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April (search for this): chapter 4
ce only existed upon paper. Fortunately, the task of bringing it into existence was entrusted to an officer who was at once energetic, intelligent, full of good sense, and a stranger to political passions—General Schofield. He saw that it was necessary before everything to enrol only men devoted to the cause they were to serve, and that by the regular application of the conscription law he would be in danger of recruiting as many traitors and deserters as loyal soldiers. By the month of April he had organized a small army of fourteen thousand men, to which was confided the exclusive duty of occupying Missouri, the Federal troops lately stationed in that State having been sent to Pittsburg Landing immediately after the battle of Shiloh. His army, which in the month of June had reached the figure of seventeen thousand men, was scattered over the immense surface of the State, and was scarcely sufficient for maintenance of public order. This task became still more difficult when th
May (search for this): chapter 4
the neighborhood, found himself at the head of nearly nineteen thousand men. The immense works around Corinth had been so modified as to admit of their being defended by this small force. This entrenched camp had been constructed in the month of May for Beauregard's army, more than sixty thousand strong; it had then been occupied and extended by the one hundred thousand men under Halleck. Looking upon the fortifications of that period as merely advanced works, Grant, assisted by an engineer s alacrity had deceived the foresight of Rosecrans. He had thought that his adversary would be obliged to cross Bridge Creek under the guns of his works, in order to attack him from the north-west; indeed, at the time of the siege in the month of May, the forest swamps extending north-west of Corinth presented an insurmountable obstacle to combatants, but the heats had since dried them up. It was only during the night that the Federal general became aware that the Confederate outposts, by foll
May 6th (search for this): chapter 4
d about seven or eight thousand men with him; ten regiments, or nearly five thousand men, had been called back from Pea Ridge by Halleck, for the purpose of reinforcing the combined army, of which he had assumed the command at Pittsburg Landing. Curtis could not penetrate any farther into a country infested by guerillas without compromising his communications with Missouri, whence he derived all his supplies. He, therefore, marched parallel to the frontier of this State, reaching, on the 6th of May, Batesville, a large village situated on White River. This stream, which takes its source in the Ozark Mountains and waters all the northern section of the State, pursues at first a south-easterly course as far as Jacksonport, where it receives the waters of Big Black River; thence it runs due south to empty into the Arkansas at Wellington. The point of confluence of the latter river with the Mississippi, opposite the village of Napoleon, lies only a few kilometres lower down. Curtis ho
June (search for this): chapter 4
of the great expedition prepared by Bragg. To enable him to undertake it, he required an enormous materiel; and the convoy which had left Tupelo in the middle of June, after the evacuation of Corinth, had been obliged to perform a long and tedious journey in order to rejoin him. The wagons, and even the artillery, being deprivedWE have said in a former chapter that Halleck had been unable to employ, in any important operation south or east, the large forces at his disposal in the month of June. He had allowed the Confederates to establish themselves at Vicksburg and Port Hudson. These two citadels, which reciprocally covered each other, barred the navii, the Federal troops lately stationed in that State having been sent to Pittsburg Landing immediately after the battle of Shiloh. His army, which in the month of June had reached the figure of seventeen thousand men, was scattered over the immense surface of the State, and was scarcely sufficient for maintenance of public order.
June 6th (search for this): chapter 4
uld have reopened the campaign, penetrated into the interior of the State, seized the capital, Little Rock, and in his turn opened the whole course of the Arkansas to the Federal gunboats. He, therefore, waited at Batesville for the issue of the siege of Corinth, subsisting with difficulty, because the terminus of the railroad through which he obtained his supplies was at Rolla, in Missouri, and thence all the transportation was effected by means of wagons. We have related how, on the 6th of June, after the capture of Corinth, the naval battle at Memphis delivered to the Federals the whole course of the Mississippi as far as Vicksburg. A few days after, several Federal gun-boats entered the Arkansas and proceeded up White River. Curtis, on being apprised of their movement, started on the 25th of June for Jacksonport to meet them. The waters in the river were so low that it would be impossible for the vessels to proceed beyond this town. Curtis reached the place on the same day
June 18th (search for this): chapter 4
es for want of ways of communication. But Kirby Smith, taking with him six or seven thousand men accustomed to long marches and to forage on the march, did not hesitate to venture in it. His first object was to wrest from the Federals the impregnable position of Cumberland Gap by turning it. This important pass, which, before the introduction of railroads, was the most frequented thoroughfare between east and west, had been abandoned in the spring by the Confederates, and occupied on the 18th of June by Morgan's Union brigade, which had strongly entrenched itself there. Kirby Smith crossed the Alleghanies at Big Creek Gap, thirty-five kilometres south-west of Cumberland Gap, and proceeded direct toward the centre of Kentucky, the richest and most populous part of that State. He thus cut the communications of the Federal Morgan with the depots from which he obtained his supplies, leaving to Humphrey Marshall on one side, and to John Morgan the partisan on the other, the easy task of
June 25th (search for this): chapter 4
us of the railroad through which he obtained his supplies was at Rolla, in Missouri, and thence all the transportation was effected by means of wagons. We have related how, on the 6th of June, after the capture of Corinth, the naval battle at Memphis delivered to the Federals the whole course of the Mississippi as far as Vicksburg. A few days after, several Federal gun-boats entered the Arkansas and proceeded up White River. Curtis, on being apprised of their movement, started on the 25th of June for Jacksonport to meet them. The waters in the river were so low that it would be impossible for the vessels to proceed beyond this town. Curtis reached the place on the same day with his vanguard, where he joined General Washburne, who had arrived with a regiment of cavalry from Springfield, in Missouri, without having encountered a single enemy. But the gun-boats failed to make their appearance. As we have said in a previous chapter, they had found the Confederates entrenched insi
July (search for this): chapter 4
and had overrun the States he intended to invade, like a sudden and subtle blast which penetrates the forest and then vanishes before some great storm of which it is the certain precursor. But we must resume our narrative from the early days of July. We have said that Buell's army, drawn up a little in rear of the right bank of the Tennessee, rested its right wing upon Huntsville and Athens, while its left extended from Stevenson to opposite Chattanooga. Its supplies were obtained through tese measures, Schofield was enabled to organize his army, and soon found himself in condition to take the field. The northern part of the State, situated on the left side of the Missouri, was subjected to fire and the sword in the latter half of July. Five thousand partisans, under Porter, Poindexter and Cobb, were ravaging the whole of that region. Colonel Merrill was sent to fight them, and he displayed in that difficult conjuncture those rare qualities which subsequently established his re
July 4th (search for this): chapter 4
It could have retired, and would certainly have escaped the disaster, but its colonel became confused and surrendered, despite the protests of his officers. It was Forrest's only exploit, but for a time it seriously interrupted Buell's communications with Nashville, compelling him to scatter his troops along the railroads through which he obtained his supplies in order to protect them more effectually. During this time Morgan had also put himself in motion. Leaving Knoxville on the 4th of July, he crossed the mountains which separate the Tennessee valley from that of the Cumberland, with only nine hundred horse; and marching directly east, he encountered the first Federal detachments at Tompkinsville, on the other side of the Cumberland, near the point where it emerges from the State of Kentucky. After driving them back with ease, he reached Glasgow on the evening of the 9th, where he found supplies, and the next day, his men having rested and being well fed and well armed, st
July 6th (search for this): chapter 4
d its approaches. On the 7th of July his vanguard had a spirited skirmish on the borders of this bayou with a brigade of Texan cavalry, which sought in vain to dispute its passage with him. The flotilla he was thus endeavoring to join was accompanied by a brigade of infantry from Indiana. These troops had not remained idle; but being ignorant of his approach, they wasted their time in fruitless demonstrations in the direction of Little Rock, pushing as far as Grand Prairie, where on the 6th of July they encountered some hostile parties. Finally, unable to procure any news, in consequence of the hostility of the inhabitants, and finding the water in White River constantly falling, the expedition of which they formed a part again descended the river as far as Clarendon. It was precisely toward this point that Curtis was marching. Chance thus seemed to facilitate the junction of the two expeditions, but Curtis' march was retarded by the difficulties of the ground; and when he reach
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