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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
established at that time, so debilitated him that, in the spring of 1836, he was pronounced, upon surgical examination, unfit to march with the army, which was about entering upon an active campaign against the Indians. A change of climate being advised, he was in April ordered to escort to the North Fork of the Canadian River, Arkansas, a party of Seminoles who had consented to emigrate. Embarking in a small, uncomfortable schooner at Tampa, they went to New Orleans; thence to Little Rock, Arkansas; thence up the Arkansas River to Fort Smith; and thence to Fort Coffee, where they disembarked and journeyed overland to their final destination. It was with great satisfaction that Lieutenant Meade at last safely turned over to Lieutenant Van Horne, of the Third Infantry, the charge which he had brought so many hundred miles, which had not been made up of the most agreeable travelling companions. This duty ended, Lieutenant Meade, in obedience to orders, proceeded to Washington and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 126 (search)
Doc. 48. operations in Arkansas. Report of Major-General Steele. headquarters Department of Arkansas, &C., little Rock, Arkansas, August 15, 1864. Record of military operations in the Department of Arkansas for the month of July, 1864: Fourth. A party of fifty-five men of the Third Arkansas cavalry volunteers from Lewisburg, under command of Captain Hamilton of that regiment, made a raid into Searcy, Arkansas, and killed seven rebels, wounded four, and captured one captain, two lieutenants, and fifty-three men, who were organized for General Shelby's command. They also captured twelve horses and mules, fifteen stand of arms, and one stand of colors. Sixth. Lieutenant Mason, Third Arkansas cavalry, returned to Lewisburg from a scout to Norristown, having captured three deserters, and destroyed five flats and skiffs. Tenth. A scouting party, consisting of one lieutenant and twenty men, of the Tenth Illinois cavalry volunteers, ran into a small party of Confedera
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
Recent European views of the South.[from the little Rock (Ark.) true Democrat.] Europeans are at length correctly apprehending the real character and claims of the Southern people, and the true causes of the political disturbances that have resulted in the dismemberment of the Union. They begin to understand the relations of the Confederate States to modern civilization. They have been in the habit of looking at America only by the light of the Northern press — They saw only the great North in the foreground, and nothing of the South but the negro in the dark, dim and distant perspective. They saw nothing of this great region, except from the repulsive view of the abolitionists. They had some faint idea of the fact that it furnished cotton, but they confounded it some how with Northern wealth and enterprise; they purchased Southern cotton of the North, and settled with that section for it. The war in making a great disclosure to the European mind. It reveals to that pe
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