hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 134 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 39 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 27 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 18 18 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 15 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 12 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 9 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 8 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Fort Scott (Kansas, United States) or search for Fort Scott (Kansas, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
d him to reorganize his band. Provided with a regular commission and commanding officially a brigade of the Confederate army, he had not, any more than his men, renounced his lawless practices, as will be seen presently. This band once organized, he decided upon taking it south, finding, doubtless, that partisan life was becoming more dangerous than remunerative in Missouri, and proceeded to the Indian Territory, hoping to surprise some isolated post or some train on the road connecting Forts Scott, Gibson, and Smith. This road was much frequented since the Federals occupied the banks of the Arkansas, and Blunt, who had gone himself to Fort Scott, intended to make sure of its defence by a chain of small fortified posts. One of these posts was to be about halfway between Fort Scott and Fort Gibson, near springs called Baxter's Springs. At the end of September the point indicated, which was not yet fortified, was occupied by only one company of colored troops and a few white horse