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New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
of his appointment, he left his private affairs abroad in the hands of others, and hastened home. He arrived at Boston on the 27th of June, 1861. bringing with him an assortment of arms for his Government, and on the 6th of July he was appointed to the important command in the West just mentioned. The Western Department was created on the 6th of July, and comprised the State of Illinois, and the States and Territories west of the Mississippi and east of the Rocky Mountains, including New Mexico. Headquarters at St. Louis. He remained a short time in New York,. where he made arrangements for over twenty thousand stand of arms, with munitions of war, to be sent to his Department. On hearing of the disaster at Bull's Ruln, he left for the West, and arrived at St. Louis on the 26th of July, where Colonel Harding, Lyon's Adjutant-General, was in command. Fremont had already issued orders for General John Pope to proceed from Alton, in Illinois, with troops to suppress the, armed Se
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
enty-five miles distant, in the direction of St. Louis, safely conducting a Government train, five Rolla, a point of railway communication with St. Louis, on the 19th of August, where Camp good hopeains, including New Mexico. Headquarters at St. Louis. He remained a short time in New York,. wherionists. Fremont made his Headquarters in St. Louis at the house of the late Colonel Brant, an e some yet in the Fremont's Headquarters in St. Louis. service were in a state of mutiny on that s for new recruits, who were now coming into St. Louis in considerable numbers, and were compelled he applied to the National Sub-Treasurer at St. Louis for a supply. That officer had three hundreand defensive action. He strongly fortified St. Louis against external and internal foes, and prepquadron was in charge of Captain B. Able. at St. Louis, on the night of the 30th of July, he left ts, August 5th, 1861. Fremont returned to St. Louis on the 4th of August, having accomplished th[10 more...]
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
e 13th, July, 1861. who took the chief command. It was a fortunate movement for Sigel; for within twelve hours after the battle, Jackson was re-enforced by Generals Price and Ben McCulloch, who came with several thousand Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas troops. General Lyon had left Booneville in pursuit of the fugitive Confederates on the 3d of July, with a little army numbering about twenty-seven hundred men, with four pieces of artillery and a long baggage-train. The day was intensely hotfusion the Confederates rushed forward, killed the artillery horses, and, turning the flanks of the infantry, caused them to fly in the wildest disorder. They rushed into bushes and by-roads, incessantly attacked by large numbers of Arkansas and Texas cavalry. The entire battery was captured; and, in the course of a few minutes, of his twelve hundred men, Sigel had only about three hundred left. He saved these and one of his cannon, Captain Flagg fastened ropes to this gun, and made some
Rolla, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
h's more southern men, in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth. We also left Colonel Franz Sigel in the vicinity of Rolla, pushing with eager Missouri loyalists toward the Confederate camps, on the borders of Kansas and Arkansas. See page 5l, the entire Union force left Springfield the next morning, August 11. at three o'clock, and in good order retreated to Rolla, one hundred and twenty-five miles distant, in the direction of St. Louis, safely conducting a Government train, five milport, only said of the Nationals, They have met with a signal repulse. It was not even that. The Union forces reached Rolla, a point of railway communication with St. Louis, on the 19th of August, where Camp good hope was established. The southf Occupation in that State extended, for the present, from Leavenworth, in Kansas, by way of the posts of Jefferson City, Rolla, and Ironton, to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River. He declared that all persons within those lines taken with arm
Cape Girardeau (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ops, and, with Thompson, was preparing to seize Cape Girardeau, Bird's Point, and Cairo, and overrun Southern t might be safely made to march on Commerce and Cape Girardeau. Having a good deal of work before us, he said,low, evidently anxious to win renown by seizing Cape Girardeau, and with that victory to gain possession of BiThompson had set their hearts on the seizure of Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point, whilst Hardee was aiming at asafe bridges; also, that he intended to move on Cape Girardeau by the river road. Polk, was annoyed, and wrotission to advance, as I am sure that I can take Cape Girardeau without firing a gun, by marching these moonlig who desired, as a preliminary movement against Cape Girardeau, to seize the post .at Ironton, the then termin, was captured by National troops sent out from Cape Girardeau; and everywhere the loyalists were successful iposts of Jefferson City, Rolla, and Ironton, to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River. He declared that all
Boonville (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
s martial law throughout Missouri secessionists rigorously treated Fremont's Emancipation proclamation, 64. the proclamation modified by the President relations of the Government to slavery, 65. We left General Lyon in possession of Booneville, Missouri, See page 542, volume I. from which he had driven the Confederates under Price and Jackson, on the 18th of June. 1861. These leaders, as we have observed, were satisfied that the northern part of the State was lost to the cause of Seceommand. It was a fortunate movement for Sigel; for within twelve hours after the battle, Jackson was re-enforced by Generals Price and Ben McCulloch, who came with several thousand Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas troops. General Lyon had left Booneville in pursuit of the fugitive Confederates on the 3d of July, with a little army numbering about twenty-seven hundred men, with four pieces of artillery and a long baggage-train. The day was intensely hot. The commander was mounted on an iron-gra
Missouri (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
defense. The latter, under Colonel Moore, formed a camp at Athens. The Secessionists also organized; and on the 5th of August, nearly fifteen hundred of them, led by Martin Green, and furnished with three pieces of cannon, fell upon Moore's force, of about four hundred in number, in the village of Athens, where the assailants were repulsed and utterly routed. The Unionists now flocked to Moore's victorious standard; and these being aided by General Pope, the Secessionists north of the Missouri River were soon made to behave very circumspectly. In the mean time, the loyal civil authorities of Missouri were making efforts to keep the State from the vortex of secession. The popular Convention, which had taken a stand in favor of the Union, as we have observed, See page 462, volume I. reassembled at Jefferson City on the 22d of July, and proceeded to reorganize civil government for the State, which had been broken up by the flight of the Executive and other officers, and the disp
Jackson County (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
men, in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth. We also left Colonel Franz Sigel in the vicinity of Rolla, pushing with eager Missouri loyalists toward the Confederate camps, on the borders of Kansas and Arkansas. See page 543, volume I. Colonel Sigel arrived at Springfield on the 23d of June, where he was informed that the Confederates, under Governor Jackson, were making their way from the Osage River in a southwesterly direction. He pushed on to Sarcoxie, a post-village in Jackson County, where he arrived toward the evening of the 28th, and learned that General Price, with about nine hundred troops, was encamped at Pool's Prairie, a few miles north of Neosho, the capital of Newton County, and that other State troops, under Jackson and Rains, were making their way in the same direction. It. was important to prevent their junction. Sigel resolved to march first on Price, and capture or disperse his force, and then, turning northward, attack the other troops, and so open
Pollard (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
loss of the insurgents, according to their own account, was from thirty to forty killed, and from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty wounded. Pollard's First Year of the War, page 133. It is believed that the entire loss of the Confederates was at least 800 men. They also lost forty-five men made prisoners, eigtinction but for the defense of the liberties of his country. He was willing to surrender his command and his life, if necessary, as a sacrifice to the cause. Pollard's First Year of the War, page 185. On taking chief command, General McCulloch issued an order, August 7. directing all unarmed men to remain in camp, and allere indifferently armed with flint-lock muskets, rifles, and shot-guns; and there were many mounted men not armed at all. They had fifteen pieces of artillery. Pollard's First Year of the War, page 136. General Price reported the number of Missouri State troops at five thousand two hundred and twenty-one. The entire number of C
Greenville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
thousand troops at his command, alarmed by rumors of an immense National force on his front, sent a dispatch August 5, 1861. to Hardee, then supposed to be at Greenville, urging the necessity for a junction of their forces, before an attempt might be safely made to march on Commerce and Cape Girardeau. Having a good deal of workederate authorities, and he never obeyed the commands of General Polk with alacrity. Thompson was under the command of Governor Jackson; and Hardee, who was at Greenville, some distance in the interior of Missouri, early in August was operating with independence, in a measure, of both Pillow and Polk. Pillow and Thompson had setw to break up his base there, send his heavy cannon to Randolph and Fort Pillow, and, marching by the way of Pleasanton, join his forces with those of Hardee at Greenville. This was also distasteful to the Tennessee commander. He reported that he had tried the path and had been compelled to fall back to New Madrid on account of
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