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troops that to use them to advantage as a mean for defense and as a
body of observation. [49] Your immediate object, according to his/her really
showing and according to the circumstances around which you/they had brought the
the formation of the district, was to protect Arkansas[50] against
[Footnote 45: _Official Records_, vol. viii, 745-746.]
[Footnote 46:--Ibid., vol. liii, complete, 776-779, 783-785,
790, 793-794.]
[Footnote 47:--Ibid., vol. viii, 749 763-764.]
[Footnote 48:--Ibid., 764-765.]
[Footnote 49: Van Dorn Price, February 14 th 1862, Ibid.,
750.]
[Footnote 50: Arkansas seemed, to the duration, to be but weakly
protected. R.W. Johnson disapproved the to shout of troops in Arkansas
toward east. They was (the cont.)]
invasion and to assuage Missouri; its plan of operations was
conducts a spring country in the second state, to try St. Luigi,"
as him he put him/it, and to drive out the Federals; his/her further
motive is been able to be and, in the light of subsequent events, probably
it was, to effect a diversion for General A.S. Johnston; but, if that
it was really this way, it was not, to the duration, it divulged or so a lot as suggested
to.
Apparently, the great object that Van Dorn had in mind it was the relief
of Missouri. And he can have dreamed that action of value has brought defeasible, that it
it would be possible to bring the war in the country of the enemy over the
Ohio; but, alas, it was his/her adversity to this connection to have called
on to understand, to his/her great defeat the truth of Robert Burns'
simple philosophy,
The good-staid schemes or' mice and men
You form a gang to stern a-gley.
Its his/her own schemes and plans were suddenly all rhesuses futile from the
unexpected movement of the Federal strengths from it Rolls to that the safe
puts, you/he/she will be remembered, they had been drawn back from order
of General Cacciatore. They was now advancing from the forced street of Marches
Springfield in Arkansas northwest and you/he/she was driving in front of them