Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 1

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tiion of the formidable fortiflcations on the island, which is aibout one mile long and a half mile wide.
On the 21st of February, General Halleck ordered General Pope to collect a military force at Commerce, on the west side 0)f the Mississippi, above Cairo. The last week in February' hie moved from that point, with 40,000 men, for New Madrid, S(eventy-five miles distant. The roads were very bad, and the Hnarch very severe, but March 3rd he arrived before the p)lace, and found that it was occupied by five regiments of iinfantry and several companies of artillery. In the fortifica- tiions at the lower end of the town were fourteen heavy guns, amd seven at the upper end, with intrenchments between. In tlhe river near by were six rebel gunboats, carrying from four tco eight heavy guns each, and looking frowningly down upon our fforces on the low ground beyond the river bank. Twelve miles bielow New Madrid was Point Pleasant, by occupying which, Wi'ith heavy guns on the bank of the riv«r. New Madrid and tlhe island would be blockaded. General Pope assigned Colo- H'el Plummer to the task of posting a blockading force there.
NEW MADRID AND ISLAND NO. TEN.
A—Cypress Lake,
B—GU.XBOAT ClTAX-VBL.
0—Cypress Fund. D—Mili, Pond, E—Wilson's Batou. F—Transports, G—Gu:;iH)ATs, IT—MoRTAK Boats, ,1-LiNE Lakh. K—Reel Foot Lake, L—Rebel Battbribs. ai—Rerel Gunboats ^ Datteribs,
P—POU:r P:,EAEANT.
R—F;od:,e's Point.
T—TiPTOH-i-ILLB.