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Fort Morgan (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
, on the one hand, Farragut, with some of his best ships, remained on the Mississippi after the capture of Port Hudson; and, on the other hand, the vessels that have remained at sea under the orders of Commodore Bell will be joined to the expedition that Banks, after a luckless attempt, shall undertake against Texas: the narrative of this expedition belongs to the ensuing chapter. Hence a useless cannonade on October 12th against a blockade-runner which had taken refuge under the fire of Fort Morgan at Mobile, and the engagement of the steamer Bermuda with a party of Confederates, who captured and then lost on November 14th a Federal schooner laden with coal, are the only incidents that we can mention to terminate this chapter. Chapter 3: the far West. ALL that remains to us now to bring the year 1863 to a close is to speak of the battles that took place during the latter part of this year in the vast regions extending west of the Mississippi. We have already stated that aft
Sebastopol (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
t the same time the besiegers against the much more serious perils of the sallies. By surrounding themselves with torpedoes the Confederates condemned themselves to a passive role. It was a great mistake: the fifteen hundred men who had the means of sheltering themselves in the blindages of Fort Wagner should have retained the means of taking the offensive against the approaches of the Federals that could be guarded only by a small number of combatants: the history of all sieges, that of Sebastopol in particular, taught that to them. In fine, as fast as the besiegers approached the place the danger created by the outline of Morris Island augmented for them: their batteries had to fire above the trenches, and the shells which burst too soon hit their own soldiers. Colonel Purviance, who was in command of the trenches on the 30th of August, was thus killed by a Federal projectile, and it became necessary to displace several pieces to reassure the soldiers exposed to this new danger.
Brashear City (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
. Banks, to make up for the small number of his transports, expected to collect his army at Brashear City, and when master of Sabine Pass send there only a portion of his forces by sea, whilst the ry take possession of them, he was to advance as far as Beaumont and send back the transports to Brashear for more troops. By this means and the land-route Banks expected to collect fifteen to sevented landed at New Orleans on the 11th of September. On the following day he was on the way to Brashear City with the Nineteenth corps. The Thirteenth corps, commanded by Ord, was to follow closely, w of Franklin, and on the 26th the village of Bisland; but on this day Banks had not yet left Brashear City. Finally, General Franklin, having reached beyond New Iberia, had left the banks of Bayou Tof the fleet to unite his troops, occupying only the interior line of the Bayou Teche, near Brashear City. It was, in fact, necessary that they should be ready to embark at this point if Banks, who
Neosho (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on the road that joins Fort Scott to Fort Gibson, and again threatens to cut off the latter post; but a detachment of three hundred Federal horsemen attack him on the 15th of September in the district of the Senecas, near the confluence of the Neosho River and Buffalo Creek, and scatters his band. But the arrival of an important reinforcement was about to give the latter the opportunity of reorganizing. Colonel Shelby had collected around him on the south of the Arkansas a somewhat numerous bouped around him. But the disaster to his escort has saved the post. The assailants, badly supported, have been repulsed, and in the evening Quantrell again moves southward, leaving about eighty dead Unionists. He remains on the banks of the Neosho River, in front of which we shall soon again find him. In the mean time, Blunt has been relieved of the command of the Army of the Frontier, which he has exercised with so much vigor and success. McNeil, on reaching Fort Smith, finds the orders
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
gorously if he proceeds to Cleveland, or to push as far as Dalton if he evacuate that point. The different divisions temp Bragg has, then, been able finally to halt his army at Dalton, where he finds the provisions, the rest, and the securitynounces the retreat of the Army of the Tennessee as far as Dalton and restores to him full liberty of action. However, he d in direct communication by the railway with the depots at Dalton: it was then Longstreet's base of operations against Knoxvvered by Cleburne, who occupied Tunnel Hill, and massed at Dalton, unable for a time to give the least trouble to its adversuishing his command to Polk, immediately takes the road to Dalton. He reaches this last point on the 26th of December, and eather is painfully trying upon the troops encamped around Dalton. We have arrived at the close of the year 1863. Howevemmanded by Wharton and Kelly, remained to the northward of Dalton after the battle of Missionary Ridge. Wheeler came to res
Ooltewah (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Vaughn, who occupies Loudon, is to watch the crossings of the Tennessee, ready to fall back toward the north unless he can join Bragg by throwing himself eastward in the Alleghanies. We have seen how correct was Longstreet's calculation. On the morning of the 29th, Sherman sets his army in three columns on the road toward the Hiawassee. Howard again clears Parker's Gap; Davis and Blair cross White Oak Ridge at the two necks in the neighborhood of McDaniel's Gap and Julian's Gap, near Ooltawah. They meet in the evening at Cleveland. The next day the six divisions get in motion toward Charleston. There they will halt to recuperate before taking the road which will lead them by short marches as far as their winter quarters. Already, Howard, surprising the enemy, has not given him time completely to destroy the railway-bridge over the Hiawassee, and every one on arriving at Charleston thinks of the promised rest at the end of this last stage. But hardly has Sherman entered th
Oakland (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
onel Hatch, who guards the crossings of Wolf River. The latter, being badly informed, has just concentrated his brigade around La Grange. Forrest, marching in a contrary direction, proceeds toward Memphis. His wagons have come up with him: it is now proposed to find the weak point in the enemy's line. A Confederate officer, Colonel Logwood, who was scouting the country in search of recruits, came to designate it to him very opportunely at the moment when he had reached the village of Oakland. All the bridges across Wolf River had been destroyed save one. That of La Fayette had been preserved for communication with Prince; only a few boards from the flooring had been taken off. They were deposited upon the left bank in front of a little fort which commanded the entrance to the bridge, and were replaced when a force presented itself to cross over. Logwood, who had himself gathered this information, had ascertained the small number of the defenders of this work. Forrest resolv
Galveston Island (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nd on the right bank of the river the village, officially Mexican, but in reality American, of Bagdad., On the north of Corpus Christi pass are the passes of Aransas and Cavallo, which give access to the two deep and navigable lagoons of Aransas and Matagorda. The latter is truly an inland sea, on the margin of which are the commercial ports of Indianola and Matagorda. Farther on, the banks close to the main land are cut by the mouth of Brazos River; then they form, under the name of Galveston Island on one side and Bolivar Point on the other, the vast bay of Galveston, and finally, separated from the main land by a chain of small lakes, they continue till they end at Sabine Pass. The real coast of Texas, with its numerous indentations, is thus almost always enclosed, except at a few points, back of an insuperable wall. It is therefore easy to any one commanding the sea to occupy this wall and with a small force close its passages, the lagoons offering efficient protection to troo
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
have spoken above. They therefore shut themselves up within the place. But with their retreat the most difficult part of the siege was going to commence. The cannon on Fort Wagner, which no bombardment had yet been able to dismantle, having no longer that curtain of sharpshooters before them, could thenceforth concentrate their fire on the narrow space in which the besiegers were obliged to proceed: torpedoes had been scattered there in plenty. These torpedoes were either shells, as at Yorktown, or boxes filled with powder, intended primarily to float in the passes: they were buried and provided with a very sensitive percussion apparatus. Placed after the assault of July 18th, they presented a formidable obstacle to any fresh attempts of this character, and increased the dangers of the sap. But the discovery of these engines, which cost the lives of several men, reassured at the same time the besiegers against the much more serious perils of the sallies. By surrounding themselv
Pine Bluff (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on of Fort Hindman the lower part, near its confluence with White River. These points were connected together; an important post was established at the town of Pine Bluff, situated about forty-three miles in a straight line below Little Rock. The Federal vessels could ascend the Arkansas up to this point, then White River as fard to abandon to them. For all the period that elapsed up to the end of the year we have to mention but one single attack, made by Marmaduke against the post of Pine Bluff. This general stationed his division at some distance east of Arkadelphia, and in the latter part of October proceeded by a rapid march toward Pine Bluff; hopiPine Bluff; hoping to surprise Colonel Clayton, who was in garrison there with the Fifth Kansas. But the latter had been reinforced by the First Indiana cavalry, which had its force increased to six hundred combatants and kept on its guard; bales of cotton piled up barricaded the streets of the village; the courthouse was turned into a redoubt h
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