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Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
h slope down towards the north and which the road easily ascends, it encounters a small solitary building called Elkhorn Tavern. Here branches off a road which leads to Bentonville through the hamlet of Leetown, situated in the centre of the ridge. Such is the ground upon which the first battle that drenched Arkansas with blood was about to be fought. The Southern generals, having received reinforcements, prepared to resume the offensive. Price, who had retired south-west into the Indian territory among the Boston Mountains, had again been joined by Generals McCulloch and McIntosh, at the head of two divisions of Confederate troops, and by a half-breed adventurer named Pike, The author has been misinformed concerning Albert Pike. He is a Massachusetts man of pure blood, whose adventurous spirit led him in search of a livelihood to the South-west, where he was well known as a teacher, a lawyer, an editor, and a poet of more than ordinary gifts. He took part with the Confedera
Lick Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
t trees. It is bounded by two watercourses, Lick Creek, to the south, which debouches obliquely intg, to the south, runs along the left bank of Lick Creek; that of Crump's Landing, to the north, crosCorinth. The two streams of Owl Creek and Lick Creek, separated at their mouths by a space of litack, and entirely isolated on the borders of Lick Creek, was the fourth brigade of Sherman, commandettsburg Landing, which rested at the left on Lick Creek near its mouth, and at the right on Owl Creewhen they had once reached the space between Lick Creek and Owl Creek, where they knew the enemy to d Confederates massed between Owl Creek and Lick Creek would not have thus been reduced to the figu Stewart's brigade at the extreme left, near Lick Creek, which he had posted there when he was guarddge's reserves, extending on the right along Lick Creek, finally met the brigade of Stewart, the 4thon the plateaux which separate the valley of Lick Creek from that of Owl Creek. This unlooked — for[2 more...]
Old Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
igh tide would, in fact, enable her to approach them much nearer the following morning than she had done the day previous. The Federal fleet once annihilated, Buchanan could proceed to bombard Fort Monroe, drive all the enemy's transports from Old Point Comfort, thus obliging the troops to evacuate the peninsula, and, after freeing the James River, himself blockade the whole of the Chesapeake. The Virginia was not enough of a sea vessel and carried too little coal to venture upon the high sea she was completely imbedded. Fearing lest she should also run aground, and wishing at the same time to cut off her retreat, the Virginia, instead of attacking her directly, ran into the deep waters which surround the Rip Raps in the harbor of Old Point Comfort; thence the Confederate ram entered the channel in which the Minnesota was stranded, to come upon her by following the same direction she had herself taken the day before. But as the Confederate gunners were about to open their porth
Apache (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ess, into the interior of New Mexico. He no longer met with any serious resistance. He left his wounded and sick at Socorro, reached Albuquerque, where he found abundant provisions, and proceeded thence to Santa Fe, bearing to the right by the Apache Pass defile, near which stands Fort Union, situated at a distance of about twentyfive kilometres from the capital. Anticipating no resistance, he allowed a detachment of about one thousand men to proceed in advance under Colonel Scurry. On the 24th of March the latter found the Apache Pass occupied by a few hundred regulars and about one thousand volunteers, who had come from Colorado by forced marches. After dispersing the Federal scouts, the Texans arrived in front of the enemy's position, which was defended by a battery of artillery. They renewed, without hesitation, the bold attack which had proved so successful at Valverde. The Federal artillery, still well served, inflicted upon them some terrible losses. As to the infantry,
North Mountain (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ving yet nearly forty kilometres to travel before he could reach Winchester. On the same morning the three brigades of Shields's division took position five kilometres in advance of this town. The turnpike road leading southward divides into three branches on the summit of a hill situated this side of Kernstown village, and sloping down gradually to the edge of a ravine running from west to east. The left branch leads to Front Royal, the right to a ford of Cedar Creek at the foot of North Mountain; the principal road in the centre runs to Strasburg. The country, highly cultivated and intersected with wall fences and small woods, is one of the richest in the valley of Virginia. In the absence of Shields, who was kept in Winchester by his wound, Colonel Kimball had assumed command of the three brigades. His own was drawn up in front across the turnpike road, his right wing extending opposite a wooded hill among the recesses of which the ravine buried itself; still more to the ri
Duck River (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
he Tennessee. Before being placed under his command, Buell had already proposed to him to march upon Savannah. He only received orders to undertake this movement on the 12th of March. But on the 17th his progress was checked at Columbia by Duck River, which the rains had greatly swollen, and which was then more than thirteen metres in depth. It was found necessary to reconstruct the great railway bridge, without which the army could not have been victualled, and to wait until the 31st of Mould hardly have been accounted for by those even who knew how much time he required to put a division in motion on the drillfield, if there had not been a cause and an excuse for such tardiness in Halleck's and Grant's despatches. Once beyond Duck River, he accelerated his pace, and one might unhesitatingly praise his promptitude in forwarding part of his army from Savannah to Pittsburg by water if he had not at the same time compelled Nelson to wait four hours, which prevented the latter from
Cumberland City (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
his available forces at Fort Donelson. General Pillow, the same who as division commander in Mexico had caused so much trouble to General Scott, had joined with his division on the 9th of February the garrison of Fort Henry, which had taken refuge in Fort Donelson since the rout of the 5th. Buckner with his division from Bowling Green had arrived on the 11th. He was followed on the 12th and the 13th by General Floyd, at the head of a strong brigade of Virginians from Russellville and Cumberland City, whither those troops had retired and reorganized after their defeat in West Virginia a few months previously. The Confederates did wrong to reward the criminal services Mr. Floyd had rendered them whilst Secretary of War in Washington by entrusting him with important military commands; they paid dear for this error. Floyd took command of the little army, numbering from fifteen to sixteen thousand men, whose mission was to keep Grant in check. After having determined to place it at s
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
to harass the Federals if they should besiege Fort Donelson, he decided at the last moment to keep the whole of it inside of the exterior works which had been roughly constructed on the surrounding positions. The Federals on their side collected all their forces in order to strike a decisive blow. All the available troops to be found at Cairo, Paducah, and St. Louis were hurried on transports for the purpose of joining Grant, while several regiments from the far West——from Iowa, and from Nebraska —descended the Missouri to form a junction with them. Buell's army also sent reinforcements, which, after amusing the Confederates at Russellville, not far from Bowling Green, embarked on Green River, a tributary of the Ohio, and came down this latter river as far as Smithland, at the confluence of the Cumberland, where they joined the large convoy of transports. Some of the troops who had appeared before Fort Henry also re-embarked to reach Fort Donelson by water. There remained fifteen<
Monticello (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Mountains. It would be obliged, after crossing the river, to take either the Jacksborough road through Williamsburg, or that of Jamestown (Tennessee) by way of Monticello. The entrenched camp at Mill Spring, near this last town, covered them both. The first battle was to be fought more to the east, among the gorges of the chamn arrived on the 17th of January at Logan Cross-roads, an intersection only sixteen kilometres distant from Beach Grove. The road which leads from Somerset to Monticello becomes separated at this point from those running in a westerly direction towards Columbia and Jamestown (Kentucky). Thomas thus threatened to occupy the bordest contented with this success; the condition of the roads and the inclemency of the weather rendered all pursuit impossible. Crittenden had retired by way of Monticello in the direction of Nashville, and part of his troops had gone towards Cumberland Gap. But to undertake to rescue East Tennessee from Confederate rule, to wres
Shelbyville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
16th of March, by a bold and difficult advance, with one thousand men, he surprised a small Confederate brigade upon the elevated defile of Pound Gap, and dispersed them after a slight engagement. On the same day, at a distance of more than six hundred and fifty kilometres from this point, the Confederate partisan Morgan pushed a bold raid as far as Gallatin, on the right bank of the Cumberland, where he gathered some booty. But he was immediately after obliged to fall back as far as Shelbyville, while a detachment of Federal cavalry, which in turn entered McMinnville, south-east of Murfreesborough, on the 26th of March put to flight the troops who had come to dispute the possession of that place. The victory of Donelson was bearing its fruits, and the Federals were masters of the largest portion of the State of Tennessee. Having full confidence in the power of their fleet when supported by an army, they prepared to renew the tactics which had already proved so successful aga
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