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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 28: (search)
hundred and fifty miles from the Memphis and Charleston road, along which the points of importance are Chattanooga, Stevenson, Huntsville, Decatur, Tuscumbia, and Corinth; the last-named place being at the junction with the road leading into Mississippi and Alabama, by way of Meridian and Selma. The Tennessee river runs west from Chattanooga, and south of the railroad, nearly to Corinth; but at Eastport it turns to the north, and passing by Pittsburg landing, Johnsonville, Fort Henry, and Paducah, empties at last into the Ohio. Between Nashville and the Memphis and Charleston road the only two important streams are the Duck and the Elk, both of which flow into the Tennessee. The Harpeth, north of the Duck, received a military importance during the campaign. This whole region, lying west of the Alleghanies, forms part of the Valley of the Mississippi. The country is undulating or level, and one of the most fertile districts in America. Its grain and grass are famous, and the
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
epartment, i., 10; appoints Grant to district of Southeast Missouri, 11; empowers Grant to take Paducah, 12; instructs Grant to make demonstrations on both sides of Mississippi, 14; superseded by Halrness campaign, II., 197, 326; comparative statement of 328. National troops, numbers of, at Paducah, i., 12; at Belmont, 15; at Fort Henry, 28; at Fort Donelson 36, 43, 56; at Shiloh, 77; under Htle of Champion's hill, i., 262; assault on Vicksburg, 320; battle of Lookout mountain, 499. Paducah, seizure of? i., 11. Palmer, General I., movement against Weldon railroad, III., 226; movem; joins Thomas's army, 211; at battle of Nashville, 251. Smith, General C. F., in command at Paducah, i., 12, 13; demonstration in West Kentucky, 14; second demonstration, 25; fort Donelson, 39-545, delays in action embarrassing to Grant, 391, 393. Tilghman, General Lloyd, retreats from Paducah, i., 12, capture of, at Fort: Henry, 30; death at Champion's hill, 271. Tom's brook, battle