Download or read book "All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell" written by Mark K. Christ and published by august house. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogwood trees were in full bloom as Union General Frederick Steele led 8,500 soldiers out of comfortable quarters in Little Rock and into the pine and scrub woodlands of southwest Arkansas. Steele's intended target was Shreveport, Louisiana. He planned to join another Union force coming from Fort Smith, bringing his projected complement to 12,500 troops, and then link with another Federal army in Louisiana.