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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)
contributed some reinforcements from Arkansas, consisted of the five small divisions of Stanley, Hamilton, Palmer, Paine and Plummer; a distinguished officer, General Granger, commanded its cavalry. The reserve was composed of the divisions of Wallace and McClernand, and was under command of the latter. Grant had been deprived of all effective directions by having been appointed second in command of the whole army. Whether Halleck doubted his capacity, or was desirous in the event of a reverk, making summaries of reports and signing leaves of absence for sick soldiers. On the 1st of May, three weeks after the battle of Shiloh, Halleck started at last with this large army to go in quest of Beauregard at Corinth. The day before, Wallace's division, which had been despatched in a north-westerly direction, had cut the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railway at Purdy. It had thus isolated Corinth from the peninsula comprised between the Tennessee and the Mississippi, in which the Con
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
t incapable of resisting a regular attack. At the first news of the invasion of Kentucky, a feeling of uneasiness had spread on both sides of the Ohio. General Lewis Wallace, extremely popular in that country, had hastened to Louisville with a regiment from Indiana. The important post of Lexington, the principal intersection omen at the utmost, to whom he had imparted his own ardor; but as they had only been eight days together, they had neither experience nor cohesion. The removal of Wallace deprived his soldiers of the only incentive that could have sustained them—confidence in their chief. Kirby Smith had it all his own way. All he had to do was toen aiding his soldiers to cross the river, to escape a bombardment, he found every preparation for an energetic resistance. At the news of the Richmond disaster, Wallace had been summoned to Cincinnati by the governor of the State. His first act was to close all the shops and places of business; then, calling all the citizens to