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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
is region are always well filled, and Hindman has nearly fiftyfive thousand soldiers under his command. His army, more powerful than that of Bragg or that of Pemberton, seems lost in the immense section of country which it is ordered to occupy-we will not say defend, for the very extent of this country protects it against all attacks on the part of the small Federal bodies stationed at the two extremities of the State, at Cane Hill and Helena. As we have stated, Johnston, since the end of November, has requested in vain that the largest portion of Hindman's forces might be sent to Vicksburg. The campaign of Prairie Grove has shown that they could not serve the Confederate cause usefully in those distant regions. But Johnston's advice was not heeded: it was feared, perhaps, that the soldiers of the Far West might be disinclined to go beyond the Mississippi to fight, and in the beginning of January we find Hindman's army assembled on the borders of Arkansas. Unable seriously to re