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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
osition for a batttery. The garrison was composed of the Eighty-third Illinois, two sections of artillery, and a squadron of cavalry—about seven hundred able-bodied men and four field—pieces — under the command of Colonel Harding. On the 3d of February, after a march of more than forty miles, which the rain and cold have rendered extremely painful, the Confederate cavalry makes its appearance before Dover. Forrest, who is following the line of the Cumberland, having destroyed some importan likewise disappeared. The last of them, after retiring to Bloomfield, among the impenetrable swamps lining the right bank of the Mississippi, was dislodged from this village on the 27th of January, and then dispersed by a bold stroke on the 3d of February in the vicinity of one of those marshes, called Mingo Swamp. It was only at the end of April that Hindman felt at last the necessity of taking advantage of the mild season to harass his adversaries, who passed their time in trying to amuse h<