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A. J. Smith advance army arrived artillery assault Atlanta Atlanta campaign attack bank battery battle Bayou Beauregard bluff Bragg bridge brigade Brown's Ferry Buell camp campaign captured cavalry Chattanooga Colonel Colquit command Confederate Corinth Creek crossed destroy dispatch division dred duty east enemy enemy's eral expedition farther fell back field fire flank force Frémont front Georgia Grant guns Halleck Hardee Hardee's headquarters Hill Hood Hooker Howard hundred Hurlbut infantry intrenchments Jackson Johnston killed Logan loss mand McClernand McPherson Memphis ment miles military Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning moved National night o'clock officers Ohio Osterhaus Pemberton pickets position Prentiss President pushed railroad ravine re-enforcements reached rear regiments reported returned river road Sandtown Savannah Schofield sent Seventeenth Corps Sher Sherman skirmishers Smith swamp Tennessee Thomas thousand tion troops Tunnel Hill valley Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN wagons Wallace Washington wounded Yazoo
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Page 298 - The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington City, subject to the future action of the Congress of the United States...
Page 264 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 23 - But for the three-years call, made by the President, an officer can prepare his command and do good service. I will not volunteer as a soldier, because rightfully or wrongfully I feel unwilling to take a mere private's place, and, having for many years lived in California and Louisiana, the men are not well enough acquainted with me to elect me to my appropriate place. Should my services be needed, the records of the War Department will enable you to designate the station in which I can render most...
Page 298 - States to be guaranteed, so far as the Executive can, their political rights and franchises, as well as their rights of person and property, as defined by the Constitution of the United States and of the States respectively.
Page 301 - Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 249 - Now, I know the vindictive nature of our enemy, and that we may have many years of military operations from this quarter, and therefore deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families. There will be no manufactures, commerce, or agriculture here for the maintenance of families, and sooner or later want will compel the inhabitants to go.
Page 248 - ... forage. Soldiers must not enter the dwellings of the inhabitants, or commit any trespass ; but, during...
Page 196 - Here lies the seat of the coming empire, and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic.
Page 248 - The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather, near the route...
Page 250 - 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...