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| Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Resume of military operations in Missouri and Arkansas , 1864 65
Resume of military operations in Missouri and Arkansas, 1864-65. by Wiley Britton, 6TH Kansas cavalry.
The capture of Fort Smith by General Blunt, and of Little Rock by General Steele, early in September, 1863 [see The conquest of Arkansas, Vol.
III., p. 441], put the Arkansas River, from its mouth to its junction with the Grand and Verdigris rivers, into the possession of the Federal forces.
This general advance of the Federal line forced General Price to fall back with his army from his fortified positions around Little Rock to Camden and Arkadelphia, in the southern part of the State.
Having now no threatened positions of importance to hold, the Confederate generals in Arkansas were free to use their mounted troops and light artillery in attacking and threatening with attack the small posts and lines of communication in the rear of the Federal army.
On his retreat from Little Rock [see map, p. 348], Price detached General Joseph O. Shelby with a brigade from Marmaduke's cav