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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
ey of Neosho as far as Newtonia, thereby menacing from the west the Unionists who were stationed at Springfield, whilst a body of four thousand men, massed on the left bank of White River, seemed to be preparing to invade Missouri and march upon Rolla, the most important of the Federal depots; a considerable number of recruits were also assembled at Little Rock. Schofield resolved to attack the enemy before he was in a condition to take the offensive. He had been appointed, on the 26th of September, to the command of the army of the frontier, consisting of all the available forces scattered through Missouri, and of those of Blunt, stationed in Kansas; Curtis had superseded him in the territorial command of Missouri, transferring that of the forces which had remained stationary at Helena for the last two months, to Steele. On the 30th of September the army of the frontier numbered a little over fifteen thousand men, more than one-half of whom were mounted, with twenty or twentyfi