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Jenkins` Ferry Pres plan Draft.indd
Jenkins` Ferry Pres plan Draft.indd

... Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army caught Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army south of Leola, Arkansas. The Union forces held off the Confederates that day, allowing the Union army to escape into the Saline River bottom. On April 30, 1864, Union infantry repulsed a succession of Confederate attack ...
Combat, Supply, and the Influence of Logistics During the Civil War
Combat, Supply, and the Influence of Logistics During the Civil War

... available texts deal with the Civil War in the east while the war in the TransMississippi West receives little attention. While grand armies marched across Virginia with over 100,000 soldiers, colonels moved with regiments across the Indian nations. That is not to say that Indian Territory was not a ...
Yazoo County Civil War History - Visit Yazoo County, Mississippi
Yazoo County Civil War History - Visit Yazoo County, Mississippi

... As soon as General John Adams saw the bluecoats he sent his cavalrymen charging at the enemy. The startled Federal troops fell back toward Mechanicsburg, fighting a bitter delaying action. General McArthur sent his advance brigade to the rescue and the thin line of greyclads, vastly outnumbered, fel ...
The Civil War Diary of Micajah A. Thomas
The Civil War Diary of Micajah A. Thomas

... began to march. Grierson met Forrest's reinforced army at Brice's Cross Roads and faced certain defeat. When Sturgis finally arrived, he misread the situation before him and led his troops into a fully prepared, hidden, and reinforced Confederate army. Four hours later Union soldiers started the ret ...
The Civil War in Mason Neck and Vicinity by Paul
The Civil War in Mason Neck and Vicinity by Paul

... tonnage, 269; crew, 67; and guns, 2 (Rush and Woods 1897:XVI)). The Pocahontas belonged to John Haislip of Mason Neck (see John Haislip’s Southern Claim’s Commission case at the end of this chapter). The Mary Grey was thought to belong to Jonathan Roberts. In his report to Lieutenant T.H. Eastman, c ...
Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865
Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865

... the course of the war a flow of new recruits steadily replaced casualties, so that over 1,500 men served in a single regiment during the conflict. A colonel commanded each regiment, assisted by a lieutenant colonel and a small regimental staff, which included an ...
Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865
Trans-Mississippi Southerners in the Union Army, 1862-1865

... the course of the war a flow of new recruits steadily replaced casualties, so that over 1,500 men served in a single regiment during the conflict. A colonel commanded each regiment, assisted by a lieutenant colonel and a small regimental staff, which included an ...
the civil war comes to yazoo - 1862
the civil war comes to yazoo - 1862

... On May 24, Colonel Johnson and his blue coats rode out of Snyder's Bluff and the next day they rode right back in again. They had encountered Confederate Colonel W. WirtAdams' Mississippi Cavalry and after a brief skirmish had withdrawn. Upon his return to his base, Colonel Johnson made the wildly e ...
shot all to pieces - Lone Jack Historical Society
shot all to pieces - Lone Jack Historical Society

... was to link up with Foster’s party moving south from Lexington, smashing any rebel forces in between. At 11:00 a.m. on August 14, following a grueling forty-eight hour forced march, Foster arrived in Lexington with Devlin’s section of Indiana artillery, Company H of the 7th MSM Cavalry, and two comp ...
Civil War White River Expedition
Civil War White River Expedition

... with the cannon. As men of the 46th charged on toward the upper battery, Captain Williams saw that his forces were almost completely surrounded. When informed of the situation, Captain Fry ordered Captain Williams to fall back to the battery. Almost immediately thereafter, he ordered the guns spiked ...
To Defend the Sacred Soil of Texas: Tom Green
To Defend the Sacred Soil of Texas: Tom Green

... intimidation. Without them, Taylor had little chance of slowing the Union column until he was prepared to meet jt. He could not readjly identify which units he would be fighting without the cavalry's assistance. Green's cavalry confirmed that Banks was using only one line of approach and that he had ...
Arkansas Military History Journal
Arkansas Military History Journal

Battle of Palmito Ranch
Battle of Palmito Ranch

... troops suddenly began appearing across the river from Branson and his men. Despite having lost the element of surprise, Branson gathered his men and pressed on towards Palmito Ranch. Captain Robinson's force at Palmito Ranch was fairly small due to the fact that much of the Confederate cavalry was s ...
Mil-Hist-CW-Battle-of-Palmito
Mil-Hist-CW-Battle-of-Palmito

... troops suddenly began appearing across the river from Branson and his men. Despite having lost the element of surprise, Branson gathered his men and pressed on towards Palmito Ranch. Captain Robinson's force at Palmito Ranch was fairly small due to the fact that much of the Confederate cavalry was s ...
Salt, Lead and the fight for
Salt, Lead and the fight for

... charges toward the north end of town. No means to move the artillery was available and it was left behind with orders to follow when and if transportation could be found. Bowyer met with Kent and distributed extra weapons to the volunteers. The ragged group marched through the town as another small ...
The Camden Expedition of 1864
The Camden Expedition of 1864

... troops and meet Steele at Arkadelphia 170 miles away on April 1. Col. Powell Clayton, commanding a small garrison at Pine Bluff, would continue to patrol the lower Arkansas River area to as close to Camden as possible. Thayer left Fort Smith for Arkadelphia on March 21.i The Battles of Okolona and E ...
Grierson Raid
Grierson Raid

... The rebels were fleeing and Grierson ordered the First Battalion of the 6th Illinois in pursuit. There were no more than 150 Confederate cavalry men in the charge and the First Battalion quickly drove them back over the two miles to Union Church where the dismounted cavalry men on both sides skirmi ...
The Second Battle of Cabin Creek
The Second Battle of Cabin Creek

... Major Hopkins was to proceed to the station a t Cabin Creek as fast as possible and to await further orders to move the train. The dispatch also stated that Major John A. Foreman with six companies of men and two howitzers was on the way to relieve the train. The escort for the train was increased b ...
Battle of Leesburg by sfcdan
Battle of Leesburg by sfcdan

... McGuirk (17th Mississippi), Officer of the Day, to investigate a reported landing at the mouth of Goose Creek. On the way to the suspected landing site McGuirk used an order from Evans to get control of two companies of the 18th Mississippi from COL Erasmus Burt. As they approached the area in quest ...
The Battle of Hatchie (Davis) Bridge by sfcdan (Formatted Word
The Battle of Hatchie (Davis) Bridge by sfcdan (Formatted Word

... numbers were too great and the retreat fell into a panic. The left side of the Confederate line dissolved leaving Dawson and his artillerymen stranded. With nothing left to move the guns Dawson did what he could but the 53rd Indiana claimed all but one of his pieces. Half of the 1st Texas Legion mad ...
Rousseau`s Raid In July of 1864, Union commander General
Rousseau`s Raid In July of 1864, Union commander General

... the Coosa River ferry at Greensport. Battle of Ten Islands Ford During the night of 13 July 1864, Rousseau sent an initial force of 200 across the Coosa River by ferry at Greensport to secure the opposite side in advance of the crossing of the main Union cavalry. Four miles south of Greensport was T ...
battle of jenkins` ferry
battle of jenkins` ferry

... General Steele and 5000 Union troops were attempting to get back to Little Rock while retreating from Camden, Arkansas after having been mauled at Mark's Mill and Poison Springs. On the afternoon of April 29 Union forces reached Jenkins' Ferry on the Saline River. This location is about 15 miles fro ...
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