The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Confederate States of America |
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A. J. Smith 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 Mississippi Troops 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-day to-morrow Tupelo U. S. Colored Troops Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN West William
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Page 178 - 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 179 - ... 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, or officers, soldiers, or seamen enrolled...
Page 178 - That, during the present rebellion, the President of the United States, whenever, in his judgment, the public safety may require it, is authorized to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the United States, or any part thereof.
Page 779 - 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 417 - ... admiration and respect of every man capable of feeling sympathy for the oppressed or admiration for heroic valor. You say that we turned loose pirates to plunder your unarmed ships. The truth is, when you robbed us of our part of the navy, we built and bought a few vessels, hoisted the flag of our country, and swept the seas, in defiance of your navy, around the whole circumference of the globe. You say we have expelled Union families by thousands. The truth is, not a single family has been expelled...
Page 338 - The signal success that divine Providence has recently vouchsafed to the operations of the United States fleet and army in the harbor of Mobile, and the reduction of Fort Powell, Fort...
Page 412 - 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.
Page 415 - You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against the terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home is to stop this war, which can alone be done by admitting that it began in error, and is perpetuated in pride.
Page 25 - First, that during the existing insurrection and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all Rebels and Insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States shall be subject to martial law and liable to trial and punishment by Courts Martial or Military Commission.
Page 415 - I, myself, have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children, fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg and Mississippi, we fed thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes...