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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)
determined to give him, under the designation of the Military Division of the Mississippi, the command of all the armies operating between the great river and the Alleghanies. On the 3d of October, Halleck called him to Cairo: despite the precautions he had taken, Grant received the despatch only on the 10th, when he immediately even if it were successful, were smaller than the positive risks which it entailed. For the defeat, and even the capture, of the Army of the Ohio, isolated in the Alleghanies, was a misfortune which the Federals could repair, because it would not cause them to lose any of their most important conquests, whereas the absence of Longs Cumberland River allowed the Federal steamers to replenish them rapidly. The war was then receding more and more from the Mississippi and concentrating near the Alleghanies. Sherman left upon the banks of the great river only such forces as were strictly necessary to ensure its free navigation, and Grant selected Nashville as th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
IN crossing the Chattooga Mountain, Bragg abandons for ever the basin of the Mississippi, in which his valiant army has been fighting for the past two years and a half. Grant contents himself with holding the entrance to the great gap in the Alleghanies, and thinks only of delivering Burnside, who is besieged. While Granger proceeds to his assistance, the other corps hold themselves in readiness to support him and prevent Bragg from taking, in his turn, the Knoxville road. It is, then, ne is recalled from Rogersville with all the troops of which he can dispose. Vaughn, who occupies Loudon, is to watch the crossings of the Tennessee, ready to fall back toward the north unless he can join Bragg by throwing himself eastward in the Alleghanies. We have seen how correct was Longstreet's calculation. On the morning of the 29th, Sherman sets his army in three columns on the road toward the Hiawassee. Howard again clears Parker's Gap; Davis and Blair cross White Oak Ridge at the
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)
y battles, disease, desertion—how greatly its morale was shaken by defeat. He could not detach a part of it without abandoning the great gap which. opens in the Alleghanies, and the entrance of which he proposed to defend against the victors of Missionary Ridge. He explained this situation to the President; he represented to himth has thus been lost by this going to and fro. During this time the severity of the weather renders the least operation impossible in the upper valleys of the Alleghanies. The Confederates have experienced it. General Vance, having endeavored to penetrate from North Carolina into the Tennessee Valley at the head of a small forhad been fruitful in every respect. Chapter 2: Mansfield. WE have just related the exploits of which the country comprised between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies was the scene during the earlier months of the year 1864, previous to the opening of the decisive campaign which Sherman is about to undertake in Georgia. To