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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
on the 15th of September in the district of the Senecas, near the confluence of the Neosho River and Buffalo Creek, and scatters his band. But the arrival of an important reinforcement was about to give the latter the opportunity of reorganizing. Colonel Shelby had collected around him on the south of the Arkansas a somewhat numerous band in order to be able to cross the line of posts placed en échelon by Blunt on this river. He attacks that of Moffat's Store, east of Fort Smith, on September 27th, and, concealing his movement under the feint of a retreat, he, on the contrary, rushes northward into the part of the State of Arkansas east of the Ozark Mountains, which the Federals have not visited for a long time. Continuing thence his march, he reaches Missouri, summons to him Coffee and another guerilla chief called Hunter, and at the head of a band which he increases from day to day he penetrates into the rich districts situated north of the Osage River. He has brought with him