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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)
had been seeking a crossing higher up, near Benton; but having, it appears, run short of forage, he had turned aside, in spite of the instructions of his chief, for the purpose of seeking it in the neighborhood of Arkadelphia. He had thus missed the opportunity of holding Steele in check on the banks of the Sabine until Kirby Smith had been able to come up with all his army. The latter marched more slowly than the Federals. On the evening of the 29th it was écheloned between Princeton and Tulip, and did not appear till the afternoon of the 30th on the hills which command the wide valley of the Sabine, after a march begun at one o'clock in the morning and rendered very laborious by the rain. Steele was still in the valley, for it had become needful to give his soldiers rest and to construct at both ends of the bridge of boats thrown across the river a corduroy road nearly five miles long. But this undertaking was finished on the 30th, and a part of the army, with all its equipme