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Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Chapter 3: Shiloh the question of surprise; Unfair treatment of Buell and his Army. s been whether the Union army was surprised at Shiloh; if it was, who was mainly responsible, and hoan very watchful when he afterward encamped at Shiloh. And yet with this important fact ascertainednce of the guard-house, a mile and a half from Shiloh, they deployed into line of battle and I await the rebels with a great saving of life. At Shiloh, for the first time since-General Buell had obf the Memoirs sat down to write his version of Shiloh he would at least have done bare justice to Getead. The closing portion of his chapter on Shiloh, is chiefly devoted to matters connected withrpose to state the facts about Buell's army at Shiloh, and now he is attempting to perpetuate explod that General Grant made no official report of Shiloh, it is proper to present its formal official mwholly ignored in General Sherman's account of Shiloh. Says General Grant: At a late hour in th[2 more...]
Hamburg, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
e took eight prisoners, and killed several; number of the enemy wounded not known. They had with them three pieces of artillery, and cavalry and infantry. How much can not, of course, be estimated. I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack being made upon us (general one), but will be prepared should such a thing take place. General Nelson's division has arrived. The other two of General Buell's column will arrive to-morrow or next day. It is my present intention to send them to Hamburg, some four or five miles above Pittsburgh, when they all get here. From that point to Corinth the road is good, and a junction can be formed with the troops from Pittsburgh at almost any point. * * * * I am, General, very respectfully your obedient servant. U. S. Grant, Major-General. Immediately after the battle, General Sherman appears to have been won over to the idea that an abattis might be valuable as a protection to his camp, for in a compilation of his orders, made unde
Lick Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
urally strong, with Snake Creek on our right, a deep, bold stream, with a confluent (Owl Creek) to our right front, and Lick Creek, with a similar confluent on our left, thus narrowing the space over which we could be attacked to about a mile and a h * * And here I mention, for future history, that our right flank was well guarded by Owl and Snake Creeks, our left by Lick Creek, leaving us simply to guard our front. No stronger position was ever held by an army. Therefore, on Friday, two daysup from Savannah that morning, he had stopped at Crump's Landing, and had ordered Lew. Wallace's division to cross over Lick Creek, so as to come up on my right, telling me to look out for him. He again came to me just before dark, and described the hey had been in the morning, and our then positions; I also explained to him that my right then covered the bridge over Lick Creek, by which we had all day been expecting Lew. Wallace; that McClernand was on my left, Hurlbut on his left, and so on. B
Caffey (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
lodgment on the railroad contemplated by General Halleck's orders. On the 16th we disembarked and marched out about ten miles toward Corinth to a place called Monterey or Pea Ridge, where the rebels had a cavalry regiment, which, of course, decamped on our approach, but from the people we learned that trains were bringing largent mind on that field had of any approaching force. Before that, no scout, no officer, no responsible man, had seen an infantry or artillery soldier nearer than Monterey, five miles out. For weeks and months we had heard all sorts of reports, just as we do now. For weeks old women had reported that Beauregard was coming, sometimefficial report shows that this reconnoitering party was really pushed up to the immediate vicinity of three corps of the Confederate army. Of the movement from Monterey to the battle-field, Bragg says: Moving from there, the command bivouacked for the night near the Meckey House, immediately in rear of Major-General Hardee's
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
s Friday afternoon, will be observed. On that very afternoon, however, General Sherman had written to General Grant, giving the result of the cavalry reconnoissance. That this did not agree with the present statement, that up to the night of the 4th, we had not positively detected the presence of infantry, the following report by General Grant will show: headquarters Department West Tennessee, Savannah, April 5, 1862. General H. W. Halleck, Commanding Department of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. General: Just as my letter of yesterday to Captain McLean, Assistant-Adjutant-General, was finished, notices from Generals McClernand's and Sherman's Assistant-Adjutant-Generals were received, stating that our outposts had been attacked by the enemy apparently in strong force. I immediately went up, but found all quiet The enemy took two officers and four or five of our men prisoners, and killed four. We took eight prisoners, and killed several; number of the enemy wounded not known.
Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
le, a constant stream of civilian surgeons, and sanitary commission agents, men and women, came up the Tennessee to bring relief to the thousands of maimed and wounded soldiers for whom we had imperfect means of shelter and care. These people caught up the camp stories, which, on their return home, they retailed through their local papers, usually elevating their own neighbors into heroes, but decrying all others. Among them was Lieutenant-Governor Stanton, of Ohio, who published in Bellefontaine, Ohio, a most abusive article about General Grant and his subordinate generals. As General Grant did not, 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 too personal to be revived. By this time the good people of the North had begun to have their eyes opene
Hamburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
On the 18th Hurlbut disembarked his division and took post about a mile and a half out, near where the roads branched—one leading to Corinth, the other toward Hamburgh. On the 19th I disembarked my division and took post about three miles back; three of the brigades covering the roads to Purdy and Corinth, and the other brigade, Stuart's, temporarily at a place on the Hamburgh road. * * * Within a few days Prentiss' division arrived and camped on my left, and afterward McClernand's and W. H. L. Wallace's divisions were formed in a line to our rear. * * * General C. F. Smith remained back at Savannah in chief command, and I was only responsible for my o Buell's forces had been expected rightfully for two weeks, and a place was left for his forces, although General Grant afterward had determined to send Buell to Hamburgh as a separate command. But even as we were on the 6th of April, you might search the world over and not find a more advantageous field of battle—flanks well p
Snake Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
amps against an attack, because we had no orders to do so, and because such a course would have made our raw men timid. The position was naturally strong, with Snake Creek on our right, a deep, bold stream, with a confluent (Owl Creek) to our right front, and Lick Creek, with a similar confluent on our left, thus narrowing the spa been an evidence of weakness, and would have invited an attack. * * * And here I mention, for future history, that our right flank was well guarded by Owl and Snake Creeks, our left by Lick Creek, leaving us simply to guard our front. No stronger position was ever held by an army. Therefore, on Friday, two days before the battwhen the attack was renewed, but with much less vehemence, and continued up to dark. Early at night the division of Lew. Wallace arrived from the other side of Snake Creek, not having fired a shot. A very small part of General Buell's army was on our side of the Tennessee River that evening, and their loss was trivial. During
Monterey, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
at Savannah previous to the arrival of General Grant, instructed me—writes General Sherman—to disembark my own division and that of General Hurlbut at Pittsburgh Landing; to take positions well back, and to leave room for his whole army; telling me that he would soon come up in person, and move out in force to make the lodgment on the railroad contemplated by General Halleck's orders. On the 16th we disembarked and marched out about ten miles toward Corinth to a place called Monterey or Pea Ridge, where the rebels had a cavalry regiment, which, of course, decamped on our approach, but from the people we learned that trains were bringing large masses of men from every direction into Corinth.—Page 228, Vol. I. It might be supposed that such knowledge would have made General Sherman very watchful when he afterward encamped at Shiloh. And yet with this important fact ascertained, when he took position there, instead of camping in line of battle, he stationed three of his brigades<
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
l be prepared should such a thing take place. General Nelson's division has arrived. The other two of General Buell's column will arrive to-morrow or next day. It is my present intention to send them to Hamburg, some four or five miles above Pittsburgh, when they all get here. From that point to Corinth the road is good, and a junction can be formed with the troops from Pittsburgh at almost any point. * * * * I am, General, very respectfully your obedient servant. U. S. Grant, Major-GenPittsburgh at almost any point. * * * * I am, General, very respectfully your obedient servant. U. S. Grant, Major-General. Immediately after the battle, General Sherman appears to have been won over to the idea that an abattis might be valuable as a protection to his camp, for in a compilation of his orders, made under his own direction, the very first of them which appears after the engagement, contains the following paragraph: Each brigade commander will examine carefully his immediate front; fell trees to afford his men a barricade, and clear away all underbrush for two hundred yards in front, so
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