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Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
had only a few troops, and could not lead them beyond Corinth. The rest of the army, commanded by Sherman in the absence of Grant, who was ill at New Orleans, was near Vicksburg, while the despatches, carried by steamboats, reached it only very slowly. On the 18th, Sherman received Halleck's orders: time was required to prepare for their execution. Reinforcements were also requested of Schofield, who had a command in Missouri, and of Pope, who was watching the Indians on the frontier of Minnesota. Besides, orders were issued in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to collect the men at the posts and recruiting-depots, together with small detachments, and to move them upon Tennessee. All these measures will be the means, if the occasion occur, of compensating for the disaster which threatens Rosecrans, but they will not give him one additional man on the battlefield. Verily, the decisive moment has come. For the Union chiefs the night from the 18th to the 19th has passed
Corydon (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
certain points after having deceived the enemy as to the general course taken by the troops. Once on the northern side of the Ohio, being unable to recross the river under the fire of the gunboats, he was obliged, in order to rejoin the Confederate armies, to make his way to the upper part of the river by ascending its right bank. The Federals knew this as well as he, and this knowledge rendered easy the performance of their part. On July 9th, Morgan appears early in the morning before Corydon: it is the first Indiana town in his line of march. Affecting to disdain the militia gathered in a hurry, he hurls his cavalry on a gallop through the town; but before taking possession of it they leave on the ground about twenty of their men dead or wounded. The lesson will make Morgan more prudent. Passing by Salisbury, Palmyra, and Salem, he reaches at Vienna a telegraphic line, by means of which he gathers useful information concerning the troops summoned in haste to meet him. He fla
Huntsville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
River, at the junction of two railway lines. But to connect this point, via Huntsville, either with Corinth on the west or Franklin on the north, it was indispensab's cavalry, and the two columns united under the orders of General Stanley at Huntsville in Alabama. On the 23d they had returned to their quarters. The strict ordemen were rested and in high spirits, and the cavalry had gathered forage near Huntsville. Halleck, if he did not satisfy the demands of Rosecrans, did not spare despeady beholds Bragg masking the notch at Dalton and advancing from the side of Huntsville with an army twice as large as before to sever Rosecrans' communications withneral had sent Mitchell's division of cavalry, under Colonel E. M. McCook, to Huntsville as early as the 11th of August. McCook occupied the railway section which connects Huntsville with Stevenson, and established posts of observation along the whole right bank of the Tennessee from Bridgeport to Whitesburg. Crittenden's camp,
Vienna (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he, and this knowledge rendered easy the performance of their part. On July 9th, Morgan appears early in the morning before Corydon: it is the first Indiana town in his line of march. Affecting to disdain the militia gathered in a hurry, he hurls his cavalry on a gallop through the town; but before taking possession of it they leave on the ground about twenty of their men dead or wounded. The lesson will make Morgan more prudent. Passing by Salisbury, Palmyra, and Salem, he reaches at Vienna a telegraphic line, by means of which he gathers useful information concerning the troops summoned in haste to meet him. He flanks Vernon, which he finds well protected, and causes his column to move on Dupont and Versailles, while he beguiles the hostile militia with vain parleys. At last, in the morning of July 13th, he reaches at Harrison the Ohio State line. He has left Louisville behind him, and approaches Cincinnati; he must now proceed beyond this city, near which the principal forc
Keith (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
as occupied by the Unionists. However, the expected reinforcements arrived. On the 13th three brigades belonging to Hood's division had reached the station at Catoosa. These were the first soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia to appear in the midst of the Army of the Tennessee: their new comrades saluted their arrival as r general. Hood not having yet arrived, the Virginia troops were also entrusted for a few days to Johnson. His first care was to organize his new command around Catoosa. A few miles below Gordon's Mills the bed of the Chickamauga, which is deep and narrow up to that point, becomes wider; the steep banks decrease in height, and morning, Johnson is on the road with four brigades; General Law's brigade will follow him a few hours later; Benning's command will wait until the ensuing day at Catoosa for McLaws' troops. An error in the direction taken causes him to lose several precious hours. At last, McLaws arrives on the banks of the Pea-Vine Creek, where
Eagleville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
t side. The two small divisions commanded respectively by Wharton and Martin cover the approaches to Shelbyville on the Nashville and Murfreesborough roads, at Eagleville, Rover, Unionville, and Middleton, while Forrest remains at Spring Hill, thus defending the extreme left in the direction of Columbia. In the rear of his Army d to Granger's cavalry and Reserve corps. General Mitchell with a division of cavalry was vigorously to attack the posts established by Wheeler on the road from Eagleville to Shelbyville, and to drive them before him until he met the enemy's infantry. Meanwhile, General Stanley, with the remainder of the Federal cavalry, except Me, and kept themselves in readiness to support Turchin. On the right Mitchell vigorously attacked the Confederate outposts, dislodged them from the villages of Eagleville, Rover, and Unionville, and threw them back on Middleton. In the morning, it being the 24th, the entire army was in motion: the heads of columns belonging to t
Buffington's Island (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
as embarked, in the morning of the 15th, on other steamers, with twelve hundred horse and one battery of artillery; he ascends the Ohio while endeavoring to keep abreast. of the enemy. Several gunboats go before him and watch the right bank. The first rapids which in summer generally impede the navigation of the Ohio are found a few thousands yards above its confluence with the Great Kanawha River. Morgan counts upon the protection afforded by this obstacle to cross the ford at Buffington's Island, which is equidistant from the mouths of the two Kanawha rivers and seven miles and a half to the eastward of Pomeroy. On leaving Williamsburg on the 15th, in the morning, he moves in the direction of that ford. But his march becomes more and more difficult. The militia, having had time to organize, obstruct the roads and seize upon every occasion to fire some shots at the Confederate column, without, however, exposing themselves too much. If some of them are made prisoners, it is
La Fayette (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
taken the line of march in the direction of La Fayette on a dusty road and during a spell of oppresd become, for a few days at least, master at La Fayette of the only point to which converged the roa part of McLemore's Cove in the direction of La Fayette, while two other divisions would mass in Wio draw near Thomas if the enemy was still at La Fayette, and in the event of the contrary being the ck Spring Church, the route which leads from La Fayette to Rossville. Buckner and Cleburne were to idan and Davis established themselves on the La Fayette road between Davis' Cross-roads and Dug Gap,ggold by the Red House Bridge; the second to La Fayette by the ford at Gordon's Mills after running ranch off on the east from the Rossville and La Fayette route, and cross the river between Gordon's ing at Tedford's Ford. Buckner, coming from La Fayette, will in turn pass over the river at this pottaching to the highroad from Chattanooga to La Fayette via Rossville and Gordon's Mills. This road[22 more...]
Fosterville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Meanwhile, General Stanley, with the remainder of the Federal cavalry, except Minty's and Turchin's brigades, would follow the Shelbyville road, and afterward fall back on the right to aid Mitchell, and attack, in concert with him, the town of Middleton, where the main part of Wheeler's force was concentrated. Granger was designated to second this movement with his infantry: Brannan's division of the Fourteenth corps, which had occupied Triune together with Granger, remained temporarily postethe direction of Bradyville, and kept themselves in readiness to support Turchin. On the right Mitchell vigorously attacked the Confederate outposts, dislodged them from the villages of Eagleville, Rover, and Unionville, and threw them back on Middleton. In the morning, it being the 24th, the entire army was in motion: the heads of columns belonging to the Fourteenth and Twentieth corps started at four o'clock, and the rear division of each corps at ten o'clock. The entrance to the two defile
Bardstown (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
resistance, Hanson, assailed on all sides in an open town, is obliged to capitulate. The attack had been a costly one: Thomas, a brother of Morgan, had been killed, and the latter, departing for the nonce from his custom of humanity, treated with harshness his prisoners, whom, after all, he was constrained to release at the end of a few days, imposing upon them a parole which, as everybody knew, was not binding. He continued his march in the direction of Louisville, and, passing through Bardstown, reached, in the course of the day on the 6th, at Shepherdsville, the Nashville Railroad, which he destroyed after having pillaged a passenger-train. He was only seventeen miles distant from the great Kentucky city. Hence the Federals were making forced marches to arrive at the same time with him under its walls. Hobson's cavalry brigade, while following in Morgan's footsteps, was to serve as a nucleus to the movable troops which the telegraph would summon from every corner in Kentucky.
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