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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 958 6 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 615 3 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 562 2 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 454 2 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 380 16 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 343 1 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 340 20 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 339 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 325 1 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 308 2 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., With Slemmer in Pensacola Harbor. (search)
en he was succeeded by General Lewis G. Arnold. The Confederates continued to hold the opposite shore until the 9th of May, 1862, when it was evacuated by them, the Union forces taking possession the next day. On the 11th of March, 1861, General Braxton Bragg assumed command of the Confederate forces. He was succeeded in command of the Army of Pensacola on the 27th of January, 1862, by General Samuel Jones, who, on the 8th of March, was succeeded in command of the post by Colonel Thomas M. Jo and 23d. Bombardment of the Confederate lines by the United States vessels Niagara (Flag-Officer McKean) and Richmond (Captain Ellison), and by Fort Pickens and the neighboring Union batteries. Although Fort McRee was so badly injured that General Bragg entertained the idea of abandoning it, the plan of the Union commanders to take and destroy it was not executed. January 1st, 1862. Bombardment of Forts McRee and Barrancas by Union batteries. May 9th. Burning and evacuation of Pens
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
sharp engagement with the Federal pickets, rendered it so improbable that the Union commander would not be prepared for the attack, that General Beauregard advised the abandonment of the enterprise, to the success of which a surprise was deemed to be essential. General Johnston overruled the proposition, however, and the attack was ordered for the following morning. The army was drawn up in three parallel lines, covering the front of the Federal position. Hardee commanded the first line, Bragg the second, and Polk and Breckinridge the third, the latter being intended as a reserve. The locality on which the storm of battle was about to burst has often been described with more or less of inaccuracy or incompleteness. It is an undulating table-land, quite broken in places, elevated a hundred feet or thereabout above the river; an irregular triangle in outline, nearly equilateral, with the sides four miles long, bordered on the east by the river, which here runs nearly due north,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Shiloh. (search)
Ky., Col. Charles Wickliffe (m. w), Lieut.-Col. W. D. Lannom; 1st Tenn. (battalion), Col. George Maney, Major H. R. Field; 6th Tenn., Lieut.-Col. T. P. Jones, Col. W. H. Stephens; 9th Tenn., Col. H. L. Douglass; Miss. Battery, Capt. Melancthon Smith. Brigade loss: k, 75; w, 413; m, 3 =491. Cavalry: 1st Miss., Col. A. J. Lindsay; Miss. and Ala. Battalion, Lieut.-Col. R. H. Brewer. Cavalry loss: k, 5; w, 12; n, 2 = 19. Unattached: 47th Tenn., Col. M. R. Hill. Second army corps, Major-Gen. Braxton Bragg. Escort: Alabama Cavalry, Capt. R. W. Smith. First division, Brig.-Gen. Daniel Ruggles. First Brigade, Col. Randall L. Gibson: 1st Ark., Col. James F. Fagan; 4th La., Col. H. W. Allen (w), Lieut.-Col. S. E. Hunter; 13th La., Major A. P. Avegno (m w), Capt. S. O'Leary (w), Capt. E. M. Dubroca; 19th La., Col. Benjamin L. Hodge, Lieut.-Col. J. M. Hollingsworth. Brigade loss: k, 97; w, 488; m, 97 =682. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Patton Anderson: 1st Fla. Battalion, Major T. A. McDo
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
he Alleghany Mountains, except the Gulf Coast (Bragg having control of the coast of West Florida anstrong, from the Southern coast, under General Braxton Bragg, who had been in command at Pensacola y for the contest, but Generals Beauregard and Bragg represented to him that the troops collected bd against the enemy, April 3d, 1862. said General Bragg: the details of that plan, arranged afbe much surprised at the suggestion. Polk and Bragg differed with Beauregard, and a warm discussio. Polk is a true soldier and a friend. General Bragg, in a monograph prepared for the use of thmust read the testimony of eye-witnesses. General Bragg says, in a sketch of Shiloh made for the wfell mortally wounded. Chalmers's brigade, of Bragg's line, came in on Gladden's right, and his Miart's regiments made fruitless assaults. Then Bragg ordered up Gibson's brigade. Gibson himself, heir salvation came from a different quarter. Bragg, in his monograph written for the use of the w[17 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
rt of the Bowling Green forces filled both General Bragg and myself with great solicitude. Meanwhiorders for the movement. This was done in General Bragg's bed-chamber, in a circular to the three oads that existed, the shorter was assigned to Bragg's corps, because it was the one immediately co Beauregard second in command, Polk the left, Bragg the center, Hardee the right wing, Breckinridgps, which, reinforced by Gladden's division of Bragg's corps, constituted the advance, did not restederal front. Five hundred yards rearward was Bragg's corps (less Gladden's division), 10,731 men,ur left and left center, Withers's division of Bragg's corps and Breckinridge's reserves on the rigveral ineffectual efforts, Gibson's brigade of Bragg's own corps was employed in four unavailing asding himself unable to carry the position, General Bragg, as he reports, desisted from any further s and Jackson's brigades of Bragg's corps; General Bragg to the left, where were assembled brigades[22 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
re made by an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Bragg. These orders were delivered to GeneraPittsburg Landing. Ii. Upon quitting General Bragg's quarters I proceeded immediately to the h sketch on his camp-table top. Meanwhile, General Bragg and afterward Generals Polk and Hardee hadh the really inexplicable tardiness with which Bragg's corps was moved, it caused the arrival of thering force pressed most indiscreetly from General Bragg's corps almost upon the Federal front line I have seen it.intimated, among others by General Bragg, that this conference was a mere casual oriment of Tennessee infantry from a brigade in Bragg's corps to a certain brigade in Polk's corps, onel David Urquhart, the chief aide-de-camp of Bragg, and Colonel William Preston, the chief aide-dred that he was in proximity to his chief, General Bragg, left me to join him, while I, accompanierk took up his quarters for the night with General Bragg. The corps commanders had meanwhile been [11 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
the time of the battle of Shiloh I was on General Bragg's staff as his chief engineer, with the ras spoken. When the council closed, and General Bragg started to his own bivouac, I joined him, valry squad, and I dispatched a courier to General Bragg with a note telling what I had seen. We tt a courier with a sketch of the ground to General Bragg, and urged the importance of having our rirode down the line of battle until I found General Bragg. With him I remained, excepting when carrr carries these colors, I am the man. Tell General Bragg I will see that these colors are in the ria. I returned, miraculously preserved, to General Bragg, and reported Colonel Allen's words. I thssee River. General Polk was on the left, then Bragg, then Hardee, then Breckinridge. In our fronta hill crowned with artillery. I was with General Bragg, and rode with him along the front of his arters, for he wore no uniform) came up to General Bragg, and said, The General directs that the pu[8 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Shiloh battle-order and the withdrawal Sunday . (search)
me, and did frame and issue in the name of General Johnston. And that is the order which Colonel Johnston erroneously alleges upon the posthumous authority of General Bragg to differ essentially from the plan settled upon by General Johnston for the battle. This allegation I know to be unfounded, as the order as issued varies in -place, known as Pittsburg, he might be better informed why it was that that position was not carried, and be less disposed to adduce such testimony as that of General Bragg, to the effect that but for the order given by Beauregard to withdraw from action he would have carried all before him. It so happened that I rejoined General Beauregard at a point near Shiloh Chapel (having escorted General Prentiss from the field to General Beauregard), when General Bragg rode up from the front, and I heard him say in an excited manner: General, we have carried everything before us to the Tennessee River. I have ridden from Owl to Lick Creek, and there is none of