Born to Battle
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See also Pittsburg Landing, Battle of
Siege warfare. See also Vicksburg, Siege of
Slaves and slavery
Bragg’s background
Confederate fears over black soldiery
death dirge for slavery
disarray after Murfreesboro raid
Emancipation Proclamation
Forrest’s aspirations and achievements
Forrest’s family connections
Forrest’s prisoners at Trenton
Grant uprooting South’s economic base
Grant’s stance on
slave insurrection
Southerners’views of the war
See also Fugitive slaves
Smith, A. J.
Smith, Charles Ferguson
Bragg’s enmity
Bragg’s military incompetence
Grant’s homage to
Henry-Donelson campaign
illness and replacement
scorn for Pittsburg Landing battle
Shiloh
Shiloh fortification
Smith, Clay
Smith, Giles
Smith, John E.
Smith, Edmund Kirby
Smith, Morgan
Smith, William F. “Baldy”
Browns Ferry
Chattanooga siege
Smith, William Sooy
Smuggling
Snodgrass Hill (Chickamauga)(fig.)
Social class. See Class-consciousness
South Fort (Vicksburg)
Spaulding, Z. S.
Spence, John
Spicely, William
Stanley, David
Stanton, Edwin
Starke, H. F.
Starnes, James W.
Steedman, James
Steele, Frederick
Stevenson, Carter
Stevenson, John
Stewart, Alexander P.
Stones River, Tennessee
Strange, J. P.
Streight, Abel(fig.)
Sullivan, Jeremiah
Sunken Road
Supplies and supply movements
Confederate response to loss of Vicksburg
Confederates’ lack at Dover
Confederates’random attacks on Federal outposts
dearth at Palmyra
Federal occupation of West Tennessee
Forrest’s plan to disrupt Buell’s lines
Forrest’s protection of Georgia lines
Grant and Rosecrans’s disruption in Tennessee and Georgia
Grant’s distribution of arms to Rosecrans
Grant’s plan to strike down the Mississippi lines
Grant’s railroad repair across Tennessee
Louisville-Nashville-Alabama railroad lines
Vicksburg strategy
See also Railroad
Swett, Leonard
Switzerland (gunboat)
Tallahatchie River
Tate, Sam
Taylor, Richard
Taylor, Zachary
Telegraph
Texas, safeguarding
Texas Rangers
Thomas, George H.(fig.)
challenging Grant at Chattanooga
Chattanooga assault
Chickamauga
Corinth
McMinnville
Missionary Hill charge
pursuit of Bragg at Missionary Ridge
replacing Rosecrans at Chattanooga
request for demotion
Rosecrans and Crittenden flanking Bragg near Chickamauga
rudeness to Grant in Chattanooga
Thomas, Lorenzo
Thompson’s Station, Tennessee
Tigress (steamboat)
Tilghman, Lloyd
Town Creek, Alabama
Trabue, Robert P.
Treason, Medill’s media
Trenton, Tennessee
Trickery, Forrest’s talent for
Tullahoma, Tennessee
Tuttle, James M.
Twins
Tyree Springs, Tennessee
Union City, Tennessee(fig.)
US Second Cavalry
Van Derveer, Ferdinand
Van Dorn, Earl(fig.)
amassing army in Mississippi
assassination of
Bolivar
Corinth
court-martial
failure to regroup after Iuka and Corinth
Forrest’s promotion after death of
Freeman’s death
friction with Forrest
Holly Springs raid
Iuka
Kentucky strike proposal
Rosecrans’s pursuit at Corinth
social and military background
Vaughn, John C.
Vicksburg, Siege of(fig.)
amphibious attack
Big Black River Bridge
Confederate complacency over Grant’s approach
Confederate defense
Confederate supply shortages following
five-battle run(fig.)
Grant-Pemberton engagements
Grant’s command
Grant’s diversions
Grant’s May 1 assault
Grant’s May 19 assault
Grant’s motivation for targeting
Grant’s northeastward sweep
Grant’s shortage of supplies
Grant’s strategy for attack
Grant’s strike down Mississippi
importance to Grant
map of
May 22 assault
McClernand’s abandonment of Black River Bridge
McClernand’s efforts to outflank Halleck and Grant
McClernand’s incompetence
McClernand’s self aggrandizement and dismissal after
mopping up after
New Channel(fig.)
Pemberton’s cease-fire proposal
siege warfare
strategic position of
Van Dorn and Forrest disrupting Grant’s plan
See also Grant, Ulysses S.: Vicksburg
Volunteer soldiers
Grant and Buell’s views of
Grant’s empathy with
Sherman’s division at Shiloh
Walker, J. G.
Walker, Leroy Pope
Walker, W.H.T.
Wallace, Lew(fig.) antipathy to Grant
approach to Pittsburg Landing
Grant’s disdain for
Grant’s friction with
pressure at Bethel
promotion to major general
Union attack at Shiloh
Wallace, William H.L.
Walthall, Edward
Washburne, Elihu
conscription of slaves
Grant’s closer relationship
Grant’s commission
Grant’s goal at Vicksburg
increasing criticism of Grant
McClernand’s request for transfer from Grant
praise of Chattanooga campaign
Shiloh rumors and lies
Watterson, Henry
Webster, Joseph D.
West Point, Mississippi
West Point Military Academy
West Virginia
Wharton, John A.
Dover
Fallen Timbers
Forrest’s East Tennessee command
Murfreesboro
Palmyra
Wheeler, Joseph(fig.)
Army of the Mississippi command
Bragg’s incompetence after Chickamauga
Bragg’s permanent promotion
command of Bragg’s Kentucky cavalry
command of Eighth Texas Cavalry
Dover
Dover aftermath
Forrest’s East Tennessee campaign
Forrest’s West Tennessee raids
McMinnville and Woodbury
Morton’s assignment by Bragg resisted by Forrest
Murfreesboro-Shelbyville march
promotion over Forrest
Rosecrans and Crittenden flanking Bragg at Chickamauga
Tennessee Valley raid
winter raid at Palmyra
Whipping of black soldiers
Whitfield, Francis W.
Whitfield, J.W.
Wilkes, James
Willich, August
Wilson, Claudius
Wilson, James Harrison
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of
Withers, Jones
Wolf River
Wood, Thomas J.
Woodburn, Kentucky
Woodbury, Tennessee
Yalobusha River
Yandell, L. P.
Yates, Richard
Yazoo Pass
Yellow Creek, Tennessee
Young’s Point, Louisiana
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hurst, Jack.
Born to battle : Grant and Forrest : Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga : the campaigns that doomed the Confederacy / Jack Hurst.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-465-02926-6
2. Vicksburg (Miss.)—History—Siege, 1863. 3. Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863. 4. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822–1885. 5. Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821–1877. 6. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Campaigns. I. Title.
E473.54.H87 2012
973.7’31—dc23
2011050156