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Identifier: appealtoarms186120hosm (find matches)
Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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mbarrassments. They dominated a vastarea; but the population was hostile; the lines ofcommunication ran through long, unfriendly dis-tances from Louisville, the far-away base on theOhio River; and the government had not yet learnedthat cavalry was an arm absolutely indispensable.Grant had a hundred miles of railroad to guard,from Memphis eastward, on the Memphis &Charleston Railroad; and Mitchel, under Buellsorders, another hundred miles, stretching eastwardtowards Chattanooga. Buells supplies came overthe one hundred and fifty miles of the Louisville& Nashville Railroad, which also must be carefullywatched. The inhabitants showed their hostilityby communicating misleading intelligence, by cut-ting off stragglers and small detachments, by swoop-ing down in guerilla bands even upon heavy col-umns drawn out in a long march. By one suchband, General R. L. McCook, ill and riding in anambulance, with his division before and behind him, * Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 100.
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i862) WESTERN CAMPAIGN 221 was nevertheless pounced upon and killed, August6, 1862.^ It was the rebel cavalry in particular which madetrouble. Every southern boy was brought up ahorseman; and at once, especially under two ca-pable commanders, Morgan and Forrest, a body ofhighly effective troopers was developed. With noadequate cavalry at command, Grant and Buellwere wellnigh paralyzed. The youth of the regionflocked to the bugles, eager for adventure, for booty,and for revenge upon the invaders; and they gotall they craved. Forrest, whose field at this timewas south of Nashville, especially about Murfrees-boro, was a man of higher type than Morgan, theraider, and possessed some of the qualities of a greatcommander. The task set for Buell was the delivery of theUnionists of east Tennessee, who were numerousand aggressive, and brought upon themselves severepersecution from the southern armies, and also fromtheir neighbors of different sentiments.^ Lincolnpressed nothing more urgently th

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