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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
nation formed for the purpose of surrounding them had failed; Rosecrans' position was extremely critical, and the Fulton road, which he had not been able to seize, remained under the control of Price. The latter hastened to turn this advantage to account to evacuate Iuka, for he knew that Ord would attack him in his turn the next morning. This general had waited in vain the whole day for the sound of Rosecrans' cannon, to move forward. But the wind was blowing from the north; and like G. W. Smith at Fair Oaks and D. H. Hill at Malvern, he did not hear this uncertain signal, which the generals of both parties too frequently relied upon, and only engaged one battery, which was soon silenced. He was only informed of the bloody battle that had been fought so near him, in the middle of the night; and when he entered Iuka, he only met the advance of Rosecrans, which was just arriving from the opposite direction. Under cover of the darkness Price had succeeded in conveying the whole of
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), chapter 9 (search)
t Seven Pines was almost immediately followed by that of G. W. Smith on the left, directed against Fair Oaks by the general-ihe attack of Longstreet against Casey only preceded that of Smith by one hour or one hour and a half; and the second attack h 2d. Couch's division was engaged before the attack of G. W. Smith, his advance having taken position in front of Seven Pinhat, about half-past 4 o'clock, Johnston, at the head of G. W. Smith's troops, swept down upon Abercrombie's brigade, the thi enables us to fix the hour of six o'clock as the time when Smith, the conqueror of the right wing of that division, met Sumncontinued for more than three hours before Johnston ordered Smith to take part in it; second, that the latter at halfpast fou may conclude, therefore, that if the offensive movement of Smith had not been delayed during those three hours, the positionner not having yet crossed the Chickahominy at that moment, Smith, instead of being obliged to give him battle, would have co