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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
ck from the bluffs at Pittsburg Landing, from two and a half to three miles. Snake creek on the north, and Lick creek on the south, run almost at right angles with tl stream running north, and nearly parallel with the Tennessee, empties into Snake creek, about three miles from the river, and covered part of the right front of thd Purdy. To the right and rear of Sherman, the Crump's Landing road crosses Snake creek, and here a military bridge had recently been built, principally by Lewis Wato other parts of the command, and always covering the important crossing of Snake creek bridge. The men who behaved badly were on Sherman's left and Prentiss's rdy instead of to Pittsburg; yet, his troops had helped build the bridge over Snake creek, for just such emergencies as had now occurred. He was, however, set rightver; his left protected by the ravine at the Landing, and his right covering Snake creek bridge, by which it was still hoped that Lewis Wallace might arrive. All th
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter III. (search)
behind McArthur's drill-field, placing batteries on chosen ground, repelled easily a cavalry attack, and watched the cautious approach of the enemy's infantry, that never dislodged me there. I selected that line in advance of a bridge across Snake creek, by which we had all day been expecting the approach of Lewis Wallace's division from Crump's Landing. About five P. M., before the sun set, General Grant came again to me, and after hearing my report of matters, explained to me the situationy of room, with Snake and Lick creeks the flanks of a camp for the grand army of invasion. It was General Smith who selected that field of battle, and it was well chosen. On any other we surely would have been overwhelmed, as both Lick and Snake creeks forced the enemy to confine his movement to a direct front attack which new troops are better qualified to resist than where the flanks are exposed to a real or chimerical danger. Even the divisions of that army were arranged in that camp by
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.54 (search)
converge together about two miles from the landing. Other roads also approach from all directions, one crossing Owl Creek by a bridge, before its junction with Snake Creek, branches, the one way trending westward toward Purdy, the other northward toward Crump's landing, six miles below Pittsburg. Another road nearer the river bank, crossing Snake Creek by a bridge, also connects the two points. Though completely veiled at the moment from the sight of their approaching enemy, it appears a Federal force of five strong divisions occupied the space we have described, and were thus disposed: Three brigades of Sherman's Division, or nine regiments, supporteals of more than a hundred cannon within six miles of him, as soon as the dusky shadows and the quiet of night had supervened, found a way to the south bank of Snake Creek and to a position there commanding the bridge, and by chance, too, in the neighborhood of Sherman, with the shreds, or odds and ends of his own and other divisi
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), S (search)
II., 91, 341, 350; X., 237. Smith, W. W.: VII., 29; trial of, for piracy, VII, 34, 47. Smith,, U. S. S., II., 348. Smith Brigs,, U. S. S., II., 348. Smithfarm, Keedysville, Md. : field hospital at, VII., 263. Smithfield, Va.: II., 348; III., 330; VI., 320. Smithsbury, Md., II., 340. Smyrna Camp ground, Ga., L, 353. Smyrna or Nickajack Creek, Ga., III., 326. Smyth, Sarah A. X., 2. Smyth, T. A.: III., 77; VIII., 102; X., 135. Snake Creek Ix., 95. Snake Creek Gap, Ga.: III., 108, 109. Fort Snelling, Minn. (see also Fort Snelling, Minn.), I., 147. Snickers Ferry, Va., III., 148. Snickers Gap, Va., III., 326, 328. Snodgrass Hill, Ga., II., 282. Snow Hill, Tenn., II., 332. Snyder, J. M., X., 292. Snyder's Bluff, Miss., II., 350. Snyder's Mill, Miss., II., 214. Society of the Army of the Potomac Ix., 218. Soldiers' life, preface to, VIII., 11. Soldier par e
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
rise near the former, separates from it and unites with a third, Snake Creek, running from the north-west, and forms impassable swamps to the north, crosses the swamps below the confluence of Owl Creek and Snake Creek. In the centre a third road leads towards the north-west to thento the angle comprised between the Tennessee and the marshes of Snake Creek. On Sunday, the 6th, Hardee started before break of day. The ind all the other Federal positions are the impassable swamps of Snake Creek, and the army cannot go back another step without falling into thalf-past 11 at Crump's Landing. At last he is ordered to cross Snake Creek to take position on the right of the Federal line, and his soldiht having been repulsed, he had to look for it near the mouth of Snake Creek. He therefore followed the road leading to the church of Shilohwas to extend the extreme Federal right as far as the borders of Snake Creek. Three regular batteries of artillery were ready to support this
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward. (search)
y morning, and council of war was held, and it was decided that as soon as possible after daybreak we should attack the enemy, now snugly quartered in our camps. Lew Wallace who was coming in on the new road from Crump's Lancing, and crossing Snake creek just above the Illinois Wallace's (W. H. L.) camps, was to take the right and sweep back toward the position from which Sherman had been driven on Sunday morning. Nelson was to take the extreme left. Buell promised to put in Tom Crittenden nere marching up from Savannah to the point opposite Pittsburg Landing and being ferried across, or were coming up on transports. By an hour after dark Wallace had his division in. Through the misdirection he had received, he had started on the Snake Creek road proper, which would have brought him in on the enemy's rear, miles from support, and where he would have been gobbled at a mouthful. Getting back to the right road had delayed him. He at once ascertained the position of certain rebel bat
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Newspaper accounts from Georgia. (search)
ndent of the Cincinnati Times, who was taken near Resaca. He says he found himself suddenly in the midst of the Confederates, and he thought it better to surrender than to have a ball put through his body. He had no idea when he came into that place that he was getting so near the rebels. He says that the Yankees had become well apprised of one thing, which was that they are not fighting Bragg now. The position of the Yankees is on the west side of the Oostenaula river and west of Snake creek, which runs into it. What force they have there is not known. Our troops are most eager for the fray, whooping and yelling all the time, and sanguine of the result. They say, to a man, that they are "going to whip the fight." [from the Savannah News.] If private letters from the front be correct, remarks the Macon Telegraph, a most interesting and desperate game of strategy has been going on in the past few days, which probably found its solution yesterday, or will find it w
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