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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
overnment had done so by establishing camp depots for its armies, by organizing military companies within its territory, and by making evident preparations, on the Missouri shore of the Mississippi, for the seizure of Columbus. It was, therefore, a military necessity, for the defense of the territory of the Confederate States, that a Confederate force should occupy Columbus in advance. When General Fremont heard of this movement, he wrote a private letter to the President, dated the 8th of September, in which he set forth a plan for expelling the Confederates from Kentucky and Tennessee. The following is a copy of Fremont's letter:-- Headquarters Western Department, September 8, 1861. To the President:-- my Dear Sir:--I send, by another hand, what I ask you to consider in respect to the subject of the note by your special messenger. In this, I desire to ask your attention to the position of affairs in Kentucky. As the rebel troops, driven out of Missouri, had invaded
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
throwing his army across the Potomac. Lee was joined on the 2d Sept. 1862. by the fresh division of D. H. Hill, from Richmond, and this was immediately sent as a vanguard toward Leesburg. The whole Confederate army followed, and between the 4th and 7th it had crossed the Potomac by the fords in the vicinity of the Point of Rocks, and encamped not far from the city of Frederick, on the Monocacy River. There General Lee formally raised the standard of revolt, and issued a proclamation Sept. 8. in words intended to be as seductive to the people of that commonwealth as those of Randall's impassioned appeal, entitled Maryland! My Maryland! See page 555, volume I. Lee declared it was the wish of the people of the South to aid those of Maryland in throwing off the foreign yoke they were compelled to bear, that they might be able to again enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and to restore the independence and sovereignty of their State ; and he assured them that his mission w