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Thompson's Station (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ated by the disastrous result of the fight at Thompson's Station, which we will relate presently, it is diffics above Spring Hill at a small station called Thompson's Station, situated on the railroad running alongside t enemy about threequarters of a mile north of Thompson's Station. The country into which he has penetrated iscupies on this side places him almost east of Thompson's Station and in advance of the rest of the Confederateighborhood of three hundred. The battle of Thompson's Station demonstrated what a numerous and well-handledve, was falling back on the 6th of March from Thompson's Station upon Spring Hill, Gilbert, expecting to be at cavalry, resumes the offensive, marches upon Thompson's Station, and encounters Starnes, who tries to hold hin's brigade which had escaped the disaster of Thompson's Station have been left in charge of the railway from surround the enemy's position, as they did at Thompson's Station, but Streight does not allow himself to be in
Vera Cruz, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
or officers, gives the order for retreat to his exhausted troops, having no doubt but that Merrill, on his part, will do the same, and leaves a regiment of two hundred and fifty men in the centre of his line to which it was forgotten to give the order of departure. After having bravely repelled a last attack, this regiment thus remains, through accident, sole master of the battlefield. During the night Marmaduke falls back as far as the northern branch of White River, in the direction of Vera Cruz, whilst Merrill hastens to reach the village of Lebanon. On the following day, being apprised of the departure of the enemy, he returns to Hartville. Marmaduke had again struck the Arkansas route. A regiment of Federal cavalry followed his rear-guard step by step as far as Batesville, and did not return until after having compelled it to recross the White River in haste on the 4th of February. The Confederates did not renew the attempt which had just failed before Springfield and Har
Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
onquering an important military post, aimed at restoring to the Union the principal mart of the South. The maritime blockade of the Federals, which had closed this great emporium of the cotton-trade, had been followed by the land-blockade of the Confederates, which surrounded it with an impassable barrier. Since the starry flag had again floated over the Queen of the Mississippi her commerce was even less than at the period when the blockade-runners carried the precious bales of cotton to Nassau by avoiding the vigilance of Union cruisers. In order to show America, and especially Europe, that the conquests of the national armies instead of destroying the cottontrade were calculated to instil new life into it, the enemy's line, which isolated New Orleans, should have been kept at a distance, and a portion at least of the fertile country which formerly supplied her markets have been reconquered. The purely military interests were more than once sacrificed to this political object;
Hazel Green (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ll the provisions that were found there; on the 25th, after a skirmish at Licktown, near the latter village, Cluke gets away from Colonel Runkle, who had been sent in pursuit of him, and returns to the mountains whence he had emerged by way of Hazel Green and the Prestonburg road. Since the beginning of the year both parties seem to have abandoned Western Tennessee by common accord. It is sufficient to mention a few slight skirmishes, such as that at Ripley on the 8th of January, that at AyBurnside—who, as we have stated, has been invested with the supreme command in Kentucky—prepares to make him pay dear for his audacity. Taking advantage of the time lost by the Confederates, two Federal regiments proceed to post themselves at Hazel Green in order to bar their passage, while other troops are sent from Lexington to assist in surrounding them completely. But Cluke, seeing his retreat cut off, returns to Mount Sterling, captures the small Union garrison which occupied this point
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
eak of the operations of Banks and Farragut along the Lower Mississippi: we will show the efforts they made to assist Grant aquently overflowed its banks, the government of the State of Mississippi, in order to stop these inundations, a few years beortance on the part of the Federal cavalry into the State of Mississippi prepared the way for those successes which were to oving slowly through it, might be undertaken in the State of Mississippi, a country rich in cattle, by an army of from thirtnvested. The undertaking was a bold one, for the State of Mississippi is very unlike European countries, where resources Brashear City, try to interrupt the navigation of the Lower Mississippi, and even menace New Orleans, thus obliging the Army unters which took place in the northern part of the State of Mississippi. After Grierson's expedition, which took him as fag troops over to him, which would have left the whole Lower Mississippi and New Orleans utterly defenceless and exposed to th
Chapel Hill, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
g upon them a loss of fifty-two prisoners, and had joined Sheridan on the evening of the 4th at Eagleville. Steedman, on his side, rapidly advancing by way of Triune and Harpeth, had finally overtaken Roddy's brigade of Confederate cavalry at Chapel Hill, near Duck River, a village lying contiguous to Fulton, and forced him to retreat. The Federal line, both on the left and in the centre, had therefore advanced with ease as far as Duck River on the 4th of March. The next day, when Coburn circumstance for Forrest, as the rising of the waters in Duck River has just cut off his retreat upon Columbia by carrying away the bridge in front of this village. While the Unionists are affecting the passage of Rutherford Creek he reaches Chapel Hill, where he finds a ford which enables him to cross Duck River. There are no Confederates left on the right bank of the lastmentioned river, but the season renders operations of any magnitude impossible, and Rosecrans is satisfied with the s
Auburn, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
e road leading from Cayuga to Edwards' Station, and Sherman between the two, near the point where the road from Cayuga to Auburn crosses the same stream. The moment had arrived for Grant to abandon his communications with Grand Gulf, and the road the Big Black, so as to watch Baldwin's Ferry, while Sherman would advance as far as Fourteen-Mile Creek on the road from Auburn to Raymond, and McPherson, by means of a long march, reach the latter place on the same evening. The cavalry, which was turn, by way of Dillon's, as far as Raymond with three divisions; the fourth was detached for the purpose of joining, at Auburn, Blair's division of Sherman's corps, which had arrived from Grand Gulf by forced marches, bringing with it a train of codiate campaign against Pemberton, he invited Banks, as we have mentioned, in a despatch forwarded on the 10th of May from Auburn, to join him before Vicksburg. It was impossible for Banks to respond to this invitation: he could not transport his who
Grand Junction (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
at the eastern extremity of the line which separated the belligerents, Streight was to pierce this line toward its centre, and Grierson at the west near the Mississippi. Since the commencement of the year the latter had had nothing to do but guard the neighborhood of Memphis and the Corinth railway. He had only met the enemy on one occasion, at Covington on the 10th of March, when he had dispersed a band of Confederates four hundred strong. On the 17th of April he left La Grange, near Grand Junction, and took the field with his own regiment, the Sixth Illinois, together with the Seventh of the same State and the Second Iowa—seventeen hundred horses in all—accompanied by a battery of artillery. Grant, wishing to leave him perfect freedom of action, had given him no positive instructions, simply directing him to cut up the railroads and destroy the depots in the rear of Pemberton. On the 18th, crossing the Tallahatchie above New Albany, Grierson entered the open country of the ene
Shreveport (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
g to be cut in two, he had abandoned it at the approach of the Federals, thus leaving the route to Alexandria open to Porter's fleet, which, after passing Grand Gulf, as we have just mentioned, had entered Red River in the beginning of May. On the 6th it appeared before Alexandria, and a few moments later, by a fortunate coincidence, the heads of columns of Banks' army were seen entering this city. The campaign undertaken by this general was therefore ended. Taylor was retiring toward Shreveport with a handful of men, pursued by Weitzel, who followed him as far as Grand Écore: all the resources of his army were destroyed; his war-vessels and transports had either been captured or burned; he had lost two thousand prisoners and twenty pieces of artillery. In short, Banks at Alexandria held the key of the whole country: the bayous were open to him; he had complete control of Red River, and was in communication with Porter and Farragut; he had only to descend the river with the large
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
been lost. General Pemberton's report to Adjutant-general Cooper, from Meridian, Miss., November 1, 1863.—Ed Between the 8th and 12th of April two divisions were stationed en échelon along the Mobile and Ohio Railway at Okolona, Macon, Meridian, and especially at Enterprise, where there was an arms-factory of considerable beginning of the war, which connected Jackson on the Mississippi Central with Meridian on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad: it was, in fact, the only railway line througng out despatches of every description, ordering Loring, who happened to be at Meridian, to mount two regiments of infantry, without thinking that it would be impossillow him, at the east. He directed both of them to take up a position between Meridian and Jackson, and to join him as soon as they had united with the reinforcementheir guns. After stopping for a few days at Morton, Johnston finally reached Meridian. On the 18th, Sherman sent out after him Steele's division, which proceeded a
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