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army, traversing the State, after its vic¬ from any source. Grartt needed every of their line. When on the 13th we at Pea reached Helena, it man he could to hold his lines tardily advanced we found 50 cannon tory Ridge, get in and made It a permanent base. The capture around Vicksburg and oppose Joe John¬ GEN. AMBROSE E. BURNSIDE. position, Stonewall Jackson and of Memphis had opened the Mississippi ston, and Hurlbut was holding: Mem¬ Longstreet confronting us. River to the Union and trans¬ phis and the with Meade, with his gallant Pennsyl- gunboats surrounding country vanians had port^. as far as Vicksburg, and it was °n,Ly *'000 me". having stripped him¬ A Have Been a Good (he only about 5,000 planned to organize a movement from self far beyond the limit of safety to Pleasant, Kindly, Loyal Soldier, Who Would men), accomplished something.he al¬ Helena to capture Little Rock. reinforce Grant. ways was a good soldier.but he was Running parallel with the river, at a Prentiss found that the citizens out¬ Brigadier-General. left to be enfiladed by Confederate distance of about a half mile are low side his lines were prevented from artillery and crushed by Confederate ranges of hills with the slopes toward coming in, lest they betray news of the infantry.while the rest of us stood the river gentle and easy while on the advance. His scouting parties found idly by for want of fighting orders. farther side from the river the country the disloyal citizens unusually reserved JAS. F. A. Brevet U. S. V. F ranklin was far In the rear, as usual, is broken into other ranges of hills sep¬ and uncommunicative and the enemy's By RUSL1NG, M., LL.D., Brifidier-Qeoeral, with no real grasp of the battlefield, By JOHN Mcelroy. arated by deep ravines and gorges and scouting parties showed much greater From " Men and Thing* I Saw in Civil War Hays." and Burnside miles away at Falmouth, filled with dense growths of timber, stubbornness, indicating that supports and losing his head there. Of course, as his suc¬ we CHAPTER XXXVII. ment of Gen. vines and bushes. Transverse ravines were near. next the fell back after heavy losses, and the cessor. It was that the appoint¬ On My commander was Gen. Burn- already present in command of Confederates did not thev hoped cut this range of hills into three princi¬ Wednesday night, July 1, Prentiss side. Ninth and his second in com¬ pursue; THE . ment of Price would bring an increase ravines learned a doubt Corps, wanted us to try It again. Here poor pal hillocks and through these beyond that the enemy mand as next ranking officer. £>lent.-Gen. Holmes la to Do of confidence on the part of the Mis- the main roads ran to Little Rock, were in strong force at Spring Creek, 15 Antietam was fought Sept. 16 and Oen. Bayard perished, struck by a Sparred Up sourians and Arkansans, which would ChnnKr of Commander*. Confederate shell while Something at Lout.He Makes Great Clarendon, Sterling and other towns in miles distant, and that the blow was 17, 1862; and Lee, dazed but not de¬ passing sitting strengthen the Confederate cause in the interior. Gen. Curtis built a sure to fall soon. He had under a tree in the midst of his staff, Preparations to Capture Helena, and strong, anticipated feated, fell back Into Virginia again. This change of our commanders, it those sections. The Confederate Secre¬ heavy fort upon the tableland at a point that he would be attacked at break of must be admitted, was not awaiting orders. He was a gallant Block Here he was allowed to rest and recup¬ altogether own the Mississippi.Overwhelmingly tary of War wrote to Gen. Smith, March where its guns would command all the day, and for a week previous to the satisfactory; and there was some talk Jerseyman; my old school friend; Defeated After Sharp 18, 1863: roads the hills. He battle had had the under arms erate, ad libitum, until Nov. 1, or of already distinguished as a cavalrj Fighting.Splen¬ of leading through garri^55n making Gen. McClellan military dic¬ did Conduct of Union Troops. "From a variety of sources, many gave to this work the name of Fort at 2:30 each morning. ^ thereabouts, before McClellan got tator, and of "marching upon Wash¬ leader, and worthy to rank with Sheri¬ which I cannot doubt, the most deplor¬ Curtis. the hills themselves he to him.a inexcus¬ dan, had he lived. He was to have the Upon C3en. Frederick Salomon. ready pursue delay ington and taking possession of the had, at least, able accounts reach this Department of built lighter batteries fronting toward able from every point of view. It is Government," and of pitching Lincoln been married shortly, and his last mo¬ merit of sticking tenaciously to his fa¬ the disorder, confusion and demoraliza¬ the but commanded from the The unusual completeness and ments were spent in speaking of hi« country of true, that "Little Mac" alleged his and his Cabinet and Congress into the vorites and evil tion everywhere prevalent both with the Inside by the guns of Fort Curtis. strength the fortifications of Helena etc. But this was confined to fiancee and of his beloved parents. through good report. armies and of that State. The were due to Frederick Sal¬ army was terribly bad off; short of Potomac, Meanwhile the rest the was true men who were a people In Gen. Sherman's first movement Brig.-Gem a few favorites and "feather-heads of of army had This of two General (Holmes) seems, river Helena had been omon, an able Prussian engineer and horses, short of wagons, short of ra- attacked in front of A burden and to him. Commanding down the strong¬ "Little Mac's" (the army, as a whole, Fredericksburg. disappointment while esteemed for his virtues, to have ly occupied and later these troops were architect. He had served in the Prus¬ was thoroughly loyal), and duly evap¬ mist hung over the river and the val¬ They were Lieut.-Gen. Theophilus H. lost the confidence and attachment of included in McClernand's Thirteenth sian army as a Lieutenant of Artillery, orated with the early departure of Gen. ley all the morning; but toward noon Holmes and Thomas C. all; and the next in command, Gen. Jan. 30, 1863, Gen. Grant or¬ but became involved in the revolution this lifted, revealing the Confederate Maj.-Gen. Corps. ^*f McClellan for the historic lines of Hindman. Hindman was a man of Hindman, who is admitted to have dered Gen. McClernand to garrison the 1848, which rendered it necessary Trenton, N. J. heights bristling with bayonets and shown energy and ability, has rendered of Helena with the Thirteenth to leave the country, when he took up cannon and swarming with soldiers. Davis's own temper; cold, merciless, post his It must be confessed, Gen. Burn- himself by alleged acts of violence and Corps and extend his hold on the river residence in Manitowoc, Wis. He side was not welcome to us; but we The key of the position was Marye'f ruthless. Like Bragg and Davis him¬ perfectly odious. The conse¬ southward. As Gen. Grant's move¬ happened to be in St. Louis at the time Hill, just back of Fredericksburg, and tyranny of accepted him and awaited his orders, self and Pobyedonostseff, the Russian quences as depicted are fearful. The ment against Vicksburg developed Gen. Lyon's operations there and as the best Mr. Lincoln could do under we were ordered to assault that im¬ was an ardent spirit in his support. He the circumstances. He had served pregnable height at all hazards and the 5th in w helped organize Mo., which creditably at first Bull Run, and won hatever cost. he became a Captain, and commanded distinction at Roanoke Island, without During the morning I had been sent a company at Wilson's Creek. The with a report or dispatch to Burnside'a Governor much real fighting or actual general¬ of Wisconsin recalled him to ship; and had just fought bravely at headquarters, and while galloping that State to organize the young Ger¬ if through a wood road my horse slipped mans there and he Antietam, not very skillfully. And raised the 9th Wis., here he was now in command of the on a root extending across the road, of which he became . He was Army of the Potomac.125,000 strong and fell heavily upon me. He was a promoted to Brigadier-General and large, jet black, handsome fellow, cap¬ commanded the First of the .a job requiring first-class brains. Now, what was to be done, and how tured at Fair Oaks in June, in the rush Army of Kansas, with which he fought of the battle there, and we both came at Cane Hill and Prairie was he to do it? Leutonla, Burnside sat still a few days, study¬ down so hard I thought my right leg Grove. He was absent on sick-leave the broken and done for. for sure. Neither for some and ing situation and gathering up the weeks, after becoming reins, and then suddenly decided to of us could rise. But, fortunately, a again fit for duty was sent to Helena squad of stragglers happened to be to command the Second of change the plan of campaign and make Brigade a dash at Fredericksburg, and beat near, cooking a pot of coffee, and. rush¬ Hovey s Division, and th^n became part GEN. BURNSIDEL ing to our assistance, thev soon got us of Gen. Ross's Division in the Yazoo Lee into Richmond that way. It was not a bad move, and held the potency on our feet again. I was badly shaken Pass expedition and other movements. tions, clothing, shoes, and about every¬ up and in great but But if he and promise of success if rapidly exe¬ pain; presently He came into the command of the divi¬ thing. whipped Lee at An¬ cuted. But Lee beat him in the foot managed to climb into the saddle again sion and June 2, 1863, was assigned to tietam, the Confederates, beaten and and ride on to headquarters. Here all command the at retreating, must have been race to Fredericksburg, and soon had troops immediately certainly his ragged Confederates in a stronger was confusion and indecision, and I Helena. His engineering talents and far worse off; as was indeed the fact, was detained But as 1 ot position than ever at Marye's Heights considerably. experience were Invaluable in making course. and elsewhere there, with the broad rode back over the brow of a hill over- the position secure, and he was untir¬ Lee recrossed the Potomac on the and unfordable Rappahannock flowing looking the Rappahannock, en route ing in his labors to leave nothing un¬ night of Sept. 18, without McClel¬ to my division, as the fog lifted and done toward that In the lan about if between us. end-, Later knowing much it, indeed Of Burnside some¬ the sun came out bright and clear, war Gen. Salomon a divi¬ it. course, blamed commanded suspecting Nevertheless, Sept. 19, else for not our across the river I beheld our lines Ir. sion under Gen. and won a vic¬ he the body getting pontoons Steele telegraphed General-in-Chief there in to cross motion.French and Hancock.and over forces at at as follows: time the river before tory greatly sup«rJor (Halleck) Washington Lee arrived. But he was the scon on the double-quick with a rush Jenkins's Ferry, on th« Saline respon¬ a River, "I have the honor to report that sible commander, with ample power and cheer they attacked the whole which saved Gen. Steele's retreating Maryland is entirely freed from the and and should himself have Confederate front there. army from destruction^ He was bre- officers, DIAGRAM OF THE BATTLE AT presence of the enemy, who has been known how to make things "come to Indeed a Gallant Sight. HELENA, ARK. vetted a Major-General.' driven across the Potomac. * * * pass." It was Indeed a gallant never inquisitor, he had the soul of Torque- army is stated to have dwindled by de¬ troops were drawn from Helena to him The Confederate Movement. "G. B. McClellan, Major-General Com¬ My own division did not get to An¬ sight; the founder of the In¬ sickness one more so. Without a glass I could xnada, Spanish sertion, and death from 40,000 until there was finally left but a skele¬ May 23, 1863, J. A. Seddon, Confed¬ manding.'* tietam; it was too much used up by the count the quisition. When he once determined or 50,000 men to some or ton division under banners and distinguish the 15,000 18,000, the command of Gen. erate Secretary of War, urged upon "Driven" Peninsular and Pope campaigns, and from where I sat on upon an no amount of human who are disaffected and and F. Salomon. was by whom, and when? Cer¬ my horse. object helpless, This Rom's Division, Gens. Joe Johnston, Holmes and Price tainly not by McClellan; for in his was left at Alexandria to recruit and How the muskets gleamed, and the suffering that its attainment would are threatened with positive starvation which had been engaged in the Tazoo a movement if help man the defenses of Washington. cause had on him the effect. from against Helena, which, "Own Story," page 620, he says: "On bayonets flashed, and the flags streamed slightest deficiency of mere necessaries. The Pass expedition of the previous Winter taken and held, would embarrass Grant the of the 18th the Nor did we get up to Warrenton. But in the He was one of those who are as in a state of and had been night enemy, after glorious sunlight! But scarcely emphatically people represented turned back after under¬ in his operations against Vicksburg and passing troops in the latter part of the we marched first from Alexandria (I re¬ had they started forward before the would consternation, multitudes suffering for going enormous hardships and difficul¬ close the river at that, This com¬ ceived my second promotion here, to means point. day from the Virginia shore to their whole Confederate heights were a cir¬ "Wade to a of subsistence, and yet exposed ties by the guns of Fort Pemberton, munication reached Holmes the way Division Headquarters, Oct- 15, 1862) through slaughter throne, from of lawless marauders and near by position behind Sharpsburg (Mary¬ cle of fire. A hundred cannon were In And shut the of on man¬ gangs Greenwood, Miss. Gen. Prentiss °f Kirby Smith's headquarters at as seen our officers to Manassas Junction, where we guard¬ skillful and shot gates mercy deserters to of the lit¬ was in command of the district of East¬ land), by (evidently position there, and kind." being plundered Shreveport. Holmes acted upon it de¬ to mislead McClellan), suddenly ed the rear of the army while it switch¬ shell opened great gaps through our tle they have." ern and made his headquar¬ and June is* to ed over to Fredericksburg, and then He was born In In ters liberately, telegraphed formed the design of abandoning their regiments. But still our lines swept 1818, Evila Their Own Pnalahment. at Helena. The troops and their Kirby Smith: "I believe we can take and across Joined it at Falmouth,' by way of Fair¬ onward till the Confederate and served in the Mexican War as Sec¬ was as follows: position retreating the infantry Most evils are accompanied by their organization Helena. Please let me attack." The river. (And this) was effected before fax Courthouse and Wolf Run Shoals, opened, and then suddenly a cloud of ond Lieutenant of the 2d Miss. Rifles. Thirteenth Division. next June an¬ in December. He took his residence in own condemnation. Gen. Hindman's day, 16, Kft-by Smith daylight" (apparently without his early smoke like the breath of hell rolled up Arkansas, swered: "Most do it." Two over and our and became a in the extraordinary cruelties and persecutions Brig.-Gen. Frederick Salomon. certainly knowledge). The Wont March. the battlefield, brave boys Representative had the of First days later Holmes went to Jackson- So Led was back safe from It was a con¬ Congress Just before the of effect Inducing the idea Brigade, Cel. William E. Mc¬ into Virginia I think it was the worst march I disappeared sight. beginning his men port meet Gens. Price and Marma- of . It was a vol¬ the war. Jefferson Davis had him among that midnight raids Lean. tg again, and course both Lincoln and made the war. Much of it was stant earthquake. live ap¬ 43d duke and make the necessafry arrange¬ Stanton the during cano. The roar of battle was deafen¬ pointed a with the against defenseless Unionists, burnings Ind., Lieut.-Col. John C. Major. (and country) expected to in the midst of a wild December storm Brigadier-General, and hangings were the chief art of 35th Lieut.-Col. Horace Fitch. ments. The result was that Price's see McClellan cross the Potomac in- ing and continuous even from where special duty of bringing Arkansas over war, Mo., of of wind and rain and sleet, through to the and her firm¬ and they neglected discipline and prep¬ 28th Wis., Lleut.-Col. Edmund B. command, consisting Gen. McRae's stanter and march sharply after him. fathomless and the suf¬ I sat; but it did not last. In 20 min¬ rebellion, keeping Arkansas of and Gen. both Virginia mud, utes or so it was all over. The in line. After Van Dorn was aration for the real work of conflict. Gray. Brigade Infantry, They wrote and telegraphed him of the were indescrib¬ cloud ly brought Second M. M. Parsons's Missouri of but ferings troops and our men were back East with his de¬ They usually made a very sorry show¬ Brigade, Col. Samuel A. Rice. Brigade accordingly, without result. The able. After the first or slowly lifted, army, succeeding his in 29th Infantry, with Cols. 's was day so, many in their lines were left of feat at Pea Hindman came into ing actual battle with the Union Iowa, Col. Thomas H. Benton, weather superb.the exquisite Au¬ of our fellows became again.what Ridge, and Jr. and Joseph O. Shelby's Brigades of tumnal weather of poor barefoot, them. The field was strewn with the complete command in Arkansas and troops, Hindman's administration Virginia.and they and for a week or more after we ar¬ of his. Department with reference to 33d Iowa, Lleut.-Col. Cyrus H. Missouri Cavalry, under Gen. Marma- daily became more urgent. Finally, dead and the dying. Riderless horses used his power there with ruthless en¬ duke, were ordered to rendezvous at weeks of rived on the heights of Stafford I saw at will. The wounded to the whole resources of the invaders was inglorious and humil¬ Mackey. Oct, i.two invaluable time hundreds of our men galloped wildly ergy bring 36th Cotton Plant. Fagan's Arkansas Bri¬ been Lincoln standing guard were borne to the rear. Thou¬ the State to the of the South¬ iating. His great army of 55,000 ef¬ Iowa, Col. Charles W. Kitt- having lost.Mr. himself or their as sen¬ being support gade was ordered to Clarendon and Gen. him a and walking weary rounds sands of men had become for ern He a fectives accomplished nothing except ridge. paid visit, patiently queried cripples Confederacy. began this by the 33d L. M. Walker's Brigade of Cavalry was he did hasten after tries in the snow, with their feet and thousands of firesides were dishonorable trick which he perpetration of calamities upon the Mo., Lieut.-Col. William H. why not Lee. His¬ bound in or coffee sacks. life; very by of his own Heath. sent directly to Helena to close In on will be to learn that up grain bags desolate forever. me! but it was obtained $1,000,000 from the bankers people State. tory surprised Americans were in Ah, Gen. Joe Johnston had be¬ Artillery. the place and prevent egress and in¬ nothing came of this even. And so, at Valey Forge (the a pitiful spectacle; and I turned and of Memphis. They went to the Confed¬ vainly Gen. Holmes received another Winter quarters and had good log huts erate with their sought Jefferson Davis to have this army 3d Iowa Battery, Lieut. Melvil C. gress. last, as a dernier ressort, on Oct. 6, rode on to my division, sick at heart Congress grievance, sent strong letter from the Secretary of Halleck him as follows: there) could not have been much worse over such useless of brave and Jefferson Davis was forced to re¬ east of the river, where it would Wright. telegraphed than in slaughter be effective in War, urging him to make the attack. Falmouth, those early Decem¬ men. lieve Hindman from command; but he checkmating Grant and 1st Mo. Light, Battery K, Capt. Still- "The President directs, that you ber days before our saving But Davis could not man O. By June 26 he had his forces well to¬ supplies got up. But Burnside was not yet satisfied. took the firsjt opportunity, after the Vicksburg. Fish. on cross the Potomac and give battle to But the Quartermaster Department be¬ be brought to make this order. At least gether, and the morning of July 3 ? * * He thought French and Hancock did clamor had subsided, to quietly restore Cavalry Brfcnde. was at Allen the enemy, or drive him South. stirred itself, and soon the army was he did not, and while Gen. Grant was Polk's house, five miles He is not know how to do it, though they him to duty. Hindman showed fierce Col. . from Hejena. His spies had provided very desirous that your army again thoroughly equipped, and in had sacrificed one-third of their men. energy and some ability in his work. shutting up Pemberton inside of the 1st move as soon as possible. . * * I am superb fighting trim. . Ind., Lieut.-Col. Thomas N him with the works of Vicksburg the army in Ar¬ Pace. most accurate information directed to that the Down at the Phillips House, on the He seized the cotton mills and started 5th Kan., Lieut.-Col. Wilton A. Jen¬ In regard to the forces, the roads, add, Secretary of Of course, we had to have our inev¬ or Stafford side of the them to cloth for the kansas was doing nothing more effec¬ forts, War and the General-in-Chief itable and opposite river, manufacturing tive than its usual heinous kins. etc., and he knew Just exactly the task fully "Review," Burnside.portly a mile or more away from the battle¬ soldiers, levied upon the tanyards for occupation that was before him. He Issued the concur with the President in these in¬ and handsome, smiling and courteous, leather for started fac¬ of persecuting those who had an affec¬ Gen. Prentiss reported his entire structions." field, he strode up and down the ter¬ shoes, powder tion for the force at 4,129 men, and of following order of battle: with his side-whiskers, mustache, and race, and, shaking his fist at Marye's tories, cartridge shops and arms re¬ Old Flag. Gen. Hindman very many Did he now? no! He still beautiful white but without dash was relieved of the command of his di¬ these were in bad physical condition "The attack on Helena will be made go O, teeth, Hill, still thundering with artillery. In¬ pairing establishments. The Confed¬ vision and from the effects of the climate. tomorrow morning at daylight and as complained of his equipage, supplies, or grip in his face.sat erect on his sanely declared: "That height must erate Congress had recently passed the succeeded by Gen. Sterling They follows: etc.; and two weeks afterward dark-brown bobtail horse, while a hun¬ Price, and Holmes was stirred up to do had been worked hard and the malaria horses, be carried before nightfall!" So he universal conscription law, and Hind¬ of the ^aJ.-Gen. in command of .two weeks of golden opportunity. dred thousand of us marched past, sent for Joe and or¬ man it in a something on the east bank of the river Mississippi swamps had taken Price, Fighting Hooker, put operation in way that to shake of their McRae's and Parsons's Brigades, will on Oct. 21 was again ordered as fol¬ scanning him closely. I do not think dered him to take It. was as thorough as it was cruel. The Grant's hold upon Vicksburg. advantage physical exhaustion. there was an officer or a man of us After weeks of the A very large number of those in the proceed by the best route, assume posi¬ lows: A smaller man than Gen. Hooker people of the western part of the State, urging by Confed¬ assauit and take Hill "Your has been that felt safe in his hands. But we the like those in numbered erate War Department Holmes at last hospitals, however, took their guns and tion, Graveyard telegram submitted would have blincTly obeyed order; Missouri, set his forces joined their comrades in the ranks. at daylight. to the President. He directs me to say were there to "obey orders," and to do but he first sent an Aid to inquire among the better settlers a large pro¬ in motion against Helena, "2d. and die, if need be, for the Union. of the only place in eastern Arkansas held Gen. Salomon saw clearly the im¬ Brig.-Gen. Walker, with his that he has no change to make in his about it, and then he himself (evei portion Union men. Nowhere in that the portance of the and the Cavalry Brigade, will, in like manner, order of the 6th instant. . . . The Now came the so-called battle of thoughtful of his men) recrossed the part of the State was the Secession by Union troops. post, probabil¬ It was rather a fore¬ Poaltlon ity of the enemy making a rush against proceed to the Sterling Road, where he President does not expect impossibili¬ Fredericksburg. river under a heavy artillery fire, and spirit very demonstrative. Under Hind- of Helena. It will hold himself in to resist but he is anxious that all this ordained slaughterhouse, and our to dissuade Burnside from man's tyrannous administration the with all their might, and prepared for position ties, very endeavored In the swings of the this contingency by strengthening the any troops that may approach Rightor good weather should not be wasted in brave boys the predestined victims. such a useless butchery. His only an¬ whole State was covered with con¬ across the wide plain of silt which has fortifications to Hill; and when that is cap¬ when will Lee had been given all the time he swer was "to orders," and so, of bands made men the utmost, and position inactivity. Telegraph you obey scripting up of who been deposited between the ranges of crowned the hills with four tured he will enter the town and act move." wanted, to fortify every hill and flood course, Hooker went In, with all his were anxlou9 to save themselves from hills on strong bat¬ and so all he had to do the esat and west the river goes teries. Battery A was on the against the enemy as circumstances Did he move now? not every ravine; accustomed ardor and intrepidity. But going to the front by compelling right, next No, yet! was to sit still and see us march into others may justify. But on Oct. 25 was again prodded as he might as well have stormed the to do so. They shot, hanged and burn¬ "3d. Brig.-Gen. Fagan will proceed his traps, or knock our heads against fiery mouth of hell. Night came on in ed wherever they went to spread terror follows (in reply to a telegram that his works. the by the best route, assume position, and some of his horses were worn down, the midst of the furious fighting. among Union men. take the battery on HIndman Hill at Fra»kll»'a Iuctloi. "Cannon to right of them, Hindman could not cover up all his "fatigued," etc.): daylight. I have We to the Left Grand Di¬ Cannon to left of them, atrocities under the excuse of devotion 4th. Brig.-Gen. Marmaduke will pro¬ "To MaJ.-Gen. McClellan: belonged Cannon in front of them. to the cause of the Southern Confeder¬ ceed with his command the best just received your dispatch about sore- vision (Franklin's) and crossed the and he became by Volleyed and thundered;" acy, speedily intensely route, assume position, and take Righ¬ but Hooker did not it until unpopular among the rebels them¬ tor Hill at daylight" give up selves, so that there was a loud demand thousands more of our brave boys were for his removal. Instead Jefferson The Confederate Strength. hors de combat. Davis promoted Theophilus H. Holmes There is the usual discrepancy in the First and last, we left over 6.000 men to the rank of Lieutenant-General and Confederate reports of their strength, at the foot of Marye's Hill and up its sent him to command in and all bloody slope; and, altogether, lost at Arkansas. as these we're made after the over 3 while Holmes was born in North hattle there were reasons Fredericksburg 2,000 men,* Carolina, the strongest the Confederate loss was about half as had from West near for forces. graduated Point minimizing their Gen much more. was the foot his seen con¬ Burnside, however, of class, and had Holmes says that he had 7,646 men. If not content, and meditated another siderable service in the Indian wars this were approximately true it would yet and to the of make his attack next day at the head of his own Mexico, rising ranfc strength between 8,000 and old was no but was of the 8th U. in 1855. He was! as he followed usual rebel corps (he coward), Major S. .*>000, the finally persuaded to give this up. the very antithesis of Hindman.a gen- custom of only counting; ihe muskets he We lay still the next day. and the lal, good-natured man with Just carried into action. HMigman officially with occasional artillery fir¬ enough brain« to enable him to squeeze reported that he had "ffrr the fight less next, only than 1 ing and skirmishing, and finally, on the through at West Point, and especially 10,000 men." May Holmes had night of the 15th, Burnside made up fond of the bottle, which led to his in his immediate disrict; *1,993 men, of his mind to withdraw, and before He , VIEW OF he as early end. was, however, a brave | H =XENA, ARK. whom estimated 14,508 fit for we had recrossed the man and en¬ He him 20 morning Rappa¬ fairly energetic in any clear over to the western hills at He¬ the river duty. says that Jie had with hannock and were back in our old when he had set out above the town, and com¬ regiments. Prentiss a capture terprise finally lena, Ark., 80 miles below Memphis. manded the Sterling and the Old St. reports camps again, or well on the way to Upon it. Then the river begins to swing eastward Francis of prisoners from 37 regiments. Pren¬ Lee did not attack and de¬ Roads; Battery B came next, tiss to he was them. Why With all of Hindman's unsparing again until it strikes the eastern hills and reported Hurlbut that us and our in with all his absolute commanded the Upper St. Francis attacked by from 1$,000 to 18,000 men. stroy pontoon bridges, cruelty, disregard below the mouth of the Yazoo River Road; Battery C was in the center, and the midst of our night retreat, I do not of all means to secure his ends, he and the bluffs upon which Is Hurlbut reported to Grant that the he trained his ar¬ Vicksburg commanded the Cemetery or Clarendon was know. Suppose had was singularly unsuccessful both in built. That is, the number about, 9,000, which is as on our or Mississippi River, Road; Battery D was on the left next to near the tillery bridges bridge-heads? building up his department into an which skirts along the western hills for the truth as it is likely that we If he did not know of our he efficient river below the town, and com¬ shall ever At Holmes retreat, organization and in leading 150 miles from the mouth of the Mis¬ manded the two roads to get. all events, must have been kept poorly informed troops upon the battlefield. He was Little Rock. had been aecurately Informed as to the souri to 30 miles above the mouth of The old wooden gunboat Tyler lay out of the by his pickets. If unabie to profit by defeated by much inferior forces at the Ohio, then swings over to the east¬ In the strength Union garrison and had he .must have been used worse Prairie Grove, where he had all the river, where she could use her taken with him at least double the gar¬ it, up ern hills at Columbus, 20 miles below guns to best advantage in assisting any than we knew, or else have "lost his advantage. He reported to the Con¬ the mouth of the Ohio, and runs rison's strength, which should have of his federate War along part of the line. been sufficient for the he had in LEAVING THE UNION CAMP AT FALMOUTH. head" also In the magnitude Department that he had them for over 100 miles to Memphis, Gen. Prentiss had full warning of *ui*>«se victory. an effective army of 55,000 men, yet when it takes another western trend, the attack hand. That it was not so was due to three Blunt and impending and the great su¬ tho wholly and res- tongued and fatigued horses. Will Rappahannock Dec. 12, about The Famous "Mud March." Schofield, Herron did what¬ swinging clear over to the hills in Ar¬ periority of the unexpected courage me for what the miles below while the ever they set out to do in northeastern enemy's forces, and he olution of the defenders and to the you pardon asking Fredericksburg, Now what was to be done? Evident¬ kansas, 80 miles below Memphis. Then and his officers left nothing undone horses of your army have done since Center and Right Grand * Division Arkansas and Sherman had taken the the river swings to the eastward which mismanagement and laclc of determina¬ ly Gen. Burnside did not know. But again would add to the strength of tion on the of the .The the battle of Antietam that fatigues crossed at Fredericksburg. Our cross¬ after various he important position of Arkansas Post, for over 300 miles to and their part assailants. was be¬ pondering projects, had Vicksburg, position. The batteries were con¬ viciousness of Hindman's cruel anything? ing not seriously opposed, decided to cross the Rappahan¬ Which Hindman officially named runs along those elevations to Port nected by works to shelter policy "A Lincoln." cause Lee wanted us to come to finally after himself. Holmes done a lit¬ infantry, and was now apparent. The men whom he over nock again, above Fredericksburg, and had Hudson. At the foot of these Arkansas in front of them were rifle at all "his to save him the trouble of tle better in some respects, but had not pits had so long employed in the remorseless Did he move now? No, he did not side, try conclusions again with the Confed¬ hills .was an elevated tableland of about advantageous points, with abatis and It seems but crossing over to ours. We had 50,000 kept the army as full as Hiadman had one-half in was persecution of th^: Union men showed budge yet! incredible, erates. This was his famous "Mud mile width, which other obstructions In front of all. he did not cross the Potomac men there on the left, as good soldiers cam¬ managed to do. The Department of much above water and conse¬ For themselves bjit feeMe fighters when con- actually March" In January, 1863. The high 10 days previous to the battle, himself until Nov. 1, although he did, as ever fought. But Franklin lacked was Arkansas was put under the jur¬ selected as the site for the Gen. fronted ,wtth troops; Marma- paign began all right.It splendid isdiction of Gen. quently prin¬ Prentiss was quite certain that he regularand of indeed, start some of his divisions either inclinaiton or abilty to handle weather, but a thaw and rain Kirby Smith, anoth¬ cipal river town In Arkansas. It had would be and dukesTfcvalry Walker's Brigade or not orders as to general er one of Jefferson Davis's attacked, by a force been active and across Oct. 26.the day after Mr. Lin¬ them, Kad precise set in soon afterward.the bottoms favorites, not grown, at the time of the war, to which he estimated at from Cavalry had particuarly coln's characteristic and laconic dis¬ When and how he should attack; (as he whom he created a full General and put the that Its found¬ 15,000 merciless in dragooning the Union men dropped out of the Virginia roads. in proportion sanguine 13,000 men, commanded by a