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Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
all the forces at his disposal. We have mentioned elsewhere in what condition McClellan's old adversary had found the army of which Hardee had given him the command, and how much it was weakened by the sending of several brigades to the West, by battles, disease, desertion—how greatly its morale was shaken by defeat. He could not detach a part of it without abandoning the great gap which. opens in the Alleghanies, and the entrance of which he proposed to defend against the victors of Missionary Ridge. He explained this situation to the President; he represented to him that the reinforcements asked for by Polk could not, even by railroad, arrive in time to fight Sherman if the latter marched upon Mobile. But he was not listened to. He received on February 15th positive orders to send General Hardee with Cheatham's, Cleburne's, and Walker's divisions to Polk, and at once set about executing them. In the mean time, Sherman was only contemplating turning to account the easy conques
Bayou Rapides (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
t of acting promptly and vigorously. On the 21st he had recognized Vincent's position, and resolved to dislodge him in order to ensure the army the passage of Bayou Rapides. General Mower had charge of this operation with his division of infantry and a brigade of Lee's cavalry, which, preceding Franklin, had arrived at Alexandria nks had lost no time in setting his army in motion. The day after Franklin's arrival, the 27th, A. J. Smith, moving up the right bank of Red River, had passed Bayou Rapides, and had established himself at Cotile, near the spot where Mower on the 21st surprised Vincent's cavalry. Franklin followed the same road one day later. Theated for that, taking with them several batteries of artillery. Steele's brigade was ordered to watch the approaches to Alexandria on the west, on the line of Bayou Rapides; Bagby on the south, on that of Bayou Boeuf; whilst Major, going down the stream below the city, posted himself at David's Ferry in order to cut Banks' communi
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nd Macon, across the swamps of Okanoxubee, to Meridian, at which he should arrive, it was agreed, onrt of the wagons and locomotives collected at Meridian had been carried away by Polk. There was stiDemopolis. In order to extend farther around Meridian the zone of destruction, Sherman was waiting enant as he had expected to see him arrive at Meridian at the same time he did. He availed himself o so uselessly undertaken to rejoin Sherman at Meridian. The latter expected that his lieutenant shoon cavalry might yet have rejoined Sherman at Meridian if it had accelerated its pace. In fact, by trip him and to place himself between him and Meridian with all his forces, for on that same day, thdversaries while Sherman was marching against Meridian. The expedition which the latter had organherman to make, during his expedition against Meridian, a demonstration which would prevent Johnstonely his own forces, undertook the campaign of Meridian related in the preceding chapter. As soon as[15 more...]
Aberdeen (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
eached Starkville, and the latter, passing more to the north, had crossed the railroad to reach Aberdeen on the banks of the Tombigbee, and placed himself on the left flank of the Federal column. The, he divided his column. Grierson, with Hepburn's brigade, proceeds south-eastwardly to occupy Aberdeen, and even trusts one detachment on the left bank of the Tombigbee. With his two other brigades only about six miles, pushing slowly before him Colonel Forrest's brigade, which has evacuated Aberdeen on the approach of Grierson. The next day his march is somewhat more rapid; he reaches, at thge of West Point, fifteen miles south of Egypt. Hepburn's brigade, which he has summoned from Aberdeen, is not long in joining him. But he cannot make up for lost time. Forrest has made all his prein this cul-de-sac that Forrest had resolved to stop him. Fearing that the Federals might, from Aberdeen, wish to reach Columbus by the left bank of the Tombigbee, he had caused Bell's brigade, then c
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ississippi was to pass through Shreveport. Two sections only were finished in 1864—those running from Marshall to Shreveport, and from Monroe, on the Washita, to De Soto opposite Vicksburg. From the lakes to its mouth in the Mississippi the Red River passes through a rather flat and generally very fertile country, thanks to the rthe Southern ironclads. It would also be necessary to carry on a regular siege against Shreveport, and during that time to put in working order the railroad from De Soto to Monroe, and complete for a length of fifty miles that from Monroe to Shreveport. This work could be accomplished in three months: at this cost the Federals woessential to success: to wit, the co-operation of the fleet, and consequently the ability of the latter to ascend Red River; the construction of the railroad from De Soto to Shreveport; and the unity of command. To obtain this latter point he generously offered, notwithstanding his seniority, to serve under the command of Sherman
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e particularly dangerous. The first, which is surprising as emanating from a man wearing the uniform of the Government, would certainly have demoralized the army by the strange spectacle, if the enemy's officers had accepted it, of generals exchanging promissory notes while their soldiers were killing one another. The second would have rendered all control impossible, and would have enabled the Confederate Government itself to negotiate under borrowed names the sale of its cotton in the New Orleans market. The speculators would have realized the most of the profits in these vast operations. Therefore, they did not consider themselves beaten, and beset Banks more than ever with new combinations. The latter, whilst rejecting them, had not relinquished his favorite idea, his plan of taking possession, in some way or other, for account of his Government, of the cotton belonging to private persons, and of inducing, moreover, the owners to sell it under his authority. But he had rec
Bakers Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
to give Loring's and French's divisions time to reunite in the city of Jackson, so as to dispute with them the passage of Pearl River. Not having been able to forestall the Federals on the banks of the Big Black, he was waiting for them a little in the rear, Starke occupying, with two guns, the battlefield of Champion's Hill, and another brigade Jefferson Davis' plantation on the road followed by Hurlbut. Winslow's cavalry had, on the evening of the 3d, taken possession of a bridge on Baker's Creek at the foot of Champion's Hill, and McPherson, who had bivouacked at Edwards' Depot, had but to deploy on the morning of the 4th a few regiments of Crocker's division to dislodge Starke and open a passage for himself. During that time Hurlbut was also overcoming the resistance against him, and the two Federal columns, pushing vigorously the enemy before them, reached a point beyond Fleetwood and Bolton in the evening. The following day, the 5th, they encountered each other at Clinton a
Cleveland, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ty of Ringgold behind Taylor's Ridge, advanced toward Tunnel Hill, and, after having reconnoitred in the evening Wheeler's position, encamped a few miles north-west of this position. Cruft, reinforced by Matthies' brigade, advanced from Red Clay, where he was established, in the direction of Tunnel Hill, leaving the railroad on his left, and halted at Lee's house near the road from Ringgold to Dalton. General Long, summoned from Loudon with six hundred cavalry, followed the railroad from Cleveland to Dalton, and penetrated into Crow Valley to within four miles of the latter city, but, having encountered considerable force, he was compelled to fall back on Varnell's Station. The presence of these troops on the two sides of Rocky Face Ridge inspired Palmer with extreme prudence. He advanced but a few miles during the day of the 24th. Johnson's and Baird's divisions, formed in three columns, were for a long time kept in awe by Wheeler's artillery posted on Tunnel Hill. The latter
Tulip, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
had been seeking a crossing higher up, near Benton; but having, it appears, run short of forage, he had turned aside, in spite of the instructions of his chief, for the purpose of seeking it in the neighborhood of Arkadelphia. He had thus missed the opportunity of holding Steele in check on the banks of the Sabine until Kirby Smith had been able to come up with all his army. The latter marched more slowly than the Federals. On the evening of the 29th it was écheloned between Princeton and Tulip, and did not appear till the afternoon of the 30th on the hills which command the wide valley of the Sabine, after a march begun at one o'clock in the morning and rendered very laborious by the rain. Steele was still in the valley, for it had become needful to give his soldiers rest and to construct at both ends of the bridge of boats thrown across the river a corduroy road nearly five miles long. But this undertaking was finished on the 30th, and a part of the army, with all its equipme
Fernandina, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
t to be set up without any delay, to the end that those who had taken the oath, and whose vote had been discounted in advance, might take part in the Presidential election in November. Gillmore, accordingly, did not lose a single minute. On the morning of the 8th he put his troops in motion in the direction of Baldwin. This place is situated about nineteen miles to the west of Jacksonville, and at the intersection of the only two railroads that Florida possessed at that time–that from Fernandina to Cedar Keys, and that from Jacksonville to Tallahassee. These two roads, which traverse the most fertile part, Northern Florida, connect the Atlantic coast with that of the Gulf of Mexico. Gillmore counted on following the first far enough to drive the enemy back toward Tallahassee, to hinder them from enlisting troops, from collecting stores, turpentine, and cotton in the eastern part of the State, from carrying off the rails of the railroad, which they intended, it is said, to use in
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