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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
go with Price in search of Lyon, who was at Springfield and not hard to find. General N. B. Pearceof the Missouri line, and almost as near to Springfield as were Price and McCulloch, and who had wiountry lying to the south and south-east of Springfield, and were a unique body of soldiers. Very mies, nearly 11,000 strong, advanced toward Springfield. On the way they encountered Lyon, who had before, and must now be almost in sight of Springfield. The Confederates kept on, and on the 6th troops. The next day he took possession of Springfield, and sent Rains with a mounted force to clearmy was at once begun and was continued at Springfield, whither Price moved his army just before Cmen; ordered McIntosh to report to Price at Springfield with McCulloch's infantry; ordered McCullocat Price would have 15,000 effective men at Springfield by the last of March, and himself 18,000 atter by news that Price had been driven from Springfield on the 12th of February, and was hotly purs[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
Price, with an estimated force of 25,000, upon Lyon, at Springfield. Their movement was intended to overrun Missouri, and, nd of their term, unpaid, and unwilling to reenlist. At Springfield General Lyon had about 6000 men, unpaid and badly fed, ait. I had no time to lose. The situation of Lyon at Springfield was critical, and the small disintegrating garrison at Csas regiment near Leavenworth, to the support of Lyon at Springfield. Amidst incessant and conflicting demands, my immediate which was existing when General Lyon left Boonville for Springfield on the 5th of July. To any other officer in his actual e assigned positions, their lines of march converging to Springfield; and in the beginning of October I moved against Price. irst contact now with the enemy was at Fredericktown and Springfield,--the former one of the most admirably conducted engagemul against the enemy. At the end of October I was in Springfield with 21,000 effective men. Price had terminated his retr
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. (search)
ral Nathaniel Lyon, was encamped in and near the town of Springfield, and numbered approximately 6200 men, of whom about 500 ase, without supplies, and he determined to fall back to Springfield, which place he reached on the 5th. During those blisteThe troops were put in march in the evening; those about Springfield immediately under General Lyon moving out to the west onces was the body to be removed till the army returned to Springfield, after which the aide returned to the front to report toorces and exhausted ammunition, persisted in a return to Springfield. The infantry and artillery, as soon as Totten's disablthrough the troops placed in rear, took up the march for Springfield. On reaching the Little York road, a body of horsemen wo recover the general's body, and the army moved on into Springfield, arriving about 5 P . . Lieutenant Canfield proceeded to to St. Louis in January, 1861.-editors. On reaching Springfield, Sturgis found that Sigel had arrived there half an hour
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
on's Creek, ten miles south of Springfield, in south-west Missouri. It consisted of a Louisiana r 5000 and 6000 strong, occupied the town of Springfield, and General McCulloch was expecting them tcreek, with his command mostly north of the Springfield road. I had established my headquarters onarliest demonstration from the direction of Springfield. General Price had also been industriouslymanding the left column of the advance from Springfield, came upon our right and rear, first attackor the day, as his retreat was continued to Springfield. As a precaution, however, not knowing how field, the enemy slowly withdrawing toward Springfield. This hour decided the contest and won for army stores. Next day the enemy evacuated Springfield, and Price, with his Missouri troops, occuphere. The body of the army remained at Springfield until the beginning of General Price's marc important one to take. General Price left Springfield on the 25th of August, dispersed Lane's for[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The flanking column at Wilson's Creek. (search)
nder the command of Lieutenants Schaefer and Schuetzenbach, was encamped on the south side of Springfield, near the Yokermill road. On our right was encamped the 1st Iowa Infantry, a regiment clad iyetteville road, then, turning to the right (north-west), made its way toward Little York and Springfield; on its way the latter column was joined by Lieutenant Farrand's cavalry company. Colonel Salfter considering that,by following the left wing toward Little York, we might be cut off from Springfield and not be able to join General Lyon's forces, we followed the Fayetteville road until we reached a road leading north-east toward Springfield. This road we followed. Captain Carr, with his cavalry, was leading; he was instructed to remain in advance, keep his flankers out, and report whate of Sturgis, who with Lyon's troops was retreating from the battle-field, and who arrived at Springfield, as he says, at 5 o'clock. The circumstance of my arrival at the time stated gave rise to the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
ri, the opportunity of taking possession of Springfield, the largest city and central point of soutmmanded a division, was now concentrated at Springfield, and was about to follow and attack — the f troops, and the occupation of the city of Springfield for the second time by the enemy, who were , at McPherson's Creek, about 12 miles from Springfield, on the 12th, where a light engagement withy's troops occurred, and took possession of Springfield on the 13th. Price's army, of Missourians,d was on its way to Cassville. On entering Springfield we found it pitifully changed,--the beautifayetteville, Arkansas, by Elkhorn Tavern to Springfield, and as an approach of the enemy was expecte Army of the South-west took possession of Springfield, he wrote to Price from his headquarters atled him to move with thirty thousand men to Springfield and Rolla, and, by at least threatening St.er to the north-east, and after gaining the Springfield road, he shifted the whole of Price's force[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
to make a treaty, and in the conference expressed himself as wishing to occupy, if possible, a neutral position during the war. A majority of the Cherokees, nearly all of whom were full-bloods, were known as Pin Indians, and were opposed to the South. Commissioner Pike went away to make treaties with the less civilized Indian tribes of the plains, and in the mean time the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought, General Lyon killed, and the Union army defeated and forced to fall back from Springfield to Rolla. Chief Ross now thought that the South would probably succeed in establishing her independence, and expressed a willingness to enter into a treaty with the Confederate authorities. On his return from the West in September, 1861, Commissioner Pike, at the request of Mr. Ross, went to Park Hill and made a treaty with the Cherokees. The treaties made with each tribe provided that the troops it raised should be used for home protection, and should not be taken out of the Indian