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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
lAggregate present Infantry.Cavalry.Artillery. Officers.Enlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men. Right Wing1,10312,1422462859713,55715,647 Left Wing1,02511,796303532666813,76316,237 ———————————————— Grand Total2,12823,93832399541,26527,32031,884 The Left wing, army of the Mississippi, commanded by Maj.--Gen. W. J. Hardee, consisted of the divisions of Gens. S. B. Buckner and Patton Anderson. The first comprised the brigades of Gens. Bushrod R. Johnson, St. John R. Liddell, and S. A. M. Wood. General Anderson's division consisted of the brigades of Gens. D. W. Adams, Thomas M. Jones and J. C. Brown, and Col. Sam Powell. Maj.-Gen. Kirby Smith's army was organized as follows: Army of Kentucky. First division, Brig.-Gen. C. L. Stevenson. Second brigade, Col. James E. Rains:—Fourth Tennessee, Col. J. A. McMurry; Eleventh Tennessee, Col. J. E. Rains; Forty-second Georgia, Col. R. J. Henderson; Third Georgia battalion, Lieut.
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
anders being natives of Kentucky. Hanson's brigade was as follows: First brigade, Col. Roger W. Hanson:—Forty-first Alabama, Col. M. L. Stansil; Second Kentucky, Maj. J. W. Hewitt; Fourth Kentucky, Col. R. P. Trabue; Sixth Kentucky, Col. J. H. Lewis; Ninth Kentucky, Col. T. H. Hunt; Cobb's Kentucky battery, Capt. Robert Cobb, Graves' Kentucky battery, Capt J. J. Ingram; Kentucky cavalry company, Capt. R. E. Roberts. General Buckner's division consisted of four brigades, commanded by Generals Liddell, Cleburne, Bushrod R. Johnson and Wood. Of the cavalry is given as among independent organizations, One brigade of 2,500 men, Col. John H. Morgan commanding, to act as partisans. One of General Bragg's first acts after reaching Tennessee was to recommend the promotion of Colonels Hanson, Hunt and Morgan to the rank of brigadier. In his letter of November 22d to Adjutant-General Cooper, he says: Col. John H. Morgan is peculiarly suited for the special service in which I propose to em
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix B. (search)
Appendix B. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's correspondence with President Davis in regard to his operations in Kentucky, his retreat from Bowling Green, the capture of Donelson, and the evacuation of Nashville, also as to his future purposes, is given here. Telegram to President Davis. Huntsville, March 7, 11 a.m. Your dispatch is just received. I sent Colonel Liddell to Richmond on the 28th ult. with the official reports of Generals Floyd and Pillow of the events at Donelson, and suppose he must have arrived by this time. I also sent by him a dispatch containing my purposes for the defense of the valley of the Mississippi and for co-operating or uniting with General Beauregard, who has been urging me to come on. The stores accumulated at Murfreesboro, the pork and provisions at Shelbyville and other points, and their necessary protection and removal, with the bad roads and inclement weather, have made the march slow and laborious and delayed my movements. The gen