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Crab Orchard, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
rallying-point a strong position in the centre of the disturbed district, which separates the valley of the Cumberland from the vast and rich plain known by the name of the blue-grass region. The camp of Garrard, to which he had given the name of Wild Cat, was situated a little to the north of London, the first village to be met on the Lexington road after crossing the Cumberland at Barboursville. On leaving London the road forks; one branch, following the valley, runs westward towards Crab Orchard, Camp Dickson, and Frankfort; the other branch, which leads to Richmond and Lexington, rises upon the hills which skirt the valley, crosses Rockcastle Creek, and penetrates into another jumble of rocks (massif) called Big Hill. In the pass between London and Rockcastle Creek Wild Cat Camp was situated, surrounded by forests, flanked by scarped rocks, and only approachable by narrow and tortuous roads, easy to defend, but surrounded by positions which must be occupied, and which required
Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ow fruitless their mission was to be. They were even reproached for the premature delight their associates had exhibited when war seemed inevitable. A portion of the troops who had embarked in England for Canada had not yet arrived when the commissioners left Fort Warren. Mr. Seward took advantage of this delay to wind up the negotiation with one of those strokes of wit which that humorous statesman never failed to launch at his opponents. He hastened to inform the British consul at Portland, Maine, that the English troops would be allowed to land at that port, and pass freely through the territory of the United States, to avoid the New Brunswick route—impeded by snow and ice at that season—on their way to Canada. We have reached the end of the first year of the long war the narrative of which we have undertaken. It terminated contrary to the expectations of both parties, without securing to either of them a decided superiority. It had dissipated many illusions. Nothing but
Sarcoxie (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
zark Mountains, were to enter Missouri to support Price. The troops of the latter were considerably scattered; he was himself encamped at Pools Prairie, between Sarcoxie and Neosho; Governor Jackson, with a brigade commanded by General Parsons, was at Lamar, much more to the northward, while another brigade, under General Rains, June; and on learning that the Confederates had gone southward, he pushed immediately forward in the hope of surprising some isolated detachment. He arrived at Sarcoxie with one of his regiments on the 28th, but Price, having abandoned the camp of Pools Prairie, had retired beyond Neosho. After occupying this town, Siegel deterosition, and which harassed him on every side, he succeeded toward evening in reaching some woods, which afforded him shelter, and by a night march he arrived at Sarcoxie, fortunate in having been able thus to escape, without great losses, from an enemy more numerous and more vigilant than himself. He had only thirteen men kille
Bolivar, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
number of Union prisoners left there and capturing seventy of the enemy's men, the Federal forces pursued their toilsome march towards the Osage. On the 16th of October Fremont reached that river in the vicinity of Warsaw, but its swollen waters rendered the ford impracticable and made it necessary to construct hastily a trestle-bridge. This work occupied five days, and on the 21st the whole army crossed the Osage. The transport train had by this time been organized, and it followed the Bolivar road on its way to Springfield. On the 24th Fremont reached the borders of Pomme de Terre River, eighty kilometres from that city; and he sent Major Zagonyi, an old Hungarian officer, at the head of two squadrons called bodyguards, with one hundred and fifty skirmishers, to make a reconnaissance. On the afternoon of the 25th Zagonyi came in sight of Springfield. Up to this time he had only met a few isolated partisans, and expected to find that city garrisoned by a few hundred men, whom
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
men. Under Pope5,488 men At Lexington2,400 men At Jefferson City9,677 men At Rolla4,700 men At Benton3,059 men At Cape Girardeau650 men At Bird's Point and Norfolk3,510 men At Cairo4,826 men At Fort Holt3,595 men At Paducah7,791 men Under Lane2,200 men At Monroe and near Cairo900 men —— Total55,695 men After driv of all the arsenals situated in the Southern States, with their depots, their dock-yards, and their materiel, and finally the burning of the vessels collected at Norfolk, deprived it of its principal resources. But the defection of two hundred and fifty-nine officers, natives of the rebel States, was even a more fatal blow, whichefore the war by his hydrographical exploration of the Dead Sea, had been placed in command of a small steamer, the Sea-Bird, carrying two guns, which was then at Norfolk. He was to take her by way of the Albemarle Canal into the inland waters of South Carolina, in order to watch the Federals stationed at Hatteras. The condition
Patrick Henry (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
re, after exchanging a few shots with the enemy. On the following day the same Federal cruiser bombarded the town of Urbanna, which served as a depot for the contraband trade with Maryland. In the mean time, the Confederates had armed the Patrick Henry on the James River, a steamer which formerly plied in Chesapeake Bay, and of which they had taken possession. On the 2d of December they wished to try her strength against the small vessels which came up the James from the anchoringgrounds at Newport News to make reconnaissances. But those vessels having fallen back at her approach on the large ships at anchor in the harbor, the Patrick Henry only exchanged a few cannon-shots with them, and then disappeared without making any further demonstration. A few weeks after, the Confederates were more fortunate. Captain Lynch, formerly an officer in the Federal navy, who had acquired some distinction before the war by his hydrographical exploration of the Dead Sea, had been placed in c
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
s at which armies could penetrate the barrier which intersects Western Virginia throughout its whole extent: to the northward, the space intertrict manifested more sympathy with his views than the rest of Western Virginia, but not sufficient, however, to take up arms and enlist under war. As he had no intention of disputing the northern part of Western Virginia with his adversaries, he fell back towards the south, leaving turbed the quiet which winter imposed upon the belligerents in Western Virginia. The first took place on the 9th of November at Guyandotte, a the mouth of the river of that name in Ohio. That portion of Western Virginia lying south of the Great Kanawha had always been abandoned to , east of Lexington, an expedition which was to penetrate into Western Virginia from Kentucky. The Confederates, although not sufficiently nups was destined to swell the armies of Missouri, Kentucky, and Western Virginia, but the necessity of covering the Federal capital concentrate
Dieppe (France) (search for this): chapter 6
mong the orange groves and amid all the splendors of an almost tropical vegetation. In a military point of view, the bay of Port Royal, the entrance of which is narrowed by Hilton Head, is one of the finest ports in America, and the group of islands of St. Helena, sufficiently large to furnish supplies of every kind, yet easy to defend and surrounded by navigable arms of the sea, made an excellent depot for the navy. These advantages had not been unobserved by the navigator Jean Ribaut, of Dieppe, who, in 1562, had brought there a party of Norman Protestants, and had built a fort on one of the islands; the French names of Beaufort and Port Royal perpetuate the remembrance of those hardy pioneers, whom the sad religious wars of the sixteenth century had driven far from a country too little concerned to nourish her children at home. Fine weather had favored the departure of the fleet, but it was not to escape the storm which, in consequence of its periodical return in the beginning
Huntersville (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
gth, and by a path which, following the crest of the mountain in a direct line, reduced the distance to twelve kilometres. On the 11th of September Lee left Huntersville with about nine thousand men. He had an enormous numerical superiority over the Federals, but his troops were raw, his officers without experience, the ground -field, and to follow up along the Great Kanawha that army of Rosecrans the left flank of which Reynolds had so well protected. A few days after his return to Huntersville he took up his line of march towards the South with the greatest portion of his forces, and strongly reinforced Floyd and Wise, whom he found occupying the crehis steps towards Cheat Mountain. This battle was a bloody one, each party having had about two hundred men disabled. An expedition which proceeded as far as Huntersville, where it destroyed some Confederate depots, compensated the Federals to a small extent for their double failure at Buffalo Hill. The campaign was at an end
Roanoke Island (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
aband trade carried on there and the preparations for defence on the part of the Confederates. Between the ocean and the deeply indented coast of North Carolina stretches a narrow tongue of sand, which describes a convex arc and envelops a vast sheet of water. This inland sea, called Pamlico Sound, which resembles, on a larger scale, the lagoons of Venice, is almost everywhere navigable for vessels of considerable size. It is interspersed with numerous islands, the largest of which, Roanoke Island, divides it into two unequal parts; the southern portion, designated as Pamlico Sound proper, presents the larger surface; the sheet lying northward is known by the name of Albemarle Sound. This tongue of sand is intersected at intervals by difficult inlets resembling those of Lido and Malamocco; at the highest point of the arc which it describes lies Cape Hatteras, and a little farther to the south the inlet of the same name. This inlet was very much frequented by the blockade-runners
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