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  Don Carlos Buell - LoveToKnow 1911
DON CARLOS BUELL (1818-1898), American soldier, was born near Marietta, Ohio, on the 23rd of March 1818.
In the spring of 1862 Buell followed the retiring Confederates under Sidney Johnston, and appeared on the field of Shiloh at the end of the first day's fighting.
Buell subsequently served under Halleck in the advance on Corinth, and in the autumn commanded in the campaign in Kentucky against Bragg.
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  Don Carlos Buell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Carlos Buell (March 23, 1818 – November 19, 1898) was a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War.
Buell, noted for his iron discipline, was infuriated and brought charges against his subordinate on the scene, John B. Turchin.
Buell spent the next year and a half in Indianapolis, in military limbo, hoping that a military commission would exonerate him of blame; he claimed he had not pursued Bragg due to lack of supplies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Carlos_Buell   (756 words)

  
 Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898)
Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898) was a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War.
Buell graduated from West Point in 1841 and was a company officer of infantry in the Seminole War of 1841-42 during which he demonstrated his remarkable administrative abilities and a marked proclivity for enforcing discipline.
Buell aided McClellan in organizing the Army of the Potomac and was sent, in November 1861, to Kentucky to succeed Sherman in command after the latter had buckled under the responsitility and requested of McClellan that he be relieved.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell (March 23, 1818 – November 19, 1898) was a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War.
Buell considered that his arrival was the primary reason that Grant avoided a major defeat and Grant developed a professional grudge against Buell that would haunt his future career.
Buell spent the next year and a half in Indianapolis, in military limbo, hoping that a military commission would exonerate him of blame; he claimed he had not pursued Bragg because he lacked supplies.
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 Civil War Indiana Biographies - Don Carlos Buell
Buell spent the next thirteen years in the adjutant general’s office and was a lieutenant colonel working as an adjutant of the Department of the Pacific when the Civil War broke out.
Buell was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers on May 17, 1861.
Buell served in the battle of Corinth under Henry W. Halleck and was promoted on March 22, 1862, to major general of volunteers.
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Don Carlos Buell was a significant actor in the first half of the Civil War drama as head of the Department of the Ohio when this department took an active part in the Battle at Shiloh, the occupation and control of Tennessee and Kentucky, and, ultimately, at the decisive battle in Perryville.
Buell intended his move from Kentucky into eastern Tennessee to be a permanent move and took the time to repair, maintain, and protect rail lines that would provide his soldiers with their only means of support in food, ammunition, weapons, and other supplies.
Buell knew that reinforcements were on their way from the north and he chose to pursue Bragg without initiating battle in order to maintain the numbers of soldiers he had left.
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 ipedia.com: Don Carlos Buell Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Don Carlos Buell was an American assistant adjutant general who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.
Don Carlos Buell (23 March, 1818- 19 November, 1898) was an American assistant adjutant general who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.
During the Civil War, Buell was given command of a division of the Army of the Potomac and in November he succeeded William Sherman as head of the Department of the Ohio.
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 National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
Don Carlos Buell, Union Civil War general who lost his command early in the war, died November 19, 1898.
Buell was a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican Wars.
Buell’s waterloo came with the battle of Perryville, Kentucky where Buell was accused of not pursuing the retreating rebel army.
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 Battle of Shiloh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Carlos Buell turned the tide on April 7 and the Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time.
Grant's orders from Halleck were to hook up with Buell's Army of the Ohio, marching from Nashville, and advance south in a joint offensive to seize the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, a vital supply line between the Mississippi Valley, Memphis, and Richmond.
Grant had reason to be optimistic, for Don Carlos Buell's army had arrived that evening, in time to turn the tide the next day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh   (2800 words)

  
 Buell, Don C.
Don Carlos Buell was born on March 23, 1818, near Marietta, Ohio.
Buell attended public schools in the community, and he proved himself to be a fair student.
Buell was eventually offered new battlefield commands, which implies that the committee found no fault, but Buell refused to take these commissions under officers that he once outranked.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=21   (683 words)

  
 Major General Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell during his 1862 campaign against Fort Donaldson in Tennessee.
After Buell's army entered Nashville and while he was planning further movement to the south, Andrews approached him with a scheme to cut the Memphis & Charleston Railroad by the destruction of the bridge over the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, Alabama, and the bridges over the Chickamauga Creek in north Georgia.
General Buell was a veteran of the Mexican War, and in 1861 took charge of the Department and Army of the Ohio.
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 Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All.(Review) (book review) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Engle, though, has gone beyond a simple description of Buell's military accomplishments, or lack thereof, and, more importantly, has examined why he was the general he was.
The former led him to concentrate on the establishment of secure bases and the latter to focus his army on seizing critical geographic locales such as Nashville and Louisville--forgoing Jomini's injunction that the purpose of seizing a critical point was to bring the enemy army to battle.
Much as McClellan in the east, Buell created a well-trained, well-disciplined army that he too often failed to commit to decisive combat, such as at Perryville, where he had an excellent opportunity to defeat the divided Confederate force.
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 Don Carlos Buell
Buell graduated in 1841 from West Point, and soon after served in the Mexican War.
Buell supported Ulysses S. Grant's invasion of Tennessee by seizing Nashville on February 2nd 1862, and he supplied vital reenforcement to Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7 1862.
After a fierce, but inconclusive, battle at Perryville on October 8, Buell was criticized for allowing the Confederates to escape and relieved of command on October 24th.
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 Buell Source Page
Buell then saved Grant at the battle of Shiloh, arriving with 30,000 fresh troops which turned the tide the second day of the battle.
Buell's single largest contribution to the war was U.S. Grant, whose career certainly would've ended on the banks of the Tennessee River on that day in April.
Buell firmly believed that the Union should stand, and he was loyal to the principles of the United States and opposed to slavery.
www.aotc.net /Buell_home.htm   (1780 words)

  
 JOHN CARLOS BUELL, USA
Don Carlos Buell was born in Lowell, Ohio, on March 23, 1818.
Buell was promoted to major general on March 22, 1862, and his timing of arrival at the Battle of Shiloh helped save the Union forces from defeat.
Buell was removed from command on October 24, 1862, never to lead troops again.
www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USABuell.html   (257 words)

  
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With the outbreak of the Civil War, Buell helped organize Washington, DC, defenses and was soon given command of a division in the Army of the Potomac.
Buell's troops moved toward Chattanooga before they were diverted into Kentucky when Confederate troops invaded the state.
In 1864, Buell resigned from the service, and after the war he and his family operated a coal mine and ironworks in Kentucky.
www.centre.edu /web/library/sc/special/perryville/buell.htm   (261 words)

  
 Don Carlos Buell Biography
A highly capable organizer and administrator, Don Carlos Buell lost his field command for failing to follow up the retreating Confederates after the battle of Perryville.
But Buell had other ideas and, with the misgivings of both Lincoln and McClellan, moved against Nashville instead.
Buell returned to Indianapolis, claiming that he had not advanced because of a lack of supplies.
www.civilwarhome.com /buellbio.htm   (509 words)

  
 Don Carlos Buell
According to his biographer, Stephen D. Engle, in his book Don Carlos Buell, Most Promising of All Don Carlos Buell was a conservative Democrat who viewed the Civil War as a struggle to restore the Union as it existed rather than a war to bring significant social change to the slaveholding South.
Buell arrived about 1 pm on the 6th, but instead of committing Buell's troops to battle, Grant began to build a reinforced line around the Landing ("Grant's Last Line") with the men of Brigadier General William 'Bull' Nelson, the first of Buell's command to arrive.
Buell was so disliked by his senior officers that they petitioned Abraham Lincoln and requested Buell be replaced by George Thomas.
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 Amazon.de:  Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All (Civil War America (Hardcover)): English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A biography of the Union commander Don Carlos Buell, this volume traces his help in shaping the direction of the conflict during its first years and follows his view that the war was a contest to restore the antebellum Union rather than a struggle to bring social change to the slaveholding South.
Buell was relieved of command, never to serve in a United States uniform in the field again.
Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All (a line written by Federal General John Pope, of all people) is a must read for anyone interested in the early history of the western theater, and the man that figured so prominently in it
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807825123   (1200 words)

  
 Review of Gerald J. Prokopowicz. All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862.
Buell was a talented administrator, able "to tackle the problem of securing arms, uniforms, and equipment for his men....he did not, however, understand the nature of the volunteer army that he led" (p.
Buell was uncommunicative, aloof, and indifferent to matters of loyalty and morale.
Buell's absence during the crucial battle of Perryville (he had been prevented from hearing the sounds of the battle at his headquarters due to a rare "acoustic shadow") eventually got him fired, a fitting end to a disappointing career.
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 H-Net Review: Brian Dirck on Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Buell was a good organizer and a firm disciplinarian, but he was unwilling to move against the enemy with anything less than perfect preparation.
Buell was a born bureaucrat rather than a leader, who was "better at managing than waging war and was at his best when it came to bureaucratic red tape" (p.
Buell's extremely lenient policy of reconciliation towards white Southerners seemed out of step with the times, and his unwillingness to embrace the more radical war measures of property confiscation and emancipation left him open to charges of sympathy with the enemy.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12005959965220   (1254 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Brian Dirck on Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Buell was a good organizer and a firm disciplinarian, but he was unwilling to move against the enemy with anything less than perfect preparation.
Buell was a born bureaucrat rather than a leader, who was "better at managing than waging war and was at his best when it came to bureaucratic red tape" (p.
Buell's extremely lenient policy of reconciliation towards white Southerners seemed out of step with the times, and his unwillingness to embrace the more radical war measures of property confiscation and emancipation left him open to charges of sympathy with the enemy.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12005959965220   (1254 words)

  
 Click here for Don Carlos Buell (He then showed one of the greatest acts of cowardice of the entire war by boarding ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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Don Carlos Buell, 1818-1898 *BUELL, DON CARLOS was born in Lowell, Ohio, on March 23, 1818, and raised in Lawenceburg, Indiana.
http://www.indianainthecivilwar.com/hoosier/buelldc.htm : Don Carlos Buell, 1818-1898 - Don Carlos Buell, 1818-1898 *BUELL, DON CARLOS was born in Lowell, Ohio, on March 23, 1818, and raised in Lawenceburg, Indiana.
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 Don Carlos Buell led the Army of the Ohio
Don Carlos Buell led the Army of the Ohio
On March 23, 1818, Don Carlos Buell - who served as major general of the Army of the Ohio during the Civil War - was born in Lowell, Ohio.
Buell resigned from the Army in 1864 and spent the rest of his days as president of a Kentucky coal mine.
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