. Morgan's cavalry . y adapted for a base of operations, offensive ordefensive, in such a campaign as General Johnston wasabout to inaugurate at the time of its occupation. Situatedupon the bank of the Barren river, it has that river and theGreen river to protect it against attack from the front. TheBarren river empties into the Green some twenty miles fromand northwest of Bowling Green, and the Green, flowing ina northwesterly direction, affords an admirable line of de-fense for many miles to the left. There are few fords andferries of Green river after its junction with the Barren,and those
. Morgan's cavalry . y adapted for a base of operations, offensive ordefensive, in such a campaign as General Johnston wasabout to inaugurate at the time of its occupation. Situatedupon the bank of the Barren river, it has that river and theGreen river to protect it against attack from the front. TheBarren river empties into the Green some twenty miles fromand northwest of Bowling Green, and the Green, flowing ina northwesterly direction, affords an admirable line of de-fense for many miles to the left. There are few fords andferries of Green river after its junction with the Barren,and those which it has can be easily held. The danger ofattack from the extreme left flank was guarded against, but,as the result showed, imperfectly, by Forts Henry and Don-elson, constructed respectively upon the Tennessee and Cum-berland rivers,—the one just upon, the other about tenmiles from, the Kentucky and Tennessee border. As therewas little danger to be apprehended in that direction, except Kentucky and Tanneflseei. =: NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOu^OationS. morgans cavalry. 29 from forces brought up those rivers and estabhshed in therear of Bowling Green, these forts, whose strength wasoverrated, were thought to sufficiently protect that flank. In this advance into Kentucky, the Kentucky regimentsunder Buckner, about thirteen hundred strong in all, tookthe lead; the Second Kentucky Infantry, under ColonelRoger W. Hanson, to which were temporarily attachedByrnes battery of four pieces, and one company of Tennes-see cavalry, was pushed on to Munfordsville on Green rest of the Kentuckians and two or three thousandTennesseeans (and some odds and ends) were stopped atBowling Green. All the cavalry which were available for that purposewere sent to scout the country between the Cumberland andGreen rivers, and subsequently Forrests regiment was sta-tioned at Hopkinsville, w^atching the country in that vicin-ity. Shortly after he was sent there Forrest a
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