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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 662 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 310 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 188 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 174 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 II. 152 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 148 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. 142 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 130 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
er made a deep impression because of their family and official connections. The Confederate authorities at Richmond were exasperated, and sought an opportunity for retaliation in kind. It was offered a few months later, when a young man from Northern New York, named Spencer Kellogg Brown, only twenty-one years of age, was brought to Richmond from the Mississippi. He had been in the naval service under Commodore Porter, as a common sailor, and had charge of a gun on the Essew when the ram Arkansas (see page 529, volume II.) was destroyed. He was sent in an armed boat to burn a Confederate ferry-boat near Port Hudson. He had accomplished the work, and was returning alone to his boat, along the shore, when he was seized by three guerrillas. He was taken to Jackson, and then to Castle Thunder, in Richmond, charged with being caught as a spy within the Confederate lines. He was subjected to a mock trial, under the direction of the notorious Winder, and on the 25th of September, 1863,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
valry of Curtis's army took possession of it; See page 525, volume II. and in the summer of 1863 the post was in command of General B. M. Prentiss, whose troops were so sorely smitten at Shiloh. See page 273, volume II. The Confederates in Arkansas, under such leaders as Sterling Price, Marmaduke, Parsons, Fagan, McRae, and Walker,. were then under the control of General Holmes, who, at the middle of June, asked and received permission of General Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississd Hill; Fagan, with four regiments of infantry, to assail another on Hindman's Hill; and Marmaduke, with seventeen hundred and fifty men, to storm a work on Righton's Hill. Price was accompanied by Harris Flanagan, the Confederate Governor of Arkansas, as volunteer aid-de-camp. His troops, under cover of artillery firing, moved up gallantly to the attack, in the face of a heavy storm of bullets, and grape and canister shot, captured some of the guns, and turned them upon the Nationals. But
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)
n, mostly mounted, burst suddenly out of Northern Arkansas, and fell upon Springfield, in Missouri,wiftly southward that night, and escaped into Arkansas. With a part of his force he took post at Bahe chief Conspirators and military leaders in Arkansas, he planned a raid into Missouri, having for the St. Francis River, and hurried on toward Arkansas, burning the bridges behind him. McNeil was n Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee country west of Arkansas, was menaced by about three thousand Confedero warrant an attack, so he crossed the river (Arkansas), and seized cattle grazing there, belonging ourians, swept down from Pilot Knob into Northern Arkansas, and at Pocahontas, on the Big Black Rivdition to capture Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas. His forces gathered there at the beginning n. McNeil joined in the chase, which led into Arkansas, the Confederates flying through Huntsville, was now general quiet throughout Missouri and Arkansas. One or two guerrilla bands showed some vital[9 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
l governments in States in which rebellion existed, by which the people might be restored to all the political privileges guaranteed by the National Constitution; at the same time pointing to the fact that the vital action necessary to consummate the reorganization by the admission of representatives of those States to seats in Congress, rested exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. The President proclaimed that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such States at the Presidential election of the year of our Lord 1860 each having taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall re-establish a Sta
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 9: the Red River expedition. (search)
m General Sherman's command, in such a manner as to expel the enemy from Northern Louisiana and Arkansas; (4.) Such preparation and concert of action among the different corps engaged as to prevent thbeen justified in going no farther, for he had ascertained that the Confederates from Texas and Arkansas, under Taylor, Price, Green, and others, were gathering on his front, to the number of about twral Polignac, a French officer, on Green's right; next to him General Walker, and a division of Arkansas and Missouri troops, under General Churchill, on the extreme right. driving in the National skimphis, stopping on his way up the Mississippi at Sunnyside, in the extreme southeastern part of Arkansas, to seek a reported force of Confederates, under Marmaduke, who had gathered there with mischie18. a forage train, little more than a dozen miles from the Union Operations in Missouri and Arkansas. lines, by which Steele lost two hundred and fifty men and four guns. This was followed by an
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)
advance of the Army of the Potomac. Arkansas overrun by the Confederates, 274. decline ofkansas River, by which two-thirds of the State of Arkansas was given up to the Confederates, had a sympathy with the slave-holding Oligarchy of Arkansas made the army under his command a feeble insts at Richmond. The condition of affairs in Arkansas was favorable to a long-contemplated scheme oyes, and the movements of the Confederates in Arkansas were under the vigilant scrutiny of General What General Shelby was at Batesville, in Northern Arkansas, waiting for Price to join him, when theuis. General Mower had followed Price out of Arkansas, and struck the Mississippi at Cape Girardeaumportance of cutting off Price's retreat into Arkansas, ordered Pleasanton (by telegraph) to move di. He fled rapidly southward, and passed into Arkansas, not, however, without receiving some parting. Price again fled, and made his way into Western Arkansas, followed by Curtis, who found Nov. 14.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
wing commanders were appointed: First District, Virginia, General J. M. Schofield; Second District, North and South Carolina, General D. E. Sickles; Third District, Georgia, Florida and, Alabama, General J. Pope; Fourth District, Mississippi and Arkansas, General E. O. C. Ord; Fifth District, Louisiana and Texas, General P. H. Sheridan. The Thirty-Ninth Congress closed its last session on the 3d of March, and the Fortieth Congress began its first session immediately thereafter. In view of tion of National Senators and Representatives, complied with the prescriptions of Congress, they took their places. as resuscitated members of the Union. These were North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Although the country for a considerable time was agitated by the throes of civil war, peace, quiet and unexampled prosperity abound. The Republic has entered upon a new and more glorious era. In its dealings with its domestic enemies, the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ox Court-House, Lee's surrender at, 3.558. Arkansas, a majority of the people of averse to secessin, 3.270-3.273; cavalry fights in, 3.274. Arkansas Post, battle of, 2.581. Arkansas, ram, escArkansas, ram, escape of to Vicksburg, 2.528; destruction of, 2.529. Arlington Heights, City of Washington commande at, 3.460; the burning of, 3.461. Columbia, Ark., defeat of Marmaduke near, by Gen. A. J. Smith,3.52. Curtis, Gen. S. R., operations of in Arkansas, 2.250-2.260; his march from Batesville to thinfluence of in Europe, 1.565. Fayetteville, Ark., repulse of Confederates at by Col. Harrison, 3efenses of Charleston, 3.200-3.211. Glasgow, Ark., capture of by Price, 3.279. Glendale, battlaws, 1.475; at the head of an Indian force in Arkansas, 2.251; at Pea Ridge, 2.255. Piketon, Ky.,ttle Rock, 3.215; cooperative movements of in Arkansas, 3.270-3.273. Stephens, Alexander H. Unione, 1.273; in command of Confederate troops in Arkansas, 2.251; driven over the Duck River by Sherida[5 more...]