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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
taken possession of by our forces on the morning of the twelfth. The expedition under command of Brevet Major-General Wilson, consisting of twelve thousand five hundred mounted men, was delayed by rains until March twenty-second, when it moved from Chickasaw, Alabama. On the first of April General Wilson encountered the enemy in force under Forrest near Ebenezer Church, drove him in confusion, captured three hundred prisoners and three guns, and destroyed the central bridge over the Cahawba river. On the second he attacked and captured the fortified city of Selma, defended by Forrest with seven thousand men and thirty-two guns, destroyed the arsenal, armory, naval foundry, machine shops, vast quantities of stores, and captured three thousand prisoners. On the fourth he captured and destroyed Tuscaloosa. On the tenth he crossed the Alabama river, and after sending information of his operations to General Canby, marched on Montgomery, which place he occupied on the fourteenth, t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 206 (search)
lytown, but pushed them rapidly across the Cahawba river to Montevallo. The rebels having felled tin, Central, Bibb, and Columbiana iron works, Cahawba rolling-mills, five collieries and much valuae Alabama with the utmost despatch, I went to Cahawba to see General Forrest, who had agreed to meend Eighteenth Indiana battery. I marched via Cahawba railroad bridge and Montevallo, reaching Rand with a view to secure a crossing over the Cahawba river that night; but the ford having been obstret and repulsed the enemy at Fike's Ferry, Cahawba river, killing and wounding some and capturing teen miles. Third April. Arrived at the Cahawba river, and laid a pontoon bridge across it, whicnked the day before by General Upton. The Cahawba river is at this point an eighth of a mile broadn o'clock A. M., distance fourteen miles from Cahawba; road was good; the country was wooded, but tspital. General Wilson met Forrest on the Cahawba river under a flag of truce. It was determined [3 more...]