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Murfreesboro (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
s manner, had been on the battle-field of Murfreesborough, the issue of that contest would have beef the Confederates on the battle-field of Murfreesborough. Their retreat, on the contrary, renderelle; and Crittenden, on the left, that of Murfreesborough. The right and left thus flanked the poste army was united in the neighborhood of Murfreesborough; according to Bragg's report, it only numowed from Nashville, by which to approach Murfreesborough. The other two corps, in their efforts tarch. As the Federals were approaching Murfreesborough, it is proper that we should devote a few of the Confederates on the Nashville and Murfreesborough road, Rousseau's division having remaineds and place itself between the latter and Murfreesborough. The conception of this plan was all theall's Creek to those of Stone River, near Murfreesborough, the two straight lines formed by the rainfederate cavalry surrendered the town of Murfreesborough to the Federals. Bragg's army halted on [30 more...]
Bolivar, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ing again the great river at Columbus. In order to defend this long railway track, all the secondary lines would have been abandoned, as well as the stations of Bolivar, Jackson in Tennessee, Iuka, and even the fortifications of Corinth, whose works would have been destroyed, and the depots evacuated. Halleck did not approve of ber, Grant had put five divisions in motion, which swelled the number of his active forces to more than thirty thousand men. Three of these divisions started from Bolivar, the other two came from Corinth, and all proceeded toward Grand Junction. On the 4th the Federal army occupied this point, as well as Lagrange, while the cavalrable number of wounded upon the ground. Being always in search of some new weak point, he presented himself successively before Cold Water Bridge, Middleburg and Bolivar, but found everywhere the small Federal garrisons so well prepared to receive him that he did not venture to attack any of them seriously. While Van Dorn was o
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ly in operation all the capacity and force of the Columbus Railroad; but this line, which was also destroyed in several places, could not be put in order for two or three weeks, perhaps, and large parties of the enemy's cavalry were scouring the country, ready to renew their destruction in proportion as the damages were repaired. Grant's position, therefore, had become untenable. It was necessary for him to fall back rapidly in order to reopen communications either with Memphis or Pittsburg Landing, or to boldly push forward, and either to fight or to avoid Pemberton. In the latter contingency, he would have had to descend the Yazoo, subsisting upon the country, until he could communicate with the Mississippi fleet and Sherman, whose troops must have been in the neighborhood of Vicksburg. This course was full of dangers and uncertainties. The resources of the country through which he would have to pass were unknown, nor was he sure that Sherman would be found in the vicinity o
Buena Vista (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
culty, it was found that it would be necessary to march a distance of twelve kilometres to reach the enemy, and that this route would lead them in front of the bayou, of which he occupied the passes. Sherman retraced his steps; and under cover of night his whole corps, by following a road called River Road, which ran between the swamp and the Confederate positions, was deployed so as to complete the investment. In the course of this day the flotilla, composed of three armed vessels, the De Kalb, the Cincinnati and the Louisville, with a small number of light boats, had opened a brisk cannonade against the fort, occupying its attention by the destructive fire. One ship even tried to pass up beyond the enemy's works; but after having succeeded in the attempt, finding herself isolated and exposed to a concentrated fire, she was obliged to go down the river again. On the morning of the 11th every one was at his post; Steele's division, on the extreme right, rested on the bayou, and
Jonesville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he inhabitants of which, few and poor, were, moreover, bitterly hostile to them. Nevertheless, on the evening of the 28th, they at once began to ascend the road, dangerous at that season, which leads into Virginia across the Cumberland Mountains. No enemy was looked for in that direction, and the passes were entirely unguarded. This night-march, despite the cold, was successfully accomplished. Allowing his horses only one hour's time to feed, Carter, after descending into the valley of Jonesville on the morning of the 29th, proceeded up the smaller ridge of Powell's Mountains, and entering the State of Tennessee reached the borders of Clinch River before sunset. Both men and horses were exhausted. Some rest was taken; each trooper ate his last biscuit, then jumped into the saddle to follow the indefatigable general, who had already given the signal of departure. Success was the prize of speed. That night saw the Federals cross the silent and gloomy gorges of Clinch Mountain; th
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e, in a strategic point of view, but the two wings of a single army, designed to operate between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies. They were dependent upon each other, as the troops of Price and Van Dorn, which the Confederates had left before Coccupied in the month of July, the central point of Chattanooga would again be menaced, and the armies which covered the Alleghanies on one side, and the course of the Mississippi on the other, would no longer have been able to support each other. lroad. This railway follows throughout the whole distance one of the small valleys formed by the parallel ridges of the Alleghanies; it was then the only direct communication between Virginia and the slave States of the Southwest, between the capittrot, emerged before daybreak into the rolling land which forms the undulating valley which is the central drain of the Alleghanies. Every now and then some farmer, armed with a rifle, perceiving, not without surprise, the long file of hostile tro
Holly Springs (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
November; on the 13th, his vanguard was at Holly Springs, the first important station after Grand Jd men by rail to reinforce the garrison of Holly Springs, which was the centre of his depots of prorrisons were on their guard except that of Holly Springs. This village had become the rendezvousry came up at a gallop into the streets of Holly Springs, they only found a few sentinels at the enned on the road by an accident, arrived at Holly Springs. This was the only important success obtaseriously. While Van Dorn was occupying Holly Springs, Forrest had undertaken an expedition stil its existence. The supplies destroyed at Holly Springs were intended to subsist it for several wetence. On the 23d of December, it reached Holly Springs, where immense heaps of ashes and blackenewas thus hastily embarking, the capture of Holly Springs upset Grant's plan of campaign, while the concerning him. The news of the capture of Holly Springs had reached Vicksburg, and the few inhabit
Pattersonville (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
cupied that town in a permanent manner, but they were in force at Bayou Teche, and determined to dispute its possession with the Federals. Two works, connected by a species of stockade, defended the course of this river near the village of Pattersonville, and a steamer—the Cotton—whose guns were protected by bales of cotton, had full control of the river above this point. Weitzel left Thibodeaux on the 11th of January, 1863, with his brigade for Brashear City, where he overtook a naval divise first time. The infantry was taken on board; the artillery and cavalry, having been left on the other side of the Atchafalaya, ascended the left side of the Teche between this river and the lake. On the 13th the flotilla appeared before Pattersonville. The obstacle which the Confederates had raised in this place was insurmountable. It consisted of a boat sunk crossways, resting upon the scaffolding of an old bridge; the guns placed on the enemy's works commanded all the approaches by wa
Huntingdon, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ivision composed of all arms. Forrest, being closely pressed, took the road by which he had come; but Dunham's Federal brigade, which had been sent to intercept him, met him on the 31st at Parker's Cross-roads, twenty-eight kilometres north of Huntingdon, on the Lexington road. Attacked by superior forces which threatened to surround their two wings, the Federals were on the point of being crushed. They, however, resisted vigorously, facing the enemy on every side, who, from numerical superioty; but his ammunition failed, his convoy was in the hands of the enemy, and it was but two o'clock in the afternoon. He might therefore consider himself as lost, when in an instant everything was changed. Sullivan, who had hastened over from Huntingdon, appeared on the field of battle with Fuller's brigade. A few cannon-shots and some volleys of musketry, taking Forrest's soldiers in flank, who were already worn out by the struggle, sufficed to stop them; a moment after, they took flight, le
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ks, who had recently been sent to New Orleans with considerable reinforcements, would go up the river under the protection of Farragut's guns, and join Sherman in front of Vicksburg; but Butler's successor had but just arrived in the capital of Louisiana, and could not think of beginning his march so soon. Besides, if he had undertaken this expedition at that time, it would have been impeded, as it was at a later period, by the fortifications which the Confederates had secretly erected at Portd under a thick covering of rank vegetation, was put in working order, and Brashear City, being thus placed in direct communication with New Orleans, soon became the advanced post from whence the Federals controlled the whole of that section of Louisiana. General Butler hastened to devise a pretext of hostility on the part of its principal inhabitants, in order to make a wholesale confiscation of their property. We shall speak further on of his system of government works, the ostensible object
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