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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 3 3 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 2 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Greer or search for Greer in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
command, did not number more than six thousand men, which, with the officers, gave this corps an effective force of about six thousand five hundred, with batteries of artillery. The forces in Texas under Magruder's command were somewhat numerous, but they included a large portion of the troops raised in each district, which were admirable for local defence, but could not be called away, as they would have refused to leave the soil of their State. Kirby Smith could recall to Louisiana only Greer's division of cavalry, about three thousand strong, which had already operated in this region and had recently been detached from it. Holmes occupied the south of Arkansas with the two corps of Price and Marmaduke, the first comprising two divisions of infantry, the second three divisions, one of which was cavalry—say, about ten thousand men. Kirby Smith's headquarters at Shreveport were well supplied and well fortified, but numerous staffs and a numerous administration gave an exaggerat