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Cave Springs (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
rdered a charge. A portion of the mounted men dashed forward at once; the rest followed, and the enemy were thrown into confusion. In the mean time, the shells of the two Federal field-pieces routed the Confederate cavalry, which was thinking to repeat the flank movement it had executed during the fight at Carthage. The Federals remained masters of the field. This skirmish had only cost a few killed and wounded on both sides. Rains had been thrown back upon McCulloch's division at Cave Springs. The latter remained inactive, believing Lyon to be infinitely stronger than he really was, and not daring to go out to meet him. The Federal general, on his part, after proceeding as far as Curran, on the 3d of August, twelve kilometres beyond Dug Springs, also came to a halt. His army, exhausted by the heat, was in want of food; the term of service of several regiments was about to expire, and he hoped to find reinforcements at Springfield. He had also ascertained that the enemy had
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
section of country, it was settled by emigrants from the North, who, leaving Pennsylvania, have invariably followed the long and elevated valleys through which flow fl's Mountain. The first point was in the hands of the Federals stationed in Pennsylvania and in Maryland, where they occupied the two slopes of the Alleghanies. Thehe Potomac. We have stated that on this side the Federals, being masters of Pennsylvania and of Maryland, occupied the two slopes of the Alleghanies; General Kelley' which on the Virginia side is called London Heights, and which extends into Pennsylvania under the name of Maryland Heights and South Mountain. A little more to the if the Confederates debouched from the valley of Virginia into Maryland and Pennsylvania, they could not advance so long as he was on their flank, McClellan gave up t upon Baltimore and Washington, or threaten its rear if it advanced towards Pennsylvania. Shortly afterwards, Stone's division, lately organized, made a connection
Greenbrier Ridge (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
in a southerly direction from Great Pass, reascends the whole valley of the Tygart, and passes Elk Water at the foot of the High Knob, where it forks to cross the mountain to the right and left of that elevation, through the passes called Cloverlick and Staunton Pike; thence it descends into the valley of Greenbrier River. South of the three passes of Cheat Mountain, Staunton Pike, and Cloverlick, all three very near each other, there is not another practicable road to be found across Greenbrier Ridge before reaching Sewell's Mountain, the slopes of which, being less precipitous, are crossed by two or three roads which gradually descend from east to west into the valley of the Great Kanawha. This valley, as we have already stated, is the principal artery of all the surrounding country, and the small town of Charleston is its centre. The other water-courses which descend from the Alleghanies into the Ohio basin are only so many obstacles, and afford no facilities for navigation. We
Licking River (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ufficiently numerous to occupy the whole country, watched their adversaries closely, making up in activity for their want of numerical strength. But these hazardous tactics did not always prove successful; thus, on the 8th of October, three hundred of them were surprised at Hillsborough, Fleming county, by a small Federal detachment, which put them to flight, killing eleven, wounding twenty-nine, and capturing twenty-two men. The expedition, commanded by General Nelson, was to go up the Licking River, pass through Prestonburg and Piketon (or Pikeville), to cross the Cumberland Mountains, and finally descend upon Lebanon in the valley of Clinch River, whence it could cut off the communications between Virginia and Tennessee, On the 24th of October its column, after a brief skirmish, took possession of the village of West Liberty, and on the 6th of November a column of about three thousand Federals occupied Prestonburg, on the Big Sandy. This tributary of the Ohio is navigable above
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 6
ind, but simply ordered J. Davis on the 14th to send two regiments by rail to Lexington, which he again posted immediately at Jefferson City. Sturgis, detached from Pope's division and deprived of his cavalry, was ordered to proceed by rail from Mexico, where he then was, to Utica, whence he was to gain the bank of the Missouri by land in front of Lexington. He waited until the 18th to order J. Davis to go to Mulligan's assistance with the greatest portion of his troops, and directed him to forohibitions of the combatants. In the West the Confederacy was surrounded by immense deserts, which presented an impassable barrier against commerce from the borders of the Arkansas to the mouth of the Rio Grande, where the frontier of Texas and Mexico comes down to the sea. It was only at this point that the neighborhood of a neutral State could offer an always open breach in the blockade. At the entrance of the river, on the Mexican side, is the small port of Matamoras, where foreign vessels
Rolla, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
mines in the vicinity of Pilot Knob. Sedalia, Rolla, and Pilot Knob were therefore the three headsnforcements. There were two fine regiments at Rolla which might have been moved towards Springfiel them had no shoes. The wagons he had sent to Rolla to bring supplies had by a fatal mistake been rous blow to cover the movement in rear toward Rolla. Without even fighting the enemy, sufficient o vacillate, and allowed the Federals to reach Rolla unmolested, which they could not have done but abandoned. Sturgis, on his side, had quitted Rolla with his brigade, and was skirmishing in the ncements to the troops who had fallen back upon Rolla. One month earlier they would have ensured thngton2,400 men At Jefferson City9,677 men At Rolla4,700 men At Benton3,059 men At Cape Girardeahis soldiers at Springfield, he fell back upon Rolla, followed at a distance by Price, who halted aAs we have already stated, Hunter's retreat to Rolla had surrendered a great portion of Missouri to[8 more...]
Greenbrier (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the Alleghenies to the eastward, separating the waters of Cheat River, an affluent of the Monongahela, from those of Greenbrier River, a tributary of New River. Lastly, at the west a small spur called Rich Mountain detaches itself, and soon takes thme of Great Greenbrier, connects the High Knob with the crest of the Alleghanies, and proceeds towards the source of Greenbrier River, near a tavern celebrated in that wild region by the name of Travellers' Repose. The road branches off once more ateft of that elevation, through the passes called Cloverlick and Staunton Pike; thence it descends into the valley of Greenbrier River. South of the three passes of Cheat Mountain, Staunton Pike, and Cloverlick, all three very near each other, there d also to burn the bridge situated near the point of its confluence with New River, to withdraw to Lewisburg, on the Greenbrier River, beyond Sewell's Mountain. The Confederates thus found themselves at the end of July driven back everywhere into th
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
into two hostile and armed factions. The Union camps at Louisville, on the borders of the Ohio, and at Dick Robinson's, in t with the left bank of the Ohio, its northern boundary; Louisville at the west, Frankfort and Lexington in the centre, and amps, where all their forces are concentrated, one, near Louisville, deriving all its needed equipments from the neighborings enlisted in the State itself, collected principally at Louisville and Camp Dick Robinson; secondly, the national troops aserson. That officer immediately took up his quarters at Louisville, to organize the militia assembled at Camp Joe Holt, in fs of the secession party, Mr. Morehead, was arrested in Louisville and sent to Fort Lafayette; the rest took refuge with therse the whole State of Kentucky by rail, so as to reach Louisville with a sufficient number of troops to take possession ofwas able to escape, and, finding a handcar, returned to Louisville to announce the approach of the enemy. At the same time
Beaufort, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ldness of winter again brought back to the beautiful plantations which abound in the neighborhood of the little town of Beaufort the richest proprietors of Carolina, who delighted in spending a few months among the orange groves and amid all the spln 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 fered a place of refuge to the negroes who were flying from the control of their rebel masters. The latter had all left Beaufort and its vicinity; and when the Federals occupied that small town on the 11th of November, they found only the black popu through inland canals, while the brigade of Stevens, numbering four thousand five hundred men, joined them by land from Beaufort by crossing the island of St. Helena. The troops were conveyed to the other bank of the Coosaw, and attacked the Confed
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ces the Federals had, first, the home-guards enlisted in the State itself, collected principally at Louisville and Camp Dick Robinson; secondly, the national troops assembled under General Anderson on the right bank of the Ohio, in the States of Indiana and Ohio, and the remainder forming the small army commanded by Rosecrans in West Virginia. McClellan's campaign, described in a former chapter, has only made us acquainted with the northern section of that country. It is necessary, therefore,dmirably fitted for training young soldiers, but too slow to handle them successfully in an active campaign. The resources which had been refused to Sherman were placed at his disposal. The number of regiments which the Western States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois furnished the Federal government increased every day. Most of these troops were forwarded to Buell, who soon found himself at the head of a considerable army. He resolved at last to take the offensive. The Confederates, on thei
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