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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
ross the ravine and creek, at the mouth of which, as we shall hereafter observe, the gun-boats Tyler and Lexington lay on Sunday night, April 6th and 7th. The river had been made brim full by recent rains at the time of the author's visit. without opposition, and held it in quiet until the night of the 20th, March. when a scouting party, composed of detachments of the Fourth Illinois and Fifth Ohio cavalry, three hundred and fifty strong, and nearly one hundred infantry, all under Lieutenant-Colonel Heath, went out in the direction of the railway, near Iuka. These encountered, and, in a skirmish in Black Jack Forest, dispersed, six hundred Confederate horsemen, on their way to surprise and attack Hurlbut's encampment. This skirmish was maintained by the advanced company of Illinois cavalry, under Captain George Dodge. These had come from Beauregard's army at Corinth. While the movement up the Tennessee was going on, General Buell's army was slowly making preparations to march
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
had been suddenly converted into gun-boats, and the river above and below the pontoon bridge was patroled by a large number of them. The work for protection, so promptly commenced and vigorously carried forward, was scarcely completed when General Heath, with full fifteen thousand of Smith's invading troops (whose ranks had been swelled by volunteers from among the Kentucky secessionists), appeared. He was astounded and alarmed by the preparations to receive him, and retreated in haste Sephe rebel forces under Kirby Smith from desecrating the free soil of our noble State. Foiled in his attempt against Cincinnati, Smith turned his face toward Louisville. He took possession of Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, on the day when Heath fled from before Wallace's lines. Sept. 12. There he organized a city government, and issued a proclamation, telling the inhabitants that they must join his standard or be considered his enemies. Here he awaited an opportunity to join his force