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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
occupied Paducah. A few days afterward General Zollicoffer advanced with four Confederate regiment the 17th of October, Garrard reported that Zollicoffer was advancing in force, and asked for reinf the 33d Indiana, in time to help in giving Zollicoffer, who had attacked vigorously with two regimeep to himself. The notion that Buckner or Zollicoffer contemplated an advance, which so frequentlgon train, sent on a foraging expedition by Zollicoffer, was on a road about six miles from the camght on the 18th in the following order: General Zollicoffer's brigade, consisting of two cavalry coally beyond his left. Before Fry's arrival Zollicoffer had deployed his brigade, and had forced Woballs. It was soon ascertained that it was Zollicoffer himself who had fallen. In the mean time, s battery and Kenny's remaining Brig.-Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, C. S. A. From a photograph. gunsppi (Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Walthall), of Zollicoffer's brigade, which had led the attack on Fry [6 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
four thousand ill-armed and ill-equipped troops at Cumberland Gap under General Zollicoffer, guarding the only line of railroad communication between Virginia and Tefense, requiring, as it did, constant vigilance and repression. besides Zollicoffer's force, General Johnston found only 4000 men available to protect his [whol Secretary of War, on Christmas day, from Bowling Green: the position of General Zollicoffer on the Cumberland holds in check the meditated invasion and hoped — for revolt in East Tennessee; but I can neither order Zollicoffer to join me here nor withdraw any more force from Columbus without imperiling our communications toward enter was directed against Bowling Green, and his left was advancing against Zollicoffer at Mill Springs, on the upper Cumberland. If this last-named position couldthe campaign opened with the defeat of the Confederates under Crittenden and Zollicoffer, January 19th, 1862, by General Thomas, at Mill Springs, or Fishing Creek.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
ssippi Valley States, urged me to consent to be transferred from the Army of the Potomac to the command of the Confederate forces at Columbus, Kentucky, within the Department of Kentucky and Tennessee, under the superior command of General Albert Sidney Johnston,--a transfer which he said Mr. Davis would not direct unless it was agreeable to me, but which was generally desired at Richmond because of the recent crushing disaster at Mill Springs, in eastern Kentucky: the defeat and death of Zollicoffer. Against the monitions of some of my friends at Richmond, and after much hesitation and disinclination to sever my relations with such an army as that of the Potomac, but upon the assurance that General Johnston's command embraced an aggregate of at least seventy thousand men of all arms, which, though widely scattered, might, by virtue of the possession of the interior lines, be concentrated and operated offensively, I gave Colonel Pryor authority to inform Mr. Davis of my readiness to