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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
or, in which, from the 5th of May to 30th June, the armies of the Potomac and of the James under Grant lost a greater number than there were men in the Army of Northern Virginia under Lee; and then tFederal chief of artillery in the Army of the Potomac. For the noble and generous promptings of Grant's heart in the first moments of his great triumph, and his magnanimous treatment of Lee, I feel arbarity? Taunting our men because they were not there to defend their women and children, when Grant himself had just declared that we were robbing the cradle and the grave to fill our ranks againsvery engagement from the Wilderness to Petersburg; had killed and wounded in a month more men in Grant's army than they had in their own; who had yielded at last, not to Grant, nor to Sherman—not to Grant, nor to Sherman—not to arms, but to starvation? As General Preston has so well expressed it: Address before Survivors' Association, Columbia, 1870. We surrendered no army of 200,000 equipped soldiers as at Sedan,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. (search)
e experienced. There was no advance made by the infantry of either force during this heavy artillery duel, but it seemed as if all the gun and mortar batteries in Grant's army had been let loose on Breckenridge's devoted division. His few batteries responded with spirit, and returned the fire until they were badly crippled, whilerom right to left, and though, as Captain Swann had predicted the night before, many of our men had fought their last fight and others were on their way to Boston, Grant was again checkmated and had to attack us in our fortified position or move his whole army again to the left, which he did. And so it was that there was only some hed our boys charge our late antagonists in their pits and gather them in. That night we slept on our arms, and the next day moved again to our right to prevent Grant's flanking, and helping him to carry out his threat and fight it out on that line if it did take all summer. It was probably two days after this, during which w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Belmont. (search)
n one hour after his arrival on the ground General Grant struck his little force with two brigades,, there is a wide diversity of statement. General Grant, in his official report, puts down his los removing the wounded from their boats. General Grant gives as his reasons for fighting the batt was regarded in the North as a defeat for General Grant, Curtis telegraphs General E. D. Townsend,s from Cincinnati to General Fremont, that General Grant had no orders from Fremont to attack Belmown the river for the attack on Belmont. General Grant says in his narrative: Belmont was severnder flag of truce, Colonel Hatch, who was General Grant's Quartermaster. Colonel Hatch, in his co officers who ran out of the hospital were General Grant and himself, and that both were surprised al Cheatham, in a few days afterwards, met General Grant on a flag-of-truce boat, and he fully confampaign in the Mississippi Valley. It was General Grant's first battle in this war, and its sequen
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Signal Corps in the Confederate States army. (search)
d a ruse on Sheridan in the Valley campaigns. Finding that Sheridan was reading his signals, he caused the following dispatch to be sent to himself by his signal flags: Lieutenant—General early, Fisher's Hill: Be ready to advance on Sheridan as soon as my forces get up, and we can crush him before he finds out I have joined you. (Signed) J. Longstreet. When this was communicated to Sheridan, as Early intended it to be, Sheridan telegraphed to Washington, and Halleck telegraphed to Grant. In time, the answer came to Sheridan that Longstreet was nowhere near Early. This telegram was long a puzzle to the Union general. When Early was asked about it after the war, he simply laughed. The Signal Corps was nowhere more useful than where the defense and operations were conducted in a field in which water occupied a large place in the topography. Such were Charleston, South Carolina, and Mobile. The reports of Captain Frank Markoe, Signal Officer at Charleston, show that dur
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers, at the Reunion at Williston, Barnwell county, S. C, 14th July, 1882. (search)
lish boast, if made; as foolish as that of General Grant, about which I shall speak, and one which give you here, my comrades, my version of General Grant's famous unfulfilled boast, that he would l his promise? On the 1st of May, 1864, General Grant had 120,380 men of all arms, to which was placed hors de combat of the number under General Grant a number equal to its entire numerical strbattle of Cold Harbor, which brought to an end Grant's promise to fight it out on that line: the June of 1864, says Colonel Chesney, found Grant almost in sight of the city, upon the very grotook him all the summer! By the first of June Grant had not only failed in this boastful promise, in. The summer had thus scarcely begun when Grant was obliged to abandon the idea of fighting ite had only commenced the campaign with 63,000, Grant could not but reflect that had their armies beginning of the end to us. From this time forth Grant contented himself with resuming the work from [2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Shiloh: refutation of the so-called lost opportunity, on the evening of April 6th, 1862. (search)
s that had been organized at the river-side by Grant out of the best material of his broken regimenly formed in line. * * * * Here, too, were Generals Grant, Buell, and Nelson, * * * * General Grant General Grant directed me to support the battery about sixty to one hundred yards to the left of the road, which n rear of the guns, and by direction of Major-General Grant I assumed command of all the troops tha would have been consummated by the capture of Grant's army, * * but for Beauregard's order of withnset in such force as to assure the capture of Grant's army at the river side. I refer to these wonate head which it did on the next day against Grant and Buell's combined armies, up to the moment would have been consummated by the capture of Grant's army without any order of advance from Generrtation at his position, immediately after General Grant invested Fort Henry, to have readily conced therefore been in the condition to fight General Grant at latest on the first instead of the 6th [1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
oted battles. General Wheeler, the distinguished Confederate cavalry commander, thus vividly presented this question at the gathering of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and Confederates at Chattanooga in 1881: Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, yet Wellington's casualties were less than twelve per cent., his losses being 2,432 killed and 9,528 wounded out of 90,000 men; while at Shiloh, the first great battle in which General Grant was engaged, one side lost in killed and wounded 9,740 out of 33,000, while their opponents reported their killed and wounded 9,616, making the casualties about thirty per cent. At the great battle of Wagram Napoleon lost but about five per cent. At Wurzburg the French lost but three and a half per cent., and yet the army gave up the field and retreated to the Rhine. At Racour Marshal Saxe lost but two and a half per cent. At Zurich Massena lost but eight per cent. At Lagriz Frederick l
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
oted battles. General Wheeler, the distinguished Confederate cavalry commander, thus vividly presented this question at the gathering of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and Confederates at Chattanooga in 1881: Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, yet Wellington's casualties were less than twelve per cent., his losses being 2,432 killed and 9,528 wounded out of 90,000 men; while at Shiloh, the first great battle in which General Grant was engaged, one side lost in killed and wounded 9,740 out of 33,000, while their opponents reported their killed and wounded 9,616, making the casualties about thirty per cent. At the great battle of Wagram Napoleon lost but about five per cent. At Wurzburg the French lost but three and a half per cent., and yet the army gave up the field and retreated to the Rhine. At Racour Marshal Saxe lost but two and a half per cent. At Zurich Massena lost but eight per cent. At Lagriz Frederick l
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hagood's brigade: its services in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864. (search)
rth side of the James, as it was still open to Grant until he had crossed that stream to turn direche James at Harrison's Landing developed fully Grant's design, and Lee, ordering Hoke to Beauregard 15th Smith's corps of the Federal army, being Grant's advance, was before the eastern defences of by infantry breastworks. The trenches opposed Grant's front of attack; the remaining portion of thmanded, they could not be carried by assault. Grant accordingly sat down regularly before the placich bore the consequences of its miscarriage. Grant's line had by this time extended a considerabland the great disparity of losses inflicted by Grant's sledge-hammer style of fighting had brought sted after the fashion of the tent d'abris. Grant's lines conformed to the general direction of is own works in our front secure from assault, Grant at first appeared to have resorted to regular et this threat against Richmond. On the 29th, Grant suddenly brought back his troops, and on the 3[4 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Old South. (search)
of that day, was born in Edgecombe county, North Carolina, though he would never admit it. The Union Generals who struck us the heaviest blows, next to those of Grant and Sherman, were from our own soil. From West Point there came forth forty-five graduates of Southern birth, who became Federal Generals. I have their names, fruth put into the field, not one-seventh of the males in the vigor of life, but one-seventh of the entire white population, including men, women, and children. General Grant expressed tersely the draft made upon the male whites of the South, when he said: The Confederacy robbed the cradle and the grave to recruit its armies. It n Washington, established by the philanthropists, and lost it all. 3d.—Development of Great Men. I love to hear the praises of the wonderful deeds of McClellan, Grant, Meade, and Hancock, for if they were such great warriors for crushing with their massive columns the thin lines of ragged Rebels, what must be said of Lee, the t
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