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Colorado (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
The Headquarters were at St. Louis. General Hunter, whom Halleck superseded, was assigned to the command of the Department of Kansas. This included the State of Kansas, the Indian Territory, west of Arkansas, and the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota. General Don Carlos Buell had superseded General Sherman, and was appointed commander of the Department of the Ohio; This included the State of Ohio, and the portion of Kentucky lying eastward of the Cumberland River, which had foloss was twenty-three killed and fifty wounded. On the previous morning, in a skirmish with Pyron's Cavalry, Colonel Slough took fifty-seven prisoners, but losing fifteen of his own men. In the fight just recorded, Major Chivington, with four Colorado companies, gained the rear of the Texans, and was inflicting serious injury upon them, when he heard of Slough's defeat, and was compelled to withdraw. Sibley entered Santa Fe without further resistance. His army was greatly crippled, and t
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ttempting the subjugation of a sister Southern State. In the mean time, General Buell had organized a large force at Louisville, with which he was enabled to strengthen various advanced posts, and throw Buell's Headquarters at Louisville. thiLouisville. this is a view of General Buell's Headquarters on Fourth Street, between Green and Walnut streets, in the most aristocratic portion of the city of St. Louis. forward, along the line of the railway toward Bowling Green, about forty thousand men, under Geon of East Tennessee just at that time. It was evident that the Confederates were preparing to make an effort to seize Louisville, Paducah, Smithville, and Cairo, on the Ohio, in order to command the most important land and water highways in Kentuck parallelism which a careful writer on the subject has pointed out. If Washington was threatened in the one quarter, Louisville was the object of attack on the other. As Fortress Monroe was a great basis of operations at one extremity, furnishing
Clear Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
a considerable cavalry force that scattered them. Having accomplished this, Brown returned to the main army, Dec. 18. which was moving on Warrensburg. Informed that a Confederate, force was on the Blackwater, at or near Milford, North of him, Pope sent Colonel Jefferson C. Davis and Major Merrill to flank them, while the main body should be in a position to give immediate aid, if necessary. Davis found them in a wooded bottom on the west side of the Blackwater, opposite the mouth of Clear Creek. His forces were on the east side, and a bridge that spanned the Blackwater between them was strongly guarded. This was carried by assault, by two companies of the Fourth Regular Cavalry, under Lieutenants Gordon and Amory, supported by five companies of the First Iowa cavalry. Gordon led the charge in person, and received several balls through his cap. The Confederates were driven, the bridge was crossed, and a pursuit was pressed. Unable to, escape, the fugitives, commanded by Colon
Barren County (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ely offered and believed; but the hopes created by these were speedily blasted. The movement was only a feint to deceive the Confederates, and was successful. To save East Tennessee from the grasp of Thomas, Johnston sent a large body of troops by railway from Bowling Green by way of Nashville and Chattanooga to Knoxville, and when the Confederate force was thus weakened in front of Buell, Thomas was recalled. The latter turned back, marched westward, and joined Nelson at Glassgow, in Barren County, on Hardee's right flank. In the mean time, Mitchel, with his reserves that formed Buell's center, had moved toward the Green River in the direction of Bowling Green. These developments satisfied Johnston that Buell was concentrating his forces to attack his front, so he called in his outlying posts as far as prudence would allow, and prepared January, 1862. for the shock of battle, that now seemed inevitable. The combined movements of the army and navy against Forts Henry and Done
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
Mexico, which included only the territory of New Mexico, was intrusted to Colonel E. R. S. Canby. Sady to meet him even in the remote region of New Mexico, in the shape of invaders from Texas. Like tempted to play a similar game for attaching New Mexico to the intended Confederacy, and to aid Twiged. Of the twelve hundred regular troops in New Mexico, not one proved treacherous to his country. their own blood! It was now thought that New Mexico would be an easy prey to the Texas insurgent Feb. 16, 1861. to incite the inhabitants of New Mexico to rebellion, while Governor Abraham Rencher, and these, with his few regular troops and New Mexico levies, made quite a respectable force in nuache Pass, fifteen miles from the capital of New Mexico, by about thirteen hundred National troops, but was so satisfied that he could not hold New Mexico, that he evacuated Albuquerque on the 12th ot Sibley, who had been compelled to evacuate New Mexico, had left behind him, in dead and wounded, a[5 more...]
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
d no serious opposition, was Tennessee, firmly held by the Confederates, excepting in its mountain region, where the most determined loyalty still prevailed. On the 9th of November, 1861, General Henry Wager Halleck, who had been called from California by the President to take an active part in the war, was appointed to the command of the new Department of Missouri. It included Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, and that portion of Kentucky lying west of the Cumberlamanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston. That officer had been an able veteran in the army of the Republic, and was then about sixty years of age. He was a Kentuckian by birth, and his sympathies were with the conspirators. He was on duty in California when the war was kindling, and was making preparations, with other conspirators there, to array that State on the side of the Confederacy, Annual Cyclopaedia for 1862. Article — A. S. Johnston. when he was superseded in command by Lieutenan
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
the surrender, 204. effects of the fall of Fort Henry, 205. Foward the close of the autumn of 1 General Grant, in an expedition against Forts Henry and Donelson. Notwithstanding repeated assura an army fifteen thousand strong. Plan of Fort Henry. References.--the a's denote the positionthe Tennessee River about twenty miles below Fort Henry, where he found the gun-boat Lexington patroJan. 28, 1862. in asking permission to storm Fort Henry, and hold it as a base for other operations.am, said one of the scouts, there will be no Fort Henry--our gunboats will dispose of it. --Not a bithe Tennessee, to get in a position between Forts Henry and Donelson, and be in readiness to storm on, and others on a steamer lying just above Fort Henry. General Tilghman and less than one hundred g and sent up a white one, and the battle of Fort Henry ceased, Feb. 6, 1862. after a severe conflies of greater achievements near, the fall of Fort Henry caused the most profound satisfaction among [13 more...]
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
th, Nov., 1861. and on the 19th took the command, with Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, an eminent engineer officer, as his chief of staff, and Brigadier-General Schuyler Hamilton as assistant chief. Both officers had been on the staff of General Scott. The Headquarters were at St. Louis. General Hunter, whom Halleck superseded, was assigned to the command of the Department of Kansas. This included the State of Kansas, the Indian Territory, west of Arkansas, and the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota. General Don Carlos Buell had superseded General Sherman, and was appointed commander of the Department of the Ohio; This included the State of Ohio, and the portion of Kentucky lying eastward of the Cumberland River, which had formed a part of Sherman's Department of the Cumberland. and the Department of Mexico, which included only the territory of New Mexico, was intrusted to Colonel E. R. S. Canby. Such was the arrangement of the military divisions of the territ
Paducah (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
nt that the Confederates were preparing to make an effort to seize Louisville, Paducah, Smithville, and Cairo, on the Ohio, in order to command the most important laimportance at the mouth of one of these streams, so were they in possession of Paducah, a place of equal or greater advantage, at the entrance to another. --History hile a third party, six thousand strong, under General C. F. Smith, moved from Paducah to Mayfield, in the direction of Columbus. Still another force moved eastwardat the time was come. The troops at Cairo, strongly re-enforced, and those at Paducah would very shortly embark. In the mean time I was to go to Smithland, at the troops at the close of the reconnaissance just mentioned, chiefly at Cairo and Paducah, and had directed General Smith to gain what information he could concerning tga, Lieutenant Commanding Phelps. (four of them armored), moved up the Ohio to Paducah, and on that evening was in the Tennessee River. He went up that stream cauti
Osage (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
n held responsible for them. He had quartered his troops on such inhabitants, and required from them contributions of horses, mules, provisions, and other necessaries. He had organized Committees of Safety, on which were placed prominent secessionists, charged to preserve the peace; and in a short time comparative good order was restored. Now Pope was charged with similar duties. On the 7th of December, he was assigned to the command of all the National troops between the Missouri and Osage Rivers, which included a considerable portion of Fremont's army that fell back from Springfield. Price was advancing. He had made a most stirring appeal by proclamation to the Missourians to come and help him, and so help themselves to freedom and independence. The Governor (Jackson), he said, had called for fifty thousand men, but only five thousand had responded. Where are those fifty thousand men? he asked. Are Missourians no longer true to themselves? Are they a timid, time-serving ra
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