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December 23rd (search for this): chapter 5
eat, grain, food of every description and forage, was taken for the use of the army, and paid for in bonds. It was the first time that the Federals had applied this system, always legitimate in war, on a large scale, so much did their regular armies desire to be lenient in their treatment of the conquered country, despite all that their adversaries may have said to the contrary. Thanks to this mode of proceeding, the army was constantly provided with the means of subsistence. On the 23d of December, it reached Holly Springs, where immense heaps of ashes and blackened walls reminded it of the disaster which had rendered this retrograde movement necessary; a few days later, it again entered Lagrange and Grand Junction, where it found itself once more in communication with Corinth and Memphis. Pemberton, far from pursuing Grant, had taken advantage of his precipitate retreat, in order to withdraw all but a portion of his forces from Grenada, and bring them to Vicksburg, where he ful
December 26th (search for this): chapter 5
had also been drilled, and the new regiments had been, as far as possible, brigaded with soldiers already broken in to war. His army numbered forty-six thousand combatants, comprising forty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-one infantry, two thousand two hundred and twenty-three artillerists with one hundred and fifty guns, and three thousand two hundred and sixty-six cavalry. It was divided, as we have said, into three corps, under Crittenden, Thomas and McCook. On the morning of December 26th, which was cold and rainy, this army emerged at last from its inaction. In forcing this apparent inaction upon it, Rosecrans had not only given it time to recover strength, but he had drawn Bragg toward him, and was now able to attack him without exposing his army to the immense difficulties it would have had to encounter in a long wintermarch beyond Nashville. In order to be able to advance as far as Chattanooga in the spring, it was necessary to fight the enemy's army first; and wha
December 25th (search for this): chapter 5
frontier between Kentucky and Virginia, separating the basin of the Cumberland from that of the Tennessee. This was the railway line, so important and so well protected by nature and the season, that the Federals resolved to strike and destroy as their first attempt at a raid. Eleven hundred troopers, bold and resolute, picked from several regiments, were assembled near Manchester, a village situated at the foot of the mountains and at the entrance of the plain of Kentucky. On the 25th of December they took up their line of march under General Carter, carrying absolutely nothing but such provisions as could be placed upon their saddles. They soon penetrated into the mountains through War Gap, and crossing the first ridge descended into the gorges of the Cumberland at Mount Pleasant. A few log huts scarcely justify the appellation of Mount Pleasant given to this village; and the Federals found no resources in those rugged valleys, the inhabitants of which, few and poor, were, mo
October, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 5
ral Grant directing him to return to Milliken's Bend; this point was about to become the base of operations which the general-in-chief was preparing to undertake against Vicksburg. In coming pages we shall relate these operations, which occupied all the first half of the year 1863, but before leaving the Mississippi we must say a few words regarding the little campaign undertaken on the lower course of the river by the troops which occupied New Orleans. This campaign had commenced in October, 1862; its object was to extend the Federal authority over the fertile region lying west of the Mississippi. Taking advantage of the natural obstacles which it presents, the Confederates had maintained a few troops in it, which were in communication with Texas, and could at any time serve as vanguard to an army assembled in that warlike region to reconquer New Orleans. Two large bayous are detached from the Mississippi below the mouth of Red River, and water the lands lying west of the gre
October 7th (search for this): chapter 5
ng inactive. The Confederates, responding to the appeal of the population of Nashville, which was ardently secessionist, had conceived the idea of taking the garrison of that city by surprise, while Buell was not within reach to succor it. In the early part of October Anderson's brigade had already made some demonstration in that direction for the purpose of feeling the enemy; but General Palmer, who had remained at Nashville with his brigade and that of Negley, attacked Anderson on the 7th of October at Lavergne, and compelled him to retire. Shortly after, Forrest reappeared in the neighborhood, destroying all the ways of communication which might at any time be of service to the Federals, shutting up the latter closer and closer within the limits of the capital of Tennessee. On the 20th of October a portion of his troops encountered a regiment of Union cavalry on the borders of the Cumberland, a little below the town. After losing a few men, the Confederates were obliged to recr
22nd (search for this): chapter 5
s unknown, but elsewhere this vice could not be so completely suppressed. Sherman's orders, however, were promptly executed, and the stragglers soon collected together, seeing that all the fleet had left the piers at Memphis by the 20th. On the 22d this fleet touched at Helena, where lay the army which Curtis had brought to the borders of the Mississippi in the month of July. The greater portion of those troops were placed on board of the transports, which had come down from Memphis withoutober a portion of his troops encountered a regiment of Union cavalry on the borders of the Cumberland, a little below the town. After losing a few men, the Confederates were obliged to recross the river. But Forrest returned to the charge on the 22d; assembling his forces and marching upon Nashville by the left bank, he drove the Federals back into their lines of defence. These entrenchments could not have sustained a long siege; their profile was slight, and they were not sufficiently exten
21st (search for this): chapter 5
idea that the enemy, anxious to get away, would he compelled to set most of them at liberty unconditionally. In fact, Van Dorn had resumed his march on the evening of the 20th, and was moving rapidly toward the north, where he hoped to continue his devastations. A few hours after his departure, the reinforcement sent by Grant, which had been detained on the road by an accident, arrived at Holly Springs. This was the only important success obtained by Van Dorn. On the following day, the 21st, he made an attack on the post of Davis' Mill which was only defended by two hundred and fifty men. Hoping to overcome so small a band, he tried several times to carry it by assault at the head of his dismounted troopers; but being repeatedly repulsed, he was obliged to give up the attempt, leaving a considerable number of wounded upon the ground. Being always in search of some new weak point, he presented himself successively before Cold Water Bridge, Middleburg and Bolivar, but found every
20th (search for this): chapter 5
t to barricade the streets with the bales of cotton which filled the warehouses, and did not even put his soldiers under arms. Consequently, on the morning of the 20th, when Van Dorn's cavalry came up at a gallop into the streets of Holly Springs, they only found a few sentinels at the entrance of the village; all the passes were the enemy, anxious to get away, would he compelled to set most of them at liberty unconditionally. In fact, Van Dorn had resumed his march on the evening of the 20th, and was moving rapidly toward the north, where he hoped to continue his devastations. A few hours after his departure, the reinforcement sent by Grant, which hadnts; these forces were disposed in three divisions under command of Generals A. J. Smith, M. L. Smith and Morgan. When Sherman gave the order for embarking on the 20th, the preparations for so complicated an operation were not entirely completed. All the steamers that could be found had been collected together on the Mississippi
19th (search for this): chapter 5
tter made no secret of their sympathies with the enemy. Hence arose that negligence and carelessness of which Murphy was the first to set the example. A large hospital had been established for the numerous sick who suffered from dysentery, typhoid or malarial fevers. Murphy had not turned up a single spadeful of earth to protect the valuables entrusted to his care, and not a solitary officer had been sent from headquarters to watch him. He received Grant's despatch on the evening of the 19th, but this failed to rouse him from his lethargy; he made no preparations for defence, no attempt to barricade the streets with the bales of cotton which filled the warehouses, and did not even put his soldiers under arms. Consequently, on the morning of the 20th, when Van Dorn's cavalry came up at a gallop into the streets of Holly Springs, they only found a few sentinels at the entrance of the village; all the passes were open and the village plunged in profound sleep; they were already mas
October 1st (search for this): chapter 5
McCook at the pass of Big Hill, and left a considerable number of prisoners in the hands of the Federals. On the following day, the 24th, we find another detachment at the other end of the State forcing the passage of Green River at Morgantown after a brief engagement. For fifteen days Morgan disappeared from the scene of action. He had been assembling his men in the valley of the Cumberland, and had rallied around him the numerous partisans who were masters of that region since the 1st of October, when they had routed a Federal detachment commanded by Colonel Stokes at Gallatin, Tennessee. He was not, however, to remain long inactive. The Confederates, responding to the appeal of the population of Nashville, which was ardently secessionist, had conceived the idea of taking the garrison of that city by surprise, while Buell was not within reach to succor it. In the early part of October Anderson's brigade had already made some demonstration in that direction for the purpose of f
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