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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)
s removed it from the frontiers of Missouri and the Indian Territory, and has thereby given a little more confidence to the Confederate partisans, who avail themselves of this absence to renew their raids. Colonel Coffee reappears on the road that joins Fort Scott to Fort Gibson, and again threatens to cut off the latter post; but a detachment of three hundred Federal horsemen attack him on the 15th of September in the district of the Senecas, near the confluence of the Neosho River and Buffalo Creek, and scatters his band. But the arrival of an important reinforcement was about to give the latter the opportunity of reorganizing. Colonel Shelby had collected around him on the south of the Arkansas a somewhat numerous band in order to be able to cross the line of posts placed en échelon by Blunt on this river. He attacks that of Moffat's Store, east of Fort Smith, on September 27th, and, concealing his movement under the feint of a retreat, he, on the contrary, rushes northward in