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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
on the banks of that river before going to seek another battlefield in Pennsylvania. We shall then return to the operations of which the Mississippi was the theatre during the first six months of 1863. These operations, which were initiated by the Federals in the midst of extraordinary difficulties and terminated by the capitulation of Vicksburg, are so well linked together that we should be loath to interrupt their recital. This will occupy a part of this volume. It was on the 26th of January that General Hooker assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. The President of the republic had not entrusted him with this command without some anxiety. The manner in which he had criticised his superior officers caused Mr. Lincoln to fear that he might not be able to secure that passive obedience from his new subordinates which is so essential to success, and of which he had himself failed to set an example. General Halleck, whom he had never spared, was secretly hostile to him.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
the Mississippi in the States of Missouri and Arkansas. In the preceding volume we left the Federal army under Blunt, after the victory of Prairie Grove, masters of the north-western part of the latter State, occupying a strong position among the Ozark Mountains, covering Missouri, into which State the Confederates dare no longer venture, and pushing reconnoissances as far as the borders of Arkansas. The Union general continues to menace his adversary in this direction, and on the 26th of January one of his detachments of infantry, scarcely numbering one hundred men, arrives suddenly at Van Buren, and succeeds in taking possession of a steamer with three hundred Confederate soldiers on board. Hindman, on his part, has fallen back upon Little Rock, where the largest portion of his army is concentrated. The forces he brings back from his unlucky campaign against Blunt only represent one-third of this army. Thanks to the venturesome disposition of Arkansas planters, accustomed t