Chapter 9
CORINTH.
When news of the two days' fighting was received at the North, the people of the Ohio Valley and St. Louis were stirred to active sympathy. Steamboats bearing physicians, nurses, sisters of charity, and freighted with hospital supplies were at once despatched and soon crowded the shore of Pittsburg Landing. There was need for all the aid that was brought. Besides the thousands of wounded, were other thousands of sick. The springs of surface water used in the camps, always unwholesome, were now poisonous. The well lost their strength; of the sick many died every day. Hospital camps spread over the hills about the landing, and the little town of Savannah was turned into a hospital. Fleets descended the river bearing invalids to purer air and water.
General Halleck arrived at the landing on April 11th, established his headquarters near the river bluff, and assumed personal command. General Pope, with the Army of the Mississippi, summoned from the operations just begun before Fort Pillow, arrived on the 21st, and went into camp at Hamburg. Seasoned troops from Missouri and fresh regiments from recruiting depots arrived. The camps were pushed out farther from the river, and Halleck found 100,000 effective men under his command. The army was organized into right wing, centre, left wing, and reserve. The right wing comprised all the army of the Tennessee except the divisions of McClernand and Lewis Wallace, together with the division of General Thomas from the army of the Ohio, and was commanded by General Thomas. The remnants of the commands of Prentiss and W.H.L. Wallace were incorporated in two new divisions. The centre, composed of the Army of the Ohio, except Thomas' division, was commanded by General Buell. The left wing, the Army of the Mississippi, to which General Granger's cavalry division was still attached, was commanded by General Pope. General Pope, General Rosecrans having been assigned to him for duty, divided his command on May 29th into two wings, the right commanded by General Rosecrans, the left by General Hamilton. The reserve, under General McClernand, comprised his division and that of Lewis Wallace. General Grant was appointed second in command, without command or duty attached to that position, though he still remained commander of the District of West Tennessee.
Beauregard was reinforced, almost immediately after his return, by Van Dorn with 17,000 troops seasoned by campaigns in Missouri and Arkansas, raising his effective strength to 50,000. The Confederate Government at Richmond and the State governments in the Southwest strained every resource to increase his force. Unimportant posts were denuded of their garrisons, new regiments were recruited, and Price, of Missouri, whom the Government at Richmond had refused to recognize, was appointed major-general. Beauregard found his force amount on the muster-rolls to an aggregate of more than 112,000. But sickness and absence were so prevalent that the return of effectives never quite reached 53,000. The position at Corinth was naturally strong. Standing on a long ridge in the fork of two streams, which run parallel to each other nearly to their junction, protected on the front and both flanks by swampy valleys traversed by the streams and obstructed by dense thickets, a line of earthworks running along the crest of the highland bordering the valleys, it could be approached with difficulty. The difficulty was enhanced by a belt of timber which screened the works from view. Railroads coming into the town facilitated reinforcement and supply.
Beauregard kept strong parties well advanced to his front, while the National force at the river, absorbed in the work of organization and supply, made little effort to ascertain his position. As late as April 27th, a reconnoitering party sent out by McClernand discovered that Monterey, twelve miles from the landing, was held in some force. Next day General Stanley, of Pope's command, sent out a detachment that drove this force beyond Monterey. General Halleck began his march about the close of April, moving slowly, keeping his army compact, intrenching at every halt, and ordering his subordinate commanders strictly to refuse to be drawn into a general engagement. The right wing halted and intrenched immediately beyond and to the west of Monterey on May 4th. The enemy's outposts kept close in front of Halleck's army and opposed every advance.
General Pope, moving out on the left from Hamburg, stretched in advance of the adjoining part of the line. On May 3d, his command being encamped with Seven Mile Creek in his front, General Paine, with his division, pushed forward to Farmington, within four miles of Corinth, attacked a considerable force and drove them from their intrenchments, compelling them to leave their dead, as well as their tents and baggage, behind. Next day Pope advanced his entire force within a mile and a half of Farmington, but had to return next day to his former position behind Seven Mile Creek, to keep up his connection with Buell. On the 8th, he again moved his whole force to Farmington, and pushed two divisions on separate roads almost up the intrenchments at Corinth; but was again informed that the army to his right was not ready to advance. One brigade was still kept as advanced guard at Farmington. On the 9th, a heavy force from Corinth emerged from the timber just as Plummer's brigade, then on post, was being relieved by Palmer's. The two brigades met the attack briskly and a severe combat ensued. Pope's army was within a mile and a half behind the creek, but forbidden by Halleck's order to cross. To prevent a general engagement, the two brigades were withdrawn. It was not till after May 20th that Pope finally occupied Farmington with Buell's line.
Observing indications on the night of the 26th, he next day advanced, and connecting with his right, sent Colonel W.L. Elliot, of the Second Iowa Cavalry, with his own regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Hatch, and the Second Michigan Cavalry, commanded by Colonel P.H. Sheridan, who was only assigned to the regiment that day, to make a circuit around Corinth and strike the railroad forty miles in its rear, doing all practicable destruction to it. Next day, the 28th, Stanley's division was pushed far forward and after a sharp skirmish secured possession of a ridge directly upon the creek, in front of the enemy's works, which he at once fortified. Paine's division was moved out the same day and occupied on Stanley's left. The same day Buell advanced Nelson and Crittenden to the front on a line with Stanley.
General Thomas held Sherman on his extreme right, with his skirmishers extended out to sweep the Mobile & Ohio Railway.
After several successive advances, meeting more or less opposition, on May 17th, Sherman moved with his division--supported by Hurlbut--and with batteries, against a commanding position in his front, called Russell's, just two miles from the main entrenchments, held by a brigade. It was some time before he could get a position for his batteries. Resistance was more obstinate than at any previous encounter. But, finally, the point was carried, and was found to cover a sweep of open ground to the south, the direction toward Corinth, and the division entrenched. Beyond the open land--stretching southward from Russell's--and intervening woods was other open land, and still beyond, a rising ground, with a high wooded ridge behind it. On this rising ground was a loop-holed, double loghouse, having complete command of the open ground north of it. A force stationed here exceedingly annoyed Sherman's pickets. On the morning of the 27th he moved with his division and batteries, supported by Veatch's brigade, from Hurlbut, and John A. Logan's brigade, from McClernand, quietly and unseen through the timber as near as practicable. Two of Silversparre's twenty-pounder Parrott guns were moved silently through the forest to a point behind a hill, from the top of which could be seen the house and ground to be contested. The guns were unlimbered, loaded, and moved by hand to the crest. A quick rapid fire demolished the house. The infantry dashed forward, drove the enemy from the ridge across a field and into a thick forest beyond. In the afternoon the repulsed troops suddenly reappeared, but after a short contest they were again driven. The advanced position thus carried was at once intrenched. The intervening forest concealed from Sherman the fact that, though he was more than three miles from the town, he was now less than a mile from the main defences of Corinth, that he was between the creeks, and there was no obstruction but the forest between him and the works. Next day General Thomas advanced the rest of his command, wheeling it to the right so as to bring the whole upon the bank of the creek, which flowed between him and Corinth. This advance brought his left division, T.W. Sherman, within half a mile of the main entrenchments, but separated from them by the swampy valley. The same day Buell advanced McCook to connect with T.W. Sherman. Halleck had been a month gaining with his 100,000 men a few miles, but he was now closing in upon Corinth.
Beauregard, though contesting pertinaciously every advance, had already began his evacuation. Detailed instructions, regulating the evacuation and the subsequent march of the troops, were issued on the 26th and 27th, and three o'clock A.M. of the 29th was appointed for the time. On the 28th an order was issued postponing the movement till the morning of the 30th, to gain more time for removing stores. On the 29th the final order was issued, which required, among other precautions to hide the movement, "whenever the railroad-engine whistles during the night, near the intrenchments, the troops in the vicinity will cheer repeatedly, as though reinforcements had been received." The sick and wounded were sent off by railway, as was the heavy artillery. All valuable stores were carried off; though considerable quantities of stores of all kinds--commissary, quartermaster, and ordnance--were neither removed nor destroyed. Elliot, with his cavalry, struck the railroad at Booneville before daylight of the 30th, destroyed there a locomotive, twenty-five box-cars loaded with ordnance, ammunition, and quartermaster stores, one or two platform-cars with field-pieces, a depot building filled with ordnance stores, tore up the track and destroyed two culverts, and returned to Farmington, having prevented the further use of that railway for the purposes of evacuation.
General Pope, hearing the engines whistling and men cheering after midnight, understood it as Beauregard intended--to show the arrival of reinforcements. But skirmishers were sent forward to ascertain, if practicable, the fact. Trains were heard leaving, and, at six o'clock, explosions, followed by clouds of smoke, satisfied both him and Sherman that Beauregard was leaving. By eight o'clock, his advance had felt their way through the intrenchments and marched into town. Sherman, having farther to go, was but little later in entering.
Pope's army moved at once in pursuit along the roads leading south--Rosecrans in front, Hamilton following, and Granger with the cavalry keeping in advance. Two divisions from Thomas' command, Davies and T.W. Sherman, were added to the pursuing column. The pursuit developed the fact that Beauregard, or a large part of his force, halted at Baldwin, fifty miles south of Corinth, in an inaccessible position behind swamp and jungle, while his line extended to the northwest, to Blackland, an approachable point west of the railroad. Pope had made all preparations to attack at Blackland and issued the order, when Buell arrived at the front and suspended the attack. Beauregard retreated farther and the pursuing force returned to Corinth.
General Pope, while detained a few days at Danville, by illness, was continually receiving despatches from his officers at the front, and telegraphing them or their substance to General Halleck, at Corinth, a few miles off. General Granger said in one despatch there were ten thousand stragglers from the retreating army in the woods, all of whom would come in and surrender. All knew the woods were full of stragglers, and it was generally believed that General Granger's estimate of their number and intentions was reasonable. Pope, condensing into one, despatches received from Rosecrans, Hamilton, and Granger, telegraphed to Halleck, "The two divisions in the advance under Rosecrans are slowly and cautiously advancing on Baldwin this morning, with the cavalry on both flanks. Hamilton, with two divisions, is at Rienzi, and between there and Booneville, ready to move forward, should they be needed. One brigade from the reserve occupies Danville. Rosecrans reports this morning that the enemy has retreated from Baldwin, but he is advancing cautiously. The woods, for miles, are full of stragglers from the enemy, who are coming in in squads. Not less than ten thousand men are thus scattered about, who will come in within a day or two." General Halleck despatched to the War Department "General Pope, with 40,000 men, is thirty miles south of Corinth, pushing the enemy hard. He already reports 10,000 prisoners and deserters from the enemy, and 15,000 stand of arms captured." This despatch of General Halleck's made a great sensation. The expectation that the stragglers would come into the National camp was disappointed; the prisoners taken were few, and Pope was censured for making a statement of fact which he neither made nor authorized.
Fort Pillow was abandoned June 1st. On June 6th, Admiral Davis, who had succeeded Commodore Foote, destroyed the Confederate fleet in front of Memphis after an engagement of an hour and a half. The same day, the two regiments that Pope left with the fleet, entered the city. The objects proposed in the spring were accomplished, though not in the manner designed. The railway connection at Corinth was broken, though not by a mere dash from the river. Fort Pillow was possessed, Memphis was occupied, and the Mississippi open to Vicksburg. The volunteers had been through a hard military school. After their experience in fighting, they had practice in the slow advance to Corinth, in picket duty and field fortification. They had learned something of the business of war and were now ready for campaign, battle, and siege.
END.
INDEX.
NOTE.--_Regiments, batteries, etc., are indexed under the names of their States, excepting batteries called by their captain's or by some other special name. These are indexed under_ BATTERIES.
Adams, Colonel, 141-143
Alabama, troops of. Regiments: First, 80, 120; Fourth, 171; Twenty-second, 154; Twenty-seventh, 42; Colonel Baker's, 80
Allen, Colonel, 144
Ammen, Colonel, 163, 164, 165, 166
Anderson, General Patton, 128, 129
Appler, Colonel, 128
Arkansas, troops of. Regiments: Eleventh, 69, 80; Twelfth, 69, 80, 88; Fifteenth, 132
Ashboth, General, 9, 11 et seq.
Badeau, General Adam, his work on General Grant cited, 20, 60, 61, 178
Bailey, Colonel, 62
Bailey's Ferry, 28, 29
Baker, Colonel, 80
Baldwin, Colonel, report of, 45, 146
Baldwin, Miss., position of, 190, 191
Bankhead, Captain, 80
Bankhead, Fort, 76
Bark road, 147
Barrett, Captain, 130, 136
Bartlett, 168
Batteries: Bankhead's battery, 175; Barrett's battery, 115, 130; Bartlett's battery, 167, 168; Bouton's battery, 175; Bratzman's batteries, 155; Burrows' battery, 101, 115, 136; Byrne's battery, 175; Cavender's, Major, artillery, 154; Crittenden's battery, 169, 177; DeGolyer's battery, 70; Dresser's battery, 39, 136; Dubuque battery, 16; Graves' battery, 52, 55, 60; Green's battery, 60; Guy's battery, 60; Hickenlooper's battery, 145, 146; Hodgson's, Captain, battery, 128; Houghtaling's Ottawa Light Artillery, 70, 87; Hurlbut's batteries, 155, 181; Jackson's battery, 60; Ketchum's battery, 138, 160, 174, 175; Maney's battery, 42, 43, 48,52, 60; Mann's battery, 101, 115, 148; McAllister's, 39, 52, 115, 136, 172, 175; Mendenhall's battery, 165, 167, 168, 169, 177; Munch's Minnesota, 115; Plummer's battery, 73, 74; Porter's battery, 52, 55, 59, 60; Schofield's battery, 17; Schwartz's battery, 39, 115, 136; Sherman's battery, 102; Stewart's, R.C., battery, 80; Terrill's battery, 165, 166, 167; Thurber's battery, 163, 175, 176; Washington Artillery, 128; Waterhouse's battery, 102, 126, 127, 129, 135, 136; Webster's battery, 154, 155
Battle, Colonel, 152
Baxter, Captain, 162
Bear Creek, 91
Beauregard, General G.P.T., 78; number and character of his command in the Southwest, 91; sends force to Pittsburg Landing, 99, 128; assumes Johnston's command, 153; referred to, 156, 157, 160, 161, 164, 169, 170, 175, 176; losses of, 180; reinforced, 184, 186; begins an evacuation, 189; halts at Baldwin, 190
Behr, Captain, 131
Belmont, Mo., 19, 20; engagement at, 21
Bentonville, Mo., 13
Big Barren River, 24
Bird's Point, Mo., 20, 74
Birge, Colonel, 55
Bissel, Colonel J.W., 70 et seq.
Blair, General Frank P., 2
Blandville, Ky., 19
Boonville, Mo., 2, 4, 8, 9, 190
Boston Mountains, Ark., 12
Bowen, General, 151
Bowling Green, Ky., occupied by Buckner, 24
Bowling Green, Ky., rebel evacuation of, 64
Boyle, General J.T., 166, 168
Bragg, General, 128, 138, 153 et seq.
Breckenridge, General, 138, 135, 155, 169, 176, 177, 181, 182
Brier Creek, 100, 137, 160, 161, 163, 172, 174
Brotzman, 155
Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel, 11
Brown Major, 45; report of, cited, 61
Brown, Colonel, 80
Bruce, 164, 165
Brush, Captain, 50
Bryner, Colonel John, 70
Buckland, Colonel, 102
Buckland, General, 126, 129, 173, 174
Buckner, General S.B., 24; at Fort Donelson, 37 et seq.; plans of, for sortie, 47, 48; his advice in the council at Fort Donelson, 57; offers to surrender Fort Donelson, 59
Buell, General D. C, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 177; suggestions of, as to attack on General Johnston's line, 26; made major-general, 65; correspondence with Halleck, 97, 98, 130; loss in his army, 181; commands centre of the Army of the Ohio, 184, 186, 187, 188
Burrows, Captain, 101
Cairo, Ill., 18; district of, 65
Camp Jackson, 2
Cape Girardeau, Mo., 7, 17
Carlin, Colonel, 16
Carondelet, the, 30, 43, 46; her passage of the batteries, 84 et seq.
Carr, Colonel E.A., 12
Carthage, Mo., engagement near, 4
Cavender, Major, 39
Chalmers, General, 142, 148, 157 et seq., 161
Charleston, Ky., 19
Chattanooga, Tenn., 91
Cheatham, General B.F., 23, 68
Cincinnati, the, 30
Clanton, 149
Clare, Captain, 123
Clark, Colonel, 80
Clark, General, 169
Clarke, General, 37, 136
Clarksville, Tenn., 37
Clear Creek, Mo., engagement near, 11
Cleburne, General, 127, 129
Columbus, Ky., 18, 19; works at, 24; rebel evacuation of, 64
Commerce, 19, 66
Conestoga, the, 46
Cook, Colonel John, 39, 55
Cooper's Farm, Ark., 12
Corinth, Miss., 91, 141; map of, 181
Crittenden, General, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 170, 177, 178, 187
Crocker, Colonel, 139, 178
Cross Hollows, Ark., 12
Cruft, Colonel Charles, 44, 50, 57
Crump's Landing, 100, 130
Crump's Landing Road, 143, 162, 163
Cullum, General, 74, 93
Cumming, Colonel G.W., 70
Curtis, General Samuel R., 11, 12 et seq.
Danville, 190, 191
Davis, Admiral, 191
Davis, Colonel, 139
Davis, General Jefferson C., 11, 12
Dawes, Adjutant, 128
Deas, Colonel, 141
De Golyer, Captain, 70
Department of the Missouri, 10
Dickey, Colonel, 32, 39
Dixon, Lieutenant (afterward Captain), 24, 43
Dodge, Colonel, 15
Donelson, Fort, situation of, 24, 28, 33; description of, 34 et seq.; surrender of, 60; number of its garrison, 61 et seq.
Dougherty, Colonel H., 20
Dover, Tenn., 33
Drake, Colonel, 54
Drake, Lieutenant Breckenridge, 159
Dresser's Battery, 136
Dresser, Captain, 31
Dubois, Captain, 5
Dug Springs, Mo., engagement at, 5
Eastport, 91
Elbert, Captain, 13
Elliot, Colonel, 87, 189
Essex, the, 30
Farmington, 186-189
Fayetteville, Ark., 12
Fearing, Major, 128, 130
Fitch, Colonel G.N., 70
Fitch, Lieutenant, 129
Fletcher, Lieutenant, 78
Florence, Ala., 32
Floyd, General J.B., 37, 45 et seq.; his advice in the council at Fort Donelson, 59; leaves Fort Donelson, 59
Foote, Commodore A.H., concurs in Grant's plans as to Forts Henry and Donelson, 27; his part in the campaign, 28 et seq.; report of, 31; at Fort Donelson, 38, 43, 46; wounded, 46; returns to Cairo, 54; at Island No. Ten, 79 et seq., 191
Forrest, Colonel, 58, 152
Fort Donelson (see Donelson, Fort)
Fort Heiman, 28
Fort Henry, situation of, 24, 28; expedition against, 27 et seq.; surrender of, 31
Fort Holt, 20
Fort Pillow, 19; abandoned, 19
Frankfort, Ky., 18
Frederickstown, Mo., 16
Fremont, General John C., appointment of, 7; early measures and orders of, 8, 9; relieved from command, 10; correspondence with General Grant, 18
Frost, General D.M., 2
Fulton, Lieutenant-Colonel, 128
Gantt, Colonel, 59, 69
Georgetown, Mo., 9
Gibson, General, 144, 172
Gilmer, General J.F., constructs Confederate works in Kentucky and Tennessee, 24, 31, 34; leaves Fort Donelson, 59
Gladden, General, 141, 164
"Golden State," the, 96
Granger, Captain, 6
Granger, General Gordon, 69, 70, 86 et seq., 190
Grant, General Ulysses S., commanding at Cape Girardeau, 17; commanding District of Southeast Missouri, 18; his plans as to Columbus, etc., 19, 20; at Belmont, 21 et seq.; plans for expedition against Forts Henry and Donelson, 26, 27; his conduct of the campaign, 28 et seq.; at Fort Donelson, 37 et seq.; his despatch demanding its surrender, 60; made Major-General, 65; assigned to command military department of Tennessee, 65; traits of, 92; his proposed movement up the Tennessee, 93; in disfavor with General Halleck, 94 et seq., 130; arrival at Savannah, 102; his directions to McClernand at Shiloh, 155; orders to Nelson, 158; directions to Thirty-Sixth Indiana, 158; consultation with Buell, 164; orders to Sherman, 173; orders to Wallace, 174; sends out Hurlbut, 177; size of his army at Pittsburg Landing, 179; loss in his army, 181; sends Sherman and Wood in pursuit, 182; appointed second in command, 184
Graves, Captain, 60
Gray, Captain, 82
Green, Captain, 60
Greenville, Ark., 19
Groesbeck, Colonel John, 70
Gumbart, Lieutenant, 49
Guy, Captain, 60
Halleck, General H.W., appointed Commander of the Department of the Missouri, 10; his views as to movements in Tennessee, 25, 26; orders to Grant, 27, 28, 38; despatch after Donelson, 64; assigned to command Department of the Mississippi, 67, 99; instructions to Pope, 74, 82 et seq.; congratulations to Pope, 90; his plans against Corinth, etc., 91 et seq.; traits of, 92; orders to Grant, 93 et seq.; instructions to Buell, 97; arrives at Pittsburg Landing, 183-186; closes in on Corinth, 189; despatches to, 190; despatch from, 191
Hamburg Landing, 100
Hamilton, General Schuyler, 69, 70 et seq., 184, 190
Hammock, Lieutenant, 122
Hannibal, Mo., 8
Hanson, Colonel, 41, 55
Hardcastle, Major, 122
Hardee, General, 127, 132, 161, 170
Hare, Colonel, 140
Harris, Governor, 152
Haynes, Colonel Milton A., 37, 42
Haywood, Colonel, 80
Hazen, General, 164, 178
Heiman, Colonel, 30, 42, 48 et seq.
Heiman, Fort, 28
Helena, Ark., 66
Helm, Colonel, 59
Henderson, Colonel, 80
Henry, Fort, see Fort Henry
Hickenlooper, Captain, 103, 134
Hickman Creek, 33
Hickman, Ky., 18
Hildebrand, 102, 130
Hindman, General, 127, 144
Hodgson, Captain, 128
Hollins, Commodore, 69, 76 et seq.
"Hornet's Nest," the, 144
Hopkinsville, 37
Houghtaling, Captain, 70
Hubbard, Major, 11
Hudson, Captain, 80
Humboldt, 91
Hunter, General David, 9; appointed to command the Department of the West, 10, 64
Hurlbut, General S.A., 96; at Shiloh, 101 et seq.; 127, 138, 153 et seq., 158, 161, 172, 173, 177, 181, 187, 188
Illinois, troops of. Regiments: First, 70; Second, 71, 116; Fourth, 32, 39, 182; Seventh, 39, 41, 56, 70, 71, 113; Eighth, 38, 45, 50, 113, 140, 178; Ninth, 39, 113, 139, 143, 150; Tenth, 70, 75; Eleventh, 39, 52, 53, 113, 116; Twelfth, 39, 113; Thirteenth, 50; Fourteenth, 113, 140; Fifteenth, 113, 140; Sixteenth, 70, 75; Seventeenth, 17, 42, 56, 113, 128, 139, 172; Eighteenth, 38, 45, 50, 113, 140, 178; Twentieth, 17, 39, 113, 135, 139, 172; Twenty-second, 20, 22, 23; Twenty-fifth, 42; Twenty-sixth, 70, 72; Twenty-seventh, 20, 21, 23; Twenty-eighth, 113, 154, 173, 178; Twenty-ninth, 38, 45, 50, 113; Thirtieth, 20, 38, 50; Thirty-first, 20, 38, 51, 52, 53; Thirty-second, 53, 113, 152, 154; Fortieth, 96, 114, 131, 132, 162, 166; Forty-first, 39, 113, 147, 148, 152, 154; Forty-second, 84, 172; Forty-third, 113, 134, 139; Forty-fifth, 39, 42, 113, 139, 172; Forty-sixth, 44, 113, 139, 140, 172, 177; Forty-seventh, 70, 72; Forty-eighth, 39, 42, 113, 136, 139, 172; Forty-ninth, 42, 56, 113, 139, 172; Fiftieth, 39, 113; Fifty-first, 70; Fifty-second, 113; Fifty-fifth, 114, 148, 149; Fifty-seventh, 44, 113; Fifty-eighth, 44, 53, 113, 146, 147; Sixty-first, 114, 142, 148. Batteries: First, 20, 23, 39, 52, 53, 102, 115, 126, 127, 128, 136, 175; Second, 115
Indiana, troops of. Regiments: Eleventh, 56, 115, 175; Seventeenth, 148; Twenty-third, 116; Twenty-fourth, 115, 163; Twenty-fifth, 39, 41, 55, 113, 140, 148; Thirty-first, 44, 113, 148, 150; Thirty-second, 171; Thirty-fourth, 70; Thirty-sixth, 105, 158; Forty-third, 70; Forty-fourth, 44, 113, 148; Forty-sixth, 70; Forty-seventh, 70; Fifty-second, 39, 54, 55, 56; Fifty-sixth, 39; Fifty-ninth, 70. Batteries: Sixth (Behr), 115, 127, 131; Ninth (Thompson), 116, 175
Indian Creek, 33
Indian Ford, St. François River, Ark., 19
Iowa, troops of. Regiments: First, 6; Second, 39, 55, 56,70, 87, 113, 134, 139, 146, 166, 178, 187; Third, 113, 147, 148, 151, 154, 156, 177; Fifth, 70; Sixth, 114, 133, 140; Seventh, 20, 22, 23, 39, 41, 55, 113, 146, 178; Eighth, 113, 143, 146, 147; Eleventh, 113, 135; Twelfth, 39, 113, 146, 147; Thirteenth, 113, 139; Fourteenth,39, 43, 55, 111, 139,146, 147; Fifteenth, 114, 131; Sixteenth, 114, 131
Ironton, Mo., 7
Island Number Eight, 67
Island Number Ten, 19, 64; situation and description of, 66 et seq.; canal at, 81, 82; capture of, 87, 88
Jackson, Camp, 2
Jackson, Captain, 60
Jackson, General, 142, 157
Jackson, Governor, powers conferred on, by the State Legislature, 1; proclamation by, 2; movements of, 4
Jefferson City, Mo., 2, 7
John's Bayou, 81
Johnson, Major, 61
Johnson, General Bushrod R., 36, 49; escape of, 63, 135
Johnston, General Albert Sydney, 12; evacuates Bowling Green, 64; at Corinth, 81; his movements to join Beauregard, 92, 122, 141; death of, 153; army of, 178
Johnston, Preston, 122
Jones, Lieutenant, 80
Jordan, Colonel, 126
Kansas, troops of. Regiments: First, 6
Kennedy, Colonel, 80
Kentucky, attitude of, with regard to the Rebellion, 18
Kentucky, troops of. Regiments: Fourth, 164, 171; Eighth, 61; Seventeenth, 44, 113, 151; Twenty-fifth, 44, 50, 113, 151
Kirk, 163, 170, 171, 172
Lauman, Colonel J.G., 39, 55, 147
Lawler, Colonel, 50
Lebanon, Mo., 12
Lexington, Mo., 4, 8; surrender of, 9
"Lexington," gunboat, 155
Lick Creek, 99, 141, 177
Lincoln, Abraham, President of the United States, 10; his War Order No. 3, 98
Logan, Colonel (afterward General) John A., 50, 188
Loomis, Colonel J.W., 70, 141
Loss, Confederate, 180; National, 181
Lothrop, Major W.L., 70 et seq.
Louisiana, troops of. Regiments: Fourth, 144; Eleventh, 22, 80; Twelfth, 80; Eighteenth, 138
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 24
Louisville, the, 46
Lyon, General Nathaniel, 2, 4, 5; death of, at the battle of Wilson Creek, 6
Lytle, Colonel, 152
Mackall, General W.W., 83, 87, 88
Madrid Bend, 66 et seq.
Maney, Captain, 42 et seq., 60
Mann, Captain, 101
Mann's battery, 148 (see Artillery)
Marsh, Colonel, 134, 139
Marshal, Captain L.H., 86
Martin, Colonel, 165
Mayfield, Ky., 26
McAlister, Captain, 31
McArthur, Colonel John, 39, 47
McArthur, General, 134, 139, 178
McClellan, General G.B., his despatch as to Grant, 94; relieved from general command, 95, 98
McClernand, General J., at Pittsburg Landing, 102 et seq.
McClernand, General J.A., 130, 158, 159, 161, 167, 171 et seq., 177, 178; at Belmont, 20 et seq.; march of, toward Mayfield, Ky., 27; commands the advance in expedition against Fort Henry, 28; at Fort Donelson, 38 et seq.; made Major-General, 65; his loss in guns, 181; mentioned, 184, 186, 188
McCook, 163, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 189
McCoun, General, 68, 76 et seq.
McCulloch, General Ben., 4 et seq., 12, 13, 14
McDowell, Colonel, 102
McDowell, General, 131
McIntosh, General, 14
McKingstry, General, 9
McNulty, Lieutenant, 122
McPherson, Lieutenant-Colonel, 55
Memphis & Charleston Railroad, 91
Memphis & Ohio Railroad, 24
Memphis, Tenn., 91, 191
Mendenhall, 165, 167, 168, 169
Michigan, troops of. Regiments: Second, 70, 187; Third, 70; Twelfth, 114, 142; Fifteenth, 169, 179. Batteries: First, 70; Second (Ross), 70; Third, 70
Miller, Colonel, 182
Mill Spring, Ky., engagement at, 27
Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad, 91
Mississippi, Department of, defined, 65
Mississippi River, description of the shores of, 66 et seq.
Mississippi, troops of. Regiments: Third, 122; Sixth, 129, 132; Fourteenth, 51, 59; Twentieth, 45, 48, 49, 54, 57, 59; Twenty-sixth, 48, 49; Colonel Baker's, 80
Missouri, course of, as to secession, 1
Missouri, Department of the, 10
Missouri, troops of. Regiments: First, 6; Eighth, 56, 115, 116; Eleventh, 17, 70, 72; Twelfth, 13; Thirteenth, 39, 113, 130, 134, 139, 143, 173; Fourteenth, 113, 143, 163, 178; Eighteenth, 114, 142; Twenty-first, 114, 118, 123, 141, 142; Twenty-second, 70; Twenty-third, 114, 131, 142; Twenty-fifth, 114, 122, 123, 124, 141, 142; Twenty-sixth, 70. Batteries: First (Buell's), 70, 72, 115, 116
Mitchell, General O.M., 25
Mobile & Ohio R.R., 91
Monterey, Tenn., 177, 186
Montgomery, Ala., 91
Moore, Colonel, 123, 141
Morgan, Colonel J.D., 70
Morrison, Colonel W.R., 39, 42
Mouton, Colonel, 138
Mower, Captain, 75
Mulligan, Colonel, 8, 9
Munford, Captain, 122
Murray, Ky., 26
Mussel Shoals, Tennessee River, 32
Nashville, Tenn., contemplated movement against, 26
Nebraska, troops of. Regiments: First, 44, 53, 116, 175
Neely, Colonel, 80
Nelson, General, 130, 158, 161, 163 et seq., 172, 176 et seq., 187
New Madrid, Mo., 19; situation of, 66; evacuation, 77, 78
New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern R.R., 91
Nispel, Lieutenant, 136
Norfolk, Ky., 19
Oak Creek, 100, 129, 135, 176, 177
Oglesby, Colonel R.J., 19, 31, 38, et seq.
Ohio, troops of. Regiments: Third, 173; Fourth, 116; Fifth, 116; Sixth, 105, 158, 166; Twentieth, 44, 48, 56, 62, 116, 163, 174, 175, 177; Twenty-fourth, 105, 158; Twenty-seventh, 70, 71; Thirty-ninth, 70, 71, 75; Forty-first, 165; Forty-third, 70, 86; Forty-sixth, 53, 96, 114, 133, 140; Forty-seventh, 53; Forty-eighth, 114, 134, 155, 162, 173; Forty-ninth, 172; Fifty-third, 102, 114, 126, 127, 128, 130, 134, 139, 172, 173; Fifty-fourth, 114, 148, 149; Fifty-sixth, 116, 163; Fifty-seventh, 102, 114, 126, 128, 129, 130, 134, 173; Fifty-eighth, 44, 53, 116; Sixty-third, 70; Sixty-eighth, 116, 163; Seventieth, 114, 129, 134; Seventy-first, 114, 148, 173; Seventy-second, 114; Seventy-sixth, 44, 53, 113, 175; Seventy-seventh, 114, 117, 126, 128, 129, 130, 134, 173; Seventy-eighth, 116; Eighty-first, 113, 134, 139, 143, 163, 172, 173, 178. Batteries: Fifth, 103, 115; Eighth (Margraff's), 115; Eleventh (Sands'), 70; Thirteenth (Myers'), 115, 150
Osage River, the, 10
Osceola, Mo., 10
Osterhaus, Colonel, 14
Otterville, Mo., 11
Owl Creek, 99, 132, 160, 167, 170, 174
Paducah, Ky., 18
Paine, General, 86
Palmer, General J.N., 69, 70
Palmyra, Mo., 8
_Patriot_, the Nashville, cited, 60, 61
Peabody, Colonel, 122, 141
Pearce, General, 4
Pea Ridge, battle of, 12, 13 et seq.
Perczell, Colonel N., 70
Phelps, Lieutenant, 30
Pillow, Fort, 19, 66, 80 (see Artillery)
Pillow, General G.H., 21; at Fort Donelson, 36, 45 et seq.; his advice in the Council at Fort Donelson, 57; leaves Fort Donelson, 59
Pilot Knob, Mo., 16
"Pittsburg," the, 46
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., 130 et seq., 162, 163, 181; selected as the place of assembly of the army in West Tennessee, 99
Pleasant Point, Tenn., 79
Plummer, Colonel J.B. (afterward General), 17, 69, 70
Polk, General Leonidas, 18, 19, 128, 161, 169, 170; evacuates Columbus, 66; occupies Island Number Ten, 68
Pond, Colonel, 160, 169, 174
Pond, General, 129
Pope, General John, 7, 9, 10; made Major-General, 65; appointed to command the force against New Madrid and Island Number Ten, 66; lands at Commerce, 69; his conduct of the New Madrid campaign, 74 et seq.; goes into camp at Hamburg, 183; commands left wing of the Army of the Mississippi, 184; advances from Hamburg, 186; occupies Farmington, 187, 189, 190; pushes on to Corinth, 191
Porter, Captain (afterward Commodore and Admiral), at Fort Henry, 30, 60
Powell, General, 142
Prentiss, General, at Pittsburg Landing, 102 et seq.; referred to, 158, 159; his loss in guns, 181
Price, General Sterling, 1, 2 et seq.; 7, 8, 10 et seq., 184
Pride, Colonel, 131
Pugh, Colonel, 151, 154
Purdy road, 136
Purdy, Tenn., 101
Raith, Colonel, 129
Rawlins, Captain (afterward General), 53
Reardon, Colonel, 134
Reelfoot, Lake, 67
Rice, Lieutenant-Colonel, 130
Rienzi, 190
Rolla, Mo., 4, 7, 12
Rosecrans, General, 184, 190, 191
Ross, Colonel, 56
Rousseau, 163-169, 170-171, 172-174, 175
Ruggles, General, 145, 154, 157, 170
Russell, Colonel, 135, 169, 170
"Russell's," position of, 187
Russellville, Ky., 37
Savannah, Tenn., 97
Schofield, Captain, 17
Schwartz, Captain, 31, 49
Schwartz's battery, 136 (see Artillery)
Sedalia, Mo., 10
Selma, Ala., 91
Shaver, Colonel, 123, 127
Shaw, Colonel, 147
Sheridan, Colonel P.H., assigned to Second Michigan Cavalry, 187
Sherman, General W.T., suggestions of, to General Halleck, 25; assigned to command Military District of Cairo, 65; at Pittsburg Landing, 101 et seq.; in the expedition up the Tennessee, 96, 122 et seq.; referred to, 158, 174, 175, 177; his loss in guns, 181; mentioned, 182, 187, 188, 190
Shiloh, battlefield of, described, 99 et seq.; the battle of, 122 et seq.; loss on Sunday, 159
Shiloh church, 100, 169, 172, 174, 175, 176
Sigel, General Franz, 4, 9, 11 et seq.
Sikeston, 74
Slack, Colonel J.R., 70
Smith, Colonel I.L.K., 70
Smith, Colonel M.L., 56
Smith, Colonel W.S., 166, 167, 168
Smith, General C.F., in command at Paducah, 18; march of, toward Mayfield, and report, 27; in the Henry and Donelson campaign, 28 et seq.; at Fort Donelson, 38 et seq.; storms the works at Donelson, 55; made Major-General, 65; traits of, 92; sent to Clarksville, 93; death of, 104
Smith, General, 143
Smithland, Ky., 19
Snake Creek, 99, 134, 143, 162 et seq.; 174
Springfield, Mo., 4, 7, 12
Stanley, General D.S., 69, 76 et seq.; 186, 187
Statham, General, 151
St. Charles, Mo., 7
Stewart, Captain R. C, 32, 80
Stewart, General A.P., 76; report of, 77, 133, 169, 170
Stewart, General, 68
St. Joseph, Mo., 8
St. Louis, events at, in the spring of 1861, 2
St. Louis, the, 30, 46
Stony Lonesome, 162, 163
Stuart, Colonel, 173, 174
Stuart, General, 143, 158, 159
Sturgis, Major, 6
Sugar Creek, Ark., 12
Sullivan, Colonel, 173
Sweeney, Colonel, 146
Sweeney, General, 143
Syracuse, Mo., 9
Taylor, Captain, 31, 102
Taylor, Major, 129, 172, 173
Taylor's battery, 136 (see Artillery)
Tennessee, troops of. Regiments: First, 164; Second, 21, 132; Third, 51, 55; Fourth, 80; Fifth, 80, 132; Tenth, 42; Fifteenth, 22; Eighteenth, 41, 51, 55; Twenty-third, 132; Twenty-fourth, 132; Twenty-sixth, 48; Thirtieth, 48, 55; Thirty-first, 80; Forty-first, 55; Forty-second, 48; Forty-fifth, 152; Forty-eighth, 42; Forty-ninth, 48, 55, 62; Fiftieth, 48, 55; Fifty-second, 149; Fifty-third, 42; One Hundred and Fifty-fourth, 164; Colonel Baker's, 80
Terrill, 165, 166
Terry, Major, 80
Thayer, Colonel John M., 44
Thomas, General, 184, 187, 188
Thomas, General G.H., wins battle of Mill Springs, Ky., 27
Thomas, General L., 95
Thompson, Colonel J., 124
Thompson, Colonel, report of, 176
Thompson, Fort, 69, 76
Thompson, General Jefferson, 16, 71
Thorn, Lieutenant, 147
Thurber, Lieutenant, 176
Tilghman, General L., at Paducah, 18; at Fort Henry, 29 et seq.
Timony, Captain, 136
Tipton, Mo., 9
Tiptonville, Tenn., 67
Totten, Captain, 5
Trabue, General, 132, 170, 171
Trubeau, General, 68
Tuttle, Colonel, 166, 178
Tuttle, General, 134, 139
Tyler, gunboat, Lieutenant Gwin, 46, 154
Union City, Tenn., 68
United States, troops of. Regiments: First, 71, 75, 86; Fourth, 71
Van Dorn, General Earl, 12 et seq., 184
Van Horn, Lieutenant-Colonel, 123
Veatch, Colonel, 41, 101
Veatch, General, 139, 172, 178
Versailles, Mo., 9
Vicksburg, Miss., 191
Virginia, troops of. Regiments: Thirty-sixth, 51; Fiftieth, 51
Wallace, Colonel (afterward General) Lewis, 38 et seq., 44 et seq.; made major-general, 65; in the Tennessee expedition, 97, 131, 164, 170, 172, 175, 177, 184
Wallace, Colonel (afterward General) W.H.L., 31, 39; in the Tennessee expedition, 96; at Pittsburg Landing, 104 et seq., 130, 153, 155, 158, 159, 161, 162, 166, 172, 177; death of, 178
Walke, Commander Henry, 20, 84 et seq.
Walker, Colonel L.M., 69
Walker, General, 89
Warrensburg, Mo., 11
Warsaw, Mo., 10
Waterhouse, 129
Watson's Landing, 86
Webster, Colonel J.D., 34, 155
Western District, limits of, 7
Wheeler, Captain, 80
Whittlesy, Colonel Charles, 25, 56, 62; report of, 176
Williams, Colonel, 147
Willich, Colonel, 171
Wilson Creek, Mo., engagement at, 5 et seq.; reconnoissance at, 10
Wilson's Bayou, 81
Wisconsin, troops of. Regiments: Eighth, 17, 70; Fourteenth, 114, 166, 179; Fifteenth, 70; Sixteenth, 103, 114, 141, 142, 148; Eighteenth, 114, 142. Batteries: Fifth, 70; Sixth, 70; Seventh, 70
Withers, General, 149, 156, 157, 165
Wood, Captain, 53
Wood, General, 129, 135, 175, 177, 182
Woodyard, Lieutenant-Colonel, 141
Worthington, Colonel W.H., 70
Wright, Colonel Crafts, 130
Wynn's Ferry Road, 42
Yate, Major, 70