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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)
eneral Carter, had remained at Somerset since the recapture of that village. Colonel Wolford, with a considerable detachment, had been stationed by Carter, on the 27th, at Jamestown, but he could not, single-handed, form a connection between the two brigades. On the 2d of July, early in the morning, Morgan crossed the Cumberladefile at Matt's Hollow without firing a gun. The route to Manchester is then open to the army: it is going to concentrate along this thoroughfare some time on the 27th. Wilder has occupied it since eight o'clock in the morning: the rest of Reynolds' division is not long in joining him; Rosecrans soon arrives with his headquarterive force, he had summoned Forrest, who was at Bigbyville, to the south of Columbia; but the Federals did not give him time to wait for this reinforcement. On the 27th, in the morning, after a sharp skirmish in front of Guy's Gap, Minty charges the Confederate cavalry, who have dismounted, and captures the passage-way. Wheeler i
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
followed exactly the programme which has been traced for him. On the 25th the ponton-bridge was finished at Bridgeport; on the 26th his three divisions have crossed the river and bivouacked on its banks between Shell Mound and Whitesides. On the 27th these divisions have passed the mountain and halted at the entrance to Will's Valley. On the 28th they descend upon Wauhatchie, while Palmer relieves the regiments left to guard Shell Mound and Whitesides. Hooker advances with circumspection in g, have crossed the defile. Happily, Hardee, after having marched all night on the right bank of the East Chickamauga, has at last rejoined, near Ringgold, Breckinridge's column. His rearguard alone occupies this village. In the morning of the 27th, when Osterhaus' van appeared on the edge of the Chickamauga, he had entrusted to Cleburne the care of checking, with his division and Gist's, the pursuit of the enemy. They are the same troops which two days before had resisted the forces of She
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
instant in trying to break, on the north side, the investment of Knoxville. His cavalry encamps at the foot of the mountain on the banks of Powell River. On the 27th, Graham is in motion; he crosses on the following day Clinch River, at Walker's Ford on the Rutledge road, and bivouacs a little farther on. Proceeding to the rightte bridge. Forrest, who had reserved for himself the most difficult task, was marching as rapidly as possible on his tracks while escorting the wagons. On the 27th, at eleven o'clock in the morning, Bell reached, without being perceived, the approaches to the bridge. His men, springing upon the stationary beams, clear the brnemy. Notwithstanding so many obstacles, the trench was opened with gabions in front of the sandhills while the fifth parallel was being established, and on the 27th, in the morning, this approach was only one hundred and eight yards from the place; but after a few hours of daylight the enemy's fire interrupted the work. An at
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)
rson's division returned to Germantown on the 25th; Waring's brigade, passing through Collierville, reached Memphis on the 27th. The losses in men were not great. They amounted to four or five hundred—three hundred in the combats fought on the 22d following day Chalmers rejoined Neely in this town, for, informed of Grierson's movements, Forrest had summoned him on the 27th, directing him to leave only two battalions on the Tallahatchie. The division thus united was employed to escort the Fede. After marching as far as Sabine River on the first day, then on the 26th to Rockport, Steele crossed the Washita on the 27th, and reached Arkadelphia the next day. Thayer, retarded by the absence of roads and the bad weather, was still far away, ahave excused such a resolution. Grover's fine division, which he had left at Alexandria, was there on his return. On the 27th he had seen the arrival of McClernand with several thousand soldiers of the Thirteenth corps, whom an order from Grant had