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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 3: (search)
rs into heroes, but decrying all others. Among them was Lieutenant-Governor Stanton, of Ohio, who published in Bellefontaine, Ohio, a most and would not, take up the cudgels, I did so. My letter in reply to Stanton, dated June 10, 1862, was published in the Cincinnati Commercial soon after its date. To this Lieutenant-Governor Stanton replied, and I further rejoined in a letter dated July 12, 1862. These letters are eyes opened, and to give us in the field more faith and support. Stanton was never again elected to any public office, and was commonly spoken of as the late Mr. Stanton. He is now dead, and I doubt not in life he often regretted his mistake in attempting to gain popular fame by Those forwarded in obedience to the call, were not described by Mr. Stanton in his letter accompanying them, as all the reports, but as all nnection sought to be established between the letters of Lieutenant-Governor Stanton upon the battle of Shiloh, and his non-election to publi
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
. Notes are in existence of a conversation at General McDowell's headquarters, on the day following the battle of Cedar Mountain in August, 1862, upon the policy of severing the Confederacy by an army operating from the West through Atlanta, a movement on Savannah and Charleston from the rear, and a march up the coast. These were General McDowell's ideas, though no definite combinations of troops were suggested for carrying them out. Early in the following year, General Pope wrote Secretary Stanton presenting a very elaborate plan for an advance from Murfreesboro to Mobile, through Atlanta. It involved the immediate abandonment of Grant's move against Vicksburg, and the transfer of his army to Rosecrans' front, an advance by Burnside through Cumberland Gap, the occupation of Chattanooga with a permanent garrison of sixty thousand men, and a movement thence on Atlanta with a force at least one hundred and fifty thousand strong. At the same time he proposed that forty thousand me
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 15: (search)
at Savannah character of the attack on Secretary Stanton the Jeff. Davis gold. Attacks upon al Sherman's Memoirs. Thomas, McPherson, and Stanton, with others less prominent, are in turn rudeHe then continues as follows, charging that Mr. Stanton's action in this matter caused great loss t the records show that what he charges upon Mr. Stanton never occurred. As there were nearly forreatest importance to the Government. That Mr. Stanton was fully aware of all this, that he causednfounded, will now be made to appear. Secretary Stanton's first dispatch, upon learning of the c. Sherman, Major-General. Soon after Mr. Stanton reached Savannah, and his first order there The single paragraph in the order given by Mr. Stanton, directing all receipts to be given in the fact that he wrote thus recklessly about Secretary Stanton, with these records open to all men, in ures in which General Sherman indulges upon Mr. Stanton, to see what kind of orders Sherman gave lo[5 more...]