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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
ed rapidly toward Arkansas in order to bring McCulloch to the rescue of both the Governor and Rainsheir southward march, and soon met Price and McCulloch. Price now assumed command of the Missouriathe south-western corner of the State, while McCulloch went into camp near Maysville in Arkansas. good soldiers, was begged by both Price and McCulloch to cooperate in the movement against Lyon, ba major-general with more than 5000 men, and McCulloch had barely 3000; and in intellect, in experihe Third Louisiana and McIntosh's regiment). McCulloch then took some companies of the Third Louisicaptured at Lexington. To all my entreaties McCulloch replied that Price had gone to the Missouri After a hurried consultation with Price and McCulloch, he decided to instantly attack Curtis, who under Price, and the rest Confederates under McCulloch and Pike. When almost within reach of Curtiater, and he lost heavily in good officers. McCulloch and McIntosh were killed; General Price was [20 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
e, the opinion of his officers was unanimous for retreating upon Rolla. On the 13th news reached me of the battle fought at Wilson's Creek on the 10th between about 6000 Union troops, under Lyon, and a greatly superior force under Price and McCulloch. I was informed that General Lyon had been killed, and that the Union troops under Sigel were retreating unmolested upon Rolla. In telegraphing a report of the battle to Washington, I informed the Department of the need of some organized forcn C. Fremont. From a steel plate in possession of Sirs. Fremont. positive knowledge, General Hunter assumed that there was no enemy near and no battle possible, and withdrew the army. In support of the facts, I quote from the report of General McCulloch to his Secretary of War, at the close of this Missouri campaign: We met next day at a point between the two armies where it was agreed upon by all the Missouri generals that we should wait an attack from the enemy, the ground to be selected
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. (search)
isiana and McIntosh's regiment and McRae's battalion, together numbering 1320, moved down from their encampment (marked McCulloch's brigade ), crossed the road, and repulsed Plummer's 300 in the corn-field, but were driven back by DuBois's battery. Sigel had attacked on the rear and had driven Churchill's infantry and Greer's and Major's cavalry out of their camps. McCulloch now gathered up part of the 3d Louisiana and routed Sigel's troops, who were at Sharp's farm. He was aided in this by penetrable tangle. Rough ravines and deep gullies cut up the surface. The Confederates were under command of General Ben. McCulloch. On the west side of the stream, Old Pap Price, with his sturdy Missourians, men who in many later battles bore Texans retired to the northward, fell in with Price's Missouri line, and assisted in the fight against Lyon. Meanwhile McCulloch called upon a battalion of mounted Missourians, and upon a part of the Louisiana regiment which had been confronting Pl
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
g, occupied the town of Springfield, and General McCulloch was expecting them to advance and give him battle. General McCulloch's headquarters were on the right of the Springfield road, east of Wilt Springfield. As soon as the orders of General McCulloch had been properly published by his adjuthe order to march, it was announced that General McCulloch had decided, on account of a threatened ordered the sergeant to ride in haste to General McCulloch with this information, and proceeded to taking place under my immediate notice, General McCulloch had been actively making disposition of roved very effective. At this juncture, General McCulloch in person led two companies of the Louischarge and captured five of the guns. General McCulloch's report says: When we arrived near the he day. Colonel McIntosh came to me from General McCulloch, and Captain Greene from General Price, nter); Texas and Louisiana troops, under General McCulloch (on the right), and my forces thrown for[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The flanking column at Wilson's Creek. (search)
exposed to a deadly fire for thirty minutes.--F. S. Suddenly the firing on the enemy's side ceased, and it seemed as if we had directed our own fire against Lyon's forces. I therefore ordered the pieces to cease firing. Just at this time — it was between 9 and 10 o'clock--there was a lull in the fight on the north side, and not a gun was heard, while squads of the enemy's troops, unarmed, came streaming up the road from Skegg's Branch toward us and were captured. Meanwhile a part of McCulloch's force was advancing against us at Sharp's farm, while Reid's battery moved into position on the hill east of Wilson's Creek, and opposite our right flank, followed by some cavalry. All these circumstances — the cessation of the firing in Lyon's front, the appearance of the enemy's deserters, and the movement of Reid's artillery and the cavalry toward the south — led us into the belief that the enemy's forces were retreating, and this opinion became stronger by the report of Dr. Melch<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
follow and attack — the forces of Price and McCulloch, who had taken separate positions, the one (south-western corner of Missouri, the other (McCulloch) near Keetsville, on the Arkansas line. Although McCulloch was at first averse to venturing battle, he finally yielded to the entreaties of Prrther advance of Fremont. Between Price and McCulloch it was explicitly understood that Missouri sand the Arkansas River, where he united with McCulloch. Although serving the same cause, there ate themselves cheerfully one to the other. McCulloch was a rough-and-ready man, not at all speculreat popularity of the champion of Missouri, McCulloch became disgusted in meeting the half-starvedps were leading, followed by the division of McCulloch, while General Albert Pike, who had come fro Dorn then ascertained, in a conference with McCulloch and McIntosh, that by making a detour of eig the 7th, the first day of the battle, while McCulloch's division, and the Indian brigade under Pik[2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
tral attitude during the war between the United States and the Southern States. In June, 1861, Albert Pike, a commissioner of the Confederate States, and General Ben. McCulloch, commanding the Confederate forces in western Arkansas and the Department of Indian Territory, visited Chief Ross with the view of having him make a treatRoss lieutenant-colonel, of this regiment. Colonel Stand Watie, the leader of the secession party, had also commenced to raise a regiment of half-breeds for General McCulloch's division. As already stated, there were two factions among the Creeks, one of which was led by Hopoeithleyohola and the other by D. N. and Chitty McIntoshan order, denouncing the outrage in the strongest language, and sent a copy of the order to General Curtis. General Pike claimed that part of the Indians were in McCulloch's corps in the first day's battle; and that the scalping was done at night in a quarter of the field not occupied by the Indian troops under his immediate comman
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Pea Ridge, Ark. (search)
lliam H. Erwin, Lieut.-Cols. John P. Bowman, A. J. Pearcy, and Stemmons; Bledsoe's battery, and Shelby's company of cavalry. Division loss: k, 2; w, 26 = 28. McCulloch's division, Brig.-Gen. Ben. McCulloch (k), Col. E. Greer. Infantry Brigade, Col. Louis Hebert (c), Col. Evander McNair: 4th Ark., Col. Evander McNair, Lieut.-ColBrig.-Gen. Ben. McCulloch (k), Col. E. Greer. Infantry Brigade, Col. Louis Hebert (c), Col. Evander McNair: 4th Ark., Col. Evander McNair, Lieut.-Col. Samuel Ogden; 14th Ark., Col. M. C. Mitchell; 16th Ark., Col. J. F. Hill; 17th Ark., Col. F. A. Rector; 21st Ark., Col. D. McRae; 3d Louisiana, Major W. F. Tunnard (c), Capt. W. S. Gunnell. Cavalry Brigade, Brig.-Gen. James McIntosh (k): 1st Ark. Mounted Rifles, Col. J. T. Churchill; 2d Ark. Mounted Rifles, Col. B. T. Embry; 3d T196.) The effective strength of the Confederate Army was as follows: Price's command, 6818, with 8 batteries of artillery ( Official Records, VIII., p. 305); McCulloch's command, 8384, with 4 batteries of 18 pieces ( Official Records, VIII., p. 763); and Pike's command, 1,000 ( Official Records, VIII., p. 288), making an aggreg
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Composition and losses of the Confederate army. (search)
rs given above. Eighth Division, Brig.-Gen. James S. Rains: Infantry under Col. William H. Erwin, Lieut.-Cols. John P. Bowman, A. J. Pearcy, and Stemmons; Bledsoe's battery, and Shelby's company of cavalry. Division loss: k, 2; w, 26 = 28. McCulloch's division, Brig.-Gen. Ben. McCulloch (k), Col. E. Greer. Infantry Brigade, Col. Louis Hebert (c), Col. Evander McNair: 4th Ark., Col. Evander McNair, Lieut.-Col. Samuel Ogden; 14th Ark., Col. M. C. Mitchell; 16th Ark., Col. J. F. Hill; 17th ArBrig.-Gen. Ben. McCulloch (k), Col. E. Greer. Infantry Brigade, Col. Louis Hebert (c), Col. Evander McNair: 4th Ark., Col. Evander McNair, Lieut.-Col. Samuel Ogden; 14th Ark., Col. M. C. Mitchell; 16th Ark., Col. J. F. Hill; 17th Ark., Col. F. A. Rector; 21st Ark., Col. D. McRae; 3d Louisiana, Major W. F. Tunnard (c), Capt. W. S. Gunnell. Cavalry Brigade, Brig.-Gen. James McIntosh (k): 1st Ark. Mounted Rifles, Col. J. T. Churchill; 2d Ark. Mounted Rifles, Col. B. T. Embry; 3d Texas, Col. E. Greer, Lieut.-Col. Walter P. Lane; 4th Texas, Col. Wm. B. Sims (w), Lieut.-Col. William Quayle; 6th Texas, Col. B. W. Stone; 11th Texas, Lieut.-Col. James J. Dimond. Artillery: Hart's, Provence's, Gaines's, and Good's batteries. Pi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
imperial in extent, and his powers and discretion as large as the theory of the Confederate Government permitted. He lacked nothing except men, munitions of war, and the means of obtaining them. He had the right to ask for anything, and the State Executives had the power to withhold everything. the Mississippi River divided his department into two distinct theaters of war. West of the River, Fremont held Missouri with a force of from 60,000 to 80,000 Federals, confronted by Price and McCulloch in the extreme southwest corner of the State with 6000 men, and by Hardee, in north-eastern Arkansas, with about as many raw recruits down with camp diseases and unable to move. East of the Mississippi, the northern boundary of Tennessee was barely in his possession, and was held under sufferance from an enemy who, for various reasons, hesitated to advance. The Mississippi opened the way to a ruinous naval invasion unless it could be defended and held. Grant was at Cairo and Paducah wi
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