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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 19. (search)
seems to me that a real or feigned attack on Columbus from up-river at the same time would either prevent this, or compensate for it by throwing Columbus into our hands. Similar questions also weember 4, the rebels had so strongly fortified Columbus on the Mississippi River that it came to be ctle of Belmont on the Missouri shore opposite Columbus. The demonstration ordered by Halleck wasby eight thousand men within a mile or two of Columbus, and sent three gunboats up the Tennessee Rivre about to throw strong reinforcements into Columbus; that seven formidable Union ironclad river gately counteracted, render both Nashville and Columbus untenable, resolved, to use his own language,rself and Buell, acting in full cooperation. Columbus will not get at Grant, but the force from Bowhe town of New Madrid as a preliminary step. Columbus and Nashville were almost sure to fall as thed from Nashville toward Chattanooga, and from Columbus toward Jackson, a swift advance by the Tennes[4 more...]