Grant and His Campaigns : A Military Biography
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- ISBN: 9781931313841 | 1931313849
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- Copyright: 8/1/2001
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The Great War Opens | |
Ruffin's cannon | |
Fort Sumter | |
The effeot on the Masses | |
The Nation Must be saved | |
The attitude of the Rebels | |
Our own duty olear | |
The rush to arms | |
Our ignorance of war | |
The want of every thing | |
The education needed and eventually obtained | |
Grant an apt scholar | |
Childhood and Cadet Life | |
Grant's lineage | |
The new school of biography | |
His parentage and birthplace | |
His name | |
Stories of his youth | |
Limited education | |
Appointment to the Military Academy | |
His scholarship | |
Classmates | |
Recolleotions of him while a cadet | |
The germs of character | |
He graduates | |
Army Life and Retirement From Service | |
Brevet second-lirutenant Fourth Infantry | |
Goes to Corpus Christi | |
At Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma | |
At Monterey | |
At Vera Cruz | |
Regimental quartermaster | |
Fights at Molino and Chapultepeo | |
Mentioned in reports and brevetted captain | |
At olose of war sent to the Northern frontier | |
Marries | |
Off to Oregon | |
Hard work | |
Leather-dealer | |
Belmont | |
Effect of the news on Grant | |
A Drmoorat before the war | |
An unqualified war-man now | |
Raises a company | |
Adjutant-general and mustering officer | |
Colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois | |
Marches | |
Acting brigadier at Cairo | |
The value of Cairo | |
The rebel Strategy | |
Expedition to Belmont | |
Fremont's orders | |
Polk at Columbus | |
The battle | |
Success | |
Enemy re-enforced | |
Grant withdraws | |
Comments | |
Fort Henry | |
Halleck's Department of Missouri | |
Grant's reconnoissance into Kentucky | |
Its value | |
Map of field of operations | |
Columbus, the Gibraltar of America | |
Rebel line | |
Forts Henry and Donelson | |
Foote's flotilla | |
C. F. Smith and Phelps reconnoitre Fort Henry | |
Grant receives permission to attack | |
The fort described | |
Lloyd Tilghman in command | |
Grant's orders of march and battle | |
The naval attack | |
The surrender | |
Comments on rebel defeat | |
On to Donelson | |
Tribute to Commodore Foote | |
Fort Donelson | |
Reorganization | |
Order of march | |
McClernand and Smith move | |
A glance at the fort | |
River-front | |
Land approaches | |
Garrison and commanders | |
Assault upon the trenches | |
Unsuccessful | |
Storm and cold | |
Re-enforcements under L. Wallace | |
The attack of the gunboats | |
Terrible cannonade | |
Foote withdraws | |
Value of his attack | |
Rebel counter-plans | |
Our right attacked and rolled back | |
Grant's consummate plan | |
L. Wallace moves | |
General Smith's Attack and the Surrender | |
Smith's columns organized | |
Lauman the forlorn hope | |
Smith leads | |
Addresses his men | |
The lines move | |
Smith's splendid valor decisive | |
Floyd's new council | |
He turns over the command | |
Pillow looks at the cards, and "passes" | |
The pusillanimous flight | |
Buckner surrenders | |
The correspondence | |
Grand results | |
Comments | |
Eulogy of General C. F. Smith | |
Preparations for a New Advance | |
Grant's enlarged command | |
General Buell co-operates with Halleck | |
Administration | |
Discipline, justice, humanity | |
Nashville falls | |
Surprise of the people | |
A. S. Johnston retires to Murfreesboro' | |
The ascent of the Tennessee | |
Corinth threatened | |
Island No. 10 | |
Seals the river | |
The position described | |
Pope takes New Madrid | |
General Mackall and the American Thermopylie | |
Schuyler Hamilton's canal | |
The capture and rout | |
Grant's New Campaign | |
Pittsburg Landing | |
The landing | |
Grant's dispositions | |
The rebel advance | |
Johnston's proclamation | |
The attack on Prentiss | |
On Sherman, Hurlbut, McClernand, and Wallace | |
The situation at ten o'clock | |
Rebel losses | |
The gunboats | |
Webster's artillery | |
Surgeon Cornyn | |
The final attack on Sunday | |
Lewis Wallace arrives | |
His delay | |
Monday morning | |
Buell on the field | |
Battle on the left | |
On the right | |
Beauregard retires | |
Comments | |
The Siege of Corinth | |
Corinth desoribed | |
Sherman's reconnoissance | |
The arrival of Halleck | |
Pope's army comes up | |
Beauregard's order | |
His force | |
Ours | |
Pope takes Farmington | |
The battle of Farmington | |
Elliot's raid | |
Corinth evacuated | |
The occupation and pursuit | |
Co-operating movements | |
Mitchel's march | |
The navy | |
Fight at Memphis | |
New efforts of the enemy | |
Iuka and Corinth | |
After a brief halt, forward | |
Administration | |
Iuka | |
Price marches up | |
Grant's sagacity | |
The battle | |
Rosecrans and Ord | |
Difficult ground | |
Price retreats southward | |
Corinth | |
The fortifications | |
Price's attack | |
Van Dorn's | |
The bloody repulse | |
Ord and Hurlbut in flank and rear | |
"How does it all sum up?" | |
Sketohes of commanders | |
The Department of the Tennessee | |
The extent of Grant's command | |
Districts | |
Retrospeot | |
Williams' canal | |
Farragut's fleet | |
The Arkansas destroyed | |
Grant moves | |
Pemberton in command of the rebel army | |
Grant's army and staff | |
Trade | |
The value of Vicksburg | |
Port Hudson | |
The Tallahatchie | |
Hovey's movement | |
The prospect bright | |
Murphy's surrender | |
Sherman's expedition to Vicksburg | |
Unsuccessful | |
Arkansas Post | |
Army corps | |
Emancipation proclamation, and colored troops | |
The New Movement Towards Vicksburg | |
Routes proposed | |
Williams' canal | |
Why it failed | |
Milliken's Bend | |
Lake Providence | |
The Yazoo Pass | |
Steele's Bayou | |
Porter's energy | |
Tangled country | |
What next? | |
To New Carthage, and beyond | |
Passing the batteries | |
First boats | |
Sheets of fire | |
Second lot | |
Hard Times | |
Across to Bruinsburg | |
Battle of Port Gibson | |
Enemy routed | |
Vicksburg: the Battles, Assaults, and Siege | |
Fortune smiles | |
Defences of Vicksburg | |
Grand Gulf ours | |
Sherman's feint on Haines' Bluff | |
Grant's grand tactics | |
Battle of Raymond | |
Battle of Jackson | |
Johnston driven out | |
Where is Pemberton? | |
At Champion's Hill | |
Battle there | |
Enemy demoralized | |
Battle of the Big Black | |
Investment | |
Fleet co-operates | |
Two assaults | |
Both fail | |
Vicksburg Besieged | |
Re-enforcements | |
The complete investment | |
The condition of Vicksburg | |
The first mine | |
The explosion | |
Effects | |
We gain a lodgment | |
The cannonade | |
The second mine | |
Preparations for final assault | |
Pemberton's change of opinion | |
Further delay useless | |
Is ready to surrender | |
Vicksburg Falls.--"Unvexed to the Sea" | |
Flag of truce | |
Pemberton's request | |
The interview | |
Terms described | |
Correspondence | |
Terms accepted | |
Vicksburg surrenders | |
Fourth of July | |
Rebellion out in two | |
Only needs shaking, to fall apart | |
Grant's triumphal entry | |
The Mississippi "unvexed to the sea" | |
Comments | |
Finishing Touches: Clearing the Wreck | |
Effect of the news | |
President's letter to Grant | |
Port Hudson waits the fall of Vicksburg | |
Surrenders | |
Correspondence and conditions | |
Sherman moves against Jounston | |
Jounston holds Jackson | |
His order | |
He decamps | |
Organization and Administration | |
Expeditions in all directions | |
The haul at Natchez | |
Extra military questions | |
The subject of trade | |
Tariff of prices on the Mississippi | |
Honors at Memphis | |
Review at New Orleans | |
Sad accident, and its results | |
Partial recovery | |
Boards of honor | |
Comments | |
The Military Division of the Mississippi--The Department of the Cumberland | |
Chiokamauga | |
A glance at the topography | |
The new command | |
The army concentrates | |
At Chattanooga | |
A fine chance of starving | |
Smith' stratagem | |
Hooker advances | |
Bragg's fatal error | |
Sherman moves | |
Reconnoissances and plans | |
The Grand Movement Begun | |
Sherman marches | |
Thomas's advance | |
Sherman crosses and takes position | |
Hooker co-operates | |
All ready along the line | |
The Confederates | |
Waiting for Hooker | |
Storming of the ridge | |
Hooker attacks | |
The fight ended and pursuit begun | |
Pursuit discontinued | |
Comments | |
Burnside at Knoxville | |
His entrance into Knoxville | |
Fortifies the town | |
Advances to lure Longstreet on | |
Longstreet invests and attacks | |
Repulsed | |
Re-enforcements from Grant | |
Sherman comes up | |
Grant's order | |
Summary of losses | |
Great Joy in the Land | |
The President's proclamation | |
Publio honors | |
The gold medal | |
A lieutenant-general proposed | |
Societies | |
Namesakes | |
New labors | |
Visits Cumberland Gap | |
At Nashville | |
To Chattanooga | |
Visits St. Louis | |
The banquet | |
Thanks of the city | |
Elsewhere in the Field | |
The Mississippi | |
Banks | |
Steele | |
Rosecrans | |
Our force compared with the rebels | |
Sherman's expedition to Meridian | |
Thomas moves upon Dalton | |
Seymour at Olustee | |
One head needed | |
No political aspirations | |
The Lieutenant-General--Retrospect and Prospect | |
Grant Lieutenant-General | |
Arrives at Washington | |
Recognized at Willard's | |
Commission presented | |
President's address | |
Grant's reply | |
Revival of the grade | |
Washington, Scott, and Grant | |
The new law | |
Grant's personal appearance | |
The honor unsolicited | |
The country needs him | |
What he had done to earn it | |
Prospect of responsibility and danger | |
Will he succeed? | |
Unrivalled glory | |
The Conduct of the War | |
Grant's convictions | |
Evils to be Remedied | |
The new plan | |
The great theatre | |
How occupied | |
The rebel armies | |
Lee and Johnston | |
Our opposing armies | |
Banks in Virginia | |
Directions to General Butler | |
Sigel's instructions | |
Preparations for the Final Campaign | |
Grant's announcement to the armies | |
At Washington | |
The Army of the Potomac | |
General Meade | |
The army reorganized | |
Fifth Corps | |
Second | |
Sixth | |
The Ninth Corps | |
The character of the army | |
Grant's staff | |
Meade's chief, and adjutant-general | |
The Crossing of the Rubicon | |
All ready | |
Grant makes final preparations | |
The position of the army | |
Lee's position | |
The roads | |
The Wilderness | |
Meade's order | |
The corps move | |
Plans and counterplans | |
The rebels come up in column | |
Ewell on our right, by the turnpike | |
The Battle of the Wilderness | |
Orders to Warren and Sedgwick | |
The battle-field | |
Hancock to the resoue | |
General attack on the 6th | |
Hancock's encounter | |
Second rebel assault | |
Gordon flanks our right | |
Grant on the field | |
Comments | |
Losses | |
Drawn battle | |
On to Richmond | |
Susdense at the North | |
Lee's retreat | |
Sedgwick killed | |
Wright to Sixth Corps | |
Attack on Spottsylvania | |
Hancock's feat of arms | |
The after-battle | |
Our losses up to the 12th | |
Who retreats, Grant or Lee? | |
The land ahead | |
A new flanking movement | |
Co-Operating Movements | |
Sheridan's raid | |
The battle of Yellow Tavern | |
J. E. B. Stuart killed | |
The raiders reach the James | |
Fortunes of Sigel | |
Defeated by Breckinridge | |
Butler's movements | |
His dispatch | |
Beauregard's attack | |
Hermetically sealed | |
Kautz's raid | |
Stanton's dispatch | |
Butler's failure | |
How the want of co-operation affected Grant | |
From Spottsylvania to the Chickahominy | |
The corps move | |
Re-enforcements | |
Losses from May 12 to 21 | |
On the North Anna | |
Withdrawn | |
Sheridan's return | |
Crossing of the Pamunkey | |
Change of base | |
Sheridan holds Cold Harbor | |
Losses from May 21 to 31 | |
W. F. Smith detached from Butler | |
The battles of Cold Harbor | |
The crossing of the Chickahominy | |
South of the James | |
The crossing of the James | |
Petersburg | |
Gillmore retires | |
Kautz attacks | |
Smith's new assault | |
The corps come up rapidly | |
Butler moves forward | |
The new assault on the city | |
Not suockssful | |
Sheridan's expedition | |
New movement of the army | |
Against the Weldon road | |
Deep Bottom | |
Wilson's raid | |
Temporary best | |
The Shenandoah Valley | |
Hunter's instructions | |
He beats the enemy | |
W. E. Jones killed | |
Advance to Lynghburg | |
Retreats to the Kanawha | |
What he accomplished | |
In what he failed | |
The route he should have taken | |
The Mine at Petersburg | |
Grant's diversion | |
The story of the mine | |
Its position | |
Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants | |
Description | |
Excavated under difficulties | |
Meade's order | |
The fuse lighted | |
Fails | |
Gallant men relight it | |
The delay | |
The stormers move | |
Ledlie, Willcox, and Potter | |
Ferrero | |
The crater | |
The Court of Inquiry | |
The Rebel Advance on Washington | |
Early moves down the Valley | |
Grant sends up the Sixth and Nineteenth | |
Wallace moves | |
Is defeated, but detains Early | |
Destruction | |
Wright in command | |
Early retreats | |
The Shenandoah Valley | |
Grant visits Hunter | |
Sheridan | |
Let loose | |
Winchester | |
Around Petersburg | |
Cedar Creek | |
Sheridan rides post from Winchester | |
To the Weldon road | |
The cattle raid | |
Movement on both flanes | |
The westward movement | |
Butler moves | |
The Army of the Potomac in motion | |
The Dutch Gap Canal | |
Gregg at Stoney Creek | |
Comparative rest | |
Other Parts of the Great Theatre | |
Sherman | |
Hood moves into Tennessee | |
General Thomas | |
General Hood | |
Mobile | |
Price invades Missouri | |
To Wytheville and Saltville | |
Fort Fisher | |
The troops land | |
The bombardment and assault | |
Comments | |
Wilmington falls | |
Concentration | |
Plans of Sherman | |
March; the strategio usher | |
Fort Steadman | |
Sheridan's grand march | |
Sherman's visit | |
The movement to the left | |
The True "Beginning of the End" | |
Fight at Dinwiddie Courthouse | |
Battle of Five Forks | |
Defeat of the rebels | |
Consternation in Richmond | |
Its evacuation by Lee | |
Pursuit of the fleeing army | |
Sailor's Creek | |
Lee's surrender | |
Terms | |
Sherman | |
Stoneman | |
Canby at Mobile | |
Wilson's command | |
Conclusion | |
The Lieutenant-General's Military Household | |
General Rawlins, chief of staff | |
Colonel Bowers | |
General Comstock | |
Colonel Babcock | |
Colonel Porter | |
Colonel Hudson | |
Colonel Badeau | |
Colonel Parker | |
Major Leet | |
Captain Dunn | |
General Williams | |
General Webster | |
Colonel Lagow | |
Colonel Hillyer | |
General McPuerson | |
Colonel Rowley | |
Colonel Riggin | |
Colonel Ihrie | |
Major Prine | |
Colonel Duff | |
General Wilson | |
Captain Ross | |
General Dent | |
General Kent | |
General Barnard | |
Major Kuykendal | |
Colonel Dickey | |
Major Audenried | |
General Smith | |
Major H. C. Robinette | |
Captain D. E. Porter | |
Lieutenant H. N. Towner | |
Appendix | |
Official correspondence | p. 473 |
Report of Lieutenant-General Grant | p. 477 |
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