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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)
y the course of the Tennessee, Sherman can now hasten the step of his soldiers, and will have no other difficulties to overcome except the bad condition of the roads, the depth of the rivers, and a scarcity of provisions. Johnston has not been able to make any opposition to the crossing, for if he commands over the most extensive territory, it is, of all the Confederacy, the poorest supplied with soldiers. In the State of Mississippi he has only the two divisions of Jackson at Canton and Loring at Grenada, with Ector's and McNair's brigades placed under the orders of the latter. These forces were drawn about the 15th of October to the left bank of Big Black River by McPherson's demonstration, but they are too far away to render Sherman uneasy. Therefore, Johnston might direct against the latter only Chalmers' and S. D. Lee's mounted divisions, which are stationed, the one in Mississippi and the other in Northern Alabama. But immediately after the affair at Collierville, Hurlbut
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
s little army had been pushed westward to observe as closely as possible McPherson and Hurlbut. Loring's division, seven thousand strong, which had returned from Georgia, was occupying Canton with eiolona, compensated for this detachment. He hoped by retarding the march of the Federals to give Loring's and French's divisions time to reunite in the city of Jackson, so as to dispute with them the wn almost without striking a blow. Lee was moving northward upon Canton, where he hoped to find Loring. His retreat was so hasty that he had time only to disperse, and not enough to destroy, the boat number of its buildings. However, Sherman did not tarry there long. He had prevented French, Loring, and Lee from there uniting. The first was in front of him, the two others on his left. It washe least fatiguing. On the evening of the 13th, French's division boarded trains for Demopolis; Loring's followed it at daybreak on the 14th. Polk himself started a few hours after, leaving Lee to d