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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)
e arc, the flank of which was constantly exposed to the enemy. This line might possibly have been protected by occupying the flank of the Tennessee in force, at Eastport for instance, where it begins to follow the course of the river; the navigation of the Tennessee, the only way by which the Federals could reach the railroad, wolest details, as well as on the most important occasions, to cut the Chattanooga Railroad east of Corinth. Ascending the Tennessee with the gun-boats as far as Eastport, Sherman proceeded thence in the direction of the railroad and destroyed the Big Bear Creek bridge east of Iuka. The Confederates thus lost, never to recover ithe assembling of the enemy's forces at Corinth to penetrate as far as possible into the vast region watered by the Tennessee, from its source to the vicinity of Eastport, which the Confederates, at that time, had left entirely unprotected. Mitchell was to continue the destruction of the track of the Memphis and Charleston Railro
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
ippi being fortunately reserved to Grant, the ranking officer of the two. The possession of this territory secured the control of the two large rivers as far as Eastport on one side, and Memphis on the other; it was open to attacks from the south between these two towns. It was, therefore, the line from Eastport to Memphis that Eastport to Memphis that Grant had to protect; this line was too extended for the small number of troops he had under his command, and the railroad, which directly connected the two water-courses from Memphis to Florence, was too much exposed to sudden surprises to be of any service to him; but the disposition of the other railway lines running through hians extended as far as the Tennessee through Iuka; it was scattered in small posts, so as to cover the branch of the Corinth and Iuka Railroad, and the road from Eastport to the Tennessee, these being the lines through which Rosecrans had hitherto obtained his supplies. The drought, however, was so great in the month of August th