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Ozark, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Neosho basin at the west. The first, beginning at the north, is that of Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge, on the road from Huntsville to Bentonville, where was fought the battle we have described elsewhere. The second is near the large village of Fayetteville, situated in the very centre of the chain; this is the most important of the three, for no less than six roads start from Fayetteville, running severally in the directions of Bentonville, Maysville and the western frontier, Cane Hill, Van Buren, Ozark and Huntsville. The third is a defile in the Boston Mountains which crosses the road from Van Buren to Cane Hill. Hindman had divided his forces; Rains, with six thousand infantry, occupied the heights and encamped in the neighborhood of Pea Ridge; Cooper, with seven thousand horse and some artillery, had advanced into the valley of Neosho as far as Newtonia, thereby menacing from the west the Unionists who were stationed at Springfield, whilst a body of four thousand men, massed on the
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Federal detachments at Tompkinsville, on the other side of the Cumberland, near the point where it emerges from the State of Kentucky. After driving them back with ease, he reached Glasgow on the evening of the 9th, where he found supplies, and the without railroads and navigable rivers extending between the Ohio and the Alleghany ridge, a portion of which forms Eastern Kentucky. We have explained how inaccessible it was to large armies for want of ways of communication. But Kirby Smith, takthe rear of Kirby Smith near Lawrenceburg. Frankfort had been occupied by Dumont's Federal division. The whole of Northern Kentucky was freed from the domination of the Confederate army. It was massed in the triangle formed by Duck River and theh the State of Tennessee, which Bragg was re-entering by way of Knoxville, sooner than by crossing the mountains of Southern Kentucky on foot. The Federals had retained possession of Nashville, but it was by abandoning to the Confederates all the
Bardstown (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on the contrary, to abandon its banks and fall back upon Bardstown. He thus left the direct road to Louisville, which was oter that city. Leaving Polk with his corps stationary at Bardstown, he bore to the right, turning his back upon Ohio, and maroken in to marching. The Union general had designated Bardstown, where Polk had left his rear-guard whilst Bragg was marcably delayed by it, and they only reached the vicinity of Bardstown on the 4th of October, the possession of which the partie Bragg had sent Polk, who had remained in the vicinity of Bardstown, an order to proceed northward to attack the flank of thf the State, without a fight. The two railway lines from Bardstown and Lebanon afforded them easy means of transportation inh Duck River takes its rise. The most direct road from Bardstown to Bryantsville passes through Macksville and HarrodsburgMcCook's corps, on the left, had encamped halfway between Bardstown and Macksville; Gilbert's, in the centre, at Springfield;
Kirksville (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
cult conjuncture those rare qualities which subsequently established his reputation as a cavalry officer. Colonel McNeil, one of Merrill's lieutenants, after chasing Porter's troops for twelve successive days, overtook them at last at Kirksville, in Adair county. Although the Confederates were three thousand strong, and McNeil had only one thousand horse, the victory rested with him. Porter's band was almost annihilated; Poindexter, who was farther west, endeavored to join him, or at least tochased him with that sanguinary ardor which animates combatants in all civil wars. McNeil himself, far from restraining them, set an example of cruelty by odious executions, the report of which even reached Europe. The day after the combat of Kirksville he allowed a Confederate officer, Colonel McCullogh, to be put to death in cold blood; a few days after, August 15th, he caused ten prisoners to be shot at Palmyra, whom he had selected as hostages to secure the liberation of one of his spies a
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
depots to the wagon-trains going west. All those situated south of Kansas had been abandoned by the Federals. Separated from each other by glry in pursuit of Coffey. General Blunt, commanding in the west of Kansas, also detailed some troops for the same object; finally, General Toces scattered through Missouri, and of those of Blunt, stationed in Kansas; Curtis had superseded him in the territorial command of Missouri, e, on the road to Newtonia, and General Blunt had just arrived from Kansas with some reinforcements. Schofield took up his line of march for six kilometres beyond Maysville. Blunt's cavalry consisted of four Kansas regiments and two regiments of Cherokee Indians, accompanied by tw which they made a vigorous resistance. But the Second regiment of Kansas cavalry, having dismounted, rushed up to the assault of this positince, no doubt, of their having been recruited among the pioneers of Kansas and Iowa, accustomed to long journeys across the plains. These sma
Paris, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
dred and fifty men. The excitement was intense among his enemies. Even the State of Ohio felt threatened by this demonstration; but Morgan was well aware that the most propitious time for retiring was when he inspired the greatest fear. He had obtained all the advantages he could possibly have anticipated; the railroad tracks were cut, he had procured nearly three hundred recruits, reconnoitred all the weak points of the enemy and thrown his camps into confusion. He rapidly fell back upon Paris, Winchester, Richmond, Crab Orchard, Somerset and Monticello, picking up arms and ammunition on his route, and releasing the prisoners he had taken on parole. Finally, on the 28th of July, he again entered the Confederate lines, after an expedition in which he had not experienced a single check of any importance. We cannot give the details of the partisan war waged in Tennessee by isolated bands fighting under the Confederate flag at times when the large armies were inactive. The small
St. Peters River (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
tive spirit of all the Indian tribes, even including those who were out of reach of the Confederate emissaries. The most powerful was the tribe of Sioux, which still possesses a vast territory in the north-west of the United States, although the inroads of the whites have wrested from it the finest hunting-grounds of which it was in peaceful possession fifty years ago. One of the military posts established for the protection of the conquests of civilization is Fort Ridgely, situated on Minnesota River, a tributary of the right bank of the Mississippi. Above the fort the Minnesota receives the waters of Red Wood River, and farther on those of Yellow Medicine Creek; on the borders of these two watercourses there are Indian agencies of the Federal government. A little below the fort there stood at that time the village of New Ulm. These establishments were a tempting prey for the Sioux, who could not see without bitterness the prosperity of those settlers who had defrauded them. On
Crossville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
t State. On the 30th of August, whilst the Federals were proceeding from Decherd and MacMinnville toward Murfreesborough and Nashville, Bragg ascended the Sequatchie as far as its sources, and going through the pass of Grassy Cove arrived at Crossville with his heads of column, where Forrest found him the next day. The detour he had thus made to the north-east had again disturbed Buell's mind, and had retarded the movement of the Union army for a day. This detour, however, had no other object which on one side afforded great facility for penetrating into the heart of Tennessee, and on the other, by extending into the eastern section of that State, enabled him to receive the supplies he needed. Bragg, having struck this turnpike at Crossville, at once proceeded westward, passed through Sparta, and, rapidly following a direction parallel to that of his adversary, had taken possession of the village of Carthage on the Cumberland, which made him master of both banks of the river. From
Maysville (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ading from the plains of White River on the east to the Neosho basin at the west. The first, beginning at the north, is that of Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge, on the road from Huntsville to Bentonville, where was fought the battle we have described elsewhere. The second is near the large village of Fayetteville, situated in the very centre of the chain; this is the most important of the three, for no less than six roads start from Fayetteville, running severally in the directions of Bentonville, Maysville and the western frontier, Cane Hill, Van Buren, Ozark and Huntsville. The third is a defile in the Boston Mountains which crosses the road from Van Buren to Cane Hill. Hindman had divided his forces; Rains, with six thousand infantry, occupied the heights and encamped in the neighborhood of Pea Ridge; Cooper, with seven thousand horse and some artillery, had advanced into the valley of Neosho as far as Newtonia, thereby menacing from the west the Unionists who were stationed at Springf
Shelbyville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ested Bragg to concentrate his army. Kirby Smith was in the neighborhood of Frankfort, and had written to his chief that a considerable portion of the enemy's army was in front of him. Hardee, on his side, felt closely pressed, and communicated the fact to headquarters. Troubled by these contradictory reports, Bragg imagined that his adversary was marching toward him on a front of one hundred kilometres, and that his columns were spaced along parallel roads from Lebanon on the right to Shelbyville on the left. Acting upon this supposition, he divided Polk's corps, took from it Withers' division, which he sent to reinforce Kirby Smith, and ordered him to go with Cheatham's division to join Hardee at Perryville. His intention was to take command of the three divisions massed in the neighborhood of this village, to fight the only corps of the enemy he expected to find there, then to bring them back to the right, so as to form a junction with Kirby Smith. The latter was to draw near
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