Camp-fire and cotton-field- southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation (1865) (14576147379)

Identifier: campfirecottonfi00knox (find matches)
Title: Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Cotton growing -- Louisiana United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Missouri -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York, Blelock and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ward as rapidly as possi-ble, and arrived at Pittsburg, some by land and othersby water, in season to take position on our left, just asthe day was closing. Others came up in the night, andformed a part of the line on the morning of the 7th. General Nelsons Division was the first to cross theriver and form on the left of Grants shattered army.As he landed, Nelson rode among the stragglers by thebank and endeavored to rally them. Hailing a captainof infantry, he told him to get his men together andfall into line. The captains face displayed the utmostterror. My regiment is cut to pieces, was the rejoin-der ; every man of my company is killed. Then why aint you killed, too, you d—d coward ?thundered Nelson. Gather some of these stragglersand go back into the battle. The man obeyed the order. General Nelson reported to General Grant with hisdivision, received his orders, and then dashed about thefield, Wherever his presence was needed. The division CO O z o o COCO z H Im Hmz zm COCO mm
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THE EEBELS IN OUR CAMP. 155 was only slightly engaged before night came on and sus-pended the battle. At dawn on the second day the enemy lay in the po-sition it held when darkness ended the light. Thegun-boats had shelled the woods during the night, andprevented the Rebels from reaching the river on our left.A creek and ravine prevented their reaching it onthe right. None of the Rebels stood on the hank ofthe Tennessee River on that occasion, except as prison-ers of war. . As they had commenced the attack on the 6th, it wasour turn to Tbegin it on the 7th. A little past daylightwe opened fire, and the fresh troops on the left, underGeneral Buell, were put in motion. The Rebels hacldriven us on the 6th, so we drove them on the 7th. Bynoon of that day we held the ground lost on the dayprevious. The camps which the enemy occupied during thenight were comparatively uninjured, so confident werethe Rebels that our defeat was assured. It was the arrival of General Buells army that savedus.