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@@ -3375,7 +3375,7 @@ About midnight I was called up and informed that there were seven officers willing to go, but the difficulty was to get horses and saddles. I went down to Larkin's house and got General Smith to consent that we might take the horses I had bought for our trip. -It was nearly three o'clock a.m. before we were all mounted and +It was nearly three o'clock A.M. before we were all mounted and ready. I had a musket which I used for hunting. With this I led off at a canter, followed by the others. About six miles out, by the faint moon, I saw ahead of us in the sandy road some blue @@ -4946,7 +4946,7 @@ assent. Nisbet handed him his two acceptances, and he handed me his check, signed as collector of the port, on Major J. R. Snyder, United States Treasurer, for forty thousand dollars. I afterward rode out, that night, to Major Snyder's house on North Beach, saw -him, and he agreed to meet me at 8 a.m. next day, at the United +him, and he agreed to meet me at 8 A.M. next day, at the United States Mint, and to pay the check, so that I could have the money before the bank opened. The next morning, as agreed on, we met, and he paid me the check in two sealed bags of gold-coin, each @@ -7522,7 +7522,7 @@ General Schenck, and proceeded as far as the halt, before the enemy's position, near the stone bridge across Bull Run. Here the brigade was deployed in line along the skirt of timber to the right of the Warrenton road, and remained quietly in position till after -10 a.m. The enemy remained very quiet, but about that time we saw +10 A.M. The enemy remained very quiet, but about that time we saw a rebel regiment leave its cover in our front, and proceed in double-quick time on the road toward Sudley Springs, by which we knew the columns of Colonels Hunter and Heintzelman were @@ -9859,7 +9859,7 @@ when I ordered under arms all my division, and sent word to General McClernand, asking him to support my left; to General Prentiss, giving him notice that the enemy was in our front in force, and to General Hurlbut, asking him to support General Prentiss. At that -time--7 a.m.--my division was arranged as follows: +time--7 A.M.--my division was arranged as follows: First Brigade, composed of the Sixth Iowa, Colonel J. A. McDowell; @@ -9890,7 +9890,7 @@ under Colonel Dickey, were posted in a large open field to the left and rear of Shiloh meeting-house, which I regarded as the centre of my position. -Shortly after 7 a.m., with my entire staff, I rode along a portion +Shortly after 7 A.M., with my entire staff, I rode along a portion of our front, and when in the open field before Appler's regiment, the enemy's pickets opened a brisk fire upon my party, killing my orderly, Thomas D. Holliday, of Company H, Second Illinois Cavalry. @@ -9902,7 +9902,7 @@ This valley afforded the enemy partial cover; but our men were so posted as to have a good fire at them as they crossed the valley and ascended the rising ground on our side. -About 8 a.m. I saw the glistening bayonets of heavy masses of +About 8 A.M. I saw the glistening bayonets of heavy masses of infantry to our left front in the woods beyond the small stream alluded to, and became satisfied for the first time that the enemy designed a determined attack on our whole camp. @@ -9943,7 +9943,7 @@ possession of three guns of this (Waterhouse's) battery. Although our left was thus turned, and the enemy was pressing our whole line, I deemed Shiloh so important, that I remained by it and renewed my orders to Colonels McDowell and Buckland to hold their -ground; and we did hold these positions until about 10 a.m., when +ground; and we did hold these positions until about 10 A.M., when the enemy had got his artillery to the rear of our left flank and some change became absolutely necessary. Two regiments of Hildebrand's brigade--Appler's and Mungen's--had already @@ -9962,7 +9962,7 @@ had substantially disappeared from the field, though he himself bravely remained. McDowell's and Buckland's brigades maintained their organizations, and were conducted by my aides, so as to join on General McClernand's right, thus abandoning my original camps -and line. This was about 10 1/2 a.m., at which time the enemy had +and line. This was about 10 1/2 A.M., at which time the enemy had made a furious attack on General McClernand's whole front. He straggled most determinedly, but, finding him pressed, I moved McDowell's brigade directly against the left flank of the enemy, @@ -10026,7 +10026,7 @@ ground on the extreme right of General McClernand's camp, where we attracted the fire of a battery located near Colonel McDowell's former headquarters. Here I remained, patiently waiting for the sound of General Buell's advance upon the main Corinth road. About -10 a.m. the heavy firing in that direction, and its steady +10 A.M. the heavy firing in that direction, and its steady approach, satisfied me; and General Wallace being on our right flank with his well-conducted division, I led the head of my column to General McClernand's right, formed line of battle, facing south, @@ -10193,7 +10193,7 @@ batteries, on which so much depended. I inclose his report and indorse his recommendations. The cavalry of my command kept to the rear, and took little part in the action; but it would have been madness to have exposed horses to the musketry-fire under which we -were compelled to remain from Sunday at 8 a.m. till Monday at +were compelled to remain from Sunday at 8 A.M. till Monday at 4 p.m. Captain Kossack, of the engineers, was with me all the time, and was of great assistance. I inclose his sketch of the battlefield, which is the best I have seen, and which will enable @@ -10300,7 +10300,7 @@ Nelson, and others, who had reached the steamboat-landing from the east, just before nightfall of the 6th, when there was a large crowd of frightened, stampeded men, who clamored and declared that our army was all destroyed and beaten. Personally I saw General -Grant, who with his staff visited me about 10 a.m. of the 6th, +Grant, who with his staff visited me about 10 A.M. of the 6th, when we were desperately engaged. But we had checked the headlong assault of our enemy, and then held our ground. This gave him great satisfaction, and he told me that things did not look as well @@ -10390,7 +10390,7 @@ Buell arrived we would march to Corinth to attack the enemy. The rebel army, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston, was, according to their own reports and admissions, forty-five thousand strong, had the momentum of attack, and beyond all question fought -skillfully from early morning till about 2 a.m., when their +skillfully from early morning till about 2 A.M., when their commander-in-chief was killed by a Mini-ball in the calf of his leg, which penetrated the boot and severed the main artery. There was then a perceptible lull for a couple of hours, when the attack @@ -12603,7 +12603,7 @@ movements. There was a general understanding with Admiral Porter that he was to attack the fort with his three ironclad gunboats directly by its -water-front, while we assaulted by land in the rear. About 10 a.m. +water-front, while we assaulted by land in the rear. About 10 A.M. I got a message from General McClernand, telling me where he could be found, and asking me what we were waiting for. I answered that we were then in close contact with the enemy, viz., about five or @@ -12872,7 +12872,7 @@ Very respectfully, U. S. GRANT, Major-General. -This letter was instantly (8 a.m.) sent to Colonel Giles A. Smith, +This letter was instantly (8 A.M.) sent to Colonel Giles A. Smith, commanding the Eighth Missouri, with orders to prepare immediately. He returned it at 9.15, with an answer that the regiment was all ready. I went up to Milliken's Bend in the tug, and had a @@ -13587,7 +13587,7 @@ fires of pitch-pine. General Grant joined me there, and we sat on a log, looking at the passage of the troops by the light of those fires; the bridge swayed to and fro under the passing feet, and made a fine war-picture. At daybreak we moved on, ascending the ridge, -and by 10 a.m. the head of my column, long drawn out, reached the +and by 10 A.M. the head of my column, long drawn out, reached the Benton road, and gave us command of the peninsula between the Yazoo and Big Black. I dispatched Colonel Swan, of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, to Haines's Bluff, to capture that battery from the rear, @@ -13618,7 +13618,7 @@ well manned; and, on General Steele's head of column arriving, I turned it still more to the right, with orders to work its way down the bluff, so as to make connection with our fleet in the Mississippi River. There was a good deal of desultory fighting that -evening, and a man was killed by the aide of General Grant and +evening, and a man was killed by the side of General Grant and myself, as we sat by the road-side looking at Steele's division passing to the right. General Steele's men reached the road which led from Vicksburg up to Haines's Bluff, which road lay at the foot @@ -13626,7 +13626,7 @@ of the hills, and intercepted some prisoners and wagons which were coming down from Haines's Bluff. All that night McPherson's troops were arriving by the main Jackson -road, and McClernand'a by another near the railroad, deploying +road, and McClernand's by another near the railroad, deploying forward as fast as they struck the rebel works. My corps (the Fifteenth) had the right of the line of investment; McPherson's (the Seventeenth) the centre; and McClernand's (the Thirteenth) the @@ -13656,7 +13656,7 @@ principal roads entered the city. It was not a council of war, but a mere consultation, resulting in orders from General Grant for us to make all possible preparations -for a renewed assault on the 22d, simultaneously, at 10 a.m. I +for a renewed assault on the 22d, simultaneously, at 10 A.M. I reconnoitred my front thoroughly in person, from right to left, and concluded to make my real attack at the right flank of the bastion, where the graveyard road entered the enemy's intrenchments, and at @@ -13666,7 +13666,7 @@ division, about a mile to our right, toward the river. All our field batteries were put in position, and were covered by good epaulements; the troops were brought forward, in easy support, concealed by the shape of the ground; and to the minute, viz., -10 a.m. of May 22d, the troops sprang to the assault. A small +10 A.M. of May 22d, the troops sprang to the assault. A small party, that might be called a forlorn hope, provided with plank to cross the ditch, advanced at a run, up to the very ditch; the lines of infantry sprang from cover, and advanced rapidly in line of @@ -13762,7 +13762,7 @@ as the rumors of Johnston's accumulating force reached us, General Grant concluded to take stronger measures. He had received from the North General J. G. Parker's corps (Ninth), which had been posted at Haines's Bluff; then, detailing one division from each of -the three corps d'armee investing Vicksburg, he ordered me to go +the three corps d'armée investing Vicksburg, he ordered me to go out, take a general command of all, and to counteract any movement on the part of General Johnston to relieve Vicksburg. I reconnoitred the whole country, from Haines's Bluff to the railroad @@ -13772,7 +13772,7 @@ Parke's two divisions from Haines's Bluff out to the Benton or ridge road; Tuttle's division, of my corps, joining on and extending to a plantation called Young's, overlooking Bear Creek valley, which empties into the Big Black above Messinger's Ferry; -then McArthurs division, of McPherson's corps, took up the line, +then McArthur's division, of McPherson's corps, took up the line, and reached to Osterhaus's division of McClernand's corps, which held a strong fortified position at the railroad-crossing of the Big Black River. I was of opinion that, if Johnston should cross @@ -13821,7 +13821,7 @@ the road-side near Trible's, I saw a poor, miserable horse, carrying a lady, and led by a little negro boy, coming across a cotton-field toward me; as they approached I recognized poor Mrs. Wilkinson, and helped her to dismount. I inquired what had brought -her to me in that style, and she answered that she knew Vicksburg, +her to me in that style, and she answered that she knew Vicksburg was going to surrender, and she wanted to go right away to see her boy. I had a telegraph-wire to General Grant's headquarters, and had heard that there were symptoms of surrender, but as yet nothing @@ -13859,7 +13859,7 @@ Raymond road; Ord's (Thirteenth) on the right, reaching Pearl River below the town; and Parker's (Ninth) the left, above the town. On the 11th we pressed close in, and shelled the town from every -direction. One of Ords brigades (Lauman's) got too close, and was +direction. One of Ord's brigades (Lauman's) got too close, and was very roughly handled and driven back in disorder. General Ord accused the commander (General Lauman) of having disregarded his orders, and attributed to him personally the disaster and heavy @@ -14743,7 +14743,7 @@ Colliersville, twenty-six miles out. I was in the rear car with my staff, dozing, but observed the train slacking speed and stopping about half a mile beyond the depot. I noticed some soldiers running to and fro, got out at the end of the car, and soon Colonel -Anthony (Silty-sixth Indiana), who commanded the post, rode up and +Anthony (Sixty-sixth Indiana), who commanded the post, rode up and said that his pickets had just been driven in, and there was an appearance of an attack by a large force of cavalry coming from the southeast. I ordered the men to get off the train, to form on the @@ -14820,7 +14820,7 @@ damages to the railroad and locomotive, and went on to Corinth. At Corinth, on the 16th, I received the following important dispatches: -MEMPHIS, October 14, 1863--11 a.m. +MEMPHIS, October 14, 1863--11 A.M. Arrived this morning. Will be off in a few hours. My orders are only to go to Cairo, and report from there by telegraph. McPherson @@ -15110,7 +15110,7 @@ confidence, he would betray them into our hands. Of course I wrote him that he must try and settle down and become a gentleman as well as an officer, apply himself to his duties, and forget the wild desires of his nature, which were well enough in time of war, but -not suited to his new condition as an officer; but, poor fellow I +not suited to his new condition as an officer; but, poor fellow! he was killed by an accident, which probably saved him from a slower but harder fate. @@ -15378,7 +15378,7 @@ dispatches from General Burnside, the last which had been received from him by way of Cumberland Gap: HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, CHATTANOOGA, -TENNESSEE, Nov. 29, 1863 +TENNESSEE, Nov. 29, 1863 Major-General W. T. SHERMAN @@ -15483,7 +15483,6 @@ restore to General Thomas the divisions of Howard and Davis, which belonged to his army, and to conduct my own corps (the Fifteenth) to North Alabama for winter-quarters. - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE, BRIDGEPORT, ALABAMA December 19, 1863 @@ -15515,6 +15514,7 @@ of three brigades, led by Brigadier-General J. M. Corse, Colonel Loomis (Twenty-sixth Illinois), and Colonel J. R. Cockerill (of the Seventieth Ohio). + On the 22d day of September I received a telegraphic dispatch from General Grant, then at Vicksburg, commanding the Department of the Tennessee, requiring me to detach one of my divisions to march to @@ -15899,7 +15899,7 @@ his guns on General Ewing's hill, and Captain Woods his Napoleon battery on General Lightburn's; also, two guns of Dillon's battery were with Colonel Alexander's brigade. All directed their fire as carefully as possible, to clear the hill to our front, without -endangering our own men. The fight raged furiously about 10 a.m., +endangering our own men. The fight raged furiously about 10 A.M., when General Corse received a severe wound, was brought off the field, and the command of the brigade and of the assault at that key-point devolved on that fine young, gallant officer, Colonel @@ -15921,7 +15921,7 @@ disorder to the lower edge of the field, and reformed. These two brigades were in the nature of supports, and did not constitute a part of the real attack. -The movement, seen from Chattanooga (five miles off ) with +The movement, seen from Chattanooga (five miles off) with spy-glasses, gave rise to the report, which even General Meiga has repeated, that we were repulsed on the left. It was not so. The real attacking columns of General Corse, Colonel Loomis, and @@ -15965,11 +15965,11 @@ General Howard had reported to me in the early part of the day, with the remainder of his army corps (the Eleventh), and had been posted to connect my left with Chickamauga Creek. He was ordered to repair an old broken bridge about two miles up the Chickamauga, -and to follow General Davis at 4 a.m., and the Fifteenth Army Corps +and to follow General Davis at 4 A.M., and the Fifteenth Army Corps was ordered to follow at daylight. But General Howard found that to repair the bridge was more of a task than was at first supposed, and we were all compelled to cross the Chickamauga on the new -pontoon-bridge at its mouth. By about 11 a.m. General Jeff. C. +pontoon-bridge at its mouth. By about 11 A.M. General Jeff. C. Davis's division reached the depot, just in time to see it in flames. He found the enemy occupying two hills, partially intrenched, just beyond the depot. These he soon drove away. @@ -16028,7 +16028,7 @@ Graysville, back to the State line; and General Grant, coming to Graysville, consented that, instead of returning direct to Chattanooga, I might send back all my artillery-wagons and impediments, and make a circuit by the north as far as the -Hiawasaee River. +Hiawassee River. Accordingly, on the morning of November 29th, General Howard moved from Parker's Gap to Cleveland, General Davis by way of McDaniel's @@ -16080,7 +16080,7 @@ Major McCoy, at Charleston, to communicate with this cavalry and hurry it forward. It overtook me in the night at Athens. On the 2d of December the army moved rapidly north toward Loudon, -twenty-six miles distant. About 11 a.m., the cavalry passed to the +twenty-six miles distant. About 11 A.M., the cavalry passed to the head of the column, was ordered to push to London, and, if possible, to save a pontoon-bridge across the Tennessee, held by a brigade of the enemy commanded by General Vaughn. The cavalry @@ -16169,7 +16169,7 @@ The general explained to me fully and frankly what he had done, and what he proposed to do. He asked of me nothing but General Granger's command; and suggested, in view of the large force I had brought from Chattanooga, that I should return with due expedition -to the line of the Hiawasaee, lest Bragg, reenforced, might take +to the line of the Hiawassee, lest Bragg, reenforced, might take advantage of our absence to resume the offensive. I asked him to reduce this to writing, which he did, and I here introduce it as part of my report: @@ -16213,7 +16213,7 @@ Howard that the enemy held Charleston, I diverted General Ewing's division to Athena, and went in person to Tellico with General Morgan L. Smith's division. By the 9th all our troops were in position, and we held the rich country between the Little Tennessee -and the Hiawasaee. The cavalry, under Colonel Long, passed the +and the Hiawassee. The cavalry, under Colonel Long, passed the mountain at Tellico, and proceeded about seventeen miles beyond Murphy, when Colonel Long, deeming his farther pursuit of the wagon-train useless, returned on the 12th to Tellico. I then @@ -17948,7 +17948,7 @@ right, crossing the low ground to the north, to get a higher ground, avoid crowding the moving columns, and gain the left (our right) and rear of the "post," and the river-bank above the post. Stuart took the river-road the movement commencing at 11 o'clock -a.m.. After crossing the low ground covered with water, you were +A.M.. After crossing the low ground covered with water, you were called back with Steele, as Stuart had driven out the enemy's rifle-trench pickets, this giving more and feasible room for moving. Stuart was pushed forward, and by dark he and Steele were @@ -18401,7 +18401,7 @@ with propriety press the matter, but if General Buell should be assigned to me specifically I was prepared to assign him to command all the troops on the Mississippi River from Cairo to Natchez, comprising about three divisions, or the equivalent of a corps -d'armee. General Grant never afterward communicated to me on the +d'armée. General Grant never afterward communicated to me on the subject at all; and I inferred that Mr. Stanton, who was notoriously vindictive in his prejudices, would not consent to the employment of these high officers. General Buell, toward the close of the war, @@ -18811,7 +18811,7 @@ McPherson, and Schofield on thousands of matters of detail and arrangement, most of which are embraced in my testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, vol. i., Appendix. -When the time for action approached, viz., May 1,1864, the actual +When the time for action approached, viz., May 1, 1864, the actual armies prepared to move into Georgia resulted as follows, present for battle: Men. @@ -18870,7 +18870,7 @@ Blair, with these two divisions, constituting the Seventeenth Army Corps, did not actually overtake us until we reached Acworth and Big Shanty, in Georgia, about the 9th of June, 1864. -In my letter of April 4th to General John A. Rawains, chief of +In my letter of April 4th to General John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to General Grant at Washington, I described at length all the preparations that were in progress for the active campaign thus contemplated, and therein estimated Schofield at twelve thousand, @@ -19894,7 +19894,7 @@ Stoneman's division of cavalry had occupied Allatoona, on the railroad, and General Garrard's division was at the western end of the pass, about Stilesboro. Colonel W. W. Wright, of the Engineers, was busily employed in repairing the railroad and -rebuilding the bridge across the Etowah (or High tower) River, +rebuilding the bridge across the Etowah (or Hightower) River, which had been destroyed by the enemy on his retreat; and the armies were engaged in a general and constant skirmish along a front of about six miles--McPherson the right, Thomas the centre, @@ -21343,7 +21343,7 @@ overtake and to hurry forward the movement, so as to come up on the left rear of the enemy, during the expected battle. By this time the sound of cannon and musketry denoted a severe -battle as in progress, which began seriously at 11.30 a.m., and +battle as in progress, which began seriously at 11.30 A.M., and ended substantially by 4 p.m. It was a fierce attack by the enemy on our extreme right flank, well posted and partially covered. The most authentic account of the battle is given by General Logan, who @@ -21384,7 +21384,7 @@ from their position. Brigadier-Generals C. R. Woods, Harrow, and Morgan L. Smith, division commanders, are entitled to equal credit for gallant conduct and skill in repelling the assault. My thanks are due to -Major-Generals Blair and Dodge for sending me reenforeements at a +Major-Generals Blair and Dodge for sending me reenforcements at a time when they were much needed. My losses were fifty killed, four hundred and forty-nine wounded, and seventy-three missing: aggregate, five hundred and seventy-two. @@ -21899,7 +21899,7 @@ original plan. Meantime, the damage done to our own railroad and telegraph by Wheeler, about Resaca and Dalton, had been repaired, and Wheeler himself was too far away to be of any service to his own army, and where he could not do us much harm, viz., up about -the Hiawaesee. On the 24th I rode down to the Chattahoochee +the Hiawassee. On the 24th I rode down to the Chattahoochee bridge, to see in person that it could be properly defended by the single corps proposed to be left there for that purpose, and found that the rebel works, which had been built by Johnston to resist @@ -22052,7 +22052,7 @@ bivouac, called him out to listen to the reverberations which came from the direction of Atlanta (twenty miles to the north of us), and inquired of him if he had resided there long. He said he had, and that these sounds were just like those of a battle. An -interval of quiet then ensued, when again, about 4 a.m., arose +interval of quiet then ensued, when again, about 4 A.M., arose other similar explosions, but I still remained in doubt whether the enemy was engaged in blowing up his own magazines, or whether General Slocum had not felt forward, and become engaged in a real @@ -23474,7 +23474,7 @@ we took full advantage of the occasion. On the 26th I received this dispatch. -CITY POINT, VIRGINIA,September 26,1864-10 a.m. +CITY POINT, VIRGINIA,September 26,1864-10 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN, Atlanta It will be better to drive Forrest out of Middle Tennessee as a @@ -23518,7 +23518,7 @@ Louisville, to be sent thence by mail to Washington, and on the same day received this dispatch: -WASHINGTON, D. C., September 27, 1864-9 a.m. +WASHINGTON, D. C., September 27, 1864-9 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN, Atlanta: You say Jeff Davis is on a visit to General Hood. I judge that Brown and Stephens are the objects of his visit. @@ -23586,7 +23586,7 @@ closed. On the 28th I received from General Grant two dispatches -CITY POINT, VIRGINIA; September 27, 1864-8.30 a.m. +CITY POINT, VIRGINIA; September 27, 1864-8.30 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN: It is evident, from the tone of the Richmond press and from other sources of information, that the enemy intend making a desperate @@ -23598,7 +23598,7 @@ better be recalled and his surplus troops sent into Tennessee. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. -CITY POINT, VIRGINIA; September 27, 1864-10.30 a.m. +CITY POINT, VIRGINIA; September 27, 1864-10.30 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN: I have directed all recruits and new troops from all the Western States to be sent to Nashville, to receive their further orders @@ -23712,7 +23712,7 @@ present aide-de-camp. He had two small redoubts on either side of the railroad, overlooking the village of Allatoona, and the warehouses, in which were stored over a million rations of bread. -Reaching Kenesaw Mountain about 8 a.m. of October 5th (a beautiful +Reaching Kenesaw Mountain about 8 A.M. of October 5th (a beautiful day), I had a superb view of the vast panorama to the north and west. To the southwest, about Dallas, could be seen the smoke of camp-fires, indicating the presence of a large force of the enemy, @@ -23767,7 +23767,7 @@ a train of thirty empty cars was started for him, but about ten of them got off the track and caused delay. By 7 p.m. he had at Rome a train of twenty cars, which he loaded up with Colonel Rowett's brigade, and part of the Twelfth Illinois Infantry; started at 8 -p.m., reached Allatoona (distant thirty-five miles) at 1 a.m. of +p.m., reached Allatoona (distant thirty-five miles) at 1 A.M. of the 5th, and sent the train back for more men; but the road was in bad order, and no more men came in time. He found Colonel Tourtellotte's garrison composed of eight hundred and ninety men; @@ -23778,7 +23778,7 @@ from the village to the ridge on which the redoubts were built. The enemy was composed of French's division of three brigades, variously reported from four to five thousand strong. This force -gradually surrounded the place by 8 a.m., when General French sent +gradually surrounded the place by 8 A.M., when General French sent in by flag of truce this note: @@ -23826,7 +23826,7 @@ overlooked the storehouses close by the railroad, and each could aid the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other. Our troops at first endeavored to hold some ground outside the redoubts, but were soon driven inside, when the enemy -made repeated assaults, but were always driven back. About 11 a.m., +made repeated assaults, but were always driven back. About 11 A.M., Colonel Redfield, of the Thirty-ninth Iowa, was killed, and Colonel Rowett was wounded, but never ceased to fight and encourage his men. Colonel Tourtellotte was shot through the hips, but continued @@ -24065,7 +24065,7 @@ following letter: HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE IN THE FIELD, October 12,1861. -To the officer commanding the United Stales Forces at Resaca, +To the officer commanding the United States Forces at Resaca, Georgia. SIR: I demand the immediate and unconditional surrender of the post @@ -24146,7 +24146,7 @@ Blue Mountain. We can maintain our men and animals on the country. General Thomas's reply was: -NASHVILLE, October 17, 1864--10.30 a.m. +NASHVILLE, October 17, 1864--10.30 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN: @@ -24545,7 +24545,7 @@ W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General. That same day I received, in answer to the Rome dispatch, the following: -CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, November 2,1864--11.30 a.m. +CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, November 2,1864--11.30 A.M. Major-General SHERMAN: @@ -24879,7 +24879,7 @@ and one ambulance; behind each brigade should follow a due proportion of ammunition-wagons, provision-wagons, and ambulances. In case of danger, each corps commander should change this order of march, by having his advance and rear brigades unencumbered by -wheels. The separate columns will start habitually at 7 a.m., and +wheels. The separate columns will start habitually at 7 A.M., and make about fifteen miles per day, unless otherwise fixed in orders. 4. The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. @@ -25031,7 +25031,7 @@ erysipelas that he was reluctantly compelled to leave us for the rear; and he could not, on recovering, rejoin us till we had reached Savannah. -About 7 a.m. of November 16th we rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur +About 7 A.M. of November 16th we rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past @@ -27369,7 +27369,7 @@ secure possession of the needful buildings and offices, and give the necessary orders, to the end that the army may be supplied abundantly and well. -S. The chief-engineer, Captain Poe, will at once direct which of +3. The chief-engineer, Captain Poe, will at once direct which of the enemy's forts are to be retained for our use, and which dismantled and destroyed. The chief ordnance-officer, Captain Baylor, will in like manner take possession of all property @@ -27578,7 +27578,7 @@ Generals Easton and Beckwith had organized a complete depot of supplies; and, though vessels arrived almost daily with mails and provisions, we were hardly ready to initiate a new and hazardous campaign. I had not yet received from General Grant or General -Halleck any modification of the orders of December 6,1864, to +Halleck any modification of the orders of December 6, 1864, to embark my command for Virginia by sea; but on the 2d of January, 1865, General J. G. Barnard, United States Engineers, arrived direct from General Grant's headquarters, bearing the following @@ -28228,7 +28228,7 @@ recruit, go to assist his family and settlement in procuring agricultural implements, seed, tools, boots, clothing, and other articles necessary for their livelihood. -8. Whenever three respectable negroes, heads of families, shall +3. Whenever three respectable negroes, heads of families, shall desire to settle on land, and shall have selected for that purpose an island or a locality clearly defined within the limits above designated, the Inspector of Settlements and Plantations will @@ -29744,7 +29744,7 @@ some of which were carried four or five blocks, and started new fires. The men seemed generally under good control, and certainly labored hard to girdle the fire, to prevent its spreading; but, so long as the high wind prevailed, it was simply beyond human -possibility. Fortunately, about 3 or 4 a.m., the wind moderated, +possibility. Fortunately, about 3 or 4 A.M., the wind moderated, and gradually the fire was got under control; but it had burned out the very heart of the city, embracing several churches, the old State-House, and the school or asylum of that very Sister of @@ -31308,7 +31308,7 @@ honorable and gallant defense, he was compelled to lower to the insurgents in South Carolina, in April, 1861. The ceremonies for the occasion will commence with prayer, at -thirty minutes past eleven o'clock a.m. +thirty minutes past eleven o'clock A.M. At noon precisely, the flag will be raised and saluted with one hundred guns from Fort Sumter, and with a national salute from Fort @@ -31340,7 +31340,7 @@ Copy of Major ANDERSON's Dispatch, announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861. STEAMSHIP BALTIC, OFF SANDY HOOK -April 10, 1861, 10.30 a.m. via New York +April 10, 1861, 10.30 A.M. via New York Honorable S. Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington @@ -32262,7 +32262,7 @@ volunteered to say that he hoped I would succeed in obtaining his surrender, as the whole army dreaded the long march to Charlotte (one hundred and seventy-five miles), already begun, but which had been interrupted by the receipt of General Johnston's letter of the -13th. We reached Durham's, twenty-six miles, about 10 a.m., where +13th. We reached Durham's, twenty-six miles, about 10 A.M., where General Kilpatrick had a squadron of cavalry drawn up to receive me. We passed into the house in which he had his headquarters, and soon after mounted some led horses, which he had prepared for @@ -32685,7 +32685,7 @@ orders, and thence by sea to North Carolina. Nothing of interest happened at Raleigh till the evening of April 23d, when Major Hitchcock reported by telegraph his return to Morehead City, and that he would come up by rail during the night. He arrived at 6 -a.m., April 24th, accompanied by General Grant and one or two +A.M., April 24th, accompanied by General Grant and one or two officers of his staff, who had not telegraphed the fact of their being on the train, for prudential reasons. Of course, I was both surprised and pleased to see the general, soon learned that my @@ -33402,7 +33402,7 @@ North Carolina had never been revoked or modified. [Second Bulletin.] -WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 27 9.30 a.m. +WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 27 9.30 A.M. To Major-General DIX: @@ -33948,7 +33948,7 @@ would settle down to about one thousand men. Three such regiments would compose a brigade, three brigades a division, and three divisions a corps. Then, by allowing to an infantry corps a brigade of cavalry and six batteries of -field-artillery, we would have an efficient corps d'armee of +field-artillery, we would have an efficient corps d'armée of thirty thousand men, whose organization would be simple and most efficient, and whose strength should never be allowed to fall below twenty-five thousand men. @@ -34138,7 +34138,7 @@ as a corps should have food on hand for twenty days ready for detachment, it should have three hundred such wagons, as a provision-train; and for forage, ammunition, clothing, and other necessary stores, it was found necessary to have three hundred more -wagons, or six hundred wagons in all, for a corps d'armee. +wagons, or six hundred wagons in all, for a corps d'armée. These should be absolutely under the immediate control of the corps commander, who will, however, find it economical to distribute them @@ -34606,7 +34606,7 @@ the brigade, who should be good riders, and intelligent enough to give and explain the orders of their general. The same staff will answer for a division. The general in command -of a separate army, and of a corps d'armee, should have the same +of a separate army, and of a corps d'armée, should have the same professional assistance, with two or more good engineers, and his adjutant-general should exercise all the functions usually ascribed to a chief of staff, viz., he should possess the ability to @@ -34652,7 +34652,7 @@ the old one on the same subject. While conceding to the Minister of War in Paris the general control and supervision of the entire military establishment primarily, especially of the annual estimates or budget, and the great depots of supply, it distributes -to the commanders of the corps d'armee in time of peace, and to all +to the commanders of the corps d'armée in time of peace, and to all army commanders generally in time of war, the absolute command of the money, provisions, and stores, with the necessary staff- officers to receive, issue, and account for them. I quote further: @@ -34759,7 +34759,7 @@ regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it. -It is related of Napoleon that his last words were, "Tete d'armee!" +It is related of Napoleon that his last words were, "Tete d'armée!" Doubtless, as the shadow of death obscured his memory, the last thought that remained for speech was of some event when he was directing an important "head of column." I believe that every @@ -37050,7 +37050,7 @@ the year 1884 retire from the command of the army, leaving him about an equal period of time for the highest office in the army. It so happened that Congress had meantime by successive "enactments" cut down the army to twenty-five thousand men, the usual strength -of a corps d'armee, the legitimate command of a lieutenant-general. +of a corps d'armée, the legitimate command of a lieutenant-general. Up to 1882 officers not disabled by wounds or sickness could only avail themselves of the privileges of retirement on application, after thirty years of service, at sixty-two years of age; but on |