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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
ity until the 23d of January. The cold weather still continued. The roads were covered with snow; the rivers which were to be forded were frozen over; those which were crossed by ferryboats were obstructed by enormous blocks of ice. Under a hard stratum the ground, overflowed and soaked during the autumn, concealed a deep and semi-liquid mud, into which the horses soon sank. The march of the brigade was most laborious, and in spite of all his efforts Waring could not reach until the 8th of February the village of Collierville on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which had been assigned to him as the place of rendezvous. He had, in spite of so many obstacles, travelled over two hundred and seventeen miles in seventeen days. Sooy Smith had waited for him. Before the arrival of Waring he had but five thousand available cavalry. He did not deem it advisable to take the field with these forces against Forrest, who had nearly six thousand. It was a serious mistake on his part, for