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September 12th (search for this): chapter 4
s at their mercy; the free States on the right bank of the Ohio were menaced, and Buell would be compelled to attack the Confederates whenever they might please to make a stand against him in order to ensure his retreat. Leaving to General Thomas the care of organizing the defence of Nashville, Buell, on hearing of the arrival of the enemy at Carthage, had proceeded as far as Lebanon in the direction of that city. Bragg, however, still pushed forward without waiting for him. On the 12th of September the first detachments of Confederate infantry reached Glasgow, while their cavalry was destroying the track of the Nashville and Louisville Railroad between Franklin and Bowling Green. Buell followed them at a distance, feeling his way. On that day he had not gone beyond the frontier of Kentucky near Mitchellville; and still fearing an attack upon Nashville, he sent back one of the divisions of his army to Thomas. On the following day every doubt was dispelled. An intercepted despat
September 13th (search for this): chapter 4
ille; he had immediately collected his scattered forces and started off, expecting to meet his adversary in full retreat. He was to be very soon undeceived. On seeing the Confederate cavalry leave Lagrange, near Grand Junction, and subsequently appear at Ripley, Grant had indeed divined that the enemy had abandoned all intention of attacking his right at Bolivar, and that his efforts would be directed against Rosecrans. He was ready to support the latter at the first call. On the 13th of September, Price's army was advancing toward Iuka. This movement enabled him to follow the Federals in case they should retire toward Nashville, or cut off their retreat in that direction if they remained at Corinth. Colonel Murphy, who commanded a brigade in Stanley's division, was in charge of the depot at Iuka. After assembling all the detachments belonging to his command, which were scattered along the railroad as far as Tuscumbia, he abandoned the post entrusted to his care, as soon as t
September 15th (search for this): chapter 4
er, Wallace had been summoned to Cincinnati by the governor of the State. His first act was to close all the shops and places of business; then, calling all the citizens to the public squares, he had furnished them with implements. Forty thousand men were set to work in raising entrenchments around the suburbs of Covington, while all the steamers were hastily armed with cannon. Seeing that he would not be able to seize this rich prey by a sudden dash, Heth withdrew the same evening, September 15th, and fell back upon the town of Frankfort, which a portion of Smith's troops had just occupied. The capture of the latter town might have produced a certain effect upon the vacillating population, ready to group themselves around the secession authorities whom the Confederate generals were about to install in the official capital of the State. In a military point of view, however, this town had but one advantage—that of enabling these generals to cross the Kentucky River without diffic
September 16th (search for this): chapter 4
und there all kinds of resources. But they were not destined to enjoy them long. Once master of this position, Price learnt that Rosecrans, instead of crossing the Tennessee to join Buell, was massing his forces at Corinth. He might have left him there and hastened to the north-west to attack Nashville, as Bragg had requested him to do, or to co-operate with Van Dorn to attempt to dislodge him. The latter plan, being the most feasible, was proposed to and accepted by Van Dorn on the 16th of September. Meanwhile, Grant was preparing to prevent the junction of these two generals by attacking Price in his advanced position. He had put all the troops at his disposal in motion, leaving behind him only a sufficient force for the protection of Corinth. Rosecrans brought him the divisions of Stanley and Hamilton, amounting altogether to about nine thousand men, while Ord arrived with nearly eight thousand taken from the army which occupied Bolivar and Jackson. His forces, therefore,
September 17th (search for this): chapter 4
tres 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 preventing a single wagon from carrying him provisions. The Union brigade, thus besieged, held its position for three weeks; finally, on the 17th of September, when its provisions had become exhausted, it blew up the works it was entrusted to guard, and, descending the slopes of the Alleghanies, forced a passage into Ohio, despite the guerillas who harassed it during the whole of that painful retreat. Meanwhile, Kirby Smith was rapidly advancing through Kentucky with his small force, the numerical strength of which was daily increased by public rumor; a thousand horse preceded it, scouring the country for the necessary supplies, which by
September 18th (search for this): chapter 4
come up by way of the north-west, and to attack Price north of the town. In a region the topography of which was so little known, where the roads became broken up at the first rainfall, and the streams, the swamps and the forests combined to retard the movements of armies, and communications between headquarters were extremely uncertain, such a manoeuvre, undertaken in the presence of so active an adversary as Price, was full of danger. The result was soon to prove it so. On the 18th of September, Rosecrans was in the vicinity of Jacinto; Grant was at Burnsville, on the road leading from Corinth to Inka, waiting to hear that his lieutenant had executed the movement he had ordered him to make; farther on, on the same road, only seven kilometres from the enemy's outposts, were the troops commanded by Ord; several trains of cars, always with steam up, were ready to bring them back rapidly to Corinth if it should be found that Van Dorn was menacing that place. The general attack
September 19th (search for this): chapter 4
acred all the employes, and the village of New Ulm, where they ruthlessly put to death about one hundred women and children. Avoiding Fort Ridgely, they afterward retired to their camps, not far from the Yellow Medicine. The safety of all the settlers could only be assured by a speedy punishment. Colonel Sibley was entrusted with this duty, with detachments from the Third, Sixth and Seventh regiments of Minnesota and some militia, about a thousand men in all, and two guns. On the 19th of September he proceeded from Fort Ridgely against the Indians, who, to the number of more than eight hundred, had remained near the Yellow Medicine with their booty and some prisoners. At the news of his approach the chief of the tribe, called Little Crow, called a council of war, and proposed to attack the Federals in their camps at night. But his advice did not prevail, and the Sioux warriors decided that, to show their courage, they ought to fight the whites openly in broad daylight. Three
September 20th (search for this): chapter 4
in the worst condition for fighting a battle, which, however, it could not possibly avoid. Bragg, by imitating the successful manoeuvres of Lee, had turned his adversary: by attacking him during his precipitate retreat, he could have achieved a decisive victory; but he failed to avail himself of this opportunity. After the capitulation of Munfordsville, he left on Green River a simple rear-guard, which Buell's heads of column dislodged from Prewitt's Knob (or Glasgow Junction) on the 20th of September, and scattered his troops through the country to take possession of it, to install the authorities devoted to his cause, and, above all, to gather the largest possible amount of booty. He thus slowly advanced in a northerly direction, loading his wagons not only with provisions, but with commodities of every kind, followed by immense droves of cattle, providing fresh horses for his cavalry, and collecting a large number of recruits among the young farmers of those regions. Being chie
September 23rd (search for this): chapter 4
against the Indians, who, to the number of more than eight hundred, had remained near the Yellow Medicine with their booty and some prisoners. At the news of his approach the chief of the tribe, called Little Crow, called a council of war, and proposed to attack the Federals in their camps at night. But his advice did not prevail, and the Sioux warriors decided that, to show their courage, they ought to fight the whites openly in broad daylight. Three hundred of them started on the 23d of September, divided into two parties, so as to approach the enemy's camp on two sides. They made a vigorous attack upon it, uttering savage yells and firing with great rapidity. But the Federals, who kept a good watch, quickly placed themselves in line to receive them. During two hours the Indians tried in vain to break their ranks in front, to turn their right flank, and at the same time to attack the rear of their camp; they were repulsed on every side; the numerical superiority of the Federa
September 26th (search for this): chapter 4
ey of Neosho as far as Newtonia, thereby menacing from the west the Unionists who were stationed at Springfield, whilst a body of four thousand men, massed on the left bank of White River, seemed to be preparing to invade Missouri and march upon Rolla, the most important of the Federal depots; a considerable number of recruits were also assembled at Little Rock. Schofield resolved to attack the enemy before he was in a condition to take the offensive. He had been appointed, on the 26th of September, to the command of the army of the frontier, consisting of all the available forces scattered through Missouri, and of those of Blunt, stationed in Kansas; Curtis had superseded him in the territorial command of Missouri, transferring that of the forces which had remained stationary at Helena for the last two months, to Steele. On the 30th of September the army of the frontier numbered a little over fifteen thousand men, more than one-half of whom were mounted, with twenty or twentyfi
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