APRIL 27, 1862:
Confederate
commanders along the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers order that the cotton
fields be burned to deny the crop to the Union.
In the same region,
pro-Confederate members of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and
Seminole tribes
set ambushes and make raids where the Yankees are weakest,
appearing out of the dark woods to destroy a convoy of wagons, only to
disappear again before the cavalry can set upon them.
Without the burden of trying to capture
territory, and with the benefit of wooded terrain in many places, they are
destroying at will, burning supplies, frightening the populace, and most of
all, distracting the Federal military in the area.
Their actions have slowed
the Union advance, and kept them from invading into Arkansas.
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