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I concede that General McCook's splendid division from Kentucky drove back the enemy along the Corinth road, which was the great centre of this field of battle, where Beauregard commanded in person, supported by Bragg's, Polk's, and Breckenridge's divisions.
I doubt whether he has any business in Washington, but fear he has been detained by dissipation." The second of Mr. Polk's entries is a corollary of the first and reads: "About dark this evening I learned from Mr. Voorhies, who is acting as my private secretary during the absence of J. Knox Walker, that Hon.
In 1775 he also volunteered in Captain Ezekiel Polk's company, and marched against the Tories assembled at the post of Ninety, in South Carolina.
Grant's desire for activity in the winter Scattering to live Subordinate movements The Meridian expedition Use of the Mississippi Sherman's estimate of it Concentration to be made in the spring Grant joins the Potomac Army Motives in doing so Meade as an army commander Halleck on concentration North Carolina expedition given up Burnside to join Grant Old relations of Sherman and Halleck Present cordial friendship Frank correspondence The supply question Railway administration Bridge defences Reduction of baggage Tents Sherman on spies and deserters Changes in Confederate army Bragg relieved Hardee Beauregard Johnston Davis's suggestion of plans Correspondence with Johnston Polk's mediation Characteristics Bragg's letters Lee writes Longstreet Johnston's dilatory discussion No results Longstreet joins Lee Grant and Sherman have the initiative Prices in the Confederacy.
The President, seeing General Mac's embarrassment, relived him by shaking hands cordially with each of the young ladies. The metropolis was not very gay during the latter portion of Mr. Polk's Administration.
The activity observed at Purdy and Bethel was, in fact, Cheatham's preparation for his march, Saturday, to his position in General Polk's line.
In James K. Polk's diary I find two entries under the dates, respectively, of September 8 and September 10, 1846. The first of these reads as follows: "Hon. Felix G. McConnell, a representative in Congress from Alabama called. He looked very badly and as though he had just recovered from a fit of intoxication. He was sober, but was pale, his countenance haggard and his system nervous.
Polk's indulgence was gossip though always of a harmless nature: how Mr. Cluyme always managed to squirm over to the side which was in favor, and how Maude Catherwood's love-letter to a certain dashing officer of the Confederate army had been captured and ruthlessly published in the hateful Democrat. It was the Doctor who gave Virginia news of the Judge, and sometimes he would mention Mrs. Brice.
This officer was on General Polk's staff. He said both he and the general had seen me and that Polk had said to his men, "There is a Yankee; you may try your marksmanship on him if you wish," but nobody fired at me. Belmont was severely criticised in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results, or the possibility of them from the beginning.
Polk's reference to the blacklist recalls an episode which in itself illustrates the changed character of the relations that had now been established between the American and the British governments. Mr. Balfour discussed shipping problems for the most part with Mr. Polk, under whose jurisdiction these matters fell. As one of these conferences was approaching its end Mr.
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