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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6 : (search)
Chapter 6:
Operations in northwest Arkansas
battle of Newtonia
Schofield Invades Arkansas
Cane Hill and Prairie Grove
army organization in December, 1862
fall of Arkansas Post.
After General Holmes had arrived at Little Rock, General Hindman, continuing in charge of military operations in Arkansas and the Indian country, took measures to expel the Federals from the latter region.
As he reported, he pushed across the mountains, from Fort Smith, two regiments of Missourians, or, if after trying they found they could not, they might have withdrawn into the interior with their equipments.
General Grant in his Memoirs, after mentioning Sherman's defeat at Chickasaw bayou, in his first campaign against Vicksburg, December, 1862, said:
After consultation, Sherman and Porter decided that neither the army nor the navy could render service to the cause where they were.
Learning that I had withdrawn into the interior of Mississippi, they determined to return to the