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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
without having to fight any more battles but a trifling engagement at Salem, on the Arkansas frontier, where, on the 18th of March, his cavalry obtained some advantage over a party of Confederates. This new campaign, although more bloody, terminaten, and to wait for a new order from the President to embark the remainder; to begin the movement not later than the 18th of March, and finally to make an effort, with the co-operation of the navy, to put an end to that blockade of the Potomac whicix a specified date for an operation which did not depend alone upon General McClellan, as he could not embark on the 18th of March unless the War and Navy Departments should furnish him in time with transports, the chartering and equipment of whiched by his chief, who did not much relish the defensive role allotted to him in McClellan's programme, Shields, on the 18th of March, pushed forward in the track of Jackson as far as beyond Strasburg, pressing close upon his rearguard. But he could