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Cross Hollows (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
on County, near the northwestern border of the State. The Confederates fled so hastily from Cross Hollows that they left behind them their sick and wounded, and stores that they could not take away.a strong front to the foe from whatever point he might approach. His Headquarters were near Cross Hollows, on the main road and telegraph line from Fayetteville to Springfield. The following was reek; and the Fourth Division, under Colonel E. A. Carr (acting brigadier-general), was near Cross Hollows, about twelve miles from Sugar Creek. Large detachments were out for forage and informationhalf a mile wide. The hills are high on both sides, and the main road from Fayetteville, by Cross Hollows to Keitsville, intercepts the valley nearly at right angles. The road from Fayetteville, byarch from Fayetteville that his approach was made known. March 5. He encamped that night at Cross Hollows, This is a place at the head waters of the Osage Creek, and not far from those of Sugar C
Bowling Green (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ge. Advance of National troops on Bowling Green, 230. panic in Nashville Governor Harriss the Green River at Mumfordsville, toward Bowling Green, simultaneously with Grant's investment ofneral Johnston clearly perceived that both Bowling Green and Columbus were now untenable, and that the Barren River, on whose southern border Bowling Green Bowling Green is about 74 miles from NaBowling Green is about 74 miles from Nashville, and contained a little less than 8,00 inhabitants when the war broke out. Around it are nulage, with his brigade, the heavens were Bowling Green after the evacuation. illuminated by the cross until the next day, when they found Bowling Green to be almost barren of spoils. Half a mil when a portion of the troops, flying from Bowling Green, came rushing into the city across the rai time General Johnston and his forces from Bowling Green had continued their flight southward as fanelson, and Hardee, who had come down from Bowling Green, were directed to assist Floyd in the busi[1 more...]
Tahlequah (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
henceforth the Confederate Government would be the only legitimate and powerful one on which they could rely. While Chief Ross and his associates were perplexed by indecision, Ben. McCulloch and his Texans, who, as we have seen, abandoned Price in Missouri, marched to the Indian border, and required the Creeks and Cherokees to decide immediately to which cause they would adhere, on penalty of having their country ravaged by 20,000 Texas and Arkansas troops. This produced the council at Tahlequah on the 20th of August, and the message of Chief Ross, printed on page 476, volume I. A large minority of both nations, led by the Creek Chief Opothleyolo; resisted the Confederates and their Indian adherents. Between these and the Indian insurgents a battle was fought on the 9th of December, 1861, on Bushy Creek, 180 miles west of Fort Smith, when Opothleyolo and his followers, as we have observed, were driven into Kansas. The Indian Territory was then left in the undisputed possession
Franklin (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. Advance of National troopsr, 233. surrender of Nashville, 234. expedition against Columbus Polk's preparations to fly from it, 235. capture of ColColumbus, 236. mines and torpedoes at Columbus Island number10, 237. Beauregard in command of Island number10 his call for Columbus Island number10, 237. Beauregard in command of Island number10 his call for bells to cast into cannon, 238. Pope's March on New Madrid Confederates strengthening that post, 239. transportation of sal Johnston clearly perceived that both Bowling Green and Columbus were now untenable, and that the salvation of his troops ense workshops and armories, would soon share the fate of Columbus. It was probable that the great river would speedily be es to be published, falsely proclaiming a great battle at Columbus, in which the Nationals had lost three gun-boats and twen fatigues, by strict discipline and effective battles. Columbus has fallen, Memphis will follow, and if you do in future
New Haven (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
e attentive observer, with a good glass, will see the cloud of smoke that follows its explosion, and then the report comes back with a dull boom. If it has done execution, the enemy may be seen carrying off their killed and wounded. and the batteries on the Kentucky shore opposite. All day long the bombardment was kept up, and vigorous responses were made, with very little injury to either party. During the bombardment of this day, Commodore Foote was informed of the death, at New Haven, Connecticut, of his second son, a promising boy thirteen years of age. It was so unexpected that, for a moment, the brave warrior was overcome. He soon rallied, and pushed on the combat with great vigor, making private sorrow subordinate to public duty. Meanwhile a battery of the Second Illinois artillery was landed on the Missouri shore, in a position to assail the Confederate fleet near the island. Island number10 and its defenses. the figures on this map denote the numbers of the b
Wilson's Creek (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ow the conspirators had tampered with the civilized and half-civilized Indians in the regions bordering on Kansas and Texas, and how in August, 1861, the Cherokees tendered their support to the Confederate cause. That was after the battle of Wilson's Creek, which the emissaries of the Confederates made the Indians believe was an overwhelming defeat to the Unionists, and utter destruction of the National power in Missouri. The battle of Bull's Run was represented as a complete discomfiture of the Government; and the flight of the Union army from that field, and the death of Lyon, and the falling back of the Union troops in Missouri after the battle of Wilson's Creek, fixed the impression on the minds of the Indians that henceforth the Confederate Government would be the only legitimate and powerful one on which they could rely. While Chief Ross and his associates were perplexed by indecision, Ben. McCulloch and his Texans, who, as we have seen, abandoned Price in Missouri, marched
Paducah (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
l Buford's Twenty-seventh Illinois, and a battalion each of the Fifty-fourth and Seventy-fourth Ohio, and Fifty-fifth Illinois regiments, commanded by Majors Andrews and Sawyer. commanded by Brigadier-General W. T. Sherman (who was in command at Paducah), accompanied by General Cullum, of Halleck's staff. The flotilla left Cairo before daylight on the morning of the 4th, March. and at sunrise was in sight of the fortified bluffs at Columbus. Preparations were made for attack. Rumor had declbering up the steep bluffs with shouts of triumph. Troops were in the fortifications, but they were friends. A detachment of the Second Illinois cavalry, under Lieutenant Hogg, two hundred and fifty strong, who had been sent out as scouts from Paducah, had entered the place at five o'clock the day before, and hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the main work of that stronghold. Report of Commodore Foote to the Secretary of the Navy, March 4, 1862; also of General Cullum to General McClellan
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
of Island number10, to the eye of the author, from a Mississippi steamer in April, 1866. it lies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky. below. New Madrid, on the Missouri side of the river, New Madrid is the capital of New Madrid County, Missouri, 79 miles below Cairo, and 947 miles above New Orleans, by the winding river. Island Number10 is about ten miles above it. The islands in the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River downward, are distinguished by numbers, this, as its name implies, being the tenth. to which many of the troops went, had been much strengthened by Jeff. Thompson, See page 58. who had occupied it for some time, and had strong military works there, one of which was called Fort Thompson. This was an irregular bastioned work, mounting fourteen heavy guns, and situated about half a mile below New Madrid. There was another similar, but smaller work at the upper end of the town, mounting
Mud Town (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
nd wounded. the Cross Hollows, and other places in mountain defiles; and his cavalry penetrated as far as Fayetteville, the capital of Washington County, near the northwestern border of the State. The Confederates fled so hastily from Cross Hollows that they left behind them their sick and wounded, and stores that they could not take away. They burned their extensive barracks there, left poisoned provisions in the pathway of their flight, They left poisoned provisions at a place called Mud Town, of which forty-two of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Missouri cavalry partook. Several of them died, and all suffered much.--Halleck's dispatch to McClellan, Feb. 27, 1862. and, setting fire to Confederate stores and buildings at Fayetteville when they left it, went over the range of hills known as the Boston Mountains, in much confusion. This march of the Nationals was one of the most extraordinary of the war. The little army had moved at the rate of twenty miles a day, often fi
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ans, 259. Curtis marches toward the Mississippi the Indians, 260. When Fort Donelson fell, Kentucky and Missouri, and all of northern and middle Tennessee were lost to the Confederates, and the mo General McClellan from St. Louis, March 4. Columbus, the Gibraltar of the West, is ours, and Kentucky is free, thanks to the brilliant strategy of the campaign by which the enemy's center was piercies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky. below. New Madrid, on the Missouri side of the river, New Madrid is the capital of New Mand Captain L. B. Marshall, of his staff, to reconnoiter the stream below. They found the whole Kentucky and Tennessee shore for fifteen miles lined with heavy guns, at intervals in no case more than ile Grant and Foote were pulling down, the strongholds of rebellion in Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky, the National troops, under Samuel R. Curtis. Generals Curtis, Sigel, and others, we
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