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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
gun, near Piketon, the Scioto River, and arrives at last, on the morning of the 17th, at Jackson, after an almost uninterrupted march of forty-eight hours. His soldis of the enemy are reported alike in the rear and on the flanks. Indeed, on the 17th, Hobson crossed the Scioto at Piketon, and in the evening of the same day he wiliver and to try and head him off at Pomeroy by a march during the night. On the 17th a conflagration kindled by the Confederates at Jackson, and the smoke from whichim the greatest uneasiness for forty-eight hours. At last McCook appeared on the 17th, in the morning, notwithstanding Wheeler's cavalry, which vainly sought to delayscover the motives for an inactivity which was beginning to astonish him. On the 17th, Steedman, with six regiments of infantry and one battery of artillery, at last he columns of infantry, but they were not all passable with artillery. On the 17th, in the evening, Bragg's definite orders are issued to the different corps which
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
once assured of Wheeler's departure, also clears the Holston and enters Knoxville, leaving at the south only a feeble garrison. It is indeed necessary to cover the retreat of the Army of the Ohio and give it time to settle in the place. On the 17th, in the forenoon, all the troops that had fought at Campbell's Station entered the city, while Sanders sent Wolford on the Clinton road and Pennebaker on the London in order to delay as long as possible the investment of the place. On that dayto reach Bridgeport, he jumped into a small barge, notwithstanding the obscurity of the night and the dangers of the rapids, himself bearing a hand to encourage the four soldiers bent over the oars which quickly urged him forward. At last, on the 17th, in the morning, he reached the camp of his soldiers posted near the river and the railway. The four divisions were quartered between Stevenson and Bridgeport. Ewing, who was occupying this last point, received orders at once to cross the ponton
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
of Helena had reduced in number and greatly discouraged. White River was the first serious obstacle which the Federal army had to encounter. To prepare its march three steamboats ascended this river and explored it as far as Clarendon, the point where Steele was to cross it, and which they reached on the 13th of August. They effected a few captures, and made sure that the passage of the Union column would not encounter any resistance. The latter, in fact, having reached Clarendon on the 17th, landed without difficulty on the right bank of White River. But it had made but one halt, at about thirty-seven miles, and already numbered in its ambulances more than one thousand sick, so much had the enervating climate of the vicinity of Vicksburg sown morbid germs among the Northern men. It was necessary to establish a hospital at a point which might at the same time serve as a base for provisioning the army. Clarendon was an unhealthy place, badly situated, and the road from this poin
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
inuing to follow in the direction of Okolona on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and did not reach Pontotoc until noon on the 17th. He halted the head of his column a few miles farther on. His rearguard had left New Albany on the 16th. Waring did not ot lost a moment. Chalmers, travelling more than eighteen miles a day, was at Houston on the 16th and at Palo Alto on the 17th. He was entering the fertile region through which the Tombigbee flows, and which extends, on the right bank of this rivee exception of three or four vessels kept back by their draught, followed Phelps on the morrow, and the following day, the 17th, Smith had re-embarked at Fort de Russy after having dismantled it, appeared in front of Alexandria, and his troops occupicame more and more enterprising in proportion to their belief that the Federals were on the point of getting away. On the 17th, Wharton, starting in pursuit of them, had made a spirited attack upon their rearguard near Bayou Glaise, and one of his r