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Chapter 16:
Military arrangements of the enemy
Marshall and Garfield
Fishing Creek
Crittenden's report
Fort Henry; its surrender
Fort Donelson; its position
assaults
surrender
l to Nashville on the other.
At the northeastern corner of Kentucky there was a force under Colonel Garfield of Ohio, opposed to the Confederate force under General Humphrey Marshall.
The strength s force in effective men was about sixteen hundred.
Knowing that a body of the enemy under Colonel Garfield was advancing to meet him, and that a small force was moving to his rear, he fell back some fifteen miles, and took position on Middle Creek, near Prestonburg.
On January 10, 1862, Garfield attacked him. The firing was kept up, with some intervals, about four hours, and was occasionally vet wing never fired a shot, and he never came up sufficiently to engage my center or left wing.
Garfield was said to have fallen back fifteen miles to Paintsville, and Marshall seven miles, where he
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