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might send him. To accomplish his object, he proceeded northward and occupied Pocahontas, at the confluence of the Hatchie and Tuscumbia; in this position, which he reached on the 1st of October, he left his adversaries still uncertain as to the objective point of his attack. Leaving a brigade of cavalry and some infantry to guard the bridge of the Hatchie, and the greater portion of his convoy, which remained parked in the neighborhood, he proceeded westward and encamped at Chewalla on the 2d, while his outposts, drawing near Corinth, encountered those of Rosecrans, who had gone out to meet him in pursuance of Grant's orders. The latter, having at last been made acquainted with the movement of the Confederates, had put all the forces at his command in motion to fall upon their flank and line of retreat. He sent McPherson in all haste with one of his brigades, direct from Jackson toward Corinth, whilst Ord, at the head of a portion of his division and that of Hurlbut, numbering al
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e could easily support the troops stationed on the opposite side, Stone River not being very deep at this point. This movement was the more menacing to Bragg's right flank and his communications with Murfreesborough, because the conversion of his whole army had drawn away the left from his base of operations; it showed, above all, that, so far from thinking of retreat, Rosecrans was preparing to resume the offensive. The Confederate commander only made this discovery on the morning of the 2d, for his cavalry, worn out by its exertions on the 31st of December, had needed the whole of the 1st to recuperate; and being, besides, under the impression that an offensive return was impossible, he had not deemed it necessary to feel the enemy except along the Nashville road. He at once determined to forestall the Federals, and to attack them so vigorously in that direction as to compel them to acknowledge themselves beaten. The hills occupied by Beatty enabled the Union artillery, once p
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ganization, restore a vigorous discipline, reward some and deprive others of their commands, and all this transformation was to be accomplished in the midst of an active campaign, and in the presence of an adversary like Lee. The name of McClellan alone was almost sufficient to restore courage to his old soldiers. At the very outset he obtained that ready co-operation which Pope had sought in vain from his subordinates. The rest was accomplished whilst marching and fighting. In fact, on the 3d, to follow the movements of the enemy at a distance, the army of the Potomac began by crossing over to the left bank of the river in the vicinity of Washington. As we have stated before, the march of the Confederates toward the North no longer allowed McClellan to confine himself to a mere defence of the capital, but compelled him to undertake an offensive campaign, so as to protect Baltimore and to free Maryland. The plan of the invaders, however, was not sufficiently developed for him to
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sed to his soldiers, he had described as a motley gathering of cowards and rascals. Blunt, on being informed of this movement, felt the necessity of defending the chain of the Ozark Mountains by covering the Fayetteville and Cane Hill roads on the eastern slope of those hills. He proceeded to this slope, pushing his outposts toward Cove Creek, and on the 2d of December he telegraphed to Herron an order to join him immediately. This general started with all his troops on the morning of the 3d, and by forced marches reached Elkhorn Tavern on the 5th with his convoy. On the same day, Hindman, having at last roused himself from his inaction, met Blunt's outposts, but without having any serious encounter with them. On the 6th he again drove them back, seized the junction of the Cane Hill and Fayetteville roads, where the combat of November 28th had terminated, and advanced halfway in the direction of Cane Hill. He could thus march upon either of these two points. But the slowness
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wounded. During the evening, part of McCook's corps, having recovered from the effects of its disaster of the 31st, came to take position on the reconquered heights; but the rain had softened the soil to such a degree that, on the morning of the 3d, Rosecrans deemed it impracticable to put his troops again on the march in order to complete the movement he had been contemplating for the last three days. He soon perceived, moreover, that this manoeuvre would be productive of no results; his pere sanguinary struggle we have just been describing. The greater the efforts of the Confederates, and the nearer they had been to achieving success, the more keenly this unlooked — for denouement was felt by them. In the course of the day, on the 3d, their columns again took up their line of march for Murfreesborough sadly, but in good order and without discouragement; they carried with them the glorious but barren trophies of their victory of the 31st, consisting of twenty-eight guns, some st
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the numerous works .occupied by the enemy was a real discovery to the Federals; they had no more idea of their existence than they had of Warwick Creek a month before. The Confederates, on their part, fearing, no doubt, to be taken in flank by the landing of troops on York River, had not thought at first of availing themselves of these works; they had made no preparations for defending them, and it was only when Hampton was closely pressed that, finding them in his path on the evening of the 4th, he occupied a portion of them in order to retard the march of the Federals. As will be seen presently, the Confederate generals whose duty it was to cover the retreat were themselves very little acquainted with the position and importance of some of these entrenchments. Stoneman had lost about forty men by the fire of the redoubts, and one of his guns remained immovable in the swamp. He had retired on this side of the forest to wait for the infantry, which was slow in coming up; General
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he Federals. Coggin's Point was occupied and strongly entrenched; a position was thus secured which freed the navigation of the James from all impediments, affording, moreover, an excellent tete de pont for any enterprises or diversions that might be attempted south of the river. Hooker, on his side, had set out with his division and Pleasanton's brigade of cavalry during the night of the 2d-3d of August; but having got lost in the woods, he was obliged to return to camp. The next day, the 4th, reinforced by Sedgwick's division, he again took up his line of march, and at daybreak drove a battery and two regiments of the enemy from Malvern Hill, making about one hundred prisoners. The Federal cavalry pushed on as far as White Oak Swamp Bridge, where some thirty Confederate mounted men were captured. But at the very time that McClellan was thus knocking at the gates of Richmond, where everything seemed to indicate a fortunate beginning to his new campaign, he received the fatal orde
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is of an exceptional fertility. Farther south the undulating ground ends in a series of abrupt slopes, which border the left bank of the Yazoo, and sink at last in the waters of the Mississippi on the shores of Vicksburg. On the 2d of November, Grant had put five divisions in motion, which swelled the number of his active forces to more than thirty thousand men. Three of these divisions started from Bolivar, the other two came from Corinth, and all proceeded toward Grand Junction. On the 4th the Federal army occupied this point, as well as Lagrange, while the cavalry was advancing toward the south. But the reinforcements, which had long been expected, arrived slowly, and the political influences, which had embarrassed military operations in Virginia, were beginning to be felt in the remote regions where the modest and reticent Grant was in command. His position was envied by many persons, who, in order to prove their capacity, were busying themselves in Washington in projecting
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ops posted in the last-mentioned defile. He had, in fact, guessed the purpose of the Federals; and being well aware that he could not maintain himself in the valley of Virginia, he was proceeding rapidly toward the borders of the Rappahannock with the greater part of his army for the purpose of forestalling them. On the 1st of November a considerable portion of his artillery, his reserves and stores had been sent by way of Thornton's Gap to Culpepper Court-house, where they arrived on the 4th. Longstreet, following this movement, proceeded up the Shenandoah, crossed it at Front Royal, and passing through the Blue Ridge at Chester Gap emerged in the vicinity of the sources of the Rappahannock. The streams which form this river presenting no serious obstacle, he fell back as far as Culpepper, where he arrived on the 3d of November. The first tributary of the Rappahannock of any importance, Hedgeman's River, presented a line a little above that village, along which he hoped to be
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hout some difficulty. The roads were in a deplorable condition. The maps were bad, which was even worse than not having any. They had relied upon those which the officers stationed at Fortress Monroe had taken all winter to prepare, and the several columns, thus misled by false information, could hardly preserve their order of march. Deceived by these incorrect charts as to the direction of Warwick Creek, General McClellan was led to believe that Yorktown could be easily invested. On the 5th, when his right wing appeared before that place, his left encountered the unforeseen obstacle which imparted so much strength to the position of the Confederates. The latter, under General Magruder, had long been preparing for the defence of the peninsula. The fortifications erected by Lord Cornwallis around Yorktown in 1781, within which he had defended himself with a tenacity worthy of the English army, were still in existence. These works were not revetted with masonry, but their profil
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