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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)
rans the co-operation which the latter had so vainly demanded up to that time. But Hurlbut at Memphis had only a few troops, and could not lead them beyond Corinth. The rest of the army, commanded by Sherman in the absence of Grant, who was ill at New Orleans, was near Vicksburg, while the despatches, carried by steamboats, reached it only very slowly. On the 18th, Sherman received Halleck's orders: time was required to prepare for their execution. Reinforcements were also requested of Schofield, who had a command in Missouri, and of Pope, who was watching the Indians on the frontier of Minnesota. Besides, orders were issued in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to collect the men at the posts and recruiting-depots, together with small detachments, and to move them upon Tennessee. All these measures will be the means, if the occasion occur, of compensating for the disaster which threatens Rosecrans, but they will not give him one additional man on the battlefield. Veri
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
ected before Vicksburg are scattered. As we have stated, the Ninth corps embarked at the beginning of August to rejoin Burnside. Halleck, while he sends the latter into East Tennessee, wishes also to finish the conquest of Louisiana. The Thirteenth corps is transported from Vicksburg to Natchez, to co-operate with Banks in the campaign of which we shall hereafter relate the disastrous issue. Hurlbut, with the Sixteenth corps, is recalled to Memphis: one of his divisions is sent to General Schofield in Missouri. Only two corps remain with Grant near Vicksburg: these are the Fifteenth and the Seventeenth, commanded by his two favorite lieutenants, Sherman and McPherson. The former while returning from Jackson halted on the banks of the Big Black River. The latter encamps within the works which Pemberton had so long defended. In this army, thus divided, every one thinks only of resting, for all have very quickly understood that great operations are suspended. The men would ha
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
t with him a few cannon, which give his band the character and importance of a small army. It was expedient to put considerable forces promptly into the field to get the upper hand of an adversary who was beginning to become formidable. General Schofield, who was commanding in Missouri, did not lose an instant. By his orders General Brown, mustering all the militia he could mobilize around Jefferson City, marched to encounter Shelby, who was already threatening the town. The Confederate, nd the fight, resumed on the morning of the 13th, ended with his defeat; he lost one gun and about a hundred men. His band, severed in two in this engagement, could not continue its depredations, and had nothing to contemplate but retreat. But Schofield was hopeful of cutting it off. On October 9th he had directed General McNeil—he who had so gallantly fought in Eastern Missouri—to start with all the forces he could bring to Lebanon and those he would gather in the vicinity, to prevent Shelby