Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, vol 1 (April 1861-November 1863) | Page 4

retreats--Gauley Bridge abandoned--Charleston
evacuated--Disorderly flight to the Ohio--Enemy's cavalry raid under
Jenkins--General retreat in Tennessee and Kentucky--West Virginia not
in any Department--Now annexed to that of Ohio--Morgan's retreat
from Cumberland Gap--Ordered to join the Kanawha forces--Milroy's
brigade also--My interviews with Halleck and Stanton--Promotion--My
task--My division sent with me--District of West Virginia--Colonel
Crook promoted--Journey westward--Governor Peirpoint--Governor
Tod--General Wright--Destitution of Morgan's column--Refitting at
Portland, Ohio--Night drive to Gallipolis--An amusing
accident--Inspection at Point Pleasant--Milroy ordered to
Parkersburg--Milroy's qualities--Interruptions to movement of
troops--No wagons--Supplies delayed--Confederate retreat--Loring
relieved--Echols in command--Our march up the valley--Echols
retreats--We occupy Charleston and Gauley Bridge--Further advance
stopped--Our forces reduced--Distribution of remaining troops--Alarms
and minor movements--Case of Mr. Summers--His treatment by the
Confederates.
CHAPTER XX
WINTER QUARTERS, 1862-63--PROMOTIONS AND POLITICS
Central position of Marietta, Ohio--Connection with all parts of West
Virginia--Drill and instruction of troops--Guerilla warfare--Partisan
Rangers--Confederate laws--Disposal of plunder--Mosby's Rangers as a
type--Opinions of Lee, Stuart, and Rosser--Effect on other
troops--Rangers finally abolished--Rival home-guards and
militia--Horrors of neighborhood war--Staff and staff duties--Reduction
of forces--General Cluseret--Later connection with the Paris
Commune--His relations with Milroy--He resigns--Political

situation--Congressmen distrust Lincoln--Cutler's diary--Resolutions
regarding appointments of general officers--The number authorized by
law--Stanton's report--Effect of Act of July, 1862--An excess of nine
major-generals--The legal questions involved--Congressional patronage
and local distribution--Ready for a "deal"--Bill to increase the number
of generals--A "slate" made up to exhaust the number--Senate and
House disagree--Conference--Agreement in last hours of the
session--The new list--A few vacancies by resignation, etc.--List of
those dropped--My own case--Faults of the method--Lincoln's
humorous comments--Curious case of General Turchin--Congestion in
the highest grades--Effects--Confederate grades of general and
lieutenant-general--Superiority of our system--Cotemporaneous reports
and criticisms--New regiments instead of recruiting old
ones--Sherman's trenchant opinion.
CHAPTER XXI
FAREWELL TO WEST VIRGINIA--BURNSIDE IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO
Desire for field service--Changes in the Army of the
Potomac--Judgment of McClellan at that time--Our defective
knowledge--Changes in West Virginia--Errors in new
organization--Embarrassments resulting--Visit to General
Schenck--New orders from Washington--Sent to Ohio to administer the
draft--Burnside at head of the department--District of
Ohio--Headquarters at Cincinnati--Cordial relations of Governor Tod
with the military authorities--System of enrolment and
draft--Administration by Colonel Fry--Decay of the veteran
regiments--Bounty-jumping--Effects on political parties--Soldiers
voting--Burnside's military plans--East Tennessee--Rosecrans aiming at
Chattanooga--Burnside's business habits--His frankness--Stories about
him--His personal characteristics--Cincinnati as a border city--Rebel
sympathizers--Order No. 38--Challenged by Vallandigham--The order
not a new departure--Lincoln's proclamation--General Wright's
circular.

CHAPTER XXII
THE VALLANDIGHAM CASE--THE HOLMES COUNTY WAR
Clement L. Vallandigham--His opposition to the war--His theory of
reconstruction--His Mount Vernon speech--His arrest--Sent before the
military commission--General Potter its president--Counsel for the
prisoner--The line of defence--The judgment--Habeas Corpus
proceedings--Circuit Court of the United States--Judge Leavitt denies
the release--Commutation by the President--Sent beyond the
lines--Conduct of Confederate authorities--Vallandigham in
Canada--Candidate for Governor--Political results--Martial
law--Principles underlying it--Practical application--The intent to aid
the public enemy--The intent to defeat the draft--Armed resistance to
arrest of deserters, Noble County--To the enrolment in Holmes
County--A real insurrection--Connection of these with Vallandigham's
speeches--The Supreme Court refuses to interfere--Action in the
Milligan case after the war--Judge Davis's personal views--Knights of
the Golden Circle--The Holmes County outbreak--Its
suppression--Letter to Judge Welker.
CHAPTER XXIII
BURNSIDE AND ROSECRANS--THE SUMMER'S DELAYS
Condition of Kentucky and Tennessee--Halleck's instructions to
Burnside--Blockhouses at bridges--Relief of East
Tennessee--Conditions of the problem--Vast wagon-train
required--Scheme of a railroad--Surveys begun--Burnside's efforts to
arrange co-operation with Rosecrans--Bragg sending troops to
Johnston--Halleck urges Rosecrans to activity--Continued
inactivity--Burnside ordered to send troops to Grant--Rosecrans's
correspondence with Halleck--Lincoln's dispatch--Rosecrans collects
his subordinates' opinions--Councils of war--The situation
considered--Sheridan and Thomas--Computation of
effectives--Garfield's summing up--Review of the situation when
Rosecrans succeeded Buell--After Stone's River--Relative

forces--Disastrous detached expeditions--Appeal to ambition--The
major-generalship in regular army--Views of the President
justified--Burnside's forces--Confederate forces in East
Tennessee--Reasons for the double organization of the Union armies.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE MORGAN RAID
Departure of the staff for the field--An amusingly quick
return--Changes in my own duties--Expeditions to occupy the
enemy--Sanders' raid into East Tennessee--His route--His success and
return--The Confederate Morgan's raid--His instructions--His
reputation as a soldier--Compared with Forrest--Morgan's start
delayed--His appearance at Green River, Ky.--Foiled by Colonel
Moore--Captures Lebanon--Reaches the Ohio at Brandenburg--General
Hobson in pursuit--Morgan crosses into Indiana--Was this his original
purpose?--His route out of Indiana into Ohio--He approaches
Cincinnati--Hot chase by Hobson--Gunboats co-operating on the
river--Efforts to block his way--He avoids garrisoned posts and
cities--Our troops moved in transports by water--Condition of Morgan's
jaded column--Approaching the Ohio at Buffington's--Gunboats near
the ford--Hobson attacks--Part captured, the rest fly
northward--Another capture--A long chase--Surrender of Morgan with
the remnant--Summary of results--A burlesque capitulation.
CHAPTER XXV
THE LIBERATION OF EAST TENNESSEE
News of Grant's victory at Vicksburg--A thrilling scene at the
opera--Burnside's Ninth Corps to return--Stanton urges Rosecrans to
advance--The Tullahoma manoeuvres--Testy correspondence--Its real
meaning--Urgency with Burnside--Ignorance concerning his
situation--His disappointment as to Ninth Corps--Rapid concentration
of other troops--Burnside's march into East Tennessee--Occupation of
Knoxville--Invests Cumberland Gap--The garrison surrenders--Good

news from Rosecrans--Distances between armies--Divergent lines--No
railway communication--Burnside concentrates toward the Virginia
line--Joy of the people--Their intense