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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
g, a part of Cabell's command, under Colonel Shelby, undertook a raid into Missouri, in quest of supplies. They crossed the Arkansas River a little eastward of Fort Smith, and swept rapidly northward into Southwestern Missouri, where, at a place called Crooked Prairie, they were joined October 1, 1863. by a considerable force under Colonel Coffey, when Shelby, the ranking officer, found himself at the head of about twenty-five hundred men. They marched rapidly through Western Missouri to Boonville, See page 540, volume I. on the Missouri River, expecting to be joined in large numbers and gladly assisted by the disloyal inhabitants of that region. But they were disappointed. Under the menace of the lash of the loyal militia of the commonwealth, the resident rebels were very quiet, and Shelby beat a hasty retreat, but not in time to avoid a severe blow from a militia force hastily gathered by General E. B. Brown. By these Shelby was severely struck on the evening of the 12th of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
in the space of a few days, the invader sent his trains westward, and followed with his whole army, leaving the capital untouched by his guns. General Pleasanton arrived at Jefferson City on the day after Price left it, assumed chief command, and sent General Sandborn with his cavalry in pursuit of the fugitive, with instructions to delay his march, so that General Smith might overtake him. Sandborn struck his rear-guard at Versailles, and ascertained that Price was marching directly on Booneville. Shelby's cavalry quickly enveloped Sandborn, who made a timely retreat, and, falling back a short distance to California, was overtaken there by Smith's cavalry, under Colonel Catherwood, with needed supplies. In the mean time re-enforcements from the Nationals were coming from St. Louis. General Mower had followed Price out of Arkansas, and struck the Mississippi at Cape Girardeau, after a fatiguing march of three hundred miles in the space of eighteen days. His army was so worn, man
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ns in, 1.180; seizure of forts in by Confederates, 1.181; secession convention of, 1.182. Lovell, Gen., Mansfield, intrusted by the Confederates with the defense of New Orleans, 2.329; compelled to abandon the city, 2.343. Lynchburg, Gen. Hunter's advance to and retreat from, 3.315. Lyon, Gen. N., compels the surrender of Frost and his camp of State troops, 1.468; relieves Gen. Harney in command of the Department of the West, 1.470; operations of in Missouri, 1.540; his march from Booneville toward Springfield, 2.44; death of, 2.53. M. Mccauley, Commodore Charles S., indecision of when in command of Gosport Navy-Yard, 1.394. McClellan, Gen. George B., appointed to command the Ohio State troops, 1.454; assigned to the Department of the Ohio, 1.493; operations of in Western Virginia, 1.530-1.537; placed in command of the Departments of Washington and Northeastern Virginia, 2.23; reorganizes the army, 2.24; his extraordinary popularity, 2.129; inaction of unsatisfactory