item: #1 of 19 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: advance; army; attack; battle; buell; camp; chapter; city; colonel; command; commanding; corinth; corps; country; day; days; division; east; enemy; field; force; fort; garrison; general; general scott; ground; horse; infantry; jackson; left; line; march; mcclernand; mcpherson; memphis; men; mexico; miles; mississippi; new; night; north; number; officers; orders; pemberton; people; place; point; position; railroad; regiment; river; road; sherman; south; state; supplies; tennessee; time; troops; union; vicksburg; war; water; way; west; years cache: 1067.txt plain text: 1067.txt item: #2 of 19 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: advance; armies; army; army corps; artillery; attack; battle; bridge; brigade; burnside; butler; cavalry; chattanooga; city; command; corps; country; day; division; east; enemy; force; fort; general; general lee; general sheridan; general thomas; hancock; hold; james; left; line; loss; major; march; meade; men; miles; morning; movement; night; north; orders; petersburg; place; point; position; potomac; railroad; rear; richmond; river; road; sherman; smith; south; supplies; tennessee; time; troops; valley; war; warren; washington; way; west cache: 1068.txt plain text: 1068.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 21240 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Lone Ranche date: None words: 119076 flesch: 81 summary: It recalls the cowled monk with his cross, and the soldier close following with his sword; the old mission-house, with its church and garrison beside it; the fierce savage lured from a roving life, and changed into a toiling _peon_, afterwards to revolt against a system of slavery that even religion failed to make endurable; the neophyte turning his hand against his priestly instructor, equally his oppressor; revolt followed by a deluge of blood, with ruinous devastation, until the walls of both _mission_ and military _cuartel_ are left tenantless, and the redskin has returned to his roving. A verdant mead, dotted with groves of leafy _alamo_ trees, that reflect their shadows upon crystal runlets silently coursing beneath, suddenly flashing into the open light like a band of silver lace as it bisects a glade green with _gramma_ grass. keywords: adela; air; blood; body; brother; captain; chance; chapter; cliff; close; colonel; comrade; conchita; cully; danger; day; death; don; eyes; fear; feet; fire; frank; good; ground; guide; half; hamersley; hand; head; heart; hope; horses; hyar; indian; kentuckian; kind; left; length; life; like; little; look; man; men; mexican; mexico; miranda; moment; mules; need; new; night; party; place; plain; prairie; prisoners; rangers; red; roblez; savages; scarce; set; sister; smoke; spot; stay; sun; taking; tell; thar; thought; time; troop; uraga; valerian; valley; waggons; walt; war; way; white; wilder; words cache: 21240.txt plain text: 21240.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 23744 author: Stoddard, William O. title: Ahead of the Army date: None words: 62132 flesch: 83 summary: Ned thought of Señora Tassara's great ancestors for a moment, and then he did not really care a cent for pedigree. Her eyes were flashing and she looked very warlike, but the only thing that poor Ned could think of to say just then was: Señora Tassara, if you are not careful, somebody will get in some day and steal your beautiful coffee-urn. keywords: american; anna; army; away; captain; carfora; city; colonel; crawford; cruz; day; deal; father; general; good; goshhawk; half; house; kemp; kind; man; men; mexican; mexico; moment; ned; new; right; road; santa; señor; shot; states; tassara; things; time; vera; war; zuroaga cache: 23744.txt plain text: 23744.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 31113 author: Smith, Gustavus Woodson title: Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war date: None words: 27734 flesch: 67 summary: The Chief Engineer, Colonel Joseph G. Totten, in his report of operations against Vera Cruz, says: The obligation lies upon me also to speak of the highly meritorious deportment and valuable services of the Sappers and Miners, [engineer company] attached to the expedition. There ought to be more companies of engineer soldiers in this army. keywords: army; battery; captain; city; enemy; engineer company; fire; general; left; lieutenant; men; officers; order; position; report; road; sergeant; smith; time; worth cache: 31113.txt plain text: 31113.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 33568 author: Mayer, Brantz title: History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 date: None words: 57717 flesch: 56 summary: If such was the geographical division between Texas and Mexico on the lower Rio Grande, near its mouth in the gulf, it was asserted that there could be infinitely less right to claim it as a limit nearer its source, since Santa Fé, the capital of New Mexico, had never been within the jurisdiction of Texas, and since the boundaries of Chihuahua commenced near the head waters of the Nueces. The history of the diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and Mexico, as exhibited by congress in all the published volumes of national documents, presents a series of wrongs, which the reader will find ably recapitulated in a report[21] made by Mr. Cushing in the year 1842. keywords: act; american; annexation; army; artillery; battle; boundary; command; congress; country; day; enemy; england; field; forces; fort; france; general; government; grande; history; infantry; left; march; matamoros; mexican; mexico; military; national; new; order; page; people; point; position; power; president; question; republic; right; rio; river; santa; spain; states; taylor; territory; texas; time; treaty; troops; united; united states; war cache: 33568.txt plain text: 33568.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 42152 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements date: None words: 29002 flesch: 66 summary: By almost incredible toil and patience, however, this company of Mormon Battalion men conquered the ascent of the Sierras from the western side, hewing a roadway for their seventeen wagons through stony heights, and in like manner down steep declivities and narrow gorges, until the eastern sloping deserts beyond were reached, and finally the valley of the Great Salt Lake,--about the first of October, 1848,--to them, for the time, the place to which duty had called them. The historian of the Mormon Battalion notes that the command of Col. Price, numbering about 1,200 men, received no such marked honor on their arrival in Santa Fe as was accorded to the Battalion. keywords: battalion; brigham; california; captain; col; colonel; command; company; cooke; general; gold; government; history; little; march; men; miles; mormon battalion; original; page; people; president; river; san; santa; service; states; time; united; utah; valley; young cache: 42152.txt plain text: 42152.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 42307 author: Castlemon, Harry title: Frank in the Woods date: None words: 51607 flesch: 85 summary: By the glare o' the camp-fires, which the Comanches had started agin, I seed the cause of the yell, for there war ole Bill on foot, an' makin' tracks for the gully, with a dozen yellin' varlets clost at his heels. I war safe--but ole Bill war dead. keywords: archie; arter; bill; boys; bushes; cabin; camp; dick; fire; frank; george; good; gun; harry; head; hoss; injun; man; moose; ole; place; rifle; snow; thing; thought; time; trail; trapper; war; way; woods cache: 42307.txt plain text: 42307.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 43589 author: Stevens, Hazard title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 168729 flesch: 67 summary: He took pains to meet the able men in Congress, and other men of talent and reputation who visited Washington. And this of an officer who had consumed a whole month in moving one hundred and eighty miles; lay another month in camp in the Yakima valley, making only the most cursory examinations; found the passes non-existent, or impracticable; reported the snow twenty to twenty-five feet deep on the credit of Indians; ignobly quailed at inclement weather and snows, which other men bravely faced and overcame; and generally condemned the country, and vilified the hardy pioneers. keywords: advance; animals; army; attack; battery; camp; captain; character; charge; chief; children; city; class; colonel; command; company; consequence; country; course; day; days; distance; duties; duty; enemy; engineer; evening; family; father; feet; field; fine; fire; force; fort; friends; general; good; governor; governor stevens; great; ground; half; head; high; home; house; indians; information; isaac; july; lake; lander; left; letter; lieutenant; lieutenant stevens; life; major; making; man; march; mason; mcclellan; men; mexico; miles; military; morning; mountains; new; newport; night; number; o'clock; officers; order; parties; party; pass; people; place; point; position; present; river; road; route; san; scott; service; smith; sound; stevens; strong; survey; time; train; troops; twiggs; valley; walla; war; washington; water; way; west; wife; work; worth; years; young cache: 43589.txt plain text: 43589.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 43590 author: Stevens, Hazard title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 179468 flesch: 64 summary: Bartlett, W.H.C., Professor, gives characteristics of General Stevens, i. 41. Bartow, General, ii. 435. Battery Island, ii. 381, 382. Bay Point, ii. 345, 347. Bayly, George, i. 260. Bear's Paw Mountains, i. 359-361. Beaufort, S.C., ii. 353; occupied by General Stevens, 355. Beaufort River, ii. 355, 358. keywords: action; army; attack; battery; battle; bay; blackfeet; brigade; camp; captain; chief; colonel; colonel stevens; columbia; column; command; companies; company; council; country; course; cuyuses; day; days; division; duty; enemy; field; fire; following; force; fort; general; general stevens; george; good; government; governor stevens; ground; guns; half; having; head; highlanders; horses; hostile; house; i. 412; i. stevens; indians; island; jackson; james; john; left; letter; lieutenant; line; little; major; man; march; men; miles; military; morning; mountains; near; new; nez; northern; number; officers; olympia; order; oregon; party; peace; people; perces; pike; point; pope; position; prairie; president; railroad; rear; regiment; report; reservation; right; river; road; route; second; service; settlers; sound; south; states; strong; territory; time; treaties; treaty; tribes; troops; union; valley; volunteers; walla; war; washington; way; whites; william; woods; wool; work; yakima; years; york; young cache: 43590.txt plain text: 43590.txt item: #11 of 19 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: advance; armies; army; army corps; artillery; assault; attack; battle; bridge; brigade; burnside; campaign; capture; cavalry; chapter; chattanooga; city; colonel; command; commanding; confederate; corps; country; crossing; cut; day; days; division; early; east; enemy; field; following; force; fort; garrison; general; general halleck; general lee; general scott; general sheridan; general taylor; general thomas; going; good; grant; ground; hancock; headquarters; hold; house; infantry; james; johnston; left; line; long; loss; major; march; men; miles; mississippi; morning; movement; new; night; north; number; officers; orders; people; petersburg; place; point; position; possession; potomac; president; prisoners; railroad; rear; regiment; richmond; river; road; sherman; smith; south; states; supplies; tennessee; time; troops; valley; vicksburg; war; warren; washington; water; way; west; work cache: 4367.txt plain text: 4367.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 44438 author: Smith, Justin Harvey title: The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 304742 flesch: 78 summary: Méx. Gonzaga Cuevas, Luis. _See_ =68=Scott to Towson _et al._, Apr. 17, 1848. keywords: = adj; = alvarez; = alvord; = ampudia; = anaya; = appleton; = archives; = atocha; = ayunt; = ayuntamiento; = bancroft; = bankhead; = beach; = beauregard; = benton; = bermúdez; = blair; = bonham; = buchanan; = butler; = butterfield; = canales; = canalizo; = carrera; = caryton; = caswell; = chamberlain; = childs; = claiborne; = clifford; = collection; = collins; = conner; = consul; = correspondence; = crampton; = davis; = diary; = dimond; = document; = donelson; = doyle; = drum; = e.; = fúrlong; = g.; = gallatin; = garay; = gates; = gentry; = giffard; = gilpin; = gov; = guerra; = hacienda; = henshaw; = hill; = hitchcock; = hughes; = isunza; = j.; = jefe; = jones; = judd; = king; = landero; = lee; = letter; = m.; = mackall; = mangino; = marcy; = mason; = mcclellan; = mcdowell; = mclane; = memo; = mex; = mills; = mora; = morales; = murphy; = méx; = narrative; = nicholson; = niles; = notes; = olaguíbel; = orders; = otero; = palmerston; = papers; = parrodi; = patterson; = perry; = peña; = pierce; = pillow; = poinsett; = polk; = porter; = prefect; = price; = puebla; = quitman; = r.; = recollections; = relaciones; = report; = riley; = rives; = rosa; = s.; = saunders; = scott; = semmes; = shields; = shubrick; = soto; = statement; = stevens; = sutherland; = taylor; = tennery; = thomas; = thornton; = tornel; = tower; = trist; = twiggs; = valencia; = vera; = w.; = weber; = whitcomb; = wilson; = wool; = wright; a. =; advance; american; anna; apr; army; attack; aug; b. =; battle; c. =; california; city; congress; cruz; d. =; dec; del; etc; f. =; feb; force; general; government; h. =; hist; jan; july; june; l. =; london; mexican; mexico; military; monterey; new; nov; oct; officers; p. =; peace; plan; santa; santa anna; sen; sept; smith; states; t. =; time; treaty; troops; united; war; worth cache: 44438.txt plain text: 44438.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 45072 author: Howe, Robert Harrison title: How We Robbed Mexico in 1848 date: None words: 2234 flesch: 65 summary: The presence of United States troops on the edge of the disputed territory furthest from the Mexican settlements was not sufficient to provoke hostilities. United States troops are also in possession of the Republics of Hayti and also of Santo Domingo under precisely similar conditions. keywords: mexico; states; united; united states; war cache: 45072.txt plain text: 45072.txt item: #14 of 19 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: advance; army; artillery; battle; chapter; city; command; country; day; east; enemy; general; general scott; general taylor; horse; infantry; left; lieutenant; men; mexican; mexico; miles; officers; place; point; regiment; rio; road; san; scott; south; taylor; time; troops; war; way; west; worth; years cache: 5860.txt plain text: 5860.txt item: #15 of 19 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: army; battle; buell; command; corinth; day; days; division; donelson; enemy; force; fort; general; left; line; men; miles; officers; people; place; point; position; regiment; right; river; south; state; tennessee; time; troops; war; way; west cache: 5861.txt plain text: 5861.txt item: #16 of 19 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: army; command; corps; division; east; enemy; force; general; jackson; left; line; mcclernand; mcpherson; memphis; men; miles; mississippi; north; pemberton; point; position; railroad; river; road; sherman; south; time; troops; vicksburg; west cache: 5862.txt plain text: 5862.txt item: #17 of 19 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: army; battle; burnside; chattanooga; command; corps; day; division; east; enemy; general; left; line; men; night; north; position; railroad; ridge; river; road; sherman; south; tennessee; time; troops; way; west cache: 5863.txt plain text: 5863.txt item: #18 of 19 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: army; cavalry; command; corps; division; enemy; fort; general; hancock; lee; left; line; men; night; north; point; position; river; road; sheridan; sherman; south; time; troops; warren; wright cache: 5864.txt plain text: 5864.txt item: #19 of 19 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: armies; army; army corps; artillery; brigade; cavalry; city; command; corps; day; division; enemy; force; fort; general; general lee; general sheridan; general thomas; grant; house; james; left; line; march; men; morning; movement; night; north; people; petersburg; place; point; position; potomac; railroad; richmond; river; sherman; south; supplies; time; troops; virginia; war; west cache: 5865.txt plain text: 5865.txt