25 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV
| Page 25 | Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
of Arkansas. Mower and A. J. Smith joined General Rosecrans' command, but thus far their forces have not been sufficiently concentrated to oppose the enemy. As several inspection officers have been sent into the Department of Kansas, and as that line of supply to Fort Gibson and Smith has been discontinued, it is hardly worth while to send General Herron there. Moreover his services are more needed in Arkansas and Missouri. As soon as General Sherman's plan of a new campaign has been fully decided on instructions will be sent to you in regard to co-operation. Until then General Grant has suspended the sending forward of supplies by sea to meet Sherman's wants.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, October 17, 1864-11 a.m.
(Received 26th.)
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
General Steele reports on the 9th that the rebel force that was threatening his line has fallen back across the Saline and is moving in the direction of Camden. Information from Monroe, La., of the 11th states that about 4,000 infantry on their march to join Magruder were suddenly recalled. The demonstration made by our troops across the Atchafalaya, referred to in the rebel dispatches forwarded to you, has probably had something to do with this change. I learn nothing from Fort Smith or the northern frontier of Arkansas.
E. R. S. CANBY,
Major-General, Commanding.
NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 17, 1864-8.30 p.m.
(Received 9.30 p.m. 26th.)
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
Intercepted cipher dispatches from Jeff. Davis to Kirby Smith, dated at Montgomery, September 30, renew the orders to cross the Mississippi. The original has gone on and has no doubt reached Smith. This probably accounts for the movement in Steele's front reported in my dispatch of this morning.
E. R. S. CANBY,
Major-General, Commanding.
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT,
Washington, October 17, 1864.
Major General E. R. S. CANBY,
Commanding Mil. Div. of West Mississippi, New Orleans, La.:
GENERAL: Your requisition to be provided with a pontoon bridge train, to be delivered in Mobile, Bay, in about thirty days from the date of your letter, has received attention. The train is now about being shipped from New York and this place. The boats, wagons, and tres-
| Page 25 | Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments