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Map of Pine Bluff Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. After the capture of Little Rock on September 10, 1863, Union forces occupied several towns along the Arkansas. Confederate Brigadier-General John S. Marmaduke, commanding a cavalry division, decided to test their strength at Pine Bluff.
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Map of Bristoe Station Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division moved to attack V Corps, but it was redirected to attack II Corps. Union artillery, including the battery of Capt. R. Bruce Ricketts, opened fire on the Confederates; and infantry fire soon was added. [7]
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Confederate 240, Union 163 [9] January 9 –10 Arkansas Post, Arkansas Confederate Army of the Lower Arkansas and White Rivers, Union Army of the Mississippi and Mississippi Squadron: Confederate 5,004, Union 1,092 [10] January 9 –11 Hartville, Missouri Confederate cavalry, Union garrison Confederate 329, Union 78 [11] January 27 – March 3
In April 1863 Union forces of the Indian Home Guard under Colonel William A. Phillips occupied Fort Gibson. [2] Upon hearing reports of no Confederate activity in all directions Philips sent the fort's livestock to graze. A Union sentry failed to scout a mountain road and Confederate forces therefore descended on the livestock. [3]
The Battle of Blue Springs was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on October 10, 1863, in Greene County, Tennessee. Major General Ambrose E. Burnside , commander of the Department of the Ohio , undertook an expedition into East Tennessee to clear the roads and passes to Virginia , and, if possible, secure the saltworks beyond Abingdon .
Rosecrans followed and captured that city on September 8, 1863. Maneuvering then continued in the Chickamauga Campaign. Rosecrans was frustrated that the victory at Hoover's Gap and the Tullahoma Campaign were overshadowed by two other Union victories in the summer of 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg and Battle of Gettysburg. [7]