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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
Doc. 47. the battle of Leesburg, Va. Rebel official report of the engagement, Headquarters Seventh Brigade, Leesburg, Va., Oct. 31, 1861. Colonel: I beg leave to submit the following report of the action of the troops of the Seventh Brigade in the battle of the 21st and 22d inst., with the enemy at Leesburg, Va.: On Saturday night, the 19th inst., about seven o'clock P. M., the enemy commenced a heavy cannonading from three batteries, one playing on my intrenchment, (known as Fort Evans,) one on the Leesburg turnpike, and one on Edwards' Ferry. Heavy firing was also heard in the direction of Dranesville. At twelve o'clock at night I ordered my entire brigade to the burnt bridge on the turnpike. The enemy had been reported as approaching from Dranesville in large force. Taking a strong position on the north side of Goose Creek, I awaited his approach. Reconnoitring the turnpike on Sunday morning, the courier of General McCall was captured, bearing despatches to G
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 104 (search)
at they fell in maintaining the cause of constitutional freedom and the integrity of a flag erected in the first instance at a sacrifice of many of the noblest lives that ever graced a nation. In conclusion, say to your troops they have done nobly. It goes to prove that much more may be expected of them when the country and our great cause calls upon them. Yours, &c., U. S. Grant. Brigadier-General Commanding. The report. Headquarters, camp Fremont, Cape Girardeau, Mo., October 31, 1861. sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of my recent expedition to Fredericktown: I received the order on the 17th instant, and on the following morning marched with about fifteen hundred men, composed of the Seventeenth and Twentieth regiments of Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Colonels Ross and Marsh, the Eleventh Missouri under the immediate command of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennabaker, Lieut. White's section of Taylor's battery, and Captains Steward and Lansden's c
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 124 (search)
Doc. 120. the U. S. Sanitary Commission. Report on the condition of rebel prisoners. The following is the report of the United States Sanitary Commission upon the condition of the prisoners in the forts at New York: New York, October 31, 1861. sir: With your permission I visited the prisoners of war and of State at Governor's Island on Monday last. I should have extended my visit the next day to Fort Lafayette and Ellis Island, where smaller portions were placed, had I not learned that they were all to be removed the next day to Boston harbor. I suppose, however, that none of the prisoners could be badly off if those crowded in the casemates of Castle William were not, and therefore a report of the condition in which I found them may properly serve as a sufficient reply to all the complaints which have appeared in the New York papers. No doubt the circumstances under which these men were brought to Governor's Island made their condition for a week or two very try
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 126 (search)
Doc. 122. retirement of Lieut.-Gen. Scott. The following letter, from Lieut.-Gen. Scott, was received by the President on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 31: Headquarters of the army, Washington, D. C., Oct. 31, 1861. The Hon. S. Cameron, Secretary of War: sir: For more than three years I have been unable, from a hurt, to mount a horse or walk more than a few paces at a time, and that with much pain. Other and new infirmities, dropsy and vertigo, admonish me that a repose of mind and body, with the appliances of surgery and medicine, are necessary to add a little more to a life already protracted much beyond the usual span of man. It is under such circumstances made doubly painful by the unnatural and unjust rebellion now raging in the Southern States of our so late prosperous and happy Union, that I am compelled to request that my name be placed on the list of army officers retired from active service. As this request is founded on an absolute right granted by a recent