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Bayou Courtableau (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
der of his little army, and camped on the banks of Carrion Crow Bayou, which the road to Vermilionville crosses at an equal distance—say about fourteen miles—from these two towns. At a little distance before reaching it this road crosses another stream parallel with the first, called Bayou Bourbeux. The rearguard was formed of Burbridge's brigade, detached from the Fourth division of the Thirteenth corps; it came from the village of Barre's Landing, at the confluence of the Teche and Bayou Courtableau, and halted on the north bank of Bayou Bourbeux. On the following day the Nineteenth corps halted at Vermilionville; the Third division of the Thirteenth corps, commanded by General McGinnis, and Burbridge's brigade, did not break their camps. In spite of a few musket-shots exchanged with some Confederate skirmishers, it was not thought that the enemy were strong in the vicinity: it was an open country; rideaux of green oaks, bordering the banks of the bayous, alone broke the monot
Matagorda Island (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nd division, under the command of Colonel H. D. Washburn. This brigade, joined to that of Ransom, gives him a force of more than three thousand men, with which he will continue to take possession of the important points on the coast. The Corpus Christi and Cavallo passes are about sixty-two miles apart. The banks which extend between them form the two islands of St. Joseph and Matagorda, which are separated by a channel impassable by ships, called Cedar Bayou. At the northern end of Matagorda Island, near the small port of Saluria, is an extensive work with blinded screen—Fort Esperanza—commanding the Cavallo pass. It is armed with powerful artillery and defended by seven or eight hundred men. Its capture would completely close the ports of Indianola and Matagorda and would secure the Federals the possession of two-thirds of the Texan coast. General Washburne lands his troops on the 23d at the southern end of St. Joseph's Island, and, accompanied by only twelve wagons, underta
Dead Buffalo Lake (North Dakota, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
spite of the inferiority of their weapons, the savages resisted with courage, but the fire of the rifles, and especially of the howitzer, soon compelled them to retreat. The Federals found the Indian camp abandoned; they were, however, obliged to take one day's rest, granting thereby a precious boon to the enemy, who availed himself of it to push rapidly forward in a south-western direction. As soon as the Federals resumed their march on the 26th the Indians attacked them again near Dead Buffalo Lake at the moment when they were establishing their camp. The Indians had vainly hoped to surprise the whites and take their horses. Although vigorously repulsed, the redskins did not lose courage, and returned a third time to the charge on the 28th, near Stony Lake, this time at the moment the whites were breaking up their camp. The train incurred some dangers, and, although the enemy was scattered, to protect it it was necessary to march in battle array. The Indians by their tenacity
Kingston, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
with provisions for ten days, will resupply them at Cottonport, between Washington and Decatur. With a view to supporting this movement and employing his cavalry, Grant instructs General Elliott to quit Alexandria with two brigades, to march on Kingston, where he shall collect Byrd's brigade, and to lead these forces to Athens, where he shall meet Granger and unite with him. On his side, General Foster, the designated successor to Burnside, who has just arrived at Cumberland Gap, shall take allorks on the south, the defence of which the Union general has entrusted to Shackelford. Toward midnight the preliminary movement is executed with unanimity, and succeeds completely. Under cover of the darkness the Confederates, following the Kingston road, approach the positions occupied by the hostile sharpshooters, push them out, make seventy of them prisoners, and take possession of these positions. But the surprise, however successful it was, had the grave inconvenience of putting all t
Fort Scott (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
d him to reorganize his band. Provided with a regular commission and commanding officially a brigade of the Confederate army, he had not, any more than his men, renounced his lawless practices, as will be seen presently. This band once organized, he decided upon taking it south, finding, doubtless, that partisan life was becoming more dangerous than remunerative in Missouri, and proceeded to the Indian Territory, hoping to surprise some isolated post or some train on the road connecting Forts Scott, Gibson, and Smith. This road was much frequented since the Federals occupied the banks of the Arkansas, and Blunt, who had gone himself to Fort Scott, intended to make sure of its defence by a chain of small fortified posts. One of these posts was to be about halfway between Fort Scott and Fort Gibson, near springs called Baxter's Springs. At the end of September the point indicated, which was not yet fortified, was occupied by only one company of colored troops and a few white horse
Block Island (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
local authorities, the white troops, little accustomed to hard labor, had not been able entirely to do the work of the blacks. Two batteries—one on Vincent's Creek, an arm of the sea bounding the northern part of the island, and the other on Block Island, a hummock rising in the midst of sloughs—were to sweep the two extremities of Morris Island, and there was constructed a bridge connecting Morris Island with James Island, to enable the troops that occupied these two islands to support one anlibre, with three hundred and fifty artillerymen and as many infantry. Having perceived the hostile flotilla rather far up the stream on Lighthouse Inlet, he supposed, not without reason, that the Federals would follow a bayou running between Block Island and Morris Island, to land near an old lighthouse on a spit called Oyster Point, so as to attack in the rear the batteries placed upon the southern extremity of the island. He sent his infantry in that direction, while his artillerymen respon
Baxter Springs (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nks of the Arkansas, and Blunt, who had gone himself to Fort Scott, intended to make sure of its defence by a chain of small fortified posts. One of these posts was to be about halfway between Fort Scott and Fort Gibson, near springs called Baxter's Springs. At the end of September the point indicated, which was not yet fortified, was occupied by only one company of colored troops and a few white horsemen. Induced by the hope of surprising the colored soldiers, so odious to the men of the South, Quantrell moved toward Baxter's Springs with about six hundred horsemen, and reached in the forenoon of October 6th the vicinity of the camp of the Federals. Happily for the latter, they had the day before received serviceable reinforcements: Lieutenant Pond had arrived with a squadron of cavalry and a howitzer. The cavalry, it is true, had left in the morning, escorting a train, but some infantry had remained, and Pond, without losing an instant, had begun to intrench himself. The Federa
Tyner's Station (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the banks of the Hiawassee. Long has come back without having reached the train he was seeking, but his manoeuvre has rendered uneasy the Confederates. He establishes himself at Calhoun, in front of Charleston, on the Hiawassee, so as to protect, in concert with Elliott, the overland road and the railway from Knoxville to Chattanooga. Sherman will bring back the rest of his troops to this last town. His columns, which are following only one road along the railway, by Cleveland and Tyner's Station, reach on the 16th and 17th the battlefield of November 24th. Davis' division is immediately returned to the Fourteenth corps: Howard joins Hooker in Will's Valley; and Blair, meeting with his fourth division under Osterhaus, conducts the Fifteenth corps to Bridgeport, where Sherman has established his headquarters. Grant has resolved to scatter his armies during the bad season in order the easier to subsist them, and to form at the same time a cordon able to resist a raid by the enem
Maynardsville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
h, Graham is in motion; he crosses on the following day Clinch River, at Walker's Ford on the Rutledge road, and bivouacs a little farther on. Proceeding to the right on the morning of the 29th, he halts again for the night in the village of Maynardsville, situate some twenty-five miles from Knoxville. It was then, on the 30th, four days after his departure, that he approached Knoxville and tried to penetrate into the place. His slowness has given the enemy time to be on their guard. Martin coup-de-main failed, and Graham understood that he had to retire quicker than he had come. Immediately the Confederates sprang in pursuit of him. Happily, he succeeded in halting them all day in front of the neck through which the road from Maynardsville to Gravestown crosses Copper Ridge, and, the night having come, he rapidly fell back on Walker's Ford. But the two Confederate detachments, having united, are not long in attacking him. A sharp engagement takes place on the morning of the 2d
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
a-transportation at his disposal did not permit him to select from along the whole coast of Texas the most favorable landing-place. He decided upon Sabine Pass, which was the nearest, this little Texan town being situated on the very border of Louisiana. A large lake fed by several rivers and close to the coast empties into the sea through a channel likewise called Sabine Pass, which forms an estuary with deep water. Unfortunately, a high bar difficult to pass stretches in the form of a half circle in front of the mouth of the channel and prevents the entering of vessels of great tonnage. Yet there is no safe landing-place except in the roadstead formed by this bar, the coast of Louisiana on the east being too marshy, and that of Texas on the west presenting a straight line without shelter, upon which the breakers dash with the least wind. 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
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