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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
instance, been again directed to send five thousand men fully equipped for the defence of the capital, which had already a garrison of seventy thousand men; he protested, but was obliged to send two Illinois regiments to the army of Kentucky. He had, however, fifty-five thousand men left, out of which he could easily have disposed of a sufficient force to keep Price in check. The garrisons which occupied Cairo, Paducah, and the two points adjacent to Bird's Point, in Missouri, and Fort Holt, in Kentucky, did not number less than twenty thousand men. The strength and disposition of Fremont's army, including the home-guards, were as follows: At St. Louis6,899 men. Under Pope5,488 men At Lexington2,400 men At Jefferson City9,677 men At Rolla4,700 men At Benton3,059 men At Cape Girardeau650 men At Bird's Point and Norfolk3,510 men At Cairo4,826 men At Fort Holt3,595 men At Paducah7,791 men Under Lane2,200 men At Monroe and near Cairo900 men —— Total55,695 men Af