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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
s, and the news that the Federal expedition had been abandoned allowed Johnston to remove troops from Mobile. He was preparing to return to Bragg most of the troops which the latter had sent him at the end of May: these troops were, on the one hand, Liddell's, Ector's, and Gist's brigades, besides Walthall's, all placed under the orders of General Walker, and on the other hand Breckinridge's division. Walker started for Chattanooga in pursuance of a despatch from Bragg, received on the 22d of August, announcing the shelling of that city. Walker's arrival a few days thereafter brought, according to the reckoning of the general-in-chief, the number of effective combatants in his army to a little more than thirty-five thousand soldiers—say nearly thirty-nine thousand men, all told. His four divisions of cavalry being composed each of about fifteen hundred sabres, he therefore had under his command some forty-five thousand men, leaving out the seven brigades—say about ten thousand me
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
umeration of the expeditions undertaken inland will be brief. From the 24th-30th of June several vessels, ascending the Pamunkey River, supported Keyes' demonstration against Richmond, of which we have spoken in the preceding volume. On the 22d of August a dash skilfully executed by Lieutenant Cushing—whose gallantry we have again occasion to mention—ensured the destruction of a hostile schooner, the Alexander Cooper, at New Topsail Inlet, near Wilmington. Cushing, causing a yawl to be carriof the State, thanks to a happy coup-de-main executed by the Unionists a few days after the Lawrence massacre. Two regiments of the Missouri cavalry, one mustered in the Federal service, the other in the local militia, left Greenville on the 22d of August, and by a quick march reached, on the 24th, the village of Pocahontas in Northern Arkansas. The Federals surprised and captured, with a part of his staff, the Southern general Jeff. Thompson, who was just preparing a new expedition, but thou