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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)
e armies in the West to concentrate against him. Therefore, before putting his own army in motion Rosecrans waits until Pemberton's capitulation has become inevitable. One cannot blame Rosecrans for his prudence, for it has much contributed to causafter them, had already effected a junction at La Fayette. Hardee, who had been called to Demopolis to take command of Pemberton's soldiers liberated on parole, had for his successor Lieutenant-general D. H. Hill, whom we have seen figuring first if around Chattanooga. But might not this place become the grave of Rosecrans' army, as Vicksburg had been the grave of Pemberton's? The Tennessee River and the chain of the Cumberland Mountains—those great obstacles which had retarded the march of ally, the situation in which Rosecrans is placed resembles that of Pemberton. Beaten as Pemberton was, Rosecrans, like Pemberton, allows himself to be pent up within a narrow place. He abandons Lookout Mountain, which covers Chattanooga, as the op
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
rmy, to which, as we have said, Halleck sent pressing orders some days before the battle of Chickamauga. We left this army, in Volume III., about the middle of July. The Mississippi is open, Johnston has been forced into the interior, while Pemberton's troops, prisoners on parole, have followed his track in sadness. The victory of the Federals is so complete that they no longer have an adversary confronting them. The troops collected from all parts to ensure this victory are available. Athat had always fought together were separated; the esprit de corps which animated them, which local patriotism stimulated in the brigades belonging to the same State, was destroyed. The arrival of two brigades and many detachments composed of Pemberton's old soldiers exerted an influence no less unfortunate. Those who had been vanquished at Vicksburg could not have the same confidence in success as the victors of Chickamauga. This army, weakened in every way, was then so well chained with
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)
k advantage of the night to force the passage, and arrived on the 9th opposite Yazoo City, which was found defenceless. Two days after Coates re-embarked his troops to continue ascending the Yazoo, and without impediment reached the village of Greenwood, where he disembarked his cavalry. Fort Pemberton, situated in the neighborhood, was destroyed; there could be seen here and there on the river the hulls of the few vessels which the Federals had abandoned the year before, and of some which thin an open fight. He would then be obliged to shut himself up in Shreveport or to evacuate this place and withdraw into Texas. In the first case, his army would have been reduced to immobility, soon invested, and condemned to the same fate as Pemberton's. In the second case, it would have been powerless and unable to seriously annoy the enemy, as the soldiers from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, who composed three-fourths of his effective force, would have left the service rather than cros