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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
ater communication, by following the Meridian and Mobile Railway due south. The town of Baldwin, situated on this line, and that of Greentown, which is near it, were designated as points of concentration to the several corps commanders. On the 26th, the Confederates began to remove the materiel, the heavy guns, the depots of provisions and ammunition, the baggage, and even the implements for boring artesian wells. Minute instructions were given to deceive the vigilance of the Federals. The detachments of troops as far as Holly Springs to cover his left flank. The rebuilding of the Mobile Railway, which had been completely destroyed by the enemy, was a considerable undertaking. Begun on the 9th of June, it was only finished on the 26th. The Confederates had profited by this delay. The new general-in-chief, Braxton Bragg, had boldly divided his army and abandoned the position of Tupelo, which Halleck still believed him to occupy. He had determined to cover at once the two po
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
t him very dear. Pope, however, thanks to the arrival of Porter and Heintzelman, had from fifty-five to sixty thousand men under his command on the morning of the 26th, and Halleck had promised him twenty thousand more. But instead of drawing near to these reinforcements, and concentrating his entire army upon a point whence he was, therefore, upon this depot that Pope relied to subsist his army. But he was under the impression that Halleck would provide for its defence, and yet, on the 26th, there was only an insignificant detachment there. Jackson, in haste above all to destroy the Orange Railroad, had marched directly upon that point of the line nehave seen, had become extremely critical; he divined at last the danger that threatened him, and set to work to make up for lost time. When, on the evening of the 26th, he massed his army between Warrenton, Fayetteville and Warrenton Junction, he believed that he had nothing to fear on the side of Thoroughfare Gap and Manassas, r
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
to him above Haines' Bluff, he had to fight within the lists where he was shut up. The fleet entered this river on the 26th, and after ascending it for a distance of about twenty kilometres was moored in front of the points designated for landing. This operation, which commenced on the evening of the 26th, ended on the morning of the 27th. The first three brigades that were landed, those of Stuart, Blair and De Courcy, proceeded immediately toward Vicksburg, and, driving the enemy's scoutseral general Weitzel, with a brigade of infantry, a regiment of cavalry and some cannon, landed at Donaldsonville. On the 26th, he began to descend Bayou Lafourche, keeping the main body of his forces on the left of the water-course, accompanied by tenden on the left, advancing slowly, so as to allow McCook time to feel the enemy, reached Lavergne on the evening of the 26th, after exchanging a few musket-shots with the enemy's skirmishers. The next day he reached Stewart's Creek, and his caval