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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 15 (search)
f 2,000 Banks presses the siege second attack the Rebel supplies exhausted Gardner surrenders Dick Taylor surprises Brashear City fighting at Donaldsonville Fwith 3,500 men from Baton Rouge, in like manner invested it on the south. Gen. Gardner, commanding at Port Hudson, sent Col. Miles to resist their junction behind endeavoring to make his way out through our lines with a letter in cipher from Gardner to Jo. Johnston, gives the most vivid inside view of the siege: May 29.-hancellorsville — might dispatch a corps of veterans by rail for the relief of Gardner and his important post. The Rebel line of defense was three or four miles loning down the river which would render holding out impossible. That evening, Gardner summoned a council of his six highest subordinates, who unanimously decided th reply, inclosed him Gen. Grant's letter, announcing the surrender; whereupon, Gardner applied for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to negotiations as to term
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., Appended notes. (search)
ksburg, 345; is repelled from Allatoona by Gen. Corse, 639. front Royal, Va., fight at, 133-4. G. Gaines's Mill, Va., battle of, 154 to 158; map of the field, 156; Porter's defeat, 157; losses sustained, 157-8; McClellan's dispatches, 158. Gainesville, battle of, 181; retreat from, 183-7. Gallatin, Tenn., Union defeat at, 213. Galveston, Magruder's foray, and our losses at, 322; 323; 325; naval encounters at, 323 to 327. Gano, Gent., surprises a Union outpost, 555. Gardner, Gen., his defense and surrender of Port Hudson, 318; 331 to 337. Garfield, Gen. James A., drives Marshall from Kentucky, 42; at battle of Mill Spring, 42; 43; 44; at Chickamauga, 422. Garland, Brig.-Gen., his brigade cut up at South Mountain, and himself killed, 596. Garnett, Brig.-Gen., killed at Gettysburg, 389. Garrard, Gen., cooperates at Mobile, 723. Geary, Gen. John W., his charge at Cedar Mountain, 177; triumphs at Wauhatchie, 435. Georgia, British-Confederate crui
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
letter, dispatched promptly, I said: I am trying to gather a force which may attempt to relieve you. Hold out. On the same day instructions were sent to Major-General Gardner, both by telegraph and by courier, to evacuate Port Hudson, and march toward Jackson. After General Pemberton's investment in Vicksburg, there was no l collected; and we had small means of collecting them, and none of transporting them with a moving army. On the 23d, a dispatch was received from Major. General Gardner, dated 21st, informing me that all the Federal forces that had been assembled at Baton Rouge were now before Port Hudson, and asking for reinforcements. In rved from him while in Vicksburg was that of the 22d. The only intelligence I received from Port Hudson, during the siege, was given by a dispatch from Major-General Gardner, dated June 10th: I have repulsed the enemy in several attacks, but am still closely invested. I am getting short of provisions and ammunition of all kind
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
t, was added. On the 12th I received from Colonel J. L. Logan, commanding a small brigade of cavalry in the southern part of the State, intelligence of the surrender of Port Hudson on the 9th. This report was confirmed by Major Jackson, General Gardner's adjutant-general, who stated that the stock of provisions was exhausted, and but twenty-five hundred of the garrison were fit for duty at the time of surrender. Federal forces advanced against Yazoo City, both by land and water, on thewell as of the fact that it and Port Hudson had lost their importance since the occupation of the river between them by many Federal vessels-of-war, I directed the evacuation of both places. Port Hudson was invested before the order reached General Gardner, if it ever reached him. It was received by General Pemberton, This was my fourth order to General Pemberton; see p. 181, for this order. but set aside, by advice of a council of war; for the extraordinary reason that, it was impossible to
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
eral Jackson's cavalry, numbering about sixteen hundred when I was in Tennessee, not included, nor five field-batteries, probably four hundred. General Cooper informs me that no other reinforcements have been ordered to this department. Major-General Gardner is invested in Port Hudson. J. E. Johnston, General. Canton, June 5, 1863. Hon. J. A. Seddon. Dear Sir: I thank you cordially for your kind letter of May 25th, but almost regret that you feel such confidence in me as is expressed n the 7th the President notified me that all the assistance in his power to send should be forwarded, and that it was deemed necessary to hold Port Hudson, as a means of keeping up our communications with the Trans-Mississippi department. Major-General Gardner, who, with Brigadier-General Maxcey and five thousand (5,000) men, had previously been ordered to Jackson to reinforce this army, was immediately directed to send Maxcey's brigade rapidly forward, and to return himself with two thousand
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Telegrams. (search)
Telegrams. Richmond, July 9, 1863. General J. E. Johnston: If it be true that General Taylor has joined General Gardner and routed Banks, you will endeavor to draw heavy reinforcements from that army, and delay a general engagement until your junction is effected. Thus, it is hoped, the enemy may yet be crushed, and the late disaster be repaired. Send by telegraph a list of the general and staff officers who have come out on parole from Vicksburg, so that they may be exchanged ice, as the possession of Mississippi depends on it. His force is about double ours. J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 10, 1863. To his Excellency the President: Your dispatch of yesterday received. No report of General Taylor's junction with Gardner has reached me, as it must have done, if true, for we have twelve hundred cavalry in that vicinity. I have nothing official from Vicksburg. (A list of paroled Vicksburg officers follows.) J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 11, 1863. To his
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855. (search)
me explanations were made, and when the sail-boat coming from Saucelito was near enough to be spoken to, and the captain had engaged her to help his schooner, we bade him good-by, and got the man in the small boat to carry us ashore, and land us at the foot of the bluff, just below the fort. Once there, I was at home, and we footed it up to the Presidio. Of the sentinel I inquired who was in command of the post, and was answered, Major merchant. He was not then in, but his adjutant, Lieutenant Gardner, was. I sent my card to him; he came out, and was much surprised to find me covered with sand, and dripping with water, a good specimen of a shipwrecked mariner. A few words of explanation sufficed; horses were provided, and we rode hastily into the city, reaching the office of the Nicaragua Steamship Company (C. K. Garrison, agent) about dark, just as the purser had arrived, by a totally different route. It was too late to send relief that night, but by daylight next morning two ste
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. (search)
ced the notes in the hands of McCook, and thought no more of it. A month or so after, our client rushed into the office and said his case had been called at Judge Gardner's (I think), and he wanted his lawyer right away. I sent him up to the Circuit Court, Judge Pettit's, for McCook, but he soon returned, saying he could not find McCook, and accordingly I hurried with him up to Judge Gardner's office, intending to ask a continuance, but I found our antagonist there, with his lawyer and witnesses, and Judge Gardner would not grant a continuance, so of necessity I had to act, hoping that at every minute McCook would come. But the trial proceeded regularlyJudge Gardner would not grant a continuance, so of necessity I had to act, hoping that at every minute McCook would come. But the trial proceeded regularly to its end; we were beaten, and judgment was entered against our client for the amount claimed, and costs. As soon as the matter was explained to McCook, he said execution could not be taken for ten days, and, as our client was poor, and had nothing on which the landlord could levy but his house, McCook advised him to get his nei
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
ned land bounded by the street which now bears his name. His father is said to have emigrated from Ireland, to enjoy liberty of conscience, and was one of the proprietors of the Federal-street Church. He m. the oldest daughter of Samuel Bradlee, of Boston, whom he left a widow, with ten children. She died, aged 95. One of her daughters m. Nathan Wait, of Malden, who was b. 1763, and d. 1840, in Medford; in which town one of his daughters now lives, the wife of Jonathan Perkins, Esq.  1GARDNER, Thomas, m. Mary Willis, June 21, 1704, and had--  1-2Elizabeth, b. Aug. 13, 1721.  1Gilchrist, James, was a shipmaster, out of Boston and Salem, in the China and East India trade. He died June 14, 1825, aged 52, leaving, by his wife, Susan Wyman,--  1-2Emily, m. Samuel Crosby, of Charlestown.  3Margaret A., m. Matthews W. Green.  4John James, m. Sarah Hubbard. Is Chief Justice of N. H.  5Hannah S.  6Susan.  7Martha R.  8Daniel S.  9Charles Henry, d. June 4, 1849, aged 24.
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Federal artillery and artillerymen (search)
The Federal artillery and artillerymen O. E. Hunt, Captain, United States Army Light artillery--two guns in position, ready to fire Battery a, Fourth United States Artillery. Battery A, Fourth United States Artillery, was one of the celebrated horse batteries of the Army of the Potomac. These photographs, taken by Gardner in February, 1864, represented its four 12-pounder light brass Napoleons in battery, with limbers and caissons to the rear, and the battery wagon, forge, ambulance, and wagons for transportation, embracing the entire equipage of a light battery in the field. At that time the battery was on the line of the Rappahannock. Three months later it accompanied Sheridan on his famous Richmond raid, and on the night of May 12th its members heard men talking within the fortifications of Richmond, dogs barking in the city, and bought copies of the Richmond Inquirer from a small but enterprising Virginia newsboy who managed to slip within their lines with
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