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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
ty-three or sixty-four thousand men. His three army corps, brought under a uniform formation, comprised each three divisions, Buckner and Walker having been placed under the orders of Cheatham and Longstreet. In a council of war, held on the 3d of November, Longstreet had energetically protested, it seems, against the part which had been assigned to him with insufficient forces. He would have wished that the entire army should retire behind the Chickamauga, first to cover the operations in Easruction of the railway. If Sherman had continued his march on Decatur, the Southern cavalry would have greatly impeded his progress in that direction. But a second dash by Chalmers on Collierville could not have the same result, for on the 3d of November, when he presented himself for the second time in front of this post, the break in the railway could no longer affect the Fifteenth corps, which was already beyond the Tennessee River. Besides, Chalmers failed utterly. The Seventh Illinois,
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
prairie. Hence, Franklin did not hesitate to divide his divisions on a line of nearly forty-five miles from Bayou Bourbeux to New Iberia. The self-reliance of the Federals was such that, Burbridge's brigade not having yet left its camp on November 3d, that day was determined upon by the paymaster arrived from New Orleans to pay several regiments, and also to allow the voting of the Twenty-third Wisconsin, whose soldiers were to take part in their State election. But the enemy, who had nn. The remainder of his troops returned to Missouri, where his presence was required to keep down the partisans whose boldness had been revived by Shelby's daring raid. One of their chiefs, Colonel Love, had already signalized himself on the 3d of November by capturing a small post near Waynesville, when the return of some Federal soldiers happened to interrupt his plans and compelled his band to disperse. Quantrell, on his part, had availed himself of the respite that Shelby's pursuit had a