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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
great importance to the Federals in the river-war they were already contemplating: it was Paducah, at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio. It was, in fact, the key of the first of those two rivers whose deep waters were to permit the Federal flotillas to penetrate into the very heart of the Confederacy. Buckner was trying to forestall them. His militia were only within a few kilometres of the city, which was already making preparations to welcome their arrival, when, on the 6th of September, there were landed two regiments, which General Grant had sent by water from Cairo, and which fortified that position so as to protect it from any sudden attack. Meanwhile, since the battle of Wilson's Creek, Fremont had persuaded himself that the occupation of Springfield ought to be the paramount object of all his efforts, and that the possession of Missouri depended upon it. He had forwarded considerable reinforcements to the troops who had fallen back upon Rolla. One month earli