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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
s as far as Canton, Mississippi. General Lee, quartered at Tuscumbia, is too far away to meet the Fifteenth Federal corps. Chalmers, who with a few regiments has remained in the neighborhood of Grenada, endeavors to check its march. On the 11th of October he moves rapidly to the northward to cut the Memphis and Corinth Railroad: he hopes to surprise one of the trains carrying the Federal troops, and to stop the movement by destroying the road. For his objective point he selected the station e Sixty-sixth Indiana, and about twenty-four miles from Memphis. If he succeed in capturing it together with its garrison, he shall be in a position to seize the trains and destroy the bridges. Our readers will remember that on the same day (October 11th) Sherman was going to Corinth on a train carrying his staff with only a few hundred regular soldiers. At the moment when he moves out of Collierville the outposts of the Sixty-sixth Indiana, which have advanced to reconnoitre the road, are dr