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-- Morgan in East Tennessee, 282.
-- his last raid into Kentucky
-- he receives a staggering blow, 283.
-- the author in the great Valley of East Tennessee
-- Governor Brownlow and his family, 284.
-- Greenville
-- death of Morgan, the guerrilla chief, 285.
-- journey from Greenville to Richmond, 286.
-- Knoxville threatened by Breckinridge
-- Richmond threatened by General Butler, 287.
-- Kilpatrick's raid to Richmond, 288.
-- fortifications around Richmond, 289.
-- repulse of the Nationals at Richmond
-- death of Colonel Dahlgren, 290.
-- propriety of murdering Union prisoners considered by the Conspirators
-- preparations for blowing up Libby Prison with the prisoners, 291.
-- Ulysses S. Grant, General-in
-- chief
-- takes command
-- reorganizes the Army of the Potomac, 292.
-- co-operating forces, 293.
-- Grant's ideas about making War
-- patriotic Governors, 294.
The failure of the
Red River expedition, and the expulsion of
Steele from the country below the
Arkansas River, by which two-thirds of the
State of Arkansas was given up to the
Confederates, had a disastrous effect upon the
Union cause and people in that State, where the restoration of civil power in loyal hands, amply sustained by the military, had been, it was believed, made permanent.
1 The dream of security was now dispelled.
Steele was placed on the defensive at the
State capital, and the
Confederates everywhere showed, by their boldness and activity, a determination to repossess the
State, if possible.
Their cavalry roamed at will over all the region below the
Arkansas, after
Steele retreated to
Little Rock, plundering and overawing the Unionists.
Nor did they confine themselves to that region.
Late in June
Shelby, with a considerable body of Confederate cavalry, dashed across the
Arkansas eastward of
Little Rock, and pushed on to the
White River, on the eastern border of
Arkansas County, where they were attacked and thrown back, in the vicinity of
St. Charles, by four regiments under
General Carr, with a loss of about four hundred men, of whom two hundred were made prisoners.
Carr's loss was about two hundred.
Shelby was speedily re-enforced by
Marmaduke, when
Carr was pushed northward to
Clarendon, when he, in turn, was re-enforced, and the
Confederates retreated southward.
This bold movement was followed by others in that section of the
State.
In July about four hundred colored troops, led by
Colonel W. S. Brooks, went up the country a short distance from
Helena, when they were attacked
by a heavier force under
General Dobbins.
Fortunately,
Major Carmichael was then passing down the
Mississippi on a steamer, with one hundred and fifty of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, and
