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March 12th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
rrott guns. He formed rifle-pits for a thousand men, and planted his cannon in sunken batteries below them. This was done with perfect success in the face of cannonading from the Confederate gun-boats. This position commanded the passage of the river in the rear of Island Number10, and prevented supplies being furnished to that post across the peninsula formed by Reel Foot Lake and Madrid Bend. Pope's four siege-guns (three 32-pounders and an 8-inch mortar) arrived at near sunset, March 12, 1862. and at dawn the next morning (thirty-five hours after they left Bird's Point, on the Cairo and Fulton Railway) they were in position, within half a mile of Fort Thompson. These guns were carried twenty miles by railway, and dragged on trucks (such as is delineated in the engraving) twenty miles farther, over a miry road most of the way. On that work and Hollins's flotilla he at once opened a vigorous cannonade and bombardment. March 13. They replied with equal vigor, but in the cour
February 18th (search for this): chapter 10
lion in Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky, the National troops, under Samuel R. Curtis. Generals Curtis, Sigel, and others, were carrying the standard of the Republic, in triumph into Arkansas,, in the grand movement down the Mississippi Valley toward the Gulf. We have observed how Price was expelled from Missouri and driven into Arkansas. He was closely followed by the National forces under the chief command of General Samuel R. Curtis, of Iowa, who crossed the line on the 18th of February, his troops cheering with delight as they saw the old flag waving in triumph over the soil of another of the so-called Confederate States. On the same day, General Halleck sent a thrill of joy to every loyal heart, by telegraphing to General McClellan, The flag of the Union is floating in Arkansas . . . The army of the Southwest is doing its duty nobly. Curtis pushed on, notwithstanding his effective fighting force was continually diminishing, by the planting of guards along his ext
February 16th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
and to Chattanooga. Every vehicle was brought into requisition, and hack-hire was raised to twenty-five dollars an hour. This fearful panic was increased when a portion of the troops, flying from Bowling Green, came rushing into the city across the railway and the Suspension bridges, and a rumor spread over the town that the victors at Fort Donelson were making their way rapidly up the Cumberland. The rumor was true. On the evening of the day after the surrender of Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. Commodore Foote sent the St. Louis up the Cumberland to the Tennessee Iron Works, six or seven miles above Dover. These belonged, in part, to John Bell, the candidate of the Constitutional Union party for President, in 1860, See page 30, volume I. who, as we have observed, had early espoused the cause of the conspirators. See page 374, volume I. There appeared to be sufficient evidence of these works having been employed in the interest of the rebellion to warrant their destructi
March, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
fire to the military buildings of the post, and, accompanied by Polk and his staff, followed the retiring columns, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 2d. March, 1862. Report of Major-General Leonidas Polk to Colonel Thomas Jordan, March 18th, 1862. In five days, said Polk, in his report, we removed the accumulation of sixwere in motion for offensive action, and animated by a full expectation of gaining a victory whenever they should meet the Nationals. The morning of the 5th March, 1862. (when Van Dorn moved) was blustery, and snow covered the ground. Curtis was unsuspicious of the movements of his enemy until two o'clock in the afternoon, wheRidge, an elevated table-land broken by ravines, and inclosed in a large bend of Sugar Creek. Van Dorn completed his flank movement on the night of the 6th, March 1862. and proceeded to attack the Nationals early the following morning. He left a small force to make a feint on their front, while Pike, with his Indian followers
February 20th (search for this): chapter 10
neral McClellan, The flag of the Union is floating in Arkansas . . . The army of the Southwest is doing its duty nobly. Curtis pushed on, notwithstanding his effective fighting force was continually diminishing, by the planting of guards along his extended line of communication with his sources of supply and re-enforcements. He captured here and there squads of Missouri recruits for Price's army; fought the halting Confederates at the strong positions of Sugar Creek, Here, on the 20th of February, some of Curtis's cavalry, under Colonel Ellis, and Majors McConnell, Wright, and Bolivar, made a desperate charge on a brigade of Louisianians, under Colonel Hubert. Two regiments of infantry, under Colonels Phelps and Heron, and Captain Hayden, with his Dubuque Battery, followed in support of the National cavalry. There was a sharp but short fight, and the Confederates were dispersed. The loss of the Nationals was nineteen, killed and wounded. the Cross Hollows, and other places in
February 27th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
er of the State. The Confederates fled so hastily from Cross Hollows that they left behind them their sick and wounded, and stores that they could not take away. They burned their extensive barracks there, left poisoned provisions in the pathway of their flight, They left poisoned provisions at a place called Mud Town, of which forty-two of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Missouri cavalry partook. Several of them died, and all suffered much.--Halleck's dispatch to McClellan, Feb. 27, 1862. and, setting fire to Confederate stores and buildings at Fayetteville when they left it, went over the range of hills known as the Boston Mountains, in much confusion. This march of the Nationals was one of the most extraordinary of the war. The little army had moved at the rate of twenty miles a day, often fighting, and enduring great privations from inclement weather and insufficient food. General Price, meanwhile, had been joined by Ben McCulloch, with Texas, Louisiana, and Arkan
March 18th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
ern and the Mobile and Ohio Railways; the former leading directly to Hickman, on the Mississippi River. under General Cheatham. The removal of special articles of value to Jackson, Tennessee, had been accomplished at that time. Then the cavalry set fire to the military buildings of the post, and, accompanied by Polk and his staff, followed the retiring columns, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 2d. March, 1862. Report of Major-General Leonidas Polk to Colonel Thomas Jordan, March 18th, 1862. In five days, said Polk, in his report, we removed the accumulation of six months, taking with us all our commissary and quartermaster stores — an amount sufficient to supply my whole command for eight months; all our powder and other ammunition and ordnance stores (excepting a few shot, and gun-carriages), and every heavy gun in the fort. Two 82-pounders in a remote outwork were the only valuable guns left. These, with some smaller ones, were spiked. The whole number of pieces of a
Earl Van Dorn (search for this): chapter 10
strike a heavy blow. Suddenly came the Earl Van Dorn. startling intelligence that Price and Mcal Curtis's body-guard. The advent of General Van Dorn in the Confederate camp was a cause for ge your loving wives and beautiful daughters. Van Dorn had sent forth a characteristic address to thdred wagons, placed in a perilous position by Van Dorn's sudden and unexpected advance; but, as we sd inclosed in a large bend of Sugar Creek. Van Dorn completed his flank movement on the night of us flight. His ample preparations to receive Van Dorn in his front were now useless, and he was comhe whole four divisions so posted as to fight Van Dorn with vigor. Curtis and his troops were in harge against these allies of the insurgents, Van Dorn did not deny it, but sought to break its forcmoned to action. In his official report, General Van Dorn does not mention that any assistance was disappeared from the scene of this conflict. Van Dorn collected his scattered forces on the road be[17 more...]
April 8th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
that purpose Pope directed Stanley and Hamilton, who had come down by land, to cross their divisions. He pushed his troops on toward Tiptonville as fast as they were landed. They met and drove back the Confederates, who were attempting to fly toward Union City. These were joined at Tiptonville that night by many fugitives from Island Number10. The wildest confusion prevailed among them. They were driven to the swamps by Pope's advancing forces, and, at four o'clock in the morning, April 8, 1862. hemmed in on all sides, and finding it impossible to escape, they surrendered unconditionally, laid down their arms, and received each his parole. At almost the same hour, Commodore Foote received a flag of truce from Island Number10, with an offer to surrender the island to him. Up to that time, the Confederates on the island had been ignorant of the disaster that Walke and Pope had inflicted upon their friends below, and those who had fled in that direction expected to find shelter
April 9th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 10
ges were sent down from Cairo for use in the work; and, after nineteen days of the most fatiguing labor, a canal twelve miles long, one-half the distance through a growth of heavy timber, Through this timber a way, at an average of fifty feet in width, was cut by sawing off trees, in some places four feet under water. was completed; April 4, 1862. a wonderful monument to the engineering skill and indomitable perseverance of the Americans. Report of General Pope to General Halleck, April 9, 1862. Statement of General Hamilton to the author, June 7, 1868. In the mean time Foote had not been idle, as Beauregard's electrograph attested. The upper (Rucker's Battery) or number one of the seven forts on Constructing the Canal. in this picture the accompanying gun-barges are seen to the right and left of the steamer. the Kentucky shore had received his special attention, and on the night of the 1st of April an expedition to take it by storm was set in motion under the command o
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