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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carr , Eugene Asa 1830 - (search)
Carr, Eugene Asa 1830-
Military officer; born in Concord, N. Y., March 20, 1830; was graduated at West Point in 1850.
As. a member of mounted rifles, he was engaged in Indian warfare in New Mexico, Texas, and the West; and in 1861 served under Lyon, in Missouri, as colonel of Illinois cavalry.
He commanded a division in the battle at Pea Ridge (q. v.), and was severely wounded.
He was made a brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862.
He commanded a division in the battle at Port Gibson (q. v.) and others preceding the capture of Vicksburg; also in the assaults on that place.
He assisted in the capture of Little Rock, Ark., and the defences of Mobile.
He was retired as brigadier-general and brevet major-general U. S. A. in 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davidson , John Wynn , 1824 -1881 (search)
Davidson, John Wynn, 1824-1881
Military officer; born in Fairfax county, Va., Aug. 18, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845, entering the dragoons.
Accompanying Kearny to California in 1846, he was in the principal battles of the war with Mexico.
He was also active in New Mexico, afterwards, against the Indians.
In 1861 he was made major of cavalry, and early in 1862 brigadiergeneral of volunteers, commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
After serving in the campaign on the Peninsula, he was transferred (August, 1862) to the Department of the Mississippi, and cooperated with General Steele in the capture of Little Rock, Ark. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865; promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 10th Cavalry, in 1866; was Professor of Military Science in Kansas Agricultural College in 1868-71; promoted to colonel, 2d Cavalry, in 1879.
He died in St. Paul, Minn., June 26, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett , Edward , 1794 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont , John Charles 1813 -1890 (search)
Hindman, Fort
A Confederate fortification at Arkansas Post, Ark., on the Arkansas River, 73 miles southeast of Little Rock.
In the winter of 1862-63, General Sherman and Commodore Porter planned an attack upon the fort.
General McClernand, who had arrived and taken the chief command, accompanied the expedition from near Vicksburg.
The troops landed, about 25,000 strong, 3 miles below the fort, on Jan. 9, 1863, and were led by Generals McClernand, Sherman, Morgan, Steele, Stewart, A. J. Smith, and Osterhaus. Porter had a strong flotilla of
Plan of the attack on Fort Hindman. armored and unarmored gunboats.
The latter, moving on, shelled the Confederates out of their rifle-pits; and on the 11th the army moved against Fort Hindman.
When the gunboats opened fire upon it, Morgan's artillery covered the advance.
After a fight for about two hours, the Confederates raised a white flag, while troops, which had stormed the works, were swarming over them.
The Nationals lost 977
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Izard , George 1777 -1828 (search)