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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
property of the people of the Commonwealth. He called upon the citizens to arm in their might and drive the invader from their soil. The leader of the hostile force, he said, who now approaches, is, I regret to say, a Kentuckian, making war on Kentucky and Kentuckians. He called them to rally around the flag our fathers loved, and bade them trust in God and do their duty. and where he remained for several months. At the same time, Sherman established a camp and general rendezous on Muldraugh's Hill, not far from Elizabethtown, and there laid the foundation of that notable organization afterward known as the Army of the Cumberland. On account of Anderson's feeble health, General Sherman was placed in chief command of the Department of the Cumberland (which included the States of Kentucky and Tennessee) early in October, when, with a forecast not then appreciated, he declared that an army of two hundred thousand men would be necessary to expel the Confederates from Kentucky and Tenn