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 The army evacuated Aiexandfis on ths5<tk of May. after considerable skirnishise wiik 'bo enemy's advance, and reached, MoreanriaIs : l and eoint Coupee near the end cftbs mouthG The disastrous termination of this expedition ? aad the faianess of the season, reuder~d In. l. practabl" the carrying out of my plan of ca movem mt in force sufficient to inyuss the sapsb ture of Mobile. 10 l3'7,s<i 'sdi'lfi sss1i on'she 2s of Msreh .Mejor censsal stssss left Little Rock with the Eth army corps so e operate with General Banks expedition dp pss Red river. and reached Arkadelhia on ths aeth. ]. On the l6th of April. after driving the ei,emv0 before him. he was joined near Elkin's ferry, on "ashita county. by General Thayef, whoe had march from Fort Smith. After several severe skirlnishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden which he occupied about the middle of April. On learning the defeat and consequent rs treat of General Banks on Red River, and the loss of one of his own trains at Marks mill, in Dallas county, General Steele determined to fall back to the Arkansas river He left Cam.s den on the 25th of April, and reached Little Rock on the 2d of May. On the sOth ofApril the enemy attacked him while crossing Saline river at Jenkins ferry but was repulsed VIII considerable loss, Our loss was about 600 ins-.1, killed wounded and prisoners 7s a sssoE Major General Canby, who bad been assign. ed to the command of the military division of west Mississippi" was therefore directed to send the 18th army corps to join the armies operating against Richmond, and to limit the remainder of his command to such operations as might be necessary to hold the petition and
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 Before starting General A. J. Smiths troops back to Sherman, General Canby sent . pert of it to disperse force of the enemy that was collecting Rsar the Mississippi river. General Smith met ard defeated this force near Ial.ss Chicat on the 9th of June. Oar loss va about 40 killed and 70 wounded. '. 1 In the latter part of July General cauby sent Major General Gordon Granger with sachs forces as he could collect, to cooperate wltti Admiral Farragut against the defences on Mo. bile bay. On the 9th of August Fort Qainss surrendered to the combined naval and land forces Fort Powell was blown up and Absa- doned .s.e ,r.,y:. On the 9th Fort Morgan was insestsd. and after severe bombardment surrsndsrsd Sn the 23d The total captures amounted so l4s4 prisoners, and l04 pieces of sstiIlsrs. Szal
 About the last of August. it being reported that the rebel General Price. with foecs of about 10 900 men had reached Jacksoaporl. oni his way te invade Missouri. General Al U Smiths command, then en route from Mem pbis to join Sherman, was ordered to Missouri. A cavalry force was also, at the same tima.i sent from Memphis, under ,comuand Of Colo nel Winsow. This made General Rosesran's forces superior to those of Price. and 10 doubt was entertained he would be able to shecE Price and drive him back, while the forces un.s der Geueral Steele, in Arkansas, would cut o& his retreat. On the 2eth day of Ssptsmhse Price attacked Pilot Knob and forced tbe esFs rson to retreat, and thence moved north io the Missouri river and continued up that rissf towards Kansas General Curtis commsndihR the department of Kansas. immediately coilsc. ted such forces as he could to reper the fnva- sion of Kansas, while General Rosecran's car. airy was operating in his rear. .n is:ii by4lsisr
 The enemy was brought to battle on the Big Blue and defeated, with the loss of nearly. All Lis artillery and trains and large numbee of prisoners. He made a parcipitate retreat to northern Arkansas. The impunity win which Price was enabled to ,oam over the State of Missouri for a long time, and the 1ins calculable mischief done by him, shows to how little purpose superior force may be used. There is no reason why General Rosecrans should not have concentrated his forces aud beaten and driven Price b. fore the latter reack. ed Pilot Knob. ssog .,.f, . as ssrss,
 September 20 the enemy's cavalry under Fos rest crossed near Waterloo Alabama aud 'o6 the 23d attacked the garrison at Athens, con. sisting of six hundred men, which capitulatsd on the 24th. Soon after the surrendef two regiments of re-eDforcements arrived, and after severe fight were compelled to sarsendsp. Forrest destroyed the railroad westward, csp. tured the garrison at Sulpher Branch trestls skirmished with the garrison at Palaski on the 27,h, and on the same day cut the Nsskvills and Chattahooga railroad near TulIahoma and Decbard. On the morning of the sosh one ool of Forrests command. under Buford, sppear. ed before Huntsville, and summoned the sar. render of the garrison. Receiving an answer in the negative. he remained in the vicinity of the place until next morning. when he axsia summoned its surrender, and received tue sane reply as on the night before. He withdrew .ia the direction of Athens, which place had besp re-garrisoned. and attacked 1t on the sfysrnoon of tho lst of October. but without succea,. q(,s the morning of the 2d he renewed bis agtack but was handsomely repulsed.s N .s - s-s'