Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 194, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 9, 1973 Page: 3 of 10
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work for its protection. From it he could readily turn the
under the constant and annoying fire of the enemy’s sharp-
teries, from which both commands suffered severely.
him in reverse, or he could advance, under cover of an
intervening ridge, directly upon our battery and field-wofk.
could not hold the main work or battery. Such was the f killed and wounded: so did Captains Porter and Graves.
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throughout the long and bloody conflict. I speak with
especial commendation of the brigades commanded by
Colonels (William E.) Baldwin, (G.C.) Wharton, (John)
McCausland, (J. M.) Simonton and (Joseph) Drake, and
of Captains Maney and Green, who fought their guns
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He had a stubborn conflict, lasting one and a half hours, to mand during the action bore themselves most gallantly
regain his position,'and the enemy actually got possession
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exit for our troops to the interior of the country, and thus
save our army. We had knowledge that the principal
portion of the enemy’s forces were massed in encampment
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Memorial Chapel at 2:00. p.m.
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heavy guns with the enemy’s gunboats, testing their
strength and the power of our heavy guns to resist them.
The shot from our 32pounder guns produced but little
effect They struck and rebounded, apparently doing but
littie damage; but I am satisfied, by close observation,
that the timbers of the frumr enrit did not and could not
withstand the shock of the 1o-inch columbiad or 32 pounder
rifled guns.
These gunboats never renewed the attack. I learned
from citizen* living on the river below that one,of the
injured bouts sank, and that the others had to be towed
to Cairo. This information may or may not be true, but
it is certain that all of the boots were repulsed and driven
back after a most vigorous and determined attack, and
that two of the boats were badly damaged and a third
more or less injured.
It is difficult to overestimate the gallant bearing and
heroic conduct of the officers and men of our batteries,
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condition of the two armies at nightfall, after nine hours
of conflict, on the 15th instant, in which our loss was
severe, and leaving not less than 1,000 of the et.emy dead
upon the field. We left upon the field nearly all of his
wounded, because we could not remove them. We left
his dead unburied, because we could not bury thein. Such
carnage and conflict have perhaps never before occurred
on this continent. We took about 300 prisoners and a
large number of arms.
We had fought the battle to open the way for our army
and to relieve us from an investment, which would neces-
sarily reduce us and the position we occupied by famine.
We had accomplished our object, but it occupied the whoh
day, and before we could prepare to leave, after taking in
the wounded and dead, the enemy had thrown around us
again in the night an immense force of fresh troops and
reoccupied his original position in the line of investment,
thus again cutting off our retreat We had only about
13,000 troops all told; of these we had lost a large propor-
tion in the three battles. The command had been in the
trenches night and day for five days, exposed to the snow,
sleet, mud and ice-water, without shelter, without adequate
covering and without sleep. In this condition the general
officers held a consultation, to determine what we should
do. General Buckner gave it as his decided opinion that
he could not hold his position a half-hour against an
assault of the enemy, and said he was satisfied the enemy
would attack him at daylight the next morning. The
proposition was then made by the undersigned to again
fight our way through the enemy’s line and cut our way
out General Buckner said his command was so worn
out, cut to pieces and demoralized that he could not make
another fight; that it would cost the command three-
fourths its present numbers to cut its way out; that it
was wrong to sacrifice three-fourths of a command to save
one-fourth, and that no officer had a right to cause such a
sacrifice. General Floyd and Major Gilmer I understood
to concur in this opinion. I then expressed the opinion
that we could hold out another day, and in that time we
could get steamboats and set the command over the river,
and probable save a large portion of it. To this General
Buckner replied that the enemy would certainly attack him
in the morning, and that he could not hold his position a
half-hour.
The alternative of these propositions was a surrender of
the position and command. General Floyd said he would
not surrender the command, nor would he surrender him-
self a prisoner. I had taken the same postion. General
Buckner said he was satisfied nothing else could be done,
and that therefore he would surrender the command, if
placed in authority. General Floyd said he would turn
over the command to him if he could be allowed to with-
draw his troops. To this General Buckner consented.
Thereupon the command was turned over to me, I passing
it instantly to General Buckner, saying I would neither
surrender the command nor myself. I directed Colonel
Forrest to cut his way out.
Under these circumstances General Buckner accepted
the command, and sent a flag of truce to the enemy for an
armistice of six hours, to negotiate for terms of capitulation.
Before this flag and communication were delivered 1 retired
from the garrison.
Before closing my report of the operations of the armv
at Fort Donelson I must, in justice to the brave officers
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and men under my immediate command, sa’that harder
fighting or more gallant conduct in officers and men I
have never witnessed. In the absence of qffi cial reports
of brigade and regimental commanders, of which I am
deprived by the circumstances detailed in this report, I
may not be able to do justice to the different corps. I will
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who so well and so persistently fought our guns until the
enemy’s determined advance brought his boats and guns
into such close and desperate conflict. Where all did their
duty so well it is almost impossible to discriminate. The
captains alreadynamed and their lieutenants i whose names,
for want of official reports, I can not give) all deserve the
highest commendation. Lieutenant George S. Martin,
whose company is at Columbus, Ky., but who was ordered
to that post by Major-General Polk, commanding one of
the guns, particularly attracted my attention by his energy
and the judgment with which he fought his gun. The
wadding of his gun having given out, he pulled off his
coat and rammed it down his gun as wadding, and thus
kept up the fire until the enemy were finally repulsed.
On the evening of this day we received information of
the arrival of additional re-enforcements of infantry, cav-
alry and light artillery by steamboat, all of which were
disembarked a short distance below our position.
BATTLE OF DOVER.
On the 14th inst. the enemy were busy throwing his
forces of every arm around us, extending his line of invest-
ment and completely enveloping us.
On the evening of this day we ascertained that the
enemy had received by steamboat additional re-enforce-
ments. We were now surrounded by an immense force,
said by prisoners, whom we had taken, to amount to fifty-
two regiments, and every road and possible avenue of
departure cut off .with the certainty that our sources of
supply by river could soon be cut off by the enemy’s bat-
teries placed upon the river above us.
ting of general officers, called by General
, . determined unanimously to give the enemy
battle next day at daylight, so as to cut open a route of
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**e miles ana a nan Deiow us, from wnich latter encampment
a stream of fresh troops were constantly pouring around
us on Ms line of investment, and strengthening his gen-
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Any erroneous reflection on the character of any person or
firm appt ari g ji these columns will be gladly and promptly
correct^ upon being brought to the attention of the
Publishei.
oral encampment on the extreme right At each of his
encampments and on each roadftie had in position a battery
of field artillery and 24-pounder iron guns on siege car-
riages. Between these encampments on the roads was a
thick undergrowth of brush and blackjack, making it
impossible to advance or maneuver any considerable body
of troops.
The plan of attack agreed upon and directed by Gen-
eral Floyd to be executed was, that with the main body of
the forces defending our left wing, I should attack the right
wing of the enemy, occupying and resting on the heights
reaching to the bank of the river, accompanied by Colonel
Forrest’s brigade of cavalry; that General Buckner, with
the forces under his command, and defending the right of
our line, should strike the enemy’s encampment and forces
on the Wynn’s Ferry Road; that the forces under Colonel
Heiman should hold his position, and that each command
should leave in the trenches troops to hold the same. In
this order of battle it was easy to be seen that if my attack
was successful and the enemy was routed his retreat would
be along his line if Investment, toward the Wynn’s Ferry
encampment, and thence toward his reserve, at the gun-
boats below. In 'Other words, my success would roll the
enemy’s force in retreat over upon General Buckner, when
by his attack in flank and rear we could cut up the enemy
and put him completely to rout.
Accordingly dispositions were made to attack the
enemy. At five o’clock on the morning of the 15th I
moved out of my position to engage the enemy. In less
than one-half hour our forces were engaged. The enemy
was prepared to receive me in advance of his encampment,
and he did receive me before I had assumed a line of battle
and while I was moving against him without any forma-
tion for the engagement For the first half hour of the
engagement I was much embarrassed in getting the com-
mand in position properly to engage the enemy. Having
extricated myself from the position and fairly engaged the
enemy, we fought him for nearly two hours before I made
any decided advance upon him. He contested the field
most stubbornly.
The loss of both gmies on this portion of the field was
heavy—the enemy’s particularly so, as I discovered by
riding over the field after the battle. The enemy, having
been forced to yield this portion of the field, retired slowly
toward the Wynn's Ferry Road—Buckner's point of attack.
The fight was hotly contested and stubborn on both
sides, and consumed the day till 12 o’clock to drive the
enemy as fa; back as the center, where General Buck-
ner’s command was to flank him. While my command
was slowly advancing and driving back the enemy I was
anxiously expecting to hear General Buckner’s command
open fire inr his rear, which not taking place, I was appre-
hensive of some misapprehension of orders, and came from
the field of battle within the work to ascertain what was
the matter. I there found the command of General Buck-
ner, massed behind the ridge within the work, taking shelter
from the enemy’s artillery on the Wynn’s Ferry Road, it
having been forced to retire before the battery, as I learned
from him. My force was still slowly advancing, driving j
the enemy toward the battery. I directed General Buck- ।
ner immediately to move his command around to the rear
of the battery, turning its left, keeping in the hollow, and I
attack and carry it. Before the movement was executed
my forces, forming the attacking party on the right, with
Colonel Forrest’s regiment of cavalry, had reached the
position of the battery. Colonel Forrest’s cavalry gallantly
charged a large body of infantry supporting the battery,
driving it and forcing the battery to retire, and taking six
pieces of artillery—four brass pieces and two 24-pounder
iron pieces.
In pursuing the enemy, falling back from this position.
General Buckner’s forces became united with mine, and
engaged the enemy in a hot contest of nearly an hour,
with large forces of fresh troops that had now met us.
This position of the enemy being carried by our joint forces,
I called off the further pursuit, after seven and a half hours
of continuous and bloody conflict. After the troops were
called off from the pursuit, orders were immediately given
to the different commands to form and retire to thei: orig-
inal intrenchments.
The operations of the day had forced the entire com-
mand of the enemy around to our right and in front of 1
General Buckner’s position in the intrenchments. and
when he reached his position he found the enemy advanc-
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of the extreme right of his works, and held them so firmly
that he could not dislodge him. The position thus gained
by the enemy was a most important and commanding one,
Ferry Road, opposite the center of being immediately in rear of our river battery and field-
‘"I another was massed nearly in work for its protection. From it he could readily turn the
right wing, his fresh arrival of Intrenched work occupied by General Buckner and attack shooters, and of the concentrated fire from his field bat-
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Ellis, Darwin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 194, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 9, 1973, newspaper, October 9, 1973; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500180/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.