. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . kthe forces of Price and McCuUoch, who had taken separate positions, the one(Price) near Pineville in the south-western corner of Missomi, the other(McCuUoch) near Keets-sille, on the Arkansas line. Although McCulloch wasat first averse to venturing battle, he finally ^^^^lded to the entreaties of Price,and prepared himself to cooperate in resisting the further advance of Price and McCulloch it was explicitly understood that Missourishould not be given up without a
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . kthe forces of Price and McCuUoch, who had taken separate positions, the one(Price) near Pineville in the south-western corner of Missomi, the other(McCuUoch) near Keets-sille, on the Arkansas line. Although McCulloch wasat first averse to venturing battle, he finally ^^^^lded to the entreaties of Price,and prepared himself to cooperate in resisting the further advance of Price and McCulloch it was explicitly understood that Missourishould not be given up without a struggle. Sucli was the condition of thingswhen the intended opcnations of General Fremont were cut short by hisremoval from the command of the army (November 2d), his successor beingGeneral David Hunter. The result of this change was an immediate anduncommonly hasty retreat of our army in a northerly and easterly direction,to Sedalia on the 9th, and to Rolla on the loth; in fact, the abandonment ofthe whole south-west of the State l)y the lni«>n ti-oops, and the occupation of THE PEA RIDGE CAMPAIGN. 315. the city of Springfield for tlie second time by tlie enemy, wlio were greatly inneed of more comfortable winter quarters. They must have been exceed-ingly glad of the sudden disappearance of an army which by its numericalsuperiority, excellent organization, and buoyant spirit had had a very goodchance of at least driving them out of Mis-soiui. As it was, the new-tiedged Confed-erates^ utilized all the gifts of good for-tune, organized a great portion of theuforces for the Confederate ser\ice, andprovided themselves with arms, ammuni-tion, and equipments for the field, whilethe Northern troops were largely reducedby the hardships of miserable winterquarters, and the Union refugees who hadleft theu homes were in great part huddledtogether in tents in the public jilaces andstreets of Eolla and St. Louis, and were de-pendent on the charity of their symj^athiz-ing friends or o
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