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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
and's arrival. Just as his troops were about to embark he felt the necessity of doing something to revive their courage; by agreement with Porter, he determined to lead them to the assault of a fort situated on the Arkansas, whose garrison of four or five thousand men offered an easy prey, but one by no means to be despised. This plan was approved by McClernand, who, it appears, had conceived a similar one. Sherman did not lose a minute's time in carrying it into execution, and on the 4th of January the fleet left Milliken's Bend with the greater portion of the army, and ascended the Mississippi to enter the Arkansas. The first hill that is encountered in ascending the Arkansas lies on the left bank of the river, eighty kilometres above the point of confluence. The river which cuts into this hill, forming it into a bluff, turns from its direct course after washing its foot, and thus commands the two branches of this elbow, both above and below. The first Europeans who visited t