Dana, Charles A. (1819-1897) [Letterbook of telegrams from Dana to Edwin McMasters Stanton in the War Department]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04605 Author/Creator: Dana, Charles A. (1819-1897) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 6 September 1863 - 8 November 1863 Pagination: 181 p. ; 29 x 23 cm. Order a Copy
Contains handwritten and signed transcripts of one hundred twelve telegraphs. Sent by Dana from the front lines of the Tennessee campaign to the War Department, where they were transcribed by hand into this book for consultation by Stanton, Lincoln and others. Updates nearly every day, sometimes many per day, on events of the Western campaign, including firsthand accounts of battles at Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, and others. Details strategies, outcomes, casualties, etc. Begins with arrival at front lines and a meeting with Andrew Johnson. Dana, assistant secretary of state, had been sent by Stanton to the Western front to report on events there.
Charles Dana served before the war as an editor for the New York Tribune and afterward edited the New York Sun.
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No important effort for the relief of Burnside can be made, Thomas has however decided to attempt to regain Lookout Mountain, a battery of eight 20 pound parrotts will be placed on a hill directly opposite Lookout, while the batteries of Hooker will have a direct fire upon that slope under the crossfire of those batteries the entire point of the mountain including the railroad and wagon road may be occupied by Howard's Infantry, Thomas thinks Bragg still has 40,000 men in the lines here, militia included. General Grant thinks his force does not exceed 30,000. Deserters report Hardee appointed to the Command of Polk's Corps (Rebels) they say Bragg `tendered resignation but Davis refused it. A decisive battle of great strategic movement now at-hand. Deserters again report Joe Johnston here - C.A. Dana.
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