ARMY OPERATIONS (1864). 



Movements in Missouri, 143 ; operations of 

 General Marmaduke, 144 ; retires to Arkansas, 

 144 ; movement of General Cahill, 144 ; Gen- 

 eral McNeil, 145 ; expedition of Colonel Clay- 

 ton, 145 ; advance of General Blunt, 145 ; Gen- 

 eral Steele's movements, 146 ; capture of Little 

 Eock, 146; QuantrelTs raid, 146; attack on 

 General Blunt, 146. 



Department of the Northwest, 146 ; opera- 

 tions against the Indians, 147. 



Result of the operations of the year, 147. 



IV. Position of the Federal forces, 41 ; posi- 

 tion of the enemy, 41 ; congratulatory address 

 of General Grant to his soldiers, 41 ; number of 

 Federal troops in the field, 41 ; number and 

 strength of the Confederates, 41, 42 ; earliest 

 movements of 1864, 42 ; letter of General Sher- 

 man, 42, 43 ; his movement from Vicksburg, 

 43 ; advance nnder General McPherson, 43 ; 

 skirmish at Big Black River, 43 ; preparations 

 of the enemy, 45 ; letter of Dabney Maury, 45 ; 

 address of Governor Watts to the people, 45 ; 

 force of General Sherman, 45 ; address to his 

 troops, and instructions, 45 ; reaches Meridian, 

 45 ; destruction of railroads, 45 ; returns to 

 Vicksburg, 45 ; failure of General A. J. Smith 

 to meet him, 45 ; march of General Smith from 

 Memphis, 46 ; resistance of the enemy, 46 ; he 

 falls back, 46 ; picture of his march, 46 ; pur- 

 suit of the enemy, 46 ; successful retreat, 46 ; 

 destruction caused by General Smith's forces, 

 46. 



Expedition against Yazoo City, 46 ; results 

 of the movement, 46. 



March of a force from General Johnston to 

 aid in opposing the advance of Sherman upon 

 Meridian, 47 ; counter-movement on the part 

 of General Grant at Chattanooga, 47 ; advance 

 on Tunnel Hill, 47 ; farther advance nearly to 

 Dalton, 47 ; resistance of the enemy, 47 ; Fed- 

 eral force fall back to Tunnel Hill, 47. 



General Gillmore in command of the Depart- 

 ment of the South, 47 ; his authority, 47 ; let- 

 ter of President Lincoln to him, 47 ; proposi- 

 tion of General Gillmore to the War Depart- 

 ment, 47 ; his order, 47 ; advance of the expedi- 

 tion, 48 ; Jacksonville, 48 ; advance in the inte- 

 rior, 48 ; capture of property, 48 ; return, 48 ; 

 other orders of General Gillmore to General 

 Seymour, 48 ; skirmish at Gainsville, 48 ; plans 

 of General Gillmore, 50 ; new advance of Gen- 

 eral Seymour, 50 ; encounters the enemy at 

 Olustee and is defeated, 50 ; the retreat, 50 ; 



report of the enemy, 50 ; correspondence be- 

 tween General Seymour and General Finegan, 

 50 ; suspension of operations in Florida, 51. 



Concentration of forces at New Orleans, 51 ; 

 plans of General Banks, 51 ; march of General 

 Franklin for Alexandria, 51 ; assembling of a 

 vast fleet at the mouth of Red River, 51 ; em- 

 barkation of a force under General Smith to 

 unite with General Banks at Alexandria, 52 ; 

 arrival at Semmesport, 52 ; reconnoissance, 52 ; 

 march upon and capture of Fort De Russy, 

 52; arrival at Alexandria, 52; withdrawal of 

 the enemy, 52 ; arrival of General Banks, 52 ; 

 advance upon and capture of Natchitoches, 52 ; 

 cooperation of General Steele in Arkansas ex- 

 pected, 52 ; advance toward Shreveport, 52 ; 

 battle and repulse at Pleasant Hill, 53 ; losses 

 of the campaign, 54 ; the captures, 54 ; advance 

 of Admiral Porter, 54; arrival of General 

 Smith, 54; retreat continued to Alexandria, 

 54; dangerous position of the fleet, 56; extri- 

 cated by building a dam across Red River, 56 ; 

 how it was done, 56 ; evacuation of Alexan- 

 dria, 57 ; city set on fire, 57 ; appalling scenes, 

 57 ; retreat of the fleet and army to the Mis- 

 sissippi, followed by the enemy, 58. 



Advance of General Steele to cooperate with 

 General Banks, 58 ; concentration of his force, 

 58 ; force of the enemy, 58 ; advance of General 

 Steele toward Washington, 58 ; capture of Cam- 

 den, 58; cooperating movement of Colonel Clay- 

 ton, 58 ; his dispatch, 58 ; position of General 

 Steele after the retreat of General Banks, 58 ; 

 necessary to fall back, 58 ; operations of the 

 enemy, 58 ; Steele's supplies cut off, 58 ; evac- 

 uates Camden and retreats, 59; battle at the 

 crossing of Washita River, 59 ; enemy repulsed 

 and the crossing effected, 59 ; safe retreat to 

 Little Rock, 59 ; effects of the withdrawal of 

 troops from Vicksburg for the Red Rivar expe- 

 dition, 59 ; movements of the Confederate Gen- 

 eral Forrest, 59 ; advance on the Federal posts 

 in West Tennessee and Kentucky, 59 ; attack 

 on Paducah, 59 ; demand for its surrender, 59 ; 

 reply of Colonel Hicks, 60 ; attack on the forts, 

 60 ; withdrawal of Forrest, 60 ; his report, 60 ; 

 attack on Fort Pillow, 60; its garrison, 60; 

 manner of the attack, 60 ; operations, 60 ; de- 

 mand for surrender, 60 ; reply of Major Brad- 

 ford, 60 ; assault by the enemy and capture of 

 the fort, 61 ; report of an investigating com- 

 mittee of Congress on the scenes which fol- 

 lowed, 61 ; statement of the Confederate Lieu- 



