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Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
accomplished the object of his expedition, now returned toward Springfield with two divisions of the Army of the Frontier, leaving Blunt with another division in the vicinity of Fayetteville to guard the mountain passes. Believing that hostilities were ended for the winter, and being ill, he turned over the command of the Army of the Frontier to Blunt on the 20th of November, and went to St. Louis. Blunt was a typical Kansas man of that period. Born in Maine, he had practiced medicine in Ohio, and gone thence to Kansas when that territory was the battle-field between slavery and freedom. Deeply inspired by the fierce passions which that savage conflict generated, he was one of the first to enlist Fayetteville, Arkansas, from a photograph. for the defense of the Union and the abolition of slavery. He was rapidly promoted, and on the 8th of April, 1862, was made brigadier-general and assigned to the command of the Department of Kansas. He was then 36 years old. While Hindma
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
the Arkansas, but it was also useful to the Confederates in obstructing the navigation of the Mississippi. Several unsuccessful attempts to capture it had been made, but now it was about to fall. When Grant was ready to move overland against Vicksburg he ordered Sherman, in the absence of McClernand, On the 21st of October, 1862, Secretary Stanton by a confidential order authorized Major-General John A. McClernand, then in Washington, to proceed to the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the purpose of raising and organizing troops for an expedition, to be commanded by him, having for its object the capture of Vicksburg, the freeing of the Mississippi, and the opening of navigation to New Orleans. On the 9th of November General Banks was ordered to relive General Butler, at New Orleans, and proceed to open the Mississippi from below. General McClernand was authorized to show his confidential orders to the governors of the States named, but they were not communicated to
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
mand. He was directed to return forthwith to Arkansas and bring every man that he could to Corinth,active at Batesville. Van Dorn, on leaving Arkansas, had assigned Brigadier-General Roane to the res of them; sent recruiting officers into north Arkansas and Missouri; stopped five Texas regimentshing as two-thirds of his force was in north-western Arkansas to meet a heavy advance from Springfiereat as that which had befallen Holmes in western Arkansas befell him in the eastern part of the Sta his entire command. Plan of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post. By the disasters in the northwester Hindman's division. The state of affairs in Arkansas at that time is quite accurately depicted in l, turned over the command of the District of Arkansas to General Price on the 23d of July. Price aen. Nearly eighteen thousand of these were in Arkansas under Steele. Halleck, who was still gener and of Johnston, even if they did not regain Arkansas and Missouri. Smith listened, but did nothin[29 more...]
Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
Beauregard, to whose Department the Trans-Mississippi still belonged, to beg him to appoint Major-General Hindman to the command, from which Van Dorn had been taken, and to authorize him to raise an army for the defense of the State. Hindman was consequently assigned, on the 26th of May, to the command of the Trans-Mississippi District, comprising the States of Missouri and Arkansas and that part of Louisiana north of the Red River and the Indian Territory. He had commanded a brigade at Shiloh, was wounded there, and had been promoted for good conduct. Lieutenant-General T. H. Holmes, C. S. A., from a photograph. Leaving Corinth at once Hindman went to Memphis, which the Confederates were preparing to evacuate as soon as Corinth should be abandoned. There he collected a few supplies for his army, and impressed a million dollars that was in the banks. Thus equipped, he hastened to Little Rock, where he assumed command of his district and established headquarters on the 31s
Cache, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
behind him the Missourians were organizing in all directions to break his long line of communication with St. Louis. The failure of a gun-boat expedition See Naval operations, to follow.-editors. to relieve him from this precarious situation determined him to retreat across the swamps to Helena. Hindman resolved to attack him. Sending a considerable force under Brigadier-General Albert Rust to get between the retreating army and Helena, and to hold the crossing of the almost impassable Cache, he himself set off in pursuit. But Rust, though a very successful politician, was one of the most incompetent of all political generals, and was easily brushed out of the way by Curtis, who, conquering the greater obstacles which Nature opposed to his march, got safely to Helena on the 13th of July. Meanwhile the Confederate Government, yielding to the importunities of General Price and of the representatives of the States west of the Mississippi, and alarmed by the progress of the Unio
Chickasaw (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
to report for duty. General Grant's telegram to him at Cairo did not find him promptly, and General Grant's telegram to Sherman, intended to cause him to wait for McClernand, did not reach Memphis until after Sherman with the advance of his troops had started. The capture of Holly Springs on the 20th of December broke up General Grant's cooperating movement by land. Sherman, knowing nothing of the enforced change of Grant's plans, attacked alone the reinforced garrison of Vicksburg, at Chickasaw's Bluffs, and was repulsed with heavy loss. [See p. 462.] The following day, January 4th, General McClernand arrived and took command of the expedition, to which he gave the name of the Army of the Mississippi, dividing it into two corps, commanded by Major-General Sherman and Brigadier-General George W. Morgan. Without waiting for further instructions, McClernand at once moved up the Arkansas River and captured the works known as Arkansas Post, with about five thousand prisoners. Grant
Van Buren, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
t Blunt attacked in force on the 28th of November, and drove Marmaduke back to the vicinity of Van Buren. Blunt then took position at Cane Hill. Hindman resolved to attack him there with his whole available force. Leaving Van Buren on the 3d of December with 9000 infantry, 2000 cavalry, and 22 pieces of artillery, about 11,500 men in all, he drove in Blunt's pickets on the evening of the 6t. Darkness ended the battle. During the night Hindman withdrew his army and retreated toward Van Buren. Blunt did not pursue. Hindman's loss in killed, wounded, and missing was 1317; Blunt's was adier-General T. J. Churchill, C. S. A., from a photograph. army behind the Arkansas, opposite Van Buren, and tried to reorganize it. It was still lying there when, on December 28th, Blunt dashed into Van Buren at the head of a small mounted force, and hastened the long-projected Confederate retreat to Little Rock, which place was reached toward the middle of January. During the long and dreary
Arkadelphia (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
the river had been turned by Davidson he withdrew his troops across the Arkansas, and evacuated Little Rock about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Two brigades of Steele's cavalry, under Colonel Lewis Merrall, started in pursuit, followed Marmaduke for a day, and returned to Little Rock on the 12th. General Price's total casualties in the series of operations around Little Rock amounted to 64 killed, wounded, and missing; General Steele's to 137. Price continued his retreat undisturbed to Arkadelphia. There Holmes resumed command on the 25th of September. On the 7th of October Smith ordered him to fall back to Camden, whence he could either safely retreat to Shreveport or cooperate with Taylor, who was concentrating his forces on the Red River. General Holmes's present for duty then aggregated 8532 officers and men; General Taylor's 13,649; and General Kirby Smith's entire force in the Trans-Mississippi amounted to 41,887, of whom 32,971 were present for duty. Schofield's force
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
the consequent opening of the Mississippi to Vicksburg also opened the White River to the Federal fed the way to Grant to move overland against Vicksburg, which stronghold and Port Hudson were the of November 11th, to send ten thousand men to Vicksburg if possible. Holmes, on receiving this ordehen Grant was ready to move overland against Vicksburg he ordered Sherman, in the absence of McClerby him, having for its object the capture of Vicksburg, the freeing of the Mississippi, and the opee Mississippi to cooperate in the capture of Vicksburg. Schofield, who had resumed command of fts until after the all-important struggle for Vicksburg had been decided, and sent nearly twelve thoe sent out of Missouri to reinforce Grant at Vicksburg, a force which gave him the victory there anthe day that Grant's victorious army entered Vicksburg, and that Lee began his retreat from Gettysbr he now began to fortify. The capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson (the former on the 4th and t[8 more...]
Napoleon (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.63
ownfall of the Confederacy was precipitated. Curtis meanwhile moved without opposition from Elkhorn into northeastern Arkansas, and on the 3d of May occupied Batesville, a small town on White River within ninety miles of Little Rock. His effective force, after sending two divisions, under Generals Asboth and Jeff. C. Davis, toon with his base. While waiting for the opening of this new line of communication, for which gun-boats and transports were being made ready, he lay inactive at Batesville. Van Dorn, on leaving Arkansas, had assigned Brigadier-General Roane to the command of that State. There were no troops there except a few companies of Stat 20,000 armed men and 46 pieces of artillery. Not only had Little Rock and the valley of the Arkansas been saved to the Confederacy, but Curtis's position at Batesville was fast becoming untenable. In front he was threatened by Hindman, who was growing stronger and bolder every day, while behind him the Missourians were organi
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