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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 43: (search)
ce. the works and garrison of Mobile. siege of Spanish Fort. Gen. Maury orders its evacuation. capture of Fort Blakely. evacuation of Mobile. how Wilson's cavalry was to co-operate with Canby. disposition of the forces of Gens. Forrest and Roddy. capture of Selma, Montgomery and Columbus. the heroic episode of West point. Wilson advances upon Macon. news of Sherman's truce. surrender of all the Confederate forces in Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana. the Trans-Mississippi sun the 22d March, all the arrangements having been perfected, and the order of march designated, the movement began. At this time Gen. Forrest's forces were near West Point, Mississippi, one hundred and fifty miles southwest of Eastport, while Gen. Roddy occupied Montevallo, on the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad, nearly the same distance to the southeast. By starting on diverging roads, Wilson expected tho leave the Confederates in doubt as to his real object, and compel their small bodi