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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
derals in the south-east were also seriously threatened. Confederate bands of partisans, gathered and organized by Jefferson Thompson, showed themselves sometimes in the vicinity of Pilot Knob, trying to cut the railway, and sometimes in the neighboe right bank of the Mississippi. Taking New Madrid as the base of their operations, they could have joined hands with J. Thompson in attacking either Cape Girardeau or Pilot Knob, or even Rolla. The small army of Sturgis had arrived in that city self. All their movements only ended in a mere skirmish, which took place on the 19th near Charleston, where a few of J. Thompson's troops were surprised and put to flight by a detachment of Federal cavalry sent from Cape Girardeau. McCulloch, on The Confederates, on their side, were trying to worry their opponents by threatening the Pilot Knob line of railway. J. Thompson, who had never left the south-eastern part of the State, gathered all his troops for the purpose of attacking the thr
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
art of March. He had immediately descended the Mississippi as far as Island No.10, the cannon of which informed him that the enemy was at work. While Sherman was embarking for Columbus, the troops which had been fighting for some time in Eastern Missouri, after being consolidated into one division of three strong brigades, under command of General Pope, landed on the 28th of February at Commerce, on the right bank of the Mississippi. On the 2d of March they dispersed the small force of J. Thompson, capturing six guns, and on the following day they appeared before New Madrid; they found that village surrounded by considerable works, occupied by a numerous garrison, and supplied with a powerful artillery. On the Confederate side, the defence of the Mississippi had been entrusted to Beauregard. Taking advantage of the inactivity which the rigors of the season imposed upon McClellan, he had left Manassas with about fifteen thousand men; but he only reached Columbus to learn of the