. Young folk's history of the war for the union . but those in the Confederate armypretended to recognize thissham secession. In the mean time GeneralDon Carlos Buell had beensent to take General Sher-mans place as commander ofthe Department of the Ohio,with headquarters at Louis-ville. General Buell soonhad a force of one hundredand fifteen thousand men,with a hundred and twenty-six pieces of artillery. Thisgreat army was divided intofour divisions, commandedby Generals Alexander , Ormsby M. Mitchell,George H. Thomas, andThomas L. Crittenden, andwas stretched across the Stateso as t
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . but those in the Confederate armypretended to recognize thissham secession. In the mean time GeneralDon Carlos Buell had beensent to take General Sher-mans place as commander ofthe Department of the Ohio,with headquarters at Louis-ville. General Buell soonhad a force of one hundredand fifteen thousand men,with a hundred and twenty-six pieces of artillery. Thisgreat army was divided intofour divisions, commandedby Generals Alexander , Ormsby M. Mitchell,George H. Thomas, andThomas L. Crittenden, andwas stretched across the Stateso as toopposethe Con-federatelines,with theinten-tion of Operations in Eastern Kentucky. driving the enemy out of Kentucky, and then pushing on into Ten-nessee. In January, 1862, Major-General Humphrey Marshall, agraduate of West Point and well known as a colonel of cavalryin the Mexican War, was at Paintsville, on the Big Sandy River,in command of a Confederate force of about twenty-five hun-dred men. Colonel James A. Garfield was sent with two regi-. 162 MILL SPRING.—FORT HENRY. [1863. ments of infantry and a small body of cavalry to drive themaway; but when Marshall heard of his coming he moved towardPrestonburg. Garfield followed, and coming up with him,fought him all the afternoon until dark, gaining a completevictory, driving him from all his positions. Colonel Garfieldwas commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers for thisservice. Most of the force which Zollicoiier had brought into the Statewas now stationed at Mill Spring, shown in the map (p. 161), butpart was in an intrenched camp, on the other side of the Cum-berland Eiver, named Camp Beach Grove, where provisions and necessaries were landed by alittle steamer running betweenthere and Nashville. Thearmy had been increased toabout ten thousand men, andwas under the command ofMajor-General George , brother of theUnion general of the samename. In January, 1862, partof the division of the Unionarmy under Gen
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