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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
o direct the great operations about to commence with an enemy provided with iron-clad vessels and arms so new as rifled ordnance. Therefore, since the battle of April 7th he had sought to offset the weakness of the garrison by completing batteries which formed the second and third lines of defence—a necessary precaution, because provision had to be made for the loss of the first line. According to his own testimony, these two inner lines were not, at the date of April 7th, in a condition to resist the attacks of the monitors if they had succeeded in passing beyond Fort Sumter after having silenced its fire. It was no longer the same at the end of June. Tose works: the naval authorities had always said that Sumter's fire alone prevented the monitors from carrying away the obstacles which had stopped them on the 7th of April. Gillmore believed that the Confederates had not yet transported the armament of Fort Sumter into the forts and the batteries of the second line. On this las
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
front of Vicksburg. But the general service of the army was badly organized, and there was, especially on the part of the soldiers and officers, a lack of confidence in the capacity of the chief of the expedition. This condition of things was calculated to aggravate considerably the difficulties of the campaign in a country where the scarcity of water imposed very long marches on the army. General Lee, after having bivouacked at Crump's Corner, reached Pleasant Hill on the morning of April 7th. Taylor had directed Green, under whose command all the cavalry had been united into three brigades, to watch and defend, inch by inch, the road from this point to Mansfield. This cavalry was eminently suited for the kind of warfare in which it was called upon to engage. The soldiers, little disciplined, but accustomed to live at haphazard, far from the towns, far from the depots and trains, penetrated everywhere, and assembled at the voice of their officers to go foraging, dismounted t