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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
lry commanded by General Carr. He starts on March 24th. Three days before, General Thayer, who commanded the Army of the Frontier, had left Fort Smith to join him. T, Steele crossed the Washita on the 27th, and reached Arkadelphia the next day. Thayer, retarded by the absence of roads and the bad weather, was still far away, and s. Cabell's brigade, which belonged to his command, had been detached to watch Thayer's movements if he penetrated Arkansas, and occupied the town of Paraclifta to tlmost impracticable. He chose the Washington road, and, not having any news of Thayer, whom the condition of the roads had obliged to change his course, he left Arkaered all the fords. Steele, not wishing to leave an obstacle like that between Thayer and himself, decided to wait for the latter, while his soldiers constructed a ceele's rearguard at the moment when he was crossing the difficult Terre Rouge. Thayer, who with his division formed this rearguard, easily repulsed the attack, while