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Raleigh (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
the route through Goldsboroa or that through Raleigh, General Bragg's troops and those of the Armyucted to follow the road from Fayetteville to Raleigh, which for thirty miles is also that to Smitheral Hampton placed Wheeler's division on the Raleigh road, and Butler's on that to Goldsboroa. Th On the 15th the Confederate cavalry, on the Raleigh road, was pressed back by the Fourteenth and gaged the day before were not marching toward Raleigh; but no precise intelligence of the movementshether his march to Virginia would be through Raleigh, or by the most direct route, that through Weed that the soldiers expected to march toward Raleigh next morning; and early in the morning of thee Confederate forces were ordered to march to Raleigh: Hardee's corps, with Butler's division as reto the cavalry, General Slocum to the left of Raleigh, and General Schofield in Raleigh, right and Raleigh, right and rear. Quartermasters and commissaries will keep their supplies up to a light load for the wagons, [4 more...]
Weldon, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
inary rate of marching, impossible. These orders indicated excessive caution, at the least; for there were, at that time, rations for sixty thousand men for more than four months, in the principal railroad-depots between Charlotte, Danville, and Weldon, inclusive. The fact was ascertained by taking account of those stores, which was done under the direction of Colonel W. E. Moore; and the very zealous and efficient officer, Major Charles Carrington, who was at the head of the service of colleceeded four thousand. On the 23d, Major-General Sherman united his own army and that of Major-General Schofield at Goldsboroa. It was uncertain whether his march to Virginia would be through Raleigh, or by the most direct route, that through Weldon. So the Confederate army was placed between the two roads, in order to be able to precede him on either; and, to make the junction of the Army of Northern Virginia with it practicable, should General Lee determine to abandon his intrenchments to
Chapel Hill, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
States, the request that he will take like action in regard to other armies — the object being, to permit the civil authorities to enter into the needful arrangements to terminate the existing war. Lieutenant-General Hardee directed the march of the Confederate army from Raleigh on the 12th, in two columns-Stewart's and Lee's corps and Butler's division, now commanded by that officer himself, by the Hillsboroa road, and the other, his own corps, and Wheeler's division, by that through Chapel Hill. Lieut.-Gen. Hampton had been desired to take measures to discover any movements of the Federal troops by the Pittsboroa road, and all others by which they could turn directly toward Charlotte or Salisbury. I left Greensboroa on the evening of the 13th, to rejoin the army, and, although detained on the way the greater part of the night by one of the accidents then inevitable on the North Carolina Railroad, met Stewart's column at Hillsboroa early in the morning of the 14th, just as
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
. 2. Each brigade or separate body to retain a number of arms equal to one-seventh of its effective strength, which, when the troops reach the capitals of their States, will be disposed of as the general commanding the department may direct. 3. Private horses, and other private property of both officers and men, to be retained by them. 4. The commanding general of the Military Division of West Mississippi, Major-General Canby, will be requested to give transportation by water, from Mobile or New Orleans, to the troops from Arkansas and Texas. 5. The obligations of officers and soldiers to be signed by their immediate commanders. 6. Naval forces within the limits of General Johnston's command to be included in the terms of this convention. (Signed) J. E. Johnston, General commanding Confederate States Forces in N. C. (Signed) J. M. Schofield, Major-General commanding United States Forces in N. C. General Sherman assured me that he would remove from the department al
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e 27th (the day after), his order No. 66 of that year was published, announcing a final agreement between us, terminating the war east of the Chattahoochee River; sending his own army to Washington; Major-General Wilson's cavalry back to the Tennessee River, near Decatur; and directing Major-General Stoneman's division to return to East Tennessee. General Sherman was accompanied on this occasion by several among the most distinguished officers of the United States Army. The impression was al Kilpatrick will report in person to Major-General Schofield for orders. 2. The cavalry command of Major-General George Stoneman will return to East Tennessee, and that of Brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson will be conducted back to the Tennessee River, in the neighborhood of Decatur, Alabama. 3. Major-General Howard will conduct the Army of the Tennessee to Richmond, Virginia, following roads substantially by Lewisburg, Warrenton, Lawrenceville, and Petersburg, or to the right of that l
Stevenson (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ederal foraging-parties, and robbery by stragglers. Having received information, on the evening of the 3d, that Stewart's troops had reached the railroad at Chester, and that Cheatham's were near that point; and feeling confident from Lieutenant-General Hardee's reports of his own movements, and Lieutenant-General Hampton's of those of the enemy, that the former had secured the passage of the Pedee at Cheraw; it seemed to me practicable to unite those troops, Stewart's, Cheatham's, and Stevenson's, near Fayetteville, in time to engage one of the enemy's columns while crossing the Cape Fear. The order of march of the Federal army by wings frequently a day's march from each other, and the manner in which those wings had crossed the Catawba and Lynch's Creek, and seemed by their course to be about to cross the Pedee, justified me in hoping to find an opportunity to attack one of those columns in the passage of the Cape Fear when the other was not within supporting distance. As
Smithfield, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e, and conducted by him to the army near Smithfield, N. C. That spirited soldier, although still sf the Army of Tennessee, as they arrived, to Smithfield by railroad, I transferred my headquarters, e suggested that the troops just arrived at Smithfield from Charlotte could join him in a few hoursion, the remnant of it rather, which reached Smithfield during the day, was sent forward also, and jse of the Army--of Tennessee were ordered to Smithfield, about midway between the two places; and Li give his men the rest they needed much. At Smithfield, General Bragg had Hoke's excellent divisionoad and to the north of it, and sixteen from Smithfield. According to the reports of our cavalry, tt Federal column next morning, the troops at Smithfield and at Elevation were ordered to march immednd the troops bivouacked in the evening near Smithfield, but south of the Neuse. In the action oeral army, and rejoined their regiments near Smithfield. Our losses were supplied by the arrival, o[2 more...]
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
deral army, in his field-order No. 66, on the same day: Hostilities having ceased, the following changes and dispositions of the troops in the field will be made with as little delay as practicable: 1. The Tenth and Twenty-third Corps will remain in the Department of North Carolina, and Major-General J. M. Schofield will transfer back to Major-General Gillmore, commanding Department of the South, the two brigades formerly belonging to the division of Brevet Major-General Grover, at Savannah. The Third Division, cavalry corps, Brevet Major-General J. Kilpatrick commanding, is hereby transferred to the Department of North Carolina, and General Kilpatrick will report in person to Major-General Schofield for orders. 2. The cavalry command of Major-General George Stoneman will return to East Tennessee, and that of Brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson will be conducted back to the Tennessee River, in the neighborhood of Decatur, Alabama. 3. Major-General Howard will conduct the
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Charlotte; and two thousand, under command of Major-General Cheatham, were between Newberry and Augusta, also marching toward Charlotte. The troops of the department, under Lieutenant-General Hardee the third, following it, under Major. General Cheathamn, was between the place last named and Augusta. The remaining troops of that army were corning through Georgia in little parties, or individually, unaided by the Government; most of them were united at Augusta afterward, by Lieutenant-General Lee, and conducted by him to the army near Smithfield, N. C. That spirited soldier, although stirough Georgia in detachments, to rejoin their corps. Most of them were united into one body in Augusta, by Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee. Many, indeed the greater number of these veterans, were unart had been thought destitute. Early in March, when the wagons of the Army of Tennessee reached Augusta, their number was so large compared with that of the troops, that the officer in charge of them
Morehead City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
other means of supplying the troops on their homeward march, than a stock of cotton yarn, and a little cloth, to be used as money by the quartermasters and commissaries. But this was entirely inadequate; and great suffering would have ensued, both of the troops and the people on their routes, if General Sherman, when informed of our condition, had not given us two hundred and fifty thousand rations, on no other condition than my furnishing the means of transporting them by railroad from Morehead City. This averted any danger of suffering or even inconvenience. The preparation and signature of the necessary papers occupied the officers of the two armies intrusted with that business until the 2d of May. On that day the three corps and three little bodies of cavalry were ordered to march to their destinations, each under its own commander. And my military connection with those matchless soldiers was terminated by the following order: General orders no. 22. Comrades: In term
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