Southern History of the War: Official Reports of Battles, as Pub. by Order of the Confederate Congress at Richmond |
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... No terms , except unconditional and immediate surrender , can be accepted . I propose to move immediately upon your works . I am , sir , very respectfully , Your obedient servant , U. S. GRANT , Brig . - gen . [ Copy . ] Reply of Gen ...
... No terms , except unconditional and immediate surrender , can be accepted . I propose to move immediately upon your works . I am , sir , very respectfully , Your obedient servant , U. S. GRANT , Brig . - gen . [ Copy . ] Reply of Gen ...
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14th Mississippi 3d brigade action advance Alabama ammunition army arrived artillery attack battalion battery battle of Shiloh boats Bragg brave Brig.-gen brigade Buckner camp Capt cavalry Centreville charge Clarksville column command CORINTH corps defence direction division Donelson duty encampment enemy enemy's batteries engaged fall back February fell field fight Floyd force Fort Craig Fort Donelson Fort Henry forward front gallant gallantly gunboats guns Hampton's legion HEAD-QUARTERS heavy fire Henry hill honor hour hundred yards immediately infantry intrenchments Johnston killed and wounded Lieut Lieut.-col line of battle loss Louisiana Major Pyron Major-gen mand ment mile missing Mississippi regiment morning moved movement night o'clock obedient servant occupied officers opened pieces Pillow placed position ravine reached rear received regi reinforcements respectfully retired retreat rifle rifle-pits right wing river sent shell shot skirmishers soon staff surrender Tennessee regiment Tennessee river trenches Volunteers Withers Wynn's ferry road
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Page 112 - SIR : — Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 17 - ... grass and grain fields in all directions, including the scene of Evans' and Bee's recent encounter with the enemy — some twelve hundred yards to the northward. In reply to the play of the enemy's batteries, our own artillery had not been idle or unskilful. The ground occupied by our guns, on a level with that held by the batteries of the enemy, was an open space of limited extent, behind a low undulation, just at the eastern verge of the plateau, some 600 or 600 yards from the Henry house.
Page 115 - Impressed with the great deficiency in the preparations for defending the passage of the river at Fort Henry, the commanding officer expressed to me his fears that it might cause disaster if the place were vigorously attacked by the enemy's gunboats. This he thought his greatest danger. In conjunction with General...
Page 266 - Without ammunition, and with only their bayonets to rely on, steadily my men advanced, under a heavy fire from light batteries, siege-pieces, and gunboats. Passing through the ravine, they arrived near the crest of the opposite hill, upon which the enemy's batteries were, but could not be urged further without support. Sheltering themselves against the precipitous sides of the ravine, they remained under this fire for some time.
Page 213 - April, however, a hot fire of musketry and artillery, opened from the enemy's quarter on our advanced line, assured me of the junction of his forces; and soon the battle raged with a fury which satisfied me I was attacked by a largely superior force. But, from the outset, our troops, notwithstanding their fatigue and losses from the battle of the day before, exhibited the most cheering, veteran-like steadiness.
Page 112 - SIR :—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.
Page 17 - Around the eastern and southern brow of the plateau an almost unbroken fringe of second-growth pines gave excellent shelter for our marksmen, who availed themselves of it with the most satisfactory skill. To the west, adjoining the fields, a broad belt of oaks extends directly across the crest on both sides of the Sudley road, in which during the battle regiments of both armies met and contended for the mastery. From the open ground of this plateau the view embraces a wide expanse of woods and gently...
Page 12 - ... and the six pieces under Imboden and Richardson. The enemy had two divisions of four strong brigades, including seventeen companies of regular infantry, cavalry, and artillery, four companies of marines, and twenty pieces of artillery.
Page 18 - By this time, between half-past 2 and 3 o'clock p. M., our reinforcements pushed forward, and directed by General Johnston to the required quarter, were at hand just as I had ordered forward to a second effort for the recovery of the disputed plateau, the whole line, including my reserves, which, at this crisis of the battle, I felt called upon to lead in person.
Page 52 - There was no place within our intrenchments but could be reached by the enemy's artillery, from their boats or their batteries. It was but fair to infer that, while they kept up a sufficient fire upon our intrenchments to keep our men from sleep and prevent repose, their object was merely to give time to pass a column above us on the river, both on the right and the left banks, and thus to cut off all our communications, and to prevent the possibility of egress.