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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
ed first one wing, and then the other, with his personal staff of only five officers, none of them above the rank of major. These were Major McCoy, aid-de-camp; Captain Audenried, aid-de-camp; Major Hitchcock, assistant. adjutant-general; Captain Dayton, aid-de-camp, and Captain Nichols, aid-de-camp. Attached to his Headquarters, says Brevet-Major G. W. Nichols, in his Story of the Great March, but not technically members of his staff, were the chiefs of the separate departments for the Miloward Charleston, if he should attempt it, leaving Slocum to get the siege-guns into proper position. Unfavorable winds and tides detained him, and on the 21st, while in one of the inland passages with which that coast abounds, he was met by Captain Dayton in a tug, bearing the news that during the previous dark and windy night, Dec. 20. Hardee, had fled from Savannah with fifteen thousand men, crossed the river on a pontoon bridge, and was in full march on Charleston; also, that the National
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., chapter 11 (search)
sue without seriously disturbing the foundations and buttresses of Slavery. Mr. Lincoln's solicitude on this head, as evinced in his Inaugural Address, Vol I., pp. 422-6. was deepened by the dubious, vacillating attitude of the Border Slave States, especially of his native Kentucky, which lie was particularly anxious to attach firmly to the cause of the Union, while she seemed frantically wedded to Slavery. Gov. Seward, in his elaborate initial dispatch Dated April 22, 1861. to Mr. Dayton, our new Minister to the Court of France, approaching the topic of Slavery with unfeigned reluctance, in a paper designed to modify the ideas and influence the action of a foreign Government — indeed, of, all foreign governments — argued that the Rebellion had no pretext that did not grow out of Slavery, and that it was causeless, objectless, irrational, even in view of Slavery, because of the incontestable fact set forth by him, as follows: Moral and physical causes have determined in
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Contents of Thie first volume. (search)
tion in Georgia,179 125.Gen. Harney's Letter,179 126.Albany Burgess Corps,181 127.South Carolina College Cadets,181 128.Religious Press on the War,181 129.Gov. Letcher's Proclamation, May 3,184 130.New York to be Burned,185 131.President's Proclamation,185 132.Commodore Stewart's Letter to Childs,186 133.Rebel Army at Pensacola,187 134.The Attack on Washington, Nat. Intelligencer,188 135.Maryland Commissioners' Report,190 136.New Jersey Troops--List of Officers,191 137.Faulkner, Dayton, and Seward's Correspondence,192 138.President Lincoln's Letter to Marylanders,193 139.Tilghman and Prentiss' Interview,194 140. Confederate Declaration of War,195 141.Patriotic Fund Contributions,197 142.20th Regiment N. Y. S. M. (Ulster Co.),198 143.Reverdy Johnson's Speech at Frederick, Md.,199 144.Tennessee League,201 145.Edward Everett's Address at Roxbury, Mass.,205 146.Gen. Butler's Orders at Relay House,208 146 1/2.Motley's Letter on Causes of the War,209 147.Secession Mil
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
s rather than lose them. General Vandever. At the same time a message was sent to Allatoona: Sherman is moving with force. Hold out. And again: Hold on. General Sherman says he is working hard for you. Sherman was at Kenesaw all day, October 5th, having learned of the arrival of Corse that morning, and anxiously watched the progress of the battle. That afternoon came a despatch from Allatoona, sent during the engagement: We are all right so far. General Corse is wounded. Next morning Dayton, Sherman's assistant adjutant-general, asked how Corse was and he answered, I am short a cheekbone and one ear, but am able to whip all h—l yet. That the fight was desperate is shown by Corse's losses, seven hundred and five killed and wounded, and two hundred captured, out of an effective force of about fifteen hundred. An unusual application of signal stores was made at the Colonel Benjamin F. Fisher and his assistants at Signal Corps headquarters, Washington Although authorized
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
eatened speedily to obtain entire control of the government. Based, as has been shown, upon sectional rivalry and opposition to the growth of the Southern equally with the Northern states of the Union, it had absorbed within itself not only the abolitionists, who were avowedly agitating for the destruction of the system of negro servitude, but other diverse and heterogeneous elements of opposition to the Democratic party. In the presidential election of 1856, their candidates (Fremont and Dayton) had received 114 of a total of 296 electoral votes, representing a popular vote of 1,341,264 in a total of 4,053,967. The elections of the ensuing year (1857) exhibited a diminution of the so-called Republican strength, and the Thirty-fifth Congress, which convened in December of that year, was decidedly Democratic in both branches. In the course of the next two years, however, the Kansas agitation and another cause, to be presently noticed, had so swollen the ranks of the so-called Repub
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
permitted its propagation within those limits by natural increase—and inasmuch as the Confederate Constitution precluded any other than the same natural increase, we may plainly perceive the disingenuousness and absurdity of the pretension by which a factitious sympathy has been obtained in certain quarters for the war upon the South, on the ground that it was a war in behalf of freedom against slavery. As late as April 22, 1861, Seward, United States Secretary of State, in a dispatch to Dayton, minister to France, since made public, expressed the views and purposes of the United States government in the premises as follows. It may be proper to explain that, by what he is pleased to term the revolution, Seward means the withdrawal of the Southern states; that the words italicized are, perhaps, not so distinguished in the original. He says: The Territories will remain in all respects the same, whether the revolution shall succeed or shall fail. The condition of slavery in the sev
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
e to Lecompton constitution, 465-69. Extracts from speech to citizens of Portland, Me., 470-73. Address to citizens of Boston, 478-89. Speech in U. S. Senate relative to president's message on state of the Union, 519-37. John W., 290-91. Dayton, 32, 226. Delaware, 9, 10, 42. Commissioners to Annapolis, 76. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 80. Ratification of Constitution, 90-91. Delaware (ship), 285. Democratic convention, 40, 43. Convention (Miss59. Retrospect, 66-67. Safeguards against, 158-59. Seddon, James A. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214. Semmes, Captain, 408. Emissary to North to secure arms for Con-federacy, 270-71. Seward, W. H., 58, 59. Extract from dispatch to Dayton, 226-27. Relations with Confederate commission, 230-238. Instructions to Dallas, 281-82. Seymour, Horatio, 220. Sharkey, William L., 198. Sherman, Roger, 123. Shiloh, Battle of, 409. Sickles, General, 390, 394. Singleton,
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 18: Lincoln and Emancipation (search)
ly that meant very little or nothing. What the public mind then needed was not rest, but properly directed activity. But the declarations above quoted were all before Mr. Lincoln had become President or had probably thought of such a thing. Did the change of position lead to a change of opinion on his part? We are not left in uncertainty on this point. His official views were declared in what might be called a State paper. Soon after his inauguration, his Secretary of State sent Minister Dayton, at Paris, a dispatch that he might use with foreign officials, in which, in speaking of the Rebellion, he said: The condition of slavery in the several States will remain just the same whether it succeeds or fails. . . It is hardly necessary to add to this incontrovertible statement the further fact that the new President has always repudiated all designs, whenever and wherever imputed to him, of disturbing the system of slavery as it has existed under the Constitution and laws. Ab
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Index (search)
Liberal party, 2, 3, 7, 8, 65. Liberator, 21; first issue, 55; South Carolina and Georgia offers reward for its circulation, 55-56; excluded from U. S. mails, 56; office wrecked by mob, 56; opposed to separate party action, 64. Lincoln, Abraham, 2, 8, 11, 41; election of, 11, 48; Gettysburg speech, 88; and Douglas, 94-99; debate of 1858, 94; and slavery, 96, 97; preferred by slaveholders, 98; Recollections of, 134-135; and emancipation, 136-149; and Missouri Compromise, 139; message to Minister Dayton of Paris, 140; proposed constitutional amendment, 144; special message to Congress, December, 1863, 144; emancipation policy, 145; and Abolitionists, 147; and Free-Soilers, 172; Congressional sentiment toward, 177; antagonism to, 177-180; Life of, by I. N. Arnold, 177. Lincoln, Sumner, 205. Longhead, Joseph, 203. Lovejoy, Elijah P., shooting of, 32, 89, 14-115, 161. Lowell, Ellis Gray, 204. Lundy, Benjamin, 27, 50-54; meeting with Garrison, 54. Lyon, Nathaniel, 188. M McCrum
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 32: battle of Kolb's Farm and Kenesaw (search)
s the case? There cannot be three corps in your front; Johnston has but three corps, and I know from full inspection that a full proportion is now, and has been all day, on his right and center. Sherman also sent for his adjutant general, Captain Dayton, and made inquiry as to whether or not those most important orders had been sent to Schofield and received by him. Dayton immediately brought him the envelope which had on it the receipt of Sherman's instructions, signed by Schofield himself.Dayton immediately brought him the envelope which had on it the receipt of Sherman's instructions, signed by Schofield himself. After that assurance, Sherman was more confident than ever that the Army of the Ohio had been all the time in place, and close up to Hooker's right flank. When Sherman had passed from his left to his right, he had found evidence to satisfy him that Confederate Loring held all the long breastworks of the Confederate right opposite McPherson; Hardee held the center and much of the left opposite Thomas's three corps, which were in line from left to right, viz., Palmer's, Howard's, and Hooke
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