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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)
needed to see again their families. Whilst Chalmers had returned to Grenada and Panola to regain the line of the Tallahatchie and keep watch on Memphis, he had remained inactive at Columbus since Sooy Smith's retreat. In the morning of the 15th of March he suddenly left this town with the Buford division, reinforced by two regiments—say about thirty-five hundred cavalry. He crosses the Charleston Railroad near Corinth, then the frontier of Tennessee, and on the 20th the head of his column o. On the 4th and the 5th his two divisions had fallen back on Mansfield. It was there that he was at last joined by Green's cavalry, which, having delayed answering the summons of Kirby Smith, and not having left Hempstead, Texas, until the 15th of March, had been compelled to make a detour northward and to cross the Sabine River at Logansport, a point from which this river forms the frontier of Louisiana. The position of Mansfield was of special importance to the two parties. The cross-roa