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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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leting hia arrangements for another expedi-tion, Banks received a dispatch from General Ilal-leck informing him that it bad been decided tomake a joint land and naval demonstration againstToxaa by way of the Bod Hirer, and that he would lana, tbroiigh Camden to Arkadelpbia In ArkanFU,wbcnco it could check any possible movement olSteele in a soutbernly direetion, while GeneralMortons force lined tho country to tbo aouthwcatfrom Monroe to the Red River, and a divisioiiunder General Walker covered tho Bed River andthe Atchafalaya from Fort de Russy to Opetoueas.General Ma^rndera large force, estimated ut about15,000 men, was so disposed as to protect bothHouston and Galveston, The months of ,Tanuary and February, T8C4,were consumed in preparing for tbo confemplolcdmovement. General Sherman left bis army at Can-ton on the 28th of the last-named month, and afteisropping at Vieksburg, proceeded to New Orleans,where a conference waa held with General Biinki IJ4 THIS SOLDIER /N OUR C/flL WAR.
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THi: SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR. 95 isA Admiral Portor. It was agrttrl lii^livwn themtlint while Uonorut Stcclou forei* wiu udvuiioingfriim Little Rock ou cither Shreveport or Nntehi-(r>c;iivf, UaDks woald proceed from Franklin by wayii( OpclouBoa to Alexandria, which latter place it»iia believed uiuld bo reached by the ITth ofMarch, aod whore ho would he met by Portersfleet nfl well oa by the troops called for from theArmy of the Teiincsece. Sherman returned to Vickaburg on the 0th ofMarch, and at once ordered Brigadicr-gGneral An-drew J. Smith to proceed up the river, on transports,with about i.SOO men taken from theFirat and Third Dirigiong of Unrl-tiiita Sixteenth Corpa. and abont 3,500 men takenfrom the First and Fourth Divisioua of McPher--ims Seventeenth Anny Corps. On the 17th, Smith reached the mouth of thelied Hiver, and there met Admiral Porter, who had,vith him the moat formidable fleet ever seen in erotca within Fort do Unsay, which latter was as-saulted the following d

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