Excerpt from Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts: Campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee, Including the Battle of Chickamauga, 1862-1864 The last six months of the previous year had been princi pally given up to the organization of, forces by the Union and Confederate governments, with the result that their respective numbers were very nearly in the ratio of five to three. At this date the line had been definitely drawn between the loyal and disloyal states and sections of states, so that each govern ment knew from what population it could draw to carry on the war. Missouri was still the most disturbed of the territory under Federal control, but the insurgents there, so far as organized forces were concerned, had been pretty nearly driven from the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.