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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
ave understood these tactics. Fort Pillow, situated a few miles below Fulton, after having been abandoned by its garrison, which had been summoned to Vicksburg, received a new one about the 15th of February. Major Bradford established himself there with about two hundred and fifty men, forming the Thirteenth Tennessee cavalry; he was, while occupying this post, to recruit his regiment among the inhabitants of the vicinity. The post of Hickman was entrusted to about fifty soldiers only, Island No.10 to a hundred and sixty, and Columbus to Colonel Lawrence with six hundred men. The most important of all these, by its position as well as by the depots of materiel which it contained, Paducah, a small town situated at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio, had seen its defenders, whom Colonel Hicks commanded, reduced to a less number than seven hundred, of which about one-third were negroes. Out of this number there were not one hundred who had once been under fire. Besides, a s