The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - Confederate States of America |
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A. J. Smith Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Alabama Atlanta August August 20 BATES DICKSON Battalion Battery Brig Brigadier-General C. C. WASHBURN camp Canby Capt Captain and Assistant Cavalry Chattanooga Colonel Columbus command companies Confederate Demopolis Department direction dispatch duty E. R. S. CANBY East Tennessee enemy force FORREST'S CAVALRY Fort Morgan H. W. HALLECK HDQRS HEINTZELMAN horses Illinois Troops Indiana Troops indorsement Infantry James John July June Kentucky Kentucky Troops LEXINGTON Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Louisiana Louisville Major-General Major-General SHERMAN Memphis Meridian MILITARY DIVISION Miss Missouri Mobile morning mounted move N. B. FORREST Nashville obedient servant officers Ohio Troops organization railroad rebels received respectfully Richmond River road S. D. LEE S. G. BURBRIDGE scouts Second Brigade sent September September 28 Sixteenth Army Sixteenth Army Corps SPECIAL ORDERS telegraph Tenn Tennessee Troops Thomas to-morrow Tupelo U. S. Colored Troops Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN West William
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Page 181 - President the public safety does require that the privilege of the said writ shall now be suspended throughout the United States in the cases where, by the authority of the President of the United States, military, naval and civil officers of the United States or any of them hold persons under their command or in their custody either as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders or abettors of the enemy...
Page 418 - I assert that my military plans make it necessary for the inhabitants to go away, and I can only renew my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine . it; and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
Page 180 - Congress assembled that during the present insurrection the President of the United States, whenever in his judgment the public safety may require, is authorized to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the United States or any part thereof...
Page 180 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 417 - This is but a feeble picture of the consequences of this measure. You know the woe, the horror, and the suffering cannot be described by words. Imagination can only conceive of it, and we ask you to take these things into consideration.
Page 416 - Southerner among you ! If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity.
Page 416 - ... should scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its ' dark history.' " In the name of common sense, I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner. " You who in the midst of peace and prosperity have plunged a nation into war,
Page 418 - GENTLEMEN :— I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition, to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned by it, and yet shall not revoke my order, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Page 785 - SIR : I have the honor to report, for the information of the major general commanding, that the situation here is not improving since my last report.
Page 416 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrangements I had proposed to facilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta, who prefer to go in that direction. I inclose you a copy of my orders, which will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly. You style the measures proposed "unprecedented," and appeal to the dark history of war for a parallel, as an act of "studied and ingenious cruelty.