Identifier: thevolunteersold00loga (find matches)
Title: The volunteer soldier of America
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886 Logan, Cornelius Ambrose, 1836-1899
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Chicago and New York : R. S. Peale & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Rolla from theposition before Price. Upon November 12th, 1861, Major-GeneralHenry W. Halleck superseded Hunter, and assumed command ofthe Department of the Missouri, which had been made to includeArkansas and the part of Kentucky lying west of the CumberlandRiver. The State of Tennessee and the eastern part of the Stateof Kentucky were erected into a command under General DonCarlos Buell. These changes ensued upon the retirement ofMajor-General Winfield Scott from the chief command of thearmies and the succession of General George B. McClellan thereto.After the battle of Belmont the Confederate commanders inthe West formed their great strategic line, which was in fact butan extension of a line from the Potomac to the Mississippi. Theleft of the line in the West rested at Columbus, Ky., and its rightat Bowling Green in the same State. At Columbus was Polk, withhis fortifications and armament of one hundred and forty guns,covering the river passage to Memphis and the farther South. At.
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THE CAPTURE OF FORT JIEXRY. 627 Bowlingr Green, General Buckner was in command, under Gen-eral Albert Sidney Johnston, with a large army, the place being incommunication by rail with Memphis and Columbus, and situatedat a distance of ninety miles from Louisville and sixty miles fromNashville. Near the center of this line, and crossing it at rightangles, ran the two important rivers known as the Cumberlandand the Tennessee, which meander in their course through mostof the Southern States above the cotton-belt. These two riversflow into the Ohio at points not very far apart; and at a distanceof about seventy miles on a straight line from where they emptyinto the Ohio the two streams are not more than eleven miles;apart. At the points of closest approach the Confederates hadestablished two very strong posts. These posts commanded thetwo rivers, respectively, and also the Memphis and Ohio Railroad,which crossed both rivers just above the newly erected fortifica-tions. The fortification on

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