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Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
sissippi by sweeping its banks of obstructions, from Cairo to New Orleans. See page 79. Approving of it in geffort to seize Louisville, Paducah, Smithville, and Cairo, on the Ohio, in order to command the most importantns at one extremity, furnishing men and arms, so was Cairo on the west; and as the one had a menacing neighbor ippi River, had been in preparation at St. Louis and Cairo, for co-operation with the military forces in the Wed men, was commanded by General McClernand, who left Cairo for Fort Jefferson, and other places below, in riverion by saying that the time was come. The troops at Cairo, strongly re-enforced, and those at Paducah would vedistricts, and he had given the command over that of Cairo to General Grant. This was enlarged late in Decembeose of the reconnaissance just mentioned, chiefly at Cairo and Paducah, and had directed General Smith to gain , the 2d of February, 1862. Flag-officer Foote left Cairo with a little flotilla of seven gun-boats These w
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
West, 196. the Confederates in Kentucky and Tennessee, 197. their fortifications in those States rate line, 199. Thomas's movements toward East Tennessee, 200. expedition against Fort Henry, 201.Fremont for clearing the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas of armed insurgents,e Confederates from Kentucky, and liberating Tennessee from their grasp. We have seen how the lots of infantry and one battery of artillery; Tennessee, two regiments of infantry. This large army ong the hills on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee, while seeking both. Crittenden retreated ft to its northwest corner, and then entering Tennessee, passes through it in a due north course, wh point he penetrated Kentucky far toward the Tennessee line, threatening Columbus and the country irmed, was to be the immediate liberator of East Tennessee. He had crossed the Cumberland River in feneral Tilghman, and Captain Jesse Taylor of Tennessee, who was the commander of the fort, with ten[15 more...]
Boonville (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
to his new field of operations, about five thousand recruits, it was said, were marching from the Missouri River and beyond to join Price. To prevent this combination was Pope's chief desire. He encamped thirty or forty miles southwest from Booneville, at the middle of December, and after sending out some of the First Missouri cavalry, under Major Hubbard, to watch Price, who was then at Osceola with about eight thousand men, and to prevent a reconnaissance of the main column of the Nationalally cleared of the armed forces of insurgents who had so long infested it, and that the National flag was waving in triumph over the soil of Arkansas. In accomplishing this good work, no less than sixty battles and skirmishes, commencing with Booneville at the middle of June, See page 510, volume I. and ending at the middle of the succeeding February, 1862. had been fought on Missouri soil, resulting in an aggregate loss to both parties, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of about eleven t
Boston Mountains (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
by Curtis. Still southward he hastened, and was more closely followed, his rear and flanks continually harassed during four days, while making his way across the Arkansas border to Cross Hollows. During the operations of this forward movement of the National troops, Brigadier-General Price, son of the chief, was captured at Warsaw, together with several officers of the elder Price's staff, and about <*> recruits. Having been re-enforced by Ben McCulloch, near a range of hills called Boston Mountains, he made a stand at Sugar Creek, where, in a brief engagement, he was defeated, Feb. 20. and was again compelled to fly. He halted at Cove Creek, where, on the 25th, he reported to his wandering chief, Jackson, saying, Governor, we are confident of the future. General Halleck, quite. as confident of the future, was now able to report to his Government that Missouri was effectually cleared of the armed forces of insurgents who had so long infested it, and that the National flag was wav
Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
t 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 portionp equipage. While Halleck was thus purging Missouri, Hunter, with his Headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, was vigorously at work in Kansas, on the west of it. Preparations had been made for organizing an army in Kansas to go through the Indian Territory and a portion of Southwestern Arkansas and so on to New Orleans, to co-operate with the forces that were to sweep down the Mississippi and along its borders. James H. Lane, then a member of the United States Senate, was to command that army
Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
your brave associates its profound thanks for the service you have rendered. The moral effect of the victory on the Confederates was dismal, and drew forth the most serious complaints against the authorities at Richmond, and especially against Mallory, the so-called Secretary of the Navy. Painful apprehensions of future calamities were awakened; for it was felt that, if Fort Donelson should now fall, the Confederate cause in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri must be ruined. The first great step toward that event had been taken. The National troops were now firmly planted in the rear of Columbus, on the Mississippi, and were only about ten miles by land from the bridge over which was the railway connection between that post and Bowling Green. There was also nothing left to obstruct the passage of gunboats up the Tennessee to the fertile regions of Northern Alabama, and carrying the flag of the Republic far toward the heart of the Confederacy. Tail-piece — delivery of a swor
Cumberland Gap (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
he forces under General Polk at Columbus were strengthened, and Zollicoffer, having secured the important position of Cumberland Gap, proceeded to occupy the rich mineral and agricultural districts around the upper waters of the Cumberland River. He the west, and Somerset on the east, and Crittenden was in the extreme eastern part of the State, in the direction of Cumberland Gap. To General Thomas was assigned the duty of attacking the Confederates at Beech Grove and Mill Spring, where, at tposts and fortifications for nearly four hundred miles across Southern Kentucky, and within the Tennessee border from Cumberland Gap to Columbus on the Mississippi, that when General Thomas had accomplished the first part of the work he was sent to p in force, after the battle of Mill Spring, at the head of navigation at Waitsboro, and had pushed a column on toward Cumberland Gap. Predictions of glorious events in the great valley between the Alleghany and Cumberland Mountains were freely offer
Warsaw, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
parture, for remains of supper and half-dressed sheep and hogs, that had been slain the previous evening, were found. Price retreated to Cassville, closely pursued by Curtis. Still southward he hastened, and was more closely followed, his rear and flanks continually harassed during four days, while making his way across the Arkansas border to Cross Hollows. During the operations of this forward movement of the National troops, Brigadier-General Price, son of the chief, was captured at Warsaw, together with several officers of the elder Price's staff, and about <*> recruits. Having been re-enforced by Ben McCulloch, near a range of hills called Boston Mountains, he made a stand at Sugar Creek, where, in a brief engagement, he was defeated, Feb. 20. and was again compelled to fly. He halted at Cove Creek, where, on the 25th, he reported to his wandering chief, Jackson, saying, Governor, we are confident of the future. General Halleck, quite. as confident of the future, was now a
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
Louis, 198. Foote's flotilla preparations to break the Confederate line, 199. Thomas's movements toward East Tennessee, 200. expedition against Fort Henry, 201. operations of gun boats on the Tennessee River torpedoes, 202. attack on Fort Henry, 203. capture of the post scene just before the surrender, 204. effects of the fall of Fort Henry, 205. Foward the close of the autumn of 1861, the attitude of the contending parties, civil and military, in the great basin of the central Mississippi Valley was exceedingly interesting. We left the National army in Southern Missouri, at the middle of November, dispirited by the removal of their favorite leader, slowly making their way toward St. Louis under their temporary commander, General Hunter, while the energetic Confederate leader, General Price, was advancing, and reoccupying the region which the Nationals abandoned. See page 84. We left Southern Kentucky, from the mountains to the Mississippi River, in possession of th
Russellville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ille. Under the shadow of Johnston's protection, and behind the cordon of Confederate troops stretched across the State, the disloyal politicians of Kentucky proceeded to organize an independent government for the commonwealth. They met at Russellville, the capital of Logan County, in the southern part of the State, on the 29th of October. They drew up a manifesto, in which the grievances of Kentucky were recounted, and the action of its Legislature denounced. They then called upon the people of the State to choose, in any manner they might see fit, delegates to attend a Sovereignty convention, at Russellville, on the 18th of November. At the appointed time, about two hundred men from fifty-one counties, not elected by the people, assembled, and with difficult gravity adopted a Declaration of Independence, and an Ordinance of Secession, Nov. 20, 1861. and then proceeded to organize a Provisional Government, by choosing a governor, a legislative council of ten, a treasurer, an
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