Gideon J Pillow At The Battle Of Fort Donelson
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Gideon J Pillow At The Battle Of Fort Donelson
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Author : Stephen K. Hauser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Gideon J Pillow At The Battle Of Fort Donelson written by Stephen K. Hauser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 categories.
The Life And Wars Of Gideon J Pillow
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Author : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 1993
The Life And Wars Of Gideon J Pillow written by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America. In this first full-length biography,
Generals John Floyd And Gideon Pillow At The Battle Of Fort Donelson
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Author : Mark S. Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Generals John Floyd And Gideon Pillow At The Battle Of Fort Donelson written by Mark S. Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 categories.
The Civil War Career Of Gideon Pillow Confederate General
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Author : Frances Talley Dew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Civil War Career Of Gideon Pillow Confederate General written by Frances Talley Dew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Where The South Lost The War
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Author : Kendall D. Gott
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2011-07-20
Where The South Lost The War written by Kendall D. Gott and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-20 with History categories.
With the collapse of the Confederate defenses at Forts Henry and Donelson, the entire Tennessee Valley was open to Union invasion and control.
The Battle Of Belmont
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Author : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Battle Of Belmont written by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. It set a pattern for warfare not only in the Mississippi Valley but at Fort Donelson and Shiloh as well. Grant's 7 November 1861 strike against the Southern forces at Belmont, in southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi River, made use of the newly outfitted Yankee timberclads and all the infantry available at the staging area in Cairo, Illinois. The Confederates, led by Leonidas Polk and Gideon Pillow, had the advantages of position and superior numbers. They hoped to smash Grant's expeditionary force on the Missouri shore and cut off the escape of the Illinois and Iowa troops from their boats. The confrontation was a bloody, all-day fight that a veteran of a dozen major battles would later call "frightful to contemplate." At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of his troops, but as a result of this engagement Grant became known as an audacious fighting general. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk.
The Battle Of Fort Donelson
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Author : James J. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Battle Of Fort Donelson written by James J. Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Fort Donelson (Tenn.), Battle of, 1862 categories.
The Fort Pillow Massacre
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-12
The Fort Pillow Massacre written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the battle made by participants *Includes testimony taken by Congress of Union soldiers after the battle *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I found many of the dead lying close along by the water's edge, where they had evidently sought safety; they could not offer any resistance from the places where they were, in holes and cavilles along the banks; most of them had two wounds. I saw several colored soldiers of the Sixth United States Artillery, with their eyes punched out with bayonets; many of them were shot twice and bayonetted also. All those along the bank of the river were colored. The number of the colored near the river was about seventy. Going up into the fort, I saw there bodies partially consumed by fire. Whether burned before or after death I cannot say, any way there were several companies of rebels in the fort while these bodies were burning, and they could have pulled them out of the fire had they chosen to do so." - Robert S. Critchell, a naval officer during the Civil War At the end of 1863, Confederate cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest began operations in west Tennessee with a small unit, but he managed to recruit several thousand volunteers, including a number of veteran soldiers, and he whipped them into shape so that they were combat ready before their first confrontation. Upon hearing of Forrest's growing aptitude for adaptive warfare, General Sherman wrote to Union Commander-in-Chief Henry Halleck that men like Forrest are "men that must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace. They have no property or future, and therefore cannot be influenced by anything except personal considerations." Sherman repeatedly ordered his Memphis commanders to catch "that devil Forrest," essentially putting a bounty on his head. Forrest already had a controversial Civil War record entering 1864, but he was about to participate in perhaps the most controversial battle of the war. After functioning as an independent raider for several months, on April 12, 1864, units of Forrest's cavalry surrounded Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, north of Memphis. Ironically, the fort had been built in 1861 and named after General Gideon Pillow, the same General Pillow who proved wildly incompetent at Fort Donelson and ignored Forrest's suggestion to escape the siege instead of surrendering to Grant. As far as skirmishes go, Fort Pillow was a completely unremarkable fight. Before attacking, Forrest demanded the unconditional surrender of the Union garrison, a normal custom of his, and he warned the Union commanding officer that he would not be responsible for his soldiers' actions if the warning went unheeded. What made Fort Pillow markedly different was that a sizable amount of the Union garrison defending the Fort was comprised of black soldiers, which particularly enraged Confederate soldiers whenever they encountered those they viewed as former slaves in the field. It is still unclear exactly how the fighting unfolded, but what is clear is that an unusually high percentage of Union soldiers were killed, and the Confederates were accused of massacring black soldiers after they had surrendered. Primary sources tell conflicting accounts of what happened at Battle of Fort Pillow, leaving scholars to piece together the battle and determine whether Confederate soldiers purposely shot Union soldiers after they had surrendered. The Fort Pillow Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Civil War's Most Notorious Battle chronicles the history of the Civil War's most infamous massacre. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Fort Pillow like never before, in no time at all.
The Battle Of Fort Donelson
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-05-09
The Battle Of Fort Donelson written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-09 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the campaign written by generals on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender." - Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson "It was not possible for brave men to endure more." - General Lew Wallace While the Lincoln Administration and most Northerners were preoccupied with trying to capture Richmond in the summer of 1861, it would be the little known Ulysses S. Grant who delivered the Union's first major victories, over a thousand miles away from Washington. Grant's new commission led to his command of the District of Southeast Missouri, headquartered at Cairo, after he was appointed by "The Pathfinder," John C. Fremont, a national celebrity who had run for President in 1856. Fremont was one of many political generals that Lincoln was saddled with, and his political prominence ensured he was given a prominent command as commander of the Department of the West early in the war before running so afoul of the Lincoln Administration that he was court-martialed. In January of 1862, Grant persuaded General Henry "Old Brains" Halleck to allow his men to launch a campaign on the Tennessee River. As soon as Halleck acquiesced, Grant moved against Fort Henry, in close coordination with the naval command of Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote. The combination of infantry and naval bombardment helped force the capitulation of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, and the surrender of Fort Henry was followed immediately by an attack on Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, which earned Grant his famous nickname "Unconditional Surrender." Grant's forces enveloped the Confederate garrison at Fort Donelson, which included Confederate generals Simon Buckner, John Floyd, and Gideon Pillow. In one of the most bungled operations of the war, the Confederate generals tried and failed to open an escape route by attacking Grant's forces on February 15. Although the initial assault was successful, General Pillow inexplicably chose to have his men pull back into their trenches, ostensibly so they could take more supplies before their escape. Instead, they simply lost all the ground they had taken, and the garrison was cut off yet again. During the early morning hours of February 16, the garrison's generals held one of the Civil War's most famous councils of war. Over the protestations of cavalry officer Nathan Bedford Forrest, who insisted the garrison could escape, the three generals agreed to surrender their army, but none of them wanted to be the fall guy. General Floyd was worried that the Union might try him for treason if he was taken captive, so he turned command of the garrison over to General Pillow and escaped with two of his regiments. Pillow had the same concern and turned command over to General Buckner before escaping alone by boat. With no attempt to conceal his anger at the cowardice displayed by his commanding officers, Forrest announced, "I did not come here to surrender my command!" He then proceeded to round up his own men and rallied hundreds of men before leading them on a daring and dramatic escape under the cover of darkness through the icy waters of Lick Creek to escape the siege and avoid capture. Despite all of these successful escapes, General Buckner decided to surrender to Grant, and when asked for terms of surrender, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender." In addition to giving him a famous sobriquet, Grant's campaign was the first major success for the Union, which had already lost the disastrous First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 and was reorganizing the Army of the Potomac in anticipation of the Peninsula Campaign (which would fail in the summer of 1862). It also exposed the weakness of the outmanned Confederates, who were stretched too thin across the theater.
Confederate Generals General Gideon Johnson Pillow
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As part of HistoryCentral.com, MultiEducator, Inc., located in New Rochelle, New York, presents biographical information about U.S. General Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878). Pillow fought for the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). Pillow was involved in the campaigns at Belmont, Fort Donelson, and Stone's River. An image of Pillow is available.