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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
se, General Crocker's Seventh division was hurried into position to support Logan, and finally the whole Seventh army corps, 23,749 strong, commanded by Maj.-Gen. John B. McPherson, was disposed for battle. This great array was met by General Gregg with an aggregate present of 2,500 officers and men, including Bledsoe's Missouri battery of three guns, one of which burst during the action. General McPherson reported that after a sharp and severe contest of three hours duration the Confederates were driven back. General Logan referred to the battle as a terrible conflict that raged with great fury for at least two hours. The marvel is that Gregg, fightinwhich they were subjected, their regimental commanders were officers of great intelligence and gallantry, and Gregg's generalship was inimitable. No wonder that McPherson reported that he had fought 6,000 troops. Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, commanding the Twenty-third Indiana, declared that he was attacked upon his right and front
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
lexander W. Campbell, the first colonel of the regiment, made this tribute: It may be truly said of them and of their regiment, as of all that immortal band which will be known in history as Cheatham's Tennessee division, none were braver, none more cheerful in the discharge of duty, nor more patriotic in their devotion to the cause they had espoused. Capt. Richard Beard, of the Fifth (Confederate) Tennessee regiment, published the following statement in relation to the death of Maj.-Gen. J. B. McPherson, the distinguished Federal soldier who fell in the battle of the 22d of July. Captain Beard was in the line ordered by General Cleburne to advance and never halt until the breastworks were captured. We ran through a line of skirmishers and took them without firing a gun, and suddenly came to the edge of a narrow wagon road running parallel with our line of march, and down which General McPherson came thundering at the head of his staff. He came upon us suddenly. My own company h
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
captured 7 officers and 219 enlisted men, with the garrison equipage, arms and ammunition, and returned to his headquarters at Jackson, where he found orders to proceed to Mississippi to meet a movement of the enemy. At Tishomingo creek, or Brice's cross-roads, Forrest won a notable victory over the Federal forces commanded by General Sturgis. Maj.-Gen. C. C. Washburn of the United States army, commanding the district of West Tennessee, fitted out an expedition under orders from Major-General McPherson to engage General Forrest and, if possible, whip and disperse his forces; also to destroy the Mobile & Ohio railroad, which had been placed in complete running order from Corinth to Mobile. General Washburn reported under date of July 20, 1864, that the forces moved out on the 1st of June under the command of Brig.-Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, consisting of 3,300 cavalry under Brig.-Gen. B. H. Grierson, 5,000 infantry under Colonel McMillen, Ninety-fifth Ohio, and 16 pieces of artillery