He assumed command of the district he had so long coveted and had sacrificed honor to get, March first,[969] General Smith disapproving of the whole procedure.
Grant, having been appointed lieutenant-general, assumed command of the armies of the United States.
Dana was at Chattanooga during the battle, and had been there even before I assumed command.
I assumed command of the whole and the first night sent the commander of the other regiment the parole and countersign.
The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he was a scout of General Fremont.
When I assumed command of all the armies the situation was about this: the Mississippi River was guarded from St. Louis to its mouth; the line of the Arkansas was held, thus giving us all the North-west north of that river.
Sigfried, of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, assumed command of our brigade.
In the midst of this terrific fight Colonel Curtin, of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania, assumed command of the brigade.
Johnston, as the ranking officer, assumed command, and he and Beauregard turned their attention to defending themselves against the attack now initiated by McDowell.
Upon learning this, after I assumed commandof the department I ordered Herron to report for duty to General Grant before Vicksburg.
General Parke cut short his sick-leave, and, though far from strong, assumed command of the Ninth Corps and began the march for Cumberland Gap.
I had a very slight acquaintance with Pope at the beginning of the war, but no opportunity of increasing it till he assumed command in Virginia and I reported to him as a subordinate.
Burnside had been impressed with this condition of things from the day he assumed command.
Two days after I assumed command here he was sent with his regiment to protect the island of Galveston, which had been for three months in the possession of the naval authorities of the United States.
General Magruder, when he assumed command in December of the Confederate forces in Texas, immediately set about perfecting plans to recover possession of Galveston, and to capture or cripple the fleet.
On June 1st Colonel Holmes, Twenty-Third Connecticut, assumed command of Brashear City, with portions of his own regiment and that of the One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth New York in occupancy of the post.
Some changes in the commanding officers took place: Colonel Cahill, Ninth Connecticut Infantry, assumed command of the brigade on the ninth, and General Emory assumed command of the Defences New Orleans on the nineteenth.
Johnson of the Third Kentucky Cavalry reported later in the day with some additional companies of Home Guards, and, by order of General Anderson, assumed command of the camp.
Great expectations were entertained in regard to Crittenden's military abilities; and about the first of the year 1862 he assumed command in person of the rebel forces at Beech Grove.
Morgan, under orders from Buell, assumed command of the forces in Eastern Kentucky early in April.
One of them was under Colonel Dunham from Louisville, who, being Wilder's senior in rank, assumed command.
Pompeius retired from office; but, two years later, he assumed command in the war against the pirates.
Grant assumed command of the military division of the Mississippi, including the region between the Alleghanies and that river.
La Fayette, at the call of the deputies, assumed command of the National Guard.
Dahlen, the regimental executive officer, assumed command and at 1209 ordered that the attack be resumed.
Colonel Brockman, senior Colonel present, was also wounded, and Colonel Brown, of the Fourteenth Regiment, assumed commandthen or a little later.
The lines were reformed, and Colonel Davis, of the Fifteenth, assumed command (or perhaps Colonel Henagan).
Scarcely had he assumed command, and prior to our arrival, before he was attacked by General Butler, with twenty thousand men.
I have referred to the embarrassment and trouble which came to me soon after I assumed command at Henderson by the condition of the State elections and the rebel civil officials.
Washington was in his forty-fourth year when he assumed command of the Revolutionary armies, and in his fiftieth when he took Yorktown.
He was fifty-two when he assumed command of the armies of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV.
General McClellan was in his thirty-fifth year when he assumed command at Washington in 1861.
General Halleck, when he assumed command of the department, in his letters to the War Department and his orders to the troops showed plainly his disgust at the condition of matters in that department.
When I assumed command of the former Department of Kansas I found all the important Indian tribes on the plains in open hostility against us.
So far as the Chivington fight was concerned, it occurred before I assumed command.
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