The Mississippi valley in the Civil WarHoughton, Mifflin, 1902 |
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advance Arkansas arrived artillery assault attack batteries Bayou Beauregard Bragg brigade Brown's Ferry Buell campaign capture cavalry centre Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel command Confed Confederacy Confederates Corinth corps crossed Cumberland defeat division Donelson Dorn enemy enemy's eral Farragut Federal army fight flank fleet force Fort Donelson Fort Henry front Grant gunboats guns Haines Bluff Halleck Hill Hood Hood's Hooker intrenched Island Number Jackson Johnston Kentucky left wing Lew Wallace line of battle Longstreet Lookout Mountain mand McClernand McCook Memphis ment miles military Missionary Ridge Mississippi River Missouri morning move movement Murfreesboro Nashville occupied Orleans Pemberton Pike Pittsburg Landing Polk Pope Port Hudson position Prentiss railroad rear rebel reinforcements retreat right wing road Rosecrans seize sent Sherman Shiloh ships side Smith Snake Creek soon Stone River surrender Tennessee River Thomas Thomas's tion Tiptonville troops Union army valley Vicksburg victory Virginia Wallace whole Yazoo
Popular passages
Page 296 - As there may still be some non-combatants in Chattanooga, I deem it proper to notify you that prudence would dictate their early withdrawal.
Page 67 - I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority, and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run.
Page 244 - Ulysses must get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is " first catch the rabbit,
Page 243 - If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us, horrible as the idea is, than suffer this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion. I tell you plainly, men are not going to lie here and perish, if they do love their country dearly.
Page 243 - Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and hunger will compel a man to do almost anything. You had better heed a warning voice, though it is the voice of a private soldier. This army is now ripe for mutiny, unless it can be fed.
Page 126 - In less than an hour and a half from the commencement of the action the enemy was in full retreat.
Page 20 - Things have come to a pretty pass when a free people can't choose their own flag. Where I came from if a man dares to say a word in favor of the Union we hang him to a limb of the first tree we come to.
Page 205 - I believe my success here is gall and wormwood to the clique of West Pointers who have been persecuting me for months.
Page 54 - But still graver ill fortune was preparing for him in the other direction, where Grant was about to take the initiative. As Colonel Preston Johnston tersely observes, in his biography of his father, " there has been much discussion as to who originated the movement up the Tennessee river. Grant made it, and it made Grant.
Page 252 - I feel degraded at such an auctioneering of honors Have we a general who would fight for his own personal benefit when he would not for honor and his country ? He would come by his commission basely in that case, and deserve to be despised by men of honor.