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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 50: Virginia campaign, 1864. (search)
inexhaustible treasury, a well-filled commissariat, and all directed by an unanimous people. The work of the Federal War Department was based on the need for an army of a million of men. Vast stores were accumulated. Congress, with reckless prodigality, continued to pass the most extravagant appropriations for organizing armies, and for maintaining the countless forces which constituted an army of invasion so vast, that it was hoped it would be invincible. Grant took command on March 17, 1864. The Army of the Potomac, now massed on the Rapidan, numbered 141,160 men. General Lee, to oppose this vast army, had 50,--403 muskets. The cavalry divisions were weak, neither of them being stronger than a good brigade. His artillery was not as heavy, nor was his ammunition as good in quality, as that of the enemy. Lee's entire effective strength did not exceed 64,000 men of all arms, at the opening of the spring campaign of 1864. On May 4th General Grant began his march. It
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, March (search)
ania. They first fired three shots and then a whole volley, and succeeded in capturing the boat and those in it, after a severe hand-to-hand fight. Whether there were any casualties could not be ascertained. Further on, meeting an unexpected resistance, they retreated. Lieutenant-General Grant formally assumed the command of the armies of the United States to-day. The following was his order on the subject: Headquarters of the armies of the United States, Nashville, Tenn., March 17, 1864. General orders, No. 12. In pursuance of the following order of the President: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., March 10, 1864. Under the authority of the Act of Congress to appoint the grade of Lieutenant-General in the army, of February 29, 1864, Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. A., is appointed to the command of the armies of the United States. Abraham Lincoln. --I assume command of the armies of the United States. Headquarters will be in the field,
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
ner Anna 2,530 67 351 80 2,178 87 Key West Mar. 17, 1864 Fort Henry. Schooner Ann 3,299 40 308 22 2,991 18 do Mar. 17, 1864 Restless. Schooner Alabama 9,867 38 1,291 56 8,575 82 do Mar. 17, 18Mar. 17, 1864 Susquehanna. Sloop Ann 50 00 60 15 No proceeds do   Gem of the Sea. Schooner Ann 322 61 14Schooner Clara 3,898 26 744 71 3,153 55 do Mar. 17, 1864 Kanawha. Sloop C. Ronterean Waiting er Dolphin 36,544 73 8,382 88 28,161 85 do Mar. 17, 1864 Wachusett.   Dry Goods, lot of 465 45 1amer Eagle 35,475 33 5,355 46 30,119 87 do Mar. 17, 1864 Octorara. Steamer Ella Warley 102,709 8ner Frolic 27,648 32 3,742 36 23,905 96 do Mar. 17, 1864 Sagamore, Two Sisters. Schooner FashionSchooner Ida 486 74 230 16 256 58 Key West Mar. 17, 1864 James S Chambers. Sloop Isabella 76 87 Sloop Justina 1,720 53 454 68 1,465 85 do Mar. 17, 1864 Tioga. Schooner Juniper 2,228 59 502 32 Rosalie 2,710 75 435 86 2,274 89 Key West Mar. 17, 1864 Octorara. Sloop Richards Waiting for[16 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Your sincere friend, W. T. Sherman. We reached Memphis on the 13th, where I remained some days, but on the 14th of March received from General Grant a dispatch to hurry to Nashville in person by the 17th, if possible. Disposing of all matters then pending, I took a steamboat to Cairo, the cars thence to Louisville and Nashville, reaching that place on the 17th of March, 1864. I found General Grant there. He had been to Washington and back, and was ordered to return East to command all the armies of the United States, and personally the Army of the Potomac. I was to succeed him in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas. General Grant was of course very busy in winding up all matters of business, in transferring his command to me, and in preparing for what was mani
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 154 (search)
Rebel prisoners in Ohio.--The following account of the treatment of rebel prisoners in the Ohio Penitentiary was given in the Richmond Examiner of March seventeenth, 1864: The experiences of this war have afforded many examples of Yankee cruelty which have produced an impression more or less distinct upon the enlightened portions of the world. But the statement which we proceed to give, takes precedence of all that has ever yet been narrated of the atrocities of the enemy; and it is so remarkable, both on account of its matter and the credit that must naturally attach to its authorship, that we doubt whether the so-called civilized world of this generation has produced anywhere any well-authenticated story of equal horror. The statement we give to our readers is that we have just taken from the lips of Captain Calvin C. Morgan, a brother of the famous General Morgan, who arrived in Richmond under the recent flag of truce, which covered the return of several hundred of our p
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
this way he constantly neutralized the superiority of force his opponent wielded, and made his campaign from Dalton to the Chattahoochee a model of defensive warfare. It is Sherman's glory that, with a totally different temperament, he accepted his adversary's game, and played it with a skill that was finally successful, as we shall see.--Major-General Jacob D. Cox, U. S.V., in >Atlanta. The two leading Federal generals of the war, Grant and Sherman, met at Nashville, Tennessee, on March 17, 1864, and arranged for a great concerted double movement against the two main Southern armies, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. Grant, who had been made commander of all the Federal armies, was to take personal charge of the Army of the Potomac and move against Lee, while to Sherman, whom, at Grant's request, President Lincoln had placed at the head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, he turned over the Western army, which was to proceed against Johnston.
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), To Atlanta (search)
this way he constantly neutralized the superiority of force his opponent wielded, and made his campaign from Dalton to the Chattahoochee a model of defensive warfare. It is Sherman's glory that, with a totally different temperament, he accepted his adversary's game, and played it with a skill that was finally successful, as we shall see.--Major-General Jacob D. Cox, U. S.V., in >Atlanta. The two leading Federal generals of the war, Grant and Sherman, met at Nashville, Tennessee, on March 17, 1864, and arranged for a great concerted double movement against the two main Southern armies, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. Grant, who had been made commander of all the Federal armies, was to take personal charge of the Army of the Potomac and move against Lee, while to Sherman, whom, at Grant's request, President Lincoln had placed at the head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, he turned over the Western army, which was to proceed against Johnston.
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
o. H. Thomas, Major-General U. S. Volunteers. General Grant having been made Lieutenant General, and ordered to Washington, summoned General Sherman, who had returned from Meridian, to Nashville, which latter point he reached on the 17th of March, 1864. On that day he was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and immediately afterward left with General Grant, accompanying the latter, then on his way to Washington, as far as the Burnet House, in Cincinnati,make his way is secured. Very respectfully your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. That General Sherman had heard nothing of the plan for the Spring campaign up to the time of his arrival in Nashville, about the 17th of March, 1864, is quite evident from the following extracts from one of his own letters: headquarters Department of the Tennessee, Memphis, March 14th, 1864. Major-General McPHERSON, commanding, etc., Vicksburg. dear General: * * * * I am sum
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant, Ulysses Simpson (search)
ed to major-general; conducted the battle of Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, and for a while was second in command to Halleck. He performed excellent service in the West and Southwest, especially in the vicinity of the Mississippi River, and at and near the Tennessee River, in 1863. He was promoted to lieutenant-general March 1, 1864, and awarded a gold medal by Congress. He issued his first order as general-in-chief of the armies of the Ulysses S. Grant. United States at Nashville, March 17, 1864. In the grand movements of the armies in 1864, he accompanied that of the Potomac, with his headquarters in the field, and he remained with it until he signed the articles of capitulation at Appomattox Court-house, April 9, 1865. In 1866 he was promoted to general of the United States army. After the war Grant fixed his headquarters at Washington. When President Johnson suspended Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, Grant was put in his place ad interim. Stanton was reinstate
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, California, 1864 (search)
1864 Jan. 2: Occ. of Santa Catalina IslandCALIFORNIA--4th Infantry (Co. "C"). Feb. 29: Skirmish, Redwood CreekCALIFORNIA--1st Battalion Mountaineers (Co. "A"). March 1: Skirmish, Redwood MtsCALIFORNIA--1st Battalion Mountaineers (Detachment). March 17: Skirmish on Red Mountain near Blue Rock StationCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Co. "D"). March 19: Skirmish, Eel RiverCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Detachment Co. "D"). March 22: Skirmish, Bald Spring Canon, Eel RiverCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Co. "D"). March 27: Skirmish, Eel RiverCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Co. "D"). April 28: Skirmish, Big Bend, Eel RiverCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Detachment Co. "D"). April 28: Skirmish, Eel RiverCALIFORNIA--2d Infantry (Detachment Co. "D"). May 1: Affair, Booth's RanchCALIFORNIA--6th Infantry (Detachment Co. "E"). May 2: Skirmish, Kneeland's PrairieCALIFORNIA--6th Infantry (Detachment Co. "E"). May 6: Skirmish, Boynton's PrairieCALIFORNIA--1st Battalion Mountaineers (Co. "B"). May 26: Skirmish, Grouse Cree
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