north end of Missionary Ridge. The day following this Sherman still std not even seen Sherman's troops, stormed Missionary Ridge, and it was not till night closed in, as [3 more...]
W. T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 6
ome through a disgraceful surprise, for which Sherman was in person largely responsible. Followiwhen Rosecrans' army flanked Bragg out of it. Sherman's army, at the moment of occupation, was quit fight, the scales may still settle even, for Sherman did not start to flank till after serious batof their trenches for a fight. But let General Sherman speak for himself as he does on page 361 o reader of the Memoirs would suspect it, General Sherman himself, when ordered from Vicksburg to Rtion from the start as far as Corinth, as General Sherman says, and one of his divisions had reached Rosecrans first; in fact had done so before Sherman began to exhibit any special activity in his r success that he ordered the movement before Sherman was even within supporting distance. Generof artillery says he has to borrow teams from Sherman to move a part of his artillery to where it i this chapter contains were accessible to General Sherman when he penned the statements which they [64 more...]
Corse (search for this): chapter 6
d me the alarming dispatches from General Halleck, which had been sent from Memphis by General Hurlbut, and said, on further thought, that he would send me and my whole corps. But, inasmuch as one division of McPherson's corps (John E. Smith's) had already started, he instructed me to leave one of my divisions on the Big Black, and to get the other two ready to follow at once. I designated the Second, then commanded by Brigadier-General Giles A. Smith, and the Fourth, commanded by Brigadier-General Corse.—Page 346, Vol. I. Before considering General Sherman's story further, a statement of General Rosecrans' operations, which is sustained by the record, may properly be considered: General Rosecrans, with his magnificent army, had, by his brilliant strategy, driven Bragg without serious battle out of Murfreesboro, out of Tullahoma, out of Wartrace, and finally across the Tennessee, here a deep and wide river, where he took post in the fortified city of Chattanooga. The oje
S. E. Hurlbut (search for this): chapter 6
al Halleck, which had been sent from Memphis by General Hurlbut, and said, on further thought, that he would seef. War Department, September 14, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. There are good reasons why trooef. War Department, September 15, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. All troops that can possibly beeneral Rosecrans, Chattanooga. * * * On the 15th Hurlbut says he is moving forward toward Decatur. I hear nef. War Department, September 19, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. Give me definite information ofat the best, and probably twenty days. * * * * S. E. Hurlbut, Major-General. War Department, September 2ity. Washington, September 30, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. * * * * All available forces muH. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. October 2d, Hurlbut telegraphed Halleck: A supply train of four hunnd men. War Department, October 4, 1863. Major-General Hurlbut, Memphis. As fast as troops arrive they s
A. Lincoln (search for this): chapter 6
most probable that he passed through Lynchburg taking the road to Abingdon. The following telegrams were sent by Mr. Lincoln to General Burnside: Washington, D. C., September 21st., 2 A. M. To General Burnside, Knoxville: Go to Rosecrans with your full force without a moment's delay. A. Lincoln. September 21st.—If you are to do any good to Rosecrans, it will not do to waste time with Jonesboro. It is already too late to do the most good that might have been done, but I hope it will still do some good. Please do not wait a moment. A. Lincoln. September 27. To Burnside, at Knoxville. Your dispatch just received. My orders to you meant simply that you should save Rosecrans from being crushed out, believinrform while it remains. East Tennessee can be no more than temporarily lost so long as Chattanooga is firmly held. A. Lincoln. It would be unjust to General Burnside to present these dispatches from the record without his excuses for neve
Major-Generai Rosecrans (search for this): chapter 6
leck telegraphed: Washington, September 11, 1863. Major-Generai Rosecrans, Chattanooga. After holding the mountain passes in the Bragg reenforced from Virginia, drew out of Chattanooga, fell on Rosecrans at that place, defeated him and drove him into the city, the reco 15th it was resolved to march back toward Chattanooga and attack Rosecrans wherever found. A part of Longstreet's Virginia troops under Hooived from Richmond. The impression sought to be created that Rosecrans' army was driven off the field is erroneous. Soon after four o'cof the second day, General Thomas having received notice from General Rosecrans that rations and ammunition would be sent to meet him at Ross day had ended. Of the close of the battle and its results General Rosecrans in his official report, says: At nightfall the enemy had anooga—and prepared to hold it. Coming down to the time when Rosecrans had been relieved, and General Thomas was in command in Chattanoo
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