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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Resume of military operations in Missouri and Arkansas, 1864-65. (search)
s cavalry. The capture of Fort Smith by General Blunt, and of Little Rock by General Steele, earnd on the 6th of October had killed some 80 of Blunt's escort at Baxter Springs, Kansas, most of whr of 1863-64 the forces of Generals Steele and Blunt held the Arkansas River as a Federal line of a, at his own request, relieved, and Major-General James G. Blunt was placed in command. As soon as erson City and was moving westward, Curtis and Blunt took the field in person to direct the operations of their forces in defense of the border. Blunt took the available force of the volunteers and opposing forces, and lasted until night, when Blunt, having ascertained the strength of the enemy,he Independence and Lexington road crossed it, Blunt's forces, under Colonel Thomas Moonlight, wereross the State line into Missouri. Curtis and Blunt determined to hold Price's army east of the Biursuit was. continued by Curtis's forces under Blunt, and by Rosecrans's cavalry under Sanborn and [1 more...]