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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
will be enabled to cross Wolf River and the railway near Memphis; that is to say, far to the westward of the point where the Federals await him. In the morning of the 25th, while Bell causes the wagons, the drove of live-stock, and the recruits to pass over on a ferryboat, the only one found at Estenaula, Forrest divides his forces into two columns to attack the village of Sommerville, to which Prince had retired during the night. Richardson, whose force increases at every step, sleeps at Whiteville, so as to come up with the Federals the next morning by the Bolivar road. Forrest will follow the direct Estenaula road to fall on their left flank when the battle has commenced. This plan is faithfully carried out. Prince, although not expecting the attack on that side, quickly places himself on the defensive: his men, being sheltered, easily hold Richardson. But the sight of the latter's recruits without arms, who have deployed at a distance, begins to trouble them, and a charge by Fo