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movement. Price was reported to have made a stand at Carthage, and Fremont occupied Springfield, October 27th. Price and M'Culloch were then certainly not far to the south, with a large force, and a battle became hourly more imminent. General Fremont devoted himself with intense earnestness to the work of preparation for the fight. Meantime, some excitement prevailed, as the possi bility of his removal was talked over in the army, and rumors were current that it had already taken place. Fremont could not but be aware of these rumors; yet he worked on until Saturday, November 2d, when he received from a government messenger the President's unconditional order for him to relinquish the command to General Hunter. He did so, and left camp at Springfield for St. Louis on the 3d, having previously taken leave of the army in the following farewell order:

"SOLDIERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI ARMY: Agreeable to orders received this day, I take leave of you. Although our army has been of sudden growth, we have grown up together, and I have become familiar with the brave and generous spirits which you bring to the defence of your country, and which makes me anticipate for you a brilliant career. Continue as you have begun, and give to my successor the same cordial and enthusiastic support with which you have encouraged me. Emulate the splendid example which you have already before you, and let me remain, as I am, proud of the noble army which I have thus far labored to bring together.

Soldiers, I regret to leave you. Most sincerely I thank you for the regard and confidence you have invariably shown me. I deeply regret that I shall not have the honor to lead you to the victory which you are just about to win; but I shall claim the right to share with you in the joy of every triumph, and trust always to be personally remembered by my companions in arms."

On the 11th of March, 1862, President Lincoln, having previously ordered a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States, issued an order relieving General McClellan from the "other military departments" except the department of the Potomac, and creating the new departments of the "Mississippi" and the "Mountain department," assigning the command of the latter to General Fremont. On the first of April, active operations in his department commenced under General Milroy, who compelled the enemy to retreat before him as far as Fort Shenandoah toward Staunton from the west. General Fremont left Wheeling early in May, and after passing through New-Creek he proceeded to Franklin, where he arrived on the thirteenth, his army having come by forced marches to relieve Generals Schenck and Milroy who had been attacked and re

pulsed by the enemy. On the appearance of General Fremont, however, the rebels all removed from the neighborhood, and quiet was maintained for ten days, during which time his forces were reörganized and refreshed. At the end of that period, an order came to General Fremont directing him to fall back with his entire command to the support of General Banks, and prescribing the route by which he should go. This route General Fremont deemed to be an injudicious one, and accordingly took another of his own selection. He left Franklin at six o'clock on Sunday morning, May twenty-fifth, leaving behind all the wounded and sick, so as not to impede his progress. The march back over the Shenandoah Mountains to the neighborhood of Strasburgh was arduous and trying in the extreme. The tired troops dropped by the roadside, and slept under the partial shelter of open forests. The next day the rear of the enemy under Jackson was attacked and driven back beyond Strasburgh, General Fremont promptly following, and on the afternoon of the sixth of June, he reached Harrisonburgh. Here the army rested until June eighth, when General Fremont finding the enemy posted at Cross Keys, moved on and attacked him, compelling his retreat to Port Republic, where he was again encountered, but soon disappeared. This closing the pursuit of Jackson, General Fremont's forces now returned, by way of Harrisonburgh, up the valley and reached Mount Jackson June twelfth, where they encamped.

On the twenty-sixth of June, the troops under General Fremont were consolidated with those of Generals Banks and McDowell, and placed under command of Major-General Pope. This step was considered by General Fremont as "placing him in an inferior position to that he had previously held, and largely reducing his rank and consideration in the service." Accordingly, on the twenty-seventh of June, having asked to be relieved from his command, his request was granted. Late in May, 1864, having received the nomination of the radical democratic party for the Presidency of the United States, he resigned his commission as major-general in the army of the United States.

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JOHN SEDGWICK.

OHN SEDGWICK was born at Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1817. He belonged to a family well known in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New-York, among whose members were Miss Catherine Sedgwick, the authoress, and Theodore Sedgwick, the distinguished jurist. John Sedgwick, the grandfather of the late General, was an officer of good reputation during the revolutionary war.

The subject of this sketch entered the Military Academy at West-Point in 1833, and graduated twenty-fourth in a class of fifty in 1837. Among his classmates were Generals Benham, (who stood first,) Arnold, Vogdes, Thomas, Williams, French, and Hooker, and the rebel Generals Bragg, Mackall, Early, and Pemberton-all of whom, except Hooker, were graduated above him.

He was immediately appointed Second Lieutenant in the Second artillery, and in April, 1839, was promoted to be First Lieutenant in the same regiment. For the next seven or eight years he was employed in no duty which offered him opportunity for special distinction, but he was not long in acquiring a reputation as a zealous and painstaking officer, whose whole mind was devoted to his profession, and whose chief ambition seemed to be to make himself master of all that related to the service in its minutest details.

The Mexican war opened a field for the display of the knowledge he had carefully accumulated during the previous years of peace. At the battles of Contreras and Churubusco he commanded his company, and won the brevet rank of Captain for his gallant and meritorious conduct. In the engagement of El Molino del Rey his behavior was again the subject of special commendation. For his distinguished services at Chapultepec he was brevetted Major, and the official reports of the attack upon the San Cosmo gate of the City of Mexico make particular mention of his gallant behavior. In this last-named action the command of his company again devolved upon him. He received the full rank of Captain in January, 1849, and in March, 1855, was transferred to the First cavalry, with the commission of Major.

At the time of the Kansas troubles his regiment, of which the late MajorGeneral Sumner was then Colonel, was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, and having been placed by the Secretary of War at the disposal of the Governor of

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