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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
were so sorely smitten at Shiloh. See page 273, volume II. The Confederates in Arkansas, under such leaders as Sterling Price, Marmaduke, Parsons, Fagan, McRae, and Walker,. were then under the control of General Holmes, who, at the middle of June, asked and received permission of General Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, to attack Prentiss. He designated Clarendon, on the White River, as the rendezvous of all the available troops under his command, and left Little Rock for that point on the 26th of June. Some of his troops were promptly at the rendezvous, while others, under Price, owing to heavy rains and floods, did not reach there until the 30th. June. This delay baffled his plans for surprise, for Prentiss had been apprised of his movement and was prepared for his reception. The post of Helena was strongly fortified, and behind the earth-works and heavy guns and the abatis in front of them, was a garrison of three thousand eight hundred men. Th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
e page 201, volume I.) had died in exile at Little Rock, Dec. 6, 1862. in Arkansas, but Sterling Pot-guns. Meanwhile Marmaduke had gone to Little Rock, and there, with the chief Conspirators andHelena to organize an expedition to capture Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas. His forces gatheing the bridges behind him, and fled toward Little Rock. Four days afterward Steele was joined by Tlties lay in the way of a direct march upon Little Rock, across the Bayou Metoe and its fringe of snorthern side of the Arkansas River, toward Little Rock, Little Rock is on the right bank of theLittle Rock is on the right bank of the Arkansas River, about three hundred miles from its mouth, and over a thousand miles, in a direct lks on the north side of the river, opposite Little Rock, the city and its military appurtenances weer to join and help Price in his defense of Little Rock. He failed to do so, but joined the fugitide of the Arkansas River, fifty miles below Little Rock, then in command of Colonel Powell Clayton,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
ing each other in the vicinity of the Rapid Anna. Looking farther southward, we observe almost absolute quiet in North Carolina. Gillmore and Dahlgren are seen besieging Charleston very quietly. Mobile is held by the Confederates, and Banks, at New Orleans, anxious to attempt its capture, is restrained by superior authority. His hold on Texas is by a feeble tenure, and the confining of Taylor westward of the Atchafalaya may be of very short duration. Steele has a considerable army at Little Rock, threatening Taylor's flank, and Rosecrans, who was succeeded by Thomas in the command of the Army of the Cumberland, is at the head of the Department of the Missouri. Between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian chain of mountains little more than guerrilla operations are seen; while near the southern extremity of that chain of hills, at and near Chattanooga, Grant lies with a strong, force, watching the army he has lately conquered, under Bragg, which is now in the vicinity of Dal
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 9: the Red River expedition. (search)
operating independently, should move directly on Shreveport from Little Rock. The Confederates in that region, according to the most reliable it was in progress. General Steele was at his Headquarters at Little Rock when that expedition moved. On the 23d of March 1864. he startter, when the escort of a supply-train, which had come down from Little Rock, and was returning empty, was attacked April 28, 1864. twelve m full six hundred. Steele now felt it necessary to retreat to Little Rock, for he was informed that Fagan was marching on that place, and ory. Then they crossed the river leisurely, and moved on toward Little Rock, leaving only a burial party behind. These the Confederates capas seven hundred killed and wounded. Steele pressed on toward Little Rock as rapidly as possible, to prevent its capture by Fagan, and sucm, and on the 2d of May the broken and dispirited troops entered Little Rock. So ended, in all its parts, the disastrous campaign against
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
had been, it was believed, made permanent. The occupation of Little Rock by General Steele in the autumn of 1863, and the seeming acquies by delegates, in a State Constitutional Convention, Jan. 8. at Little Rock, in which forty-two of the fifty-four counties in the State werever all the region below the Arkansas, after Steele retreated to Little Rock, plundering and overawing the Unionists. Nor did they confine ty of Confederate cavalry, dashed across the Arkansas eastward of Little Rock, and pushed on to the White River, on the eastern border of Arkak August 23. the line of the railway between Duvall's Bluff and Little Rock, and captured nearly the whole of the Fifty-fourth Illinois, who it at three points. Guerrillas hovered in large numbers around Little Rock and other places, making communications between the military posand at the close of 1864 only Helena, Pine, and Duvall's Bluffs, Little Rock, Van Buren, Fort Smith, and one or two other posts in that regio
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ond after the surrender, 3.562; his return to Washington, 3.563; assassinated by Booth, 3.564; his funeral, 3.570. Little Bethel, expedition against, 1.504. Little Blue Creek, battle at, 3.279. Little Osage River, battle at, 3.280. Little Rock, capture of by Gen. Steele, 3.216. Little Round Top, at Gettysburg, struggle for, 3.66. Little Washington, evacuation of by Palmer, 3.471. Loan Bill of July 9, 1861, 1.572. Loan of $250,000,000 authorized by Congress, 2.30. Logaon and compelled to return, 1.156; language of the Charleston Mercury in relation to, 1.158; correspondence between Gov. Pickens and Major Anderson in relation to, 1.159; captured off Indianola, Texas, 1.272. Steele, Gen. F., his capture.of Little Rock, 3.215; cooperative movements of in Arkansas, 3.270-3.273. Stephens, Alexander H. Union speech of at Milledgeville, 1.54; advantages of the Union to the South shown by (note), 1.57; chosen Vice-President of the Confederacy, 1.252; sketch of