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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Van Dorn's operations between Columbia and Nashville in 1863. (search)
nd I can no doubt give you with tolerable accuracy the main features of the transactions to which you refer. General Van Dorn arrived at Columbia early in February, 1863, and shortly thereafter (perhaps in March) took up his headquarters at Spring Hill, protecting the left of General Bragg's army, and operating against the Federal line of communication so effectively as to confine the enemy closely to their fortified positions at Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Triune and other points. Vexen could be made by them to cross, they retired immediately, seeming to fear that their absence from Franklin might tempt so daring and expeditious an opponent as Van Dorn to precede them to that point. Van Dorn at once resumed his position at Spring Hill, and his assassination followed very quickly. My recollection is that during the few months of his brilliant career in Tennessee he captured more men than he had in his own command. I may not be entirely accurate in all I have said, but subs
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
ng from this, he was constantly engaged in the battles and skirmishes around Spring Hill and Thompson station; and on the 24th of March, 1863, with his own command cddy, who was threatened with a heavy force at Tuscumbia. Starting from Spring Hill, Tennessee, and moving with his extraordinary celerity, he crossed the Tennessee r cavalry acting as a part of an army of mixed forces. Schofield halted at Spring Hill. There were two movements, however, that deserve especial notice. When Htowards Nashville, and then turned on the infantry and held them in check at Spring Hill until Hood's infantry came up. The head of the column reached Spring Hill soSpring Hill some time before night and our army went into camp, while the enemy marched along by them and, as General French expressed it, lit their pipes by our camp fires. Thisd been in command of our army, General Schofield would never have marched by Spring Hill, and the disastrous battle of Franklin, where the gallant Cleburne and so ma