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Davis Ford (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the 3d at Loudon, whence he will likewise repair to Morgantown. But having ascertained the existence of a ford called Davis' Ford nearly eight miles below that town, on the road to Unitia, he obtains permission to try the crossing. He will thus spmeans of some boats at Hurst Ferry and picks up four abandoned guns, the One Hundred and Forty-third New York occupies Davis' Ford: the river at this place is two hundred and seventeen yards wide, the bottom hard, of uniform depth. The wagons, pushank of the Holston. Sherman has experienced greater difficulties at Morgantown. The river has the same width as at Davis' Ford, but the bed of the ford, much cut up, presents various depths, which render impossible the crossing of the infantry ay the enemy. His columns took up the line of march in the morning of the 7th. Howard crossed the Little Tennessee at Davis' Ford, where he found the foot-bridge which he had constructed, and arrived at Athens on the 9th. He sent a brigade to Char
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
and he counts upon collecting them around him to form a division and take it to Johnston. The plan of his expedition is promptly arranged with the latter and S. D. Lee. Three brigades of Confederate cavalry guard the northern part of the State of Mississippi; they are posted en échelon on the left bank of the Tallahatchie, from New Albany as far as Panola. On the other hand, the Federals strongly occupy the line of railway from Memphis to Corinth, which it is proposed to force. Grierson, the guarding the railways to Sherman's troops, and to move rapidly toward the north-west, via Prospect on the Elk River, to head off Forrest if he should cross the Tennessee River. The time has come for the latter quickly to return to the State of Mississippi. He has collected nearly four thousand men, well mounted, but badly armed and little inured to war: his forty wagons of provisions, his droves of beeves and swine, are going to impede his progress. It is with inexperienced recruits and w
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ile works. The circumstances were particularly favorable to the operations that Gillmore and Dahlgren were going to undertake. When DuPont attacked Charleston in the month of April, Beauregard, who commanded the forces on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, had more than thirty thousand men under his orders: the garrison at Charleston was upward of eleven thousand. But to create Johnston's army in Mississippi and reinforce Lee's to attempt to save Vicksburg and invade Pennsylvania, it had been necessary to weaken a portion of the coast garrisons, and, on July 10, Beauregard's total forces were reduced to 15,318 men, of whom there were 5206 infantry, 5794 artillery, and 4316 cavalry; the latter could not be of help to him. The garrison at Charleston had dwindled to 2462 infantry, 2839 artillery, and 560 cavalry—say, adding the officers, about six thousand men. It is true that it could be promptly reinforced by two or three thousand from the garrison at Savannah. It
Marysville (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
r a while by an accident which happened to the bridge, some of the trusses of which were ill secured for lack of bolts; but before the close of day Granger and Davis will form a third column that will halt between the Fifteenth corps, posted at Marysville, and the Eleventh, camped at Louisville. Therefore, the whole army has cleared the icy waters of the Little Tennessee. No obstacle separates it any longer from Knoxville, the bridges over the Holston being in friendly hands. But the delay fiollowing day as far as the edge of the Little River, so as to be able promptly to join Burnside while the remainder of the army was resting. The Eleventh corps passed the day on the 6th at Louisville; the Fifteenth corps and Davis' division at Marysville. On the 7th, Sherman returns to take command of these forces: their task is accomplished, they will not go so far as Knoxville, but return by short marches on the road to Chattanooga. We shall leave them for a moment to finish the recital o
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
sions of the Fifteenth corps, which to deliver the Army of the Cumberland have marched over half the distance from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, have not even been able to enter Chattanooga to rest there one day; they left on the bank of the Tennessee the small amount of baggage they had brought from Vicksburg, and, from the private to the commander-in-chief, each man has only a single blanket, without a change of any article. Intensely cold weather has succeeded the heavy rains. The regulalry division, which recrossed on the 5th to the right bank of the Holston. On his side, Elliott, in pursuance of Grant's orders, proceeds from Alexandria to Kingston, where he will meet Spears' brigade, that is ascending the right bank of the Tennessee. But his march is delayed, and he joins the Army of the Ohio only in the middle of the month of December. In fine, Willcox, who occupies Cumberland Gap and its approaches with the Fourth division of the Twenty-third corps and three thousand h
Madisonville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ted by the enemy. His columns took up the line of march in the morning of the 7th. Howard crossed the Little Tennessee at Davis' Ford, where he found the foot-bridge which he had constructed, and arrived at Athens on the 9th. He sent a brigade to Charleston to repair the bridge on the Hiawassee that a detachment of Confederate cavalry had partly destroyed. The rest of the army, after having cleared the Little Tennessee at Morgantown, proceeds more to the eastward: Davis and Ewing, via Madisonville, toward Columbus; Blair, with the two other divisions of the Fifteenth corps, moves on Tellico at the base of the high bluff called Unaka Mountain. Finally, Long with his troopers, crossing this chain, pursues beyond Murphy, on the banks of the Hiawassee, a large train intended for Longstreet, who has thrown himself into the mountains of North Carolina. The army, slowly advancing into a country the resources of which are yet intact, gathers the cattle and grain necessary for its subsist
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
IN crossing the Chattooga Mountain, Bragg abandons for ever the basin of the Mississippi, in which his valiant army has been fighting for the past two years and a half. Grant contents himself with holding the entrance to the great gap in the Alleghanies, and thinks only of delivering Burnside, who is besieged. While Granger proceeds to his assistance, the other corps hold themselves in readiness to support him and prevent Bragg from taking, in his turn, the Knoxville road. It is, then, ne is recalled from Rogersville with all the troops of which he can dispose. Vaughn, who occupies Loudon, is to watch the crossings of the Tennessee, ready to fall back toward the north unless he can join Bragg by throwing himself eastward in the Alleghanies. We have seen how correct was Longstreet's calculation. On the morning of the 29th, Sherman sets his army in three columns on the road toward the Hiawassee. Howard again clears Parker's Gap; Davis and Blair cross White Oak Ridge at the
Bayou Bourbeux (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
tance—say about fourteen miles—from these two towns. At a little distance before reaching it this road crosses another stream parallel with the first, called Bayou Bourbeux. The rearguard was formed of Burbridge's brigade, detached from the Fourth division of the Thirteenth corps; it came from the village of Barre's Landing, at the confluence of the Teche and Bayou Courtableau, and halted on the north bank of Bayou Bourbeux. On the following day the Nineteenth corps halted at Vermilionville; the Third division of the Thirteenth corps, commanded by General McGinnis, and Burbridge's brigade, did not break their camps. In spite of a few musket-shots excbayous, alone broke the monotonous horizon of the prairie. Hence, Franklin did not hesitate to divide his divisions on a line of nearly forty-five miles from Bayou Bourbeux to New Iberia. The self-reliance of the Federals was such that, Burbridge's brigade not having yet left its camp on November 3d, that day was determined up
Clinch River (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
delayed, and he joins the Army of the Ohio only in the middle of the month of December. In fine, Willcox, who occupies Cumberland Gap and its approaches with the Fourth division of the Twenty-third corps and three thousand horse under Garrard and Graham, has not lost an instant in trying to break, on the north side, the investment of Knoxville. His cavalry encamps at the foot of the mountain on the banks of Powell River. On the 27th, Graham is in motion; he crosses on the following day Clinch River, at Walker's Ford on the Rutledge road, and bivouacs a little farther on. Proceeding to the right on the morning of the 29th, he halts again for the night in the village of Maynardsville, situate some twenty-five miles from Knoxville. It was then, on the 30th, four days after his departure, that he approached Knoxville and tried to penetrate into the place. His slowness has given the enemy time to be on their guard. Martin has sent a detachment of cavalry to Blain's Crossroads to mena
Missouri River (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
those States. But the guerillas were not long in availing themselves of the situation, and by the end of July partisan warfare revived in these unfortunate districts, which it had already so cruelly distressed. Quantrell, who is about to acquire a bloody reputation throughout all America, organizes small bands under the Confederate flag to devastate the State of Missouri. On the 30th of July some of his partisans appear in arms far north, in the county of Sabine, on the right bank of the Missouri, and give fight to the local militia. A short time after, on August 30th, the Southern colonel Coffee, with one of these bands, wandering about in search of the Federal trains on the frontiers of Missouri, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, attacks the post of Pineville in the south-western part of Missouri, and is repulsed with loss by the Sixth Missouri cavalry. Meanwhile, Quantrell has collected his forces on the frontier of Kansas, the young State which, before secession, had already
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