item: #1 of 14 id: 1067 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1 date: None words: 129894 flesch: 70 summary: Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. This he was ordered to repair as he advanced --only to have it destroyed by small guerilla bands or other troops as soon as he was out of the way. keywords: 13th; 17th; 19th; 1st; 4th; 6th; 7th; 8th; absence; administration; advance; advantage; american; ammunition; antonio; approach; april; armies; arms; army; army corps; arrival; artillery; assault; attack; attempt; august; authority; authorized; bank; barracks; base; batteries; battery; battle; bayou; belmont; bend; best; better; big; black; blair; bluff; body; bolivar; bridge; brigade; brigadier; broken; buckner; buell; business; cairo; camp; campaign; capital; captain; capture; case; cavalry; centre; chapter; chapultepec; charge; chattanooga; chief; children; christi; circumstances; citizens; city; class; close; coast; colonel; columbus; column; coming; command; commander; commanding; commissary; commissioned; communication; companies; company; complete; condition; confederate; congress; considerable; corinth; corps; cotton; country; course; cover; creek; crossing; cruz; cumberland; cut; danger; day; days; dead; deep; defence; delay; department; determined; different; direct; direction; dispatch; distance; district; divided; division; dollars; donelson; dorn; doubt; drill; duty; early; east; effect; end; enemy; engagement; entire; evening; expected; expedition; experience; fact; fall; family; fast; father; february; feet; field; fighting; fire; firing; flag; flank; following; food; foot; forage; force; fort; fortified; forward; free; galena; garrison; general; general buell; general c.; general halleck; general mcclernand; general mcpherson; general scott; general sherman; general smith; general taylor; general worth; georgetown; gibson; good; government; governor; grand; great; ground; guard; gulf; gunboats; guns; haines; half; halleck; hands; hard; headquarters; heavy; henry; high; higher; hill; hold; holly; home; horse; hour; houses; hovey; hudson; hurlbut; idea; illinois; immediate; important; infantry; information; informed; instructions; intended; intrenched; intrenchments; iuka; jackson; jefferson; johnston; july; junction; june; kentucky; known; lake; land; landing; large; late; leave; leaving; left; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; living; logan; long; loss; louis; louisiana; lower; main; major; manner; march; marching; material; matter; mcclernand; mcpherson; means; meeting; memphis; men; mexican; mexico; miles; military; mind; minutes; mississippi; mississippi river; missouri; mobile; moment; monterey; months; morning; mountain; movement; mule; nashville; national; national troops; natural; navy; near; necessary; new; night; north; northern; number; o'clock; object; occasion; occupation; officers; ohio; open; opportunity; opposite; orders; outside; pacific; paducah; party; pass; past; pay; pemberton; people; period; person; pittsburg; place; plan; point; porter; portion; position; possession; possible; post; prentiss; present; president; price; prisoners; private; property; protection; public; purpose; pursuit; quartermaster; question; railroad; range; rank; rations; raymond; reach; ready; rear; rebel; rebellion; regard; regiment; regular; reinforcements; relieved; remainder; reported; result; retreat; return; rio; river; road; rosecrans; route; run; running; san; saw; school; second; secure; sending; september; service; sherman; shiloh; short; sick; sides; siege; single; situation; slavery; small; smith; soldiers; south; southern; special; springs; staff; standing; start; state; station; steamers; stores; stream; streets; strong; success; successful; sufficient; superior; supplies; supply; support; surrender; taking; tennessee; tents; terms; territory; texas; thought; timber; time; town; train; transportation; transports; troops; uniform; union; united; vera; vessels; vicksburg; victory; view; village; volunteers; wagon; wallace; war; washington; water; way; weeks; west; west point; western; white; word; work; wounded; yazoo; years; young cache: 1067.txt plain text: 1067.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 1068 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2 date: None words: 155212 flesch: 68 summary: I telegraphed to Washington this night, notifying General Halleck of my arrival, and asking to have General Sherman assigned to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, headquarters in the field. Finding that Granger had not only not started but was very reluctant to go, he having decided for himself that it was a very bad move to make, I sent word to General Sherman of the situation and directed him to march to the relief of Knoxville. keywords: 10th; 11th; 12th; 13th; 14th; 15th; 18th; 19th; 1st; 20th; 21st; 22d; 23d; 24th; 25th; 27th; 29th; 5th; 6th; 9th; a.m.; able; accomplished; advance; advantage; afternoon; alabama; ammunition; appomattox; april; armies; arms; army; army corps; arrival; artillery; assault; atlanta; attack; attempt; attention; banks; base; battle; bermuda; best; boat; bragg; bridge; bridgeport; brig.-gen; brigade; brigadier; brown; burkesville; burnside; campaign; canal; capital; capture; capturing; carolina; carrying; cause; cavalry; central; centre; chapter; charge; charleston; chattanooga; chickahominy; chickamauga; chief; city; close; coast; cold; colonel; columbia; column; coming; command; commanders; commanding; commence; communication; condition; confederate; confederate army; considerable; conversation; corps; country; course; court; cover; creek; crossing; cumberland; cut; dalton; danville; davis; day; daylight; days; december; defence; delay; department; desperate; destruction; determined; different; direct; direction; dispatch; distance; division; doubt; duty; early; east; effect; effort; enemy; engagement; entire; escape; evening; expected; expedition; extended; fact; fall; far; farmville; farther; february; feeling; ferry; field; fighting; fire; fisher; flank; following; food; foot; forage; force; ford; forks; forrest; fort; fortified; forward; garrison; general; general a.; general banks; general burnside; general butler; general canby; general grant; general hancock; general hunter; general johnston; general lee; general meade; general officers; general ord; general schofield; general sherman; general smith; general steele; general thomas; general w.; general warren; general weitzel; general wilson; general wright; georgia; giving; going; goldsboro; good; government; grant; great; greater; ground; guard; guns; half; halleck; hancock; hands; harbor; hard; headquarters; heavy; high; hill; hold; holding; hood; hooker; horses; hour; house; humphreys; idea; important; infantry; information; instructions; intrenched; intrenchments; james; james river; johnston; junction; june; knoxville; landing; large; late; leave; leaving; left; letter; lieut.-general; lieutenant; lincoln; line; little; long; longer; longstreet; lookout; loss; losses; lost; lynchburg; main; major; march; matter; means; memphis; men; miles; military; missionary; mississippi; mobile; moment; morning; mountain; movement; nashville; national; navy; near; necessary; new; news; night; north; northern; number; o'clock; object; objective; occupied; october; offensive; officers; ohio; open; operations; orders; outside; p.m.; pass; people; person; petersburg; pickets; pieces; place; plan; point; porter; portion; position; possession; possible; potomac; practicable; preparations; prepared; present; president; prisoners; property; protection; public; purpose; pursuit; push; question; raid; railroad; rapidan; reach; ready; rear; reason; rebel; rebellion; reinforcements; relief; relieved; remainder; report; result; retreat; return; richmond; river; road; rosecrans; route; run; savannah; saw; saying; sea; second; secretary; secure; sedgwick; sending; service; severe; shenandoah; sheridan; short; single; situation; small; smith; soldiers; south; southern; spottsylvania; staff; stand; start; starting; states; station; stores; stream; strike; strong; success; successful; sufficient; supplies; supply; support; supposed; surrender; taking; telegraph; tennessee; tennessee river; terms; territory; thought; time; time general; town; trains; troops; union; united; valley; vicksburg; victory; view; virginia; wagons; want; war; warren; washington; water; way; weldon; west; white; wilderness; wilmington; wilson; work; wounded; wright; yards; years cache: 1068.txt plain text: 1068.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 13012 author: None title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant date: None words: 203661 flesch: 50 summary: [Footnote 21: Relating to the claims of United States citizens against Venezuela.] WASHINGTON, _May 26, 1870_. U.S. GRANT, _President United States_. keywords: 12th; 14th; 15th; 17th; 1st; 20th; 30th; 5th; 7th; 8th; = =; a.d; absence; absent; accompanying; accordance; account; acres; act; acting; action; acts; actual; addition; adjutant; administration; advance; advantages; advisable; affairs; aforesaid; agent; agriculture; alabama; amendment; american states; annexation; annual; annum; answer; applicants; application; appointment; appropriation; approval; april; armed; arms; article; assistant; atlantic; attention; attorney; august; authorities; authority; authorized; available; award; balance; banks; basis; bearing; beginning; behalf; belligerent; best; bill; blessings; board; body; bonds; boundary; bounty; branch; brazil; brevet; britain; britannic; british; building; bureau; business; calling; canada; capacity; capital; captain; carolina; carrying; case; causes; cavalry; cent; centennial; certain; certificates; change; character; chief; children; china; circumstances; citizens; citizenship; 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witness; work; world; year; york cache: 13012.txt plain text: 13012.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 13471 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 date: None words: 33747 flesch: 78 summary: And who would not prefer _banishment_ or _death_ to _such_ a _life? These young men were embryo Ministers--men whose moral influence _must_ be _powerful_ for _good_ or for _evil_. keywords: able; account; action; answer; appointment; april; armies; army; attack; august; aunt; battle; beginning; best; brother; business; cairo; camp; cause; children; citizens; city; close; colonel; columbus; command; companies; company; confederates; copenhagen; corbin; corinth; country; course; covington; cramer; day; days; dear; dear father; dear mr; death; defence; denmark; department; district; donelson; doubt; duty; east; end; enemy; evening; expedition; fact; fall; family; father; feeling; force; fort; fred; free; galena; general; general grant; god; good; government; governor; grant; great; half; hand; headquarters; home; hope; house; illinois; important; influence; interest; jennie; jesse; julia; july; june; justice; kind; know; large; late; law; leave; left; letter; life; like; lincoln; line; little; long; loss; louis; love; march; mary; matter; men; miles; military; mississippi; missouri; month; morning; mother; mrs; near; necessary; new; night; north; northern; number; object; office; officers; old; opportunity; orvil; p.s; papers; paris; party; pay; people; personal; place; pleasant; point; political; position; possession; possible; power; present; president; property; public; rank; reach; reason; rebellion; regards; regiment; return; river; saturday; secession; september; service; short; simpson; sister; slavery; south; southern; springfield; staff; start; state; strong; summer; tennessee; thought; time; trip; troops; tuesday; u.s; ulysses; union; united; vicksburg; visit; war; washington; way; week; west; winter; wish; work; world; write; writing; years; yesterday; york cache: 13471.txt plain text: 13471.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 28386 author: Allen, Walter title: Ulysses S. Grant date: None words: 25205 flesch: 64 summary: General Grant is now our national military hero. He fought to destroy the Union, not to save it, and in the end he was beaten by General Grant. keywords: ability; able; account; action; administration; advance; advantage; affairs; age; appointment; appomattox; april; armies; army; assault; attack; battle; boy; business; campaign; captain; cause; centre; chapter; character; chattanooga; chief; cincinnati; circumstances; city; civil; coming; command; commander; commission; company; condition; confederate; confidence; congress; corinth; corps; country; court; day; days; department; desire; desperate; different; division; donelson; duty; early; east; end; enemy; energy; experience; failure; faith; fall; fame; family; father; favor; field; fighting; force; fort; friends; galena; general; general grant; good; government; grant; great; guns; halleck; hard; headquarters; hero; high; home; honor; horses; hostile; house; illinois; immediate; influence; james; johnson; july; knowledge; known; landing; large; later; law; lee; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; lincoln; line; little; long; losses; louis; majority; march; mcclernand; men; mexico; miles; military; missing; mississippi; months; morning; movement; nation; national; near; new; north; number; occasion; office; officers; ohio; opportunity; order; party; pennsylvania; people; period; personal; place; point; popular; position; possible; potomac; power; president; prisoners; purpose; question; rank; reason; regiment; reply; report; republican; result; richmond; ridge; right; river; second; secretary; self; senate; september; service; severe; sherman; small; soldiers; south; southern; spottsylvania; staff; stand; states; strong; success; superior; surrender; tennessee; term; things; thomas; time; treasury; troops; true; ulysses; union; union army; united; valley; vicksburg; victory; virginia; war; washington; way; west; wilderness; william; winter; work; years; york; young cache: 28386.txt plain text: 28386.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 4098 author: Hill, Frederick Trevor title: On the Trail of Grant and Lee date: None words: 55372 flesch: 59 summary: A fierce contest followed, during which Johnston was severely wounded, and Jefferson Davis, who was on the field, promptly summoned General Lee to the command. But Grant would not listen to anything of this sort, and directing that he be at once conducted to General Lee, followed an orderly who led him toward a comfortable two-story, brick dwelling in Appomattox village owned by a Mr. McLean who had placed it at the disposal of the Confederate commander. keywords: able; academy; action; active; advance; advantage; adversary; aid; american; april; armies; arms; army; artillery; attack; attempt; attention; authorities; battle; best; bitter; boy; brilliant; burnside; business; campaign; cannon; capital; captain; capture; care; career; cause; cavalry; certain; chancellorsville; chapter; character; charge; chief; circumstances; city; civil; clear; close; colonel; columns; command; commander; commanding; complete; condition; conduct; confederate; confederate army; confidence; confusion; control; convinced; corps; country; courage; course; custis; danger; day; days; death; defeat; defense; delay; desperate; destruction; determined; devoted; different; disaster; donelson; duties; duty; early; effort; end; enemy; entire; escape; face; fact; failure; family; far; father; federal; field; fighting; fire; food; force; formidable; fort; forward; friends; galena; garrison; general; general grant; gettysburg; good; government; grant; great; ground; guard; guns; half; halleck; hands; hard; head; headquarters; heavy; hero; high; hill; history; hold; home; honor; hooker; hope; horse; hours; idea; illinois; immediate; important; infantry; intrenchments; jackson; johnston; judgment; july; june; kind; known; large; later; law; leader; lee; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; lincoln; lines; little; living; long; longer; loss; lost; man; march; matter; mcclellan; meade; meeting; men; mexicans; mexico; midst; miles; military; mind; mississippi; moment; months; morning; mother; movement; mrs; nation; near; necessary; new; news; nigh; north; note; numbers; occasion; officers; opening; opponent; opportunity; opposing; orders; overwhelming; path; people; perilous; personal; petersburg; place; plan; point; pope; popular; position; possible; potomac; preparations; prepared; president; public; purpose; question; quiet; ranks; ready; rear; record; regiment; rescue; resistance; response; responsibility; rest; result; retreat; reã«nforcements; richmond; ridge; right; river; road; robert; run; s. grant; saddle; safety; scene; scott; second; secretary; self; september; service; shenandoah; sheridan; sherman; short; silence; silent; situation; small; soldiers; south; southern; spirit; staff; states; storm; struggle; stuart; success; sufficient; superior; surrender; task; tennessee; terms; texas; thomas; thought; thousands; time; town; triumph; troops; ulysses; unexpected; uniform; union; union army; union commander; union troops; united; valley; vicksburg; victory; village; virginia; war; washington; way; west; west point; wife; word; work; wounded; years; young cache: 4098.txt plain text: 4098.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 4367 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete date: None words: 285107 flesch: 69 summary: We soon fell into a conversation about old army times. Whilst this was going on General Meade was instructed to keep up an appearance of moving troops to our extreme left. keywords: 10th; 11th; 12th; 13th; 14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 1st; 20th; 21st; 22d; 23d; 24th; 25th; 26th; 27th; 28th; 29th; 30th; 4th; 5th; 6th; 7th; 9th; a.m.; ability; able; absence; accomplished; account; action; addition; administration; admiral; advance; advantage; affairs; afternoon; alabama; ammunition; animals; anxious; appearance; appomattox; approach; april; arkansas; armed; armies; arms; army; army corps; arrival; artillery; assault; assistance; atlanta; attack; attempt; attention; august; authorities; authority; authorized; aware; bad; balance; bank; base; batteries; battery; battle; bay; bayou; beauregard; beginning; bermuda; best; big; black; blair; bluff; boats; body; bragg; branch; brave; break; bridge; bridgeport; brig.-gen; brigade; brigadier; broken; brown; burkesville; burnside; cairo; campaign; canal; capital; captain; capture; capturing; carolina; 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understood; uniform; union; union troops; united; valley; valuable; vera; vessels; vicksburg; victory; view; village; virginia; visit; volunteers; wagon; wallace; want; war; warren; washington; water; way; weather; weeks; weldon; west; west point; western; white; wilderness; willing; wilmington; wilson; winter; wish; wood; word; work; wounded; wright; yards; yazoo; years; york; young cache: 4367.txt plain text: 4367.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 45118 author: Optic, Oliver title: Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant date: None words: 90065 flesch: 66 summary: There is something positively inspiring in the following out of such a career as that of General Grant; and when I declare that the enthusiasm of Captain Galligasken is nothing more than just and reasonable, I do it after a careful examination of the grounds on which it is based; after a patient, but exceedingly agreeable, study of the character of the man whom we have jointly eulogized; and after instituting a critical comparison between the general and the mighty men of the present and the past. He replied by asking me what possible excuse a humble individual like himself could offer for inflicting upon the patient, much-enduring community another Life of General Grant, who was even then more fortunate than a cat, for he had more than nine lives. keywords: ability; able; action; actual; admiration; advance; advantage; american; anxious; april; armies; arms; army; arrival; artillery; assault; assistance; attack; attempt; attention; author; base; batteries; battle; beauregard; beginning; belmont; best; better; big; blood; blow; board; body; bold; boy; bragg; brave; bridge; brief; brigade; brigadier; brilliant; broken; buell; burnside; business; campaign; capital; captain; captain grant; capture; career; cause; cavalry; chapter; character; charge; chattanooga; chief; circumstances; city; cold; colonel grant; columbus; column; command; commander; commanding; company; condition; conduct; confederacy; confident; conflict; congress; conqueror; contest; continued; control; corinth; corps; country; courage; course; court; cumberland; daring; day; day grant; days; death; decided; deeds; defeat; defence; degree; delay; department; desperate; details; direction; disaster; discipline; disgrace; distinguished; district; division; donelson; doubtless; duty; early; earnest; east; emergency; enemy; energy; engaged; enterprise; enthusiasm; entire; escape; event; expedition; experience; extended; extent; face; fact; fame; far; father; feet; fellow; felt; fick; field; fierce; fight; fighting; fire; flag; foe; following; foote; force; fort; fortified; forward; fought; fourth; friend; future; gallant; galligasken; garrison; general battle; general grant; general halleck; general smith; generals; genius; gentleman; glorious; glory; good; government; governor; grand army; grant; great; greater; greatest; greatness; ground; gulf; gunboats; guns; half; halleck; hands; hard; headquarters; heart; heavy; henry; hero; heroes; high; highest; hill; history; hold; honor; hooker; hope; horse; hour; idea; illustrious; illustrious soldier; important; infantry; influence; intrenchments; jackson; johnston; kentucky; kind; knowledge; known; landing; large; lee; left; lieutenant; lieutenant general; lieutenant grant; life; like; lincoln; line; little; long; loss; lost; louis; loyal; main; major; man; manner; march; material; matter; mcclellan; mcclernand; mcpherson; means; memphis; men; mexican; mexico; midst; mighty; miles; military; mind; mississippi; missouri; modest; moment; monterey; months; morning; mountain; movement; nashville; national; national army; nature; near; necessary; necessity; new; noble; north; northern; number; o'clock; occasion; officers; ohio; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; paducah; parade; party; passage; path; pemberton; people; perfect; peril; period; permission; personal; petersburg; place; plan; point; policy; political; polk; pollard; pony; portion; position; possession; possible; potomac; power; prepared; presence; present; president; principal; prisoners; private; problem; progress; proper; prudent; public; purpose; question; railroad; rank; ready; rear; rebel; rebel army; rebel general; rebellion; regard; regiment; region; regular; remarkable; reply; report; respect; rest; result; retreat; return; reënforcements; richmond; river; roads; rosecrans; s. grant; safety; scene; scott; second; secretary; sense; service; severe; sharp; sheridan; sherman; shiloh; shot; siege; single; situation; skilful; skill; small; smith; soldier; south; southern; speech; sphere; spirit; spite; splendid; staff; stand; states; steamers; storm; strategy; strength; strife; strong; struggle; subject; sublime; success; successful; superior; supplies; sure; surrender; taking; task; taylor; tennessee; terms; terrible; thomas; thought; time; town; transports; treason; tremendous; troops; true; truth; ulysses; union; union army; united; usual; utmost; valley; vast; vicinity; vicksburg; victories; victory; view; virginia; waiting; want; war; washington; water; way; week; west; willing; wish; word; work; worthy; wounded; years; young cache: 45118.txt plain text: 45118.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 5860 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1. date: None words: 41374 flesch: 71 summary: Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. It did seem to me, in my early army days, that too many of the older officers, when they came to command posts, made it a study to think what orders they could publish to annoy their subordinates and render them uncomfortable. keywords: 4th; absence; administration; advance; american; animal; anna; annexation; antonio; armed; arms; army; artillery; attack; august; barracks; base; batteries; battle; better; black; boy; brigade; bull; camp; capital; captain; capture; case; cavalry; chapter; chapultepec; charge; chief; children; christi; city; class; close; colonel; column; coming; command; commanding; companies; company; congress; contreras; corpus; cosme; country; courage; course; cruz; day; days; del; distance; division; dollars; doubt; dragoons; duty; early; east; end; enemy; events; fact; fall; family; father; feet; field; fire; foot; force; fort; garland; garrison; general; general scott; general taylor; general worth; georgetown; goliad; government; grande; grant; great; ground; guard; gun; guns; half; hands; head; high; hold; home; horse; houses; important; infantry; jefferson; journey; large; leave; leaving; left; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; living; long; loss; lower; major; manner; march; matamoras; means; men; mexican; mexico; miles; military; mind; molino; monterey; month; morning; mountain; movement; mule; near; necessary; new; night; number; occasion; occupation; officers; ohio; old; open; opposite; orders; party; pass; pay; people; period; place; plain; plaza; point; position; possession; possible; president; price; prisoners; private; property; public; puebla; purpose; quartermaster; range; rank; rear; rebellion; regiment; remainder; return; rio; river; road; run; saddle; san; santa; school; scott; second; service; short; sides; single; small; soldiers; south; special; springs; standing; states; steamer; strong; supplies; surrender; taking; taylor; territory; texas; thought; time; tobacco; town; trade; trip; troops; twiggs; uniform; united; vera; village; volunteers; wagon; war; water; way; weeks; west; west point; western; white; work; worth; years; young cache: 5860.txt plain text: 5860.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 5861 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2. date: None words: 43944 flesch: 70 summary: There were also many men in the town whose occupation had been following the river in various capacities, from captain down to deck hand But there were not enough of either boats or men to move at one time the 17,000 men I proposed to take with me up the Tennessee. He replied that he could not tell with any degree of accuracy; that all the sick and weak had been sent to Nashville while we were about Fort Henry; that Floyd and Pillow had left during the night, taking many men with them; and that Forrest, and probably others, had also escaped during the preceding night: the number of casualties he could not tell; but he said I would not find fewer than 12,000, nor more than 15,000. keywords: 6th; advance; armies; arms; army; arrival; attack; bank; battle; bay; belmont; better; brigade; brigadier; buckner; buell; business; cairo; california; camp; capital; captain; capture; case; chapter; city; close; coast; colonel; columbus; command; commander; commanding; company; confederate; corinth; country; course; creek; cumberland; day; days; department; distance; district; division; donelson; doubt; early; east; end; enemy; engagement; entire; expedition; fact; fall; february; field; fighting; fire; firing; flag; following; force; fort; fort donelson; forward; francisco; galena; garrison; general; general buell; general halleck; general smith; good; government; governor; great; ground; guard; gunboats; guns; halleck; headquarters; heavy; henry; high; home; horse; hour; houses; illinois; important; infantry; intrenched; jackson; johnston; kentucky; known; landing; large; left; line; little; long; loss; louis; major; march; mcclernand; meeting; men; mexican; mexico; miles; mississippi; missouri; morning; movement; nashville; national; national troops; new; north; northern; number; occasion; officers; ohio; orders; pacific; paducah; panama; party; people; person; pittsburg; place; point; pope; position; possession; possible; prentiss; president; prisoners; property; public; railroad; rain; rank; ready; rear; rebellion; regiment; reinforcements; reported; retreat; return; right; river; road; san; saw; secession; service; sherman; shiloh; short; slavery; small; smith; soldiers; south; southern; staff; start; state; steamers; stream; strong; support; surrender; tennessee; territory; thought; time; town; transportation; transports; troops; union; united; victory; view; volunteers; wallace; war; water; way; west; years cache: 5861.txt plain text: 5861.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 5862 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3. date: None words: 44600 flesch: 70 summary: The road between Nashville and Chattanooga could easily have been put in repair by other troops, so that communication with the North would have been opened in a short time after the occupation of the place by the National troops. Hovey alone, before other troops could be got to assist him, had captured a battery of the enemy. keywords: 13th; admiral; advance; arms; army; artillery; assault; attack; banks; base; batteries; battle; bayou; bend; big; black; blair; bluff; bolivar; bridge; brigade; campaign; capture; cause; cavalry; chief; city; close; colonel; columbus; coming; command; commander; commanding; confederate; corinth; corps; cotton; country; creek; crocker; crossing; cut; day; days; delay; department; determined; direction; dispatch; distance; division; dorn; early; east; enemy; expected; fall; farther; field; fire; fleet; following; force; forward; garrison; general; gibson; good; government; grand; great; ground; guard; gulf; gunboats; guns; haines; half; halleck; hands; hard; headquarters; high; hill; hold; holly; hours; hovey; hudson; hurlbut; informed; iuka; jackson; johnston; july; junction; lake; land; large; left; letter; line; little; logan; long; loss; main; making; march; mcclernand; mcpherson; memphis; men; miles; milliken; mississippi; mississippi river; morning; movement; national; navy; necessary; new; night; north; number; o'clock; officers; orders; osterhaus; pemberton; person; place; point; port; porter; position; possible; price; prisoners; railroad; rations; raymond; ready; rear; rebel; regiments; reinforcements; river; road; rosecrans; route; run; sherman; siege; small; smith; soldiers; south; springs; staff; state; station; steamers; success; supplies; surrender; tennessee; terms; time; transportation; transports; troops; union; use; vicksburg; war; water; way; west; work; wounded; yazoo; young cache: 5862.txt plain text: 5862.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 5863 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4. date: None words: 41110 flesch: 69 summary: I telegraphed to Washington this night, notifying General Halleck of my arrival, and asking to have General Sherman assigned to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, headquarters in the field. Finding that Granger had not only not started but was very reluctant to go, he having decided for himself that it was a very bad move to make, I sent word to General Sherman of the situation and directed him to march to the relief of Knoxville. keywords: advance; advantage; afternoon; ammunition; armies; army; arrival; artillery; assault; atlanta; attack; banks; base; battle; bragg; bridgeport; brigade; brown; burnside; butler; campaign; capture; cavalry; chapter; chattanooga; chickamauga; city; close; command; commanders; commanding; condition; confederate; corps; country; creek; crossing; cumberland; dalton; day; days; department; dispatches; distance; division; doubt; early; east; end; enemy; expedition; fall; farther; ferry; field; fighting; fire; flank; following; forage; force; forrest; fortified; forward; general; good; great; ground; guard; halleck; hancock; headquarters; hill; hooker; hour; house; intrenched; james; johnston; knoxville; lee; left; lincoln; line; little; longstreet; lookout; loss; march; mcpherson; meade; memphis; men; miles; military; missionary; mississippi; mobile; morning; mountain; movement; nashville; near; necessary; new; night; north; o'clock; officers; old; orders; pickets; place; plan; point; position; possession; possible; potomac; president; prisoners; railroad; rapidan; rations; ready; rear; relief; relieved; retreat; return; richmond; ridge; river; road; rosecrans; saw; second; secretary; sedgwick; sheridan; sherman; short; situation; small; smith; south; spottsylvania; staff; stream; success; supplies; tavern; tennessee; tennessee river; thomas; thought; time; town; trains; troops; valley; view; virginia; wagon; war; warren; washington; way; west; wilderness; wood; work; wounded cache: 5863.txt plain text: 5863.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 5864 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5. date: None words: 37881 flesch: 71 summary: Whilst this was going on General Meade was instructed to keep up an appearance of moving troops to our extreme left. By reconnoitring they were enabled to locate the roads in the vicinity of each army corps. keywords: 15th; 18th; advance; advantage; afternoon; armies; army; artillery; assault; atlanta; attack; battle; best; birney; bridge; brigade; burnside; butler; campaign; cavalry; central; chickahominy; city; close; cold; command; commander; commanding; confederate; corps; country; crossing; cut; day; days; dead; department; direct; distance; division; doubt; early; east; enemy; expedition; far; farther; field; fighting; fire; fisher; flank; following; force; ford; fort; forward; general; georgia; going; good; grant; great; ground; guns; halleck; hancock; harbor; heavy; hood; house; hunter; infantry; information; instructions; intrenched; intrenchments; james; june; large; leaving; lee; left; line; little; long; loss; major; march; meade; men; miles; morning; movement; near; necessary; new; news; night; north; number; o'clock; object; officer; orders; people; petersburg; place; point; position; possession; possible; potomac; prisoners; purpose; railroad; reach; ready; rear; reinforcements; richmond; river; road; savannah; sea; sheridan; sherman; small; smith; south; staff; start; state; success; supplies; thomas; time; trains; troops; valley; virginia; want; warren; washington; way; weldon; west; white; work; wounded; wright cache: 5864.txt plain text: 5864.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 5865 author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6. date: None words: 76254 flesch: 67 summary: Then, too, desertions were taking place, not only among those who were with General Lee in the neighborhood of their capital, but throughout the whole Confederacy. General Lee, in aid of his plan of escape, and to secure a wider opening to enable them to reach the Danville Road with greater security than he would have in the way the two armies were situated, determined upon an assault upon the right of our lines around Petersburg. keywords: 12th; 18th; 19th; 1st; 27th; 5th; 6th; 9th; able; admiral; advance; advantage; afternoon; alabama; appomattox; april; armies; arms; army; army corps; arrival; artillery; assault; atlanta; attack; base; battery; battle; best; bridge; brig.-gen; brigade; burkesville; campaign; canal; capital; capture; carolina; carrying; cause; cavalry; charleston; chattanooga; city; city point; close; coast; colonel; columbia; column; command; commanders; commanding; communication; condition; confederate; confederate army; considerable; conversation; corps; country; course; court; creek; crossing; danville; day; days; december; defence; delay; department; determined; direct; direction; dispatch; distance; division; doubt; early; east; effect; enemy; entire; evening; expedition; fact; fall; farmville; february; feeling; field; fighting; fisher; flank; following; force; forrest; fort; garrison; general; general a.; general banks; general butler; general canby; general grant; general hancock; general hunter; general lee; general meade; general officers; general ord; general schofield; general sherman; general smith; general steele; general thomas; general w.; general warren; general weitzel; general wilson; general wright; georgia; goldsboro; good; government; grant; great; ground; guns; half; hands; headquarters; heavy; high; hold; hood; house; humphreys; idea; important; infantry; information; instructions; interior; intrenched; james; january; johnston; landing; large; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; lincoln; line; little; long; loss; lynchburg; main; major; march; matter; men; miles; military; mississippi; mobile; morning; movement; nashville; navy; near; necessary; new; night; north; northern; number; o'clock; object; occupied; offensive; officers; operations; orders; p.m.; parke; people; petersburg; pieces; place; plan; point; portion; position; possession; possible; potomac; practicable; preparations; present; president; prisoners; property; public; purpose; pursuit; push; raid; railroad; reach; ready; rear; rebellion; reinforcements; report; result; return; richmond; river; roads; route; run; savannah; sea; second; secretary; service; severe; shenandoah; sheridan; small; smith; south; southern; staff; start; states; station; stores; strike; strong; success; successful; sufficient; supplies; surrender; taking; tennessee; terms; territory; thought; time; trains; troops; union; united; valley; view; virginia; war; warren; washington; water; way; west; white; wilmington; works; wounded; wright; years cache: 5865.txt plain text: 5865.txt