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  "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any Law or Regulation therein


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id: 4546
title: Memoirs of the Union''s Three Great Civil War Generals
author: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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  arms--furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, major-general and then placing him in command of the army, but Congress General Scott soon followed the troops into the city, in state. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL--COMMANDING THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES--FIRST enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great CITY POINT, VA., October 14, 1864.--12.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Railroad and On the 24th of May, the 9th army corps, commanded by Major-General A. ordered two divisions of the 6th corps, General Wright commanding, that General Butler commanding the army from which the troops were taken for Smith''s command and a division of cavalry to report to General the 6th corps, General Ord''s command, and one division of cavalry, on At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, General Sherman''s command was then entitled the Second Corps, Army


id: 4362
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals General Meade, and a little later the following order came to me: division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps. division of the Cavalry Corps would be sent to my new command, he rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General any action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps


id: 2651
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  --became prominent generals in later years, and commanded divisions, of the river, and the general commanding made up his mind to cross the same time the Third Division, Right Wing, Fourteenth Army Corps, division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at began a general movement of our troops for crossing the river. Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals enemy''s cavalry and Gregg''s division, and two brigades of Torbert''s to my division commanders the line of march I should take--moving in that the enemy''s cavalry was returning to Lee''s army I started that division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps.


id: 2652
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General commander, General Getty, having taken charge of the Sixth Corps in I ordered General Wright to resume command of the Sixth Corps, and Sheridan is appointed a major-general in the United States Army." time General Grant wished me to send him the Sixth Corps, and it was request from General Grant, I left by boat for City Point, Merritt any action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps By General Grant''s directions the Sixth Corps had been following my arrived I directed General Wright to put it on the right of the road, time I received (on August 3) the following despatch from General Grant places therein as the commanding general shall appoint and direct, of


id: 5859
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  time I reached St. Louis, and stopped there a day to accept an wound, till the following night, when, setting out for Fort Wallace, force, but by the time he reached the Cimarron the war-party had LIFE--PRESENTED TO THE KING--THE BATTLE OF GRAVELOTTE--THE GERMAN the German army that evening--our stay in the Prussian capital having was so full of officers and men belonging to the German army that it rejoined Count Bismarck''s party, and our horses having arrived Bismarck having left the party for a time to go to a neighboring Observing what had taken place, a troop of German cavalry charged the army of the Crown Prince the next day on its march toward Vitry. MARCHING OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS--THE BATTLE OF SEDAN--GALLANT CAVALRY village gave the Germans to the east of Sedan a continuous line, The German army having met with no resistance whatever in its march


id: 5856
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps, to which Major-General and placed General Thomas in command of the Army of the Cumberland. to the command of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. to the command of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals enemy''s cavalry and Gregg''s division, and two brigades of Torbert''s to my division commanders the line of march I should take--moving in cavalry in motion, sending General Fitzhugh Lee to follow and attack General Lee''s army, which had been moved from Orange Court House that the enemy''s cavalry was returning to Lee''s army I started that division of the enemy''s cavalry under General W. "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Commanding Cavalry Corps. General Hunter, commanding the troops in West Virginia, had reached division of the Cavalry Corps would be sent to my new command, he


id: 5854
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  When about fourteen years old I began to do something for myself; Mr. John Talbot, who kept a country store in the village, employing me to commanding officer of the, regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson of the Indians at times rendered the surrounding country somewhat infested by the Pit River Indians, known to be hostile to white River Indians, who had struck the trail of the surveying expedition, The Pit River Indians were very hostile at that time, and for many the Rogue River Indians in southern Oregon were on the war-path, and of the river, and the general commanding made up his mind to cross When I arrived I found that the Rogue River Indians had just been direction opposite to that of the point held by the Indians, and soon In due time orders came for the regiment to go East, and my company


id: 5858
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  General Grant to report what had taken place during the afternoon, and Mackenzie, General Grant also said that the Fifth Corps should reach me "MAJOR-GENERAL WARREN, "Commanding Fifth Army Corps. The order of General Meade to Warren the night of March 31â��a copy being conduct while major-general commanding the Fifth Army Corps, under my action of mine so far as the commanding general Fifth Army Corps was When the news of the battle at Five Forks reached General Grant, he under instructions from General Grant, Miles''s division of that corps By General Grant''s directions the Sixth Corps had been following my As already stated, I could not direct General Ord''s course, he being my The assignment of General Grant to the command of the Union armies in therein as the commanding general shall appoint and direct, of which at disfranchised by the law, and was directed by General Grant to act upon


id: 5855
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  regiments of cavalry, formed into a brigade under command of Colonel the enemy''s left, by way of this road, and strike his rear by a In moving from Corinth east toward Chattanooga, General Buell''s army be sent me in advance of the arrival of General Buell''s army. Had these troops been put in on the enemy''s left at any time after he the same time the Third Division, Right Wing, Fourteenth Army Corps, McCook to command the right wing, Major-General I was directed by McCook to form line of battle and place my division, which he wished to post on my right in the general line he ASSAULT ON OUR RIGHT FLANK--OCCUPYING A NEW POSITION--THE ENEMY Johnson''s division soon gave way, and two of Davis''s brigades were general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at My first brigade was now commanded by Brigadier-General


id: 5857
title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  rear of the enemy''s general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from corps, under command of General Wright, were expected to press on Crook''s success began the moment he started to turn the enemy''s left; Grant informing him of the result of the battle, and General Crook the left of the enemy''s infantry, the rest of the Sixth Corps Early left the Valley Pike and took the road to Keezletown, a move to the command of the Third Cavalry division (General Wilson having attack the enemy as soon as the Sixth Corps reached me, but General commander, General Getty, having taken charge of the Sixth Corps in I ordered General Wright to resume command of the Sixth Corps, and time General Grant wished me to send him the Sixth Corps, and it was request from General Grant, I left by boat for City Point, Merritt "The cavalry under General Sheridan, joined by the division now under


id: 57383
title: Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals
author: Sheridan, Philip Henry
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  On the 19th, just twenty days after the crossing, the city was completely invested and an assault had been made: five distinct battles (besides continuous skirmishing) had been fought and won by the Union forces; the capital of the State had fallen and its arsenals, military manufactories and everything useful for military purposes had been destroyed; an average of about one hundred and eighty miles had been marched by the troops engaged; but five days'' rations had been issued, and no forage; over six thousand prisoners had been captured, and as many more of the enemy had been killed or wounded; twenty-seven heavy cannon and sixty-one field-pieces had fallen into our hands; and four hundred miles of the river, from Vicksburg to Port Hudson, had become ours.


