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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
is side; consequently, they did not trouble themselves about protecting New Orleans, except against an enemy coming down the Mississippi. It was at Columbus, Island Number10 and Fort Pillow that they had intended to defend the capital of the Gulf of Mexico. When General Lovell succeeded Twiggs in the command of Louisiana in Octobhich, two kilometres lower down, was masked by a dense forest. It mounted seventy-five guns; but some of his best pieces had been taken from him and sent to Island Number10 by order of the Richmond authorities. It had many bomb-proof shelters; a portion of its artillery was in casemates; its garrison, which should have been two While Curtis was advancing in Arkansas, which was stripped of all resources, Pope was ordered to bring to Corinth the troops which had been operating against Island No.10. It will be remembered that this fortified island had capitulated with its garrison on the 8th of April, just as Beauregard was bringing back his army from
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
estored security to the frontier of Minnesota, cost the Federals some forty men disabled. But the march of Curtis eastward had not only exposed the Indian Territory to incursions of tribes hostile to the Federals; it was attended by much more serious consequences, of which the Confederates were not slow to avail themselves—the exposure of Missouri herself. Since the battle of Belmont this State had not been the scene of any important military operation. The evacuation of Columbus and Island No.10 on one side, and the battle of Pea Ridge on the other, no longer allowed the Confederates to maintain any regular forces there. But civil war was a spontaneous growth of the soil of this State. For many years the two parties had converted it into a political battle-field, and the entire population, extremely divided in opinion, was disposed to come to blows on all occasions, raising the antagonistic flags, not in a town or county as against another town and another county, but in the sa