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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
Butler, who had remained at Annapolis Junction, determined, with the forces at his disposal, to reinstate the Federal authority in that city, and on the 5th of May he took possession of the Relay House, another important railway junction, which was only a few leagues distant from the first. On the 9th, Colonel Patterson joined him with some Pennsylvania volunteers, after passing rapidly through Baltimore, that city being too much astonished at such a daring act to oppose his course. On the 14th, Butler made a feint to the westward, and, while General Scott was preparing the plan of a regular campaign for the purpose of capturing the rebel city, he suddenly, after a night's march, took possession of the heights surrounding it without a fight. Baltimore was at his mercy; on the same day he entered the city with his troops, reopened the direct line of railway which traversed it, and compelled the leaders of the secession party, who had held control of it during four weeks, to submit.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
te of pretentious appearances. These generals had committed a great error in shutting up an army of fifteen thousand men inside of works where they could be surrounded, but they committed a still more grievous blunder when they resolved, on the 14th, to open a passage for themselves through Grant's lines by main force. Such a hopeless attempt should have been made before the arrival of the fleet and the Federal reinforcements. The investment was not then complete; the other bank of the rive soon as Pillow had opened a passage, Buckner was to follow him, after evacuating the fort and bringing along with him as much materiel as possible, and then he was to form the rear-guard to cover the march of the army towards Nashville. On the 14th, at the moment when this plan was to be carried out, after the fight on the river, an unaccountable caprice prompted Pillow to defer that movement till the following day. This was a wilful sacrifice of the few good chances which yet remained to th