Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (Vol.1&2). Jacob D. Cox

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (Vol.1&2) - Jacob D. Cox


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       Jacob D. Cox

      Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (Vol.1&2)

      An Autobiographical Account by a General of the Union Army (Complete Edition)

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066399375

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR

       CHAPTER II CAMP DENNISON

       CHAPTER III MCCLELLAN IN WEST VIRGINIA.

       CHAPTER IV THE KANAWHA VALLEY

       CHAPTER V GAULEY BRIDGE

       CHAPTER VI CARNIFEX FERRY--TO SEWELL MOUNTAIN AND BACK

       CHAPTER VII COTTON MOUNTAIN

       CHAPTER VIII WINTER-QUARTERS

       CHAPTER IX VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS

       CHAPTER X THE MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT--SPRING CAMPAIGN

       CHAPTER XI POPE IN COMMAND--TRANSFER TO WASHINGTON

       CHAPTER XII RETREAT WITHIN THE LINES--REORGANIZATION--HALLECK AND HIS SUBORDINATES

       CHAPTER XIII SOUTH MOUNTAIN

       CHAPTER XIV ANTIETAM: PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS

       CHAPTER XV ANTIETAM: THE FIGHT ON THE RIGHT

       CHAPTER XVI ANTIETAM: THE FIGHT ON THE LEFT

       CHAPTER XVII MCCLELLAN AND POLITICS--HIS REMOVAL AND ITS CAUSE

       CHAPTER XVIII PERSONAL RELATIONS OF McCLELLAN, BURNSIDE, AND PORTER

       CHAPTER XIX RETURN TO WEST VIRGINIA

       CHAPTER XX WINTER QUARTERS, 1862–63--PROMOTIONS AND POLITICS

       CHAPTER XXI FAREWELL TO WEST VIRGINIA--BURNSIDE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO

       CHAPTER XXII THE VALLANDIGHAM CASE--THE HOLMES COUNTY WAR

       CHAPTER XXIII BURNSIDE AND ROSECRANS--THE SUMMER'S DELAYS

       CHAPTER XXIV THE MORGAN RAID

       CHAPTER XXV THE LIBERATION OF EAST TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XXVI BURNSIDE IN EAST TENNESSEE

       APPENDIX A

       APPENDIX B

      CHAPTER I

      THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR

       Table of Contents

      Ohio Senate April 12--Sumter bombarded--"Glory to God!"--The surrender--Effect on public sentiment--Call for troops--Politicians changing front--David Tod--Stephen A. Douglas--The insurrection must be crushed--Garfield on personal duty--Troops organized by the States--The militia--Unpreparedness--McClellan at Columbus--Meets Governor Dennison--Put in command--Our stock of munitions--Making estimates--McClellan's plan--Camp Jackson--Camp Dennison--Gathering of the volunteers--Garibaldi uniforms--Officering the troops--Off for Washington--Scenes in the State Capitol--Governor Dennison's labors--Young regulars--Scott's policy--Alex. McCook--Orlando Poe--Not allowed to take state commissions.

      On Friday the twelfth day of April, 1861, the Senate of Ohio was in session, trying to go on in the ordinary routine of business, but with a sense of anxiety and strain which was caused by the troubled condition of national affairs. The passage of Ordinances of Secession by one after another of the Southern States, and even the assembling of a provisional Confederate government at Montgomery, had not wholly destroyed the hope that some peaceful way out of our troubles would be found; yet the gathering of an army on the sands opposite Fort Sumter was really war, and if a hostile gun were fired, we knew it would mean the end of all effort at arrangement. Hoping almost against hope that blood would not be shed, and that the pageant of military array and of a rebel government would pass by and soon be reckoned among the disused scenes and properties of a political drama that never pretended to be more than acting, we tried to give our thoughts to business; but there was no heart in it, and the morning hour lagged, for we could not work in earnest and we were unwilling to adjourn.

      Suddenly a senator came in from the lobby in an excited way, and catching the chairman's eye, exclaimed, "Mr. President, the telegraph announces that the secessionists are bombarding Fort Sumter!" There was a solemn and painful hush, but it was broken in a moment by a woman's shrill voice from the spectators' seats, crying, "Glory to God!" It startled every one, almost as if the enemy were in the midst. But it was the voice of a radical friend of the slave, who after a lifetime of public agitation believed that only through blood could freedom be won. Abby Kelly Foster had been attending the session of the Assembly, urging the passage of some measures enlarging the legal rights of married women, and, sitting beyond the railing when the news came in, shouted a fierce cry of joy that oppression had submitted its cause to the decision of the sword. With most of us, the gloomy thought that civil war had begun in our own land overshadowed everything,


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