previous next

No. 6.-report of Lieut. Col. Oliver H. P. Carey, Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, of operations from May 2 to June 11.

Hdqrs. Thirty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Vols., Iuka, Miss., June 14, 1862.
Deab sir: In compliance with your order I submit the following report of the operations of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers from the time of its leaving Pittsburg Landing to the present date:

On the morning of May 2 the command of the regiment was turned over to me, Colonel Grose having assumed temporary command of the Tenth Brigade in the place of the regular commander, Colonel Ammen, who was absent on leave. On the same morning the regiment was ordered to march with the brigade toward Corinth. For several days thereafter the regiment was engaged in fatigue duty, building roads, bridges, &c.

On the morning of May 7 we marched in the direction of Corinth and encamped about 5 miles from the enemy's lines.

For several days we were engaged in grand-guard duty, when on the evening of May 10 we moved across Seven Mile Creek and encamped at the distance of — miles from Corinth. From that date to May 29 the regiment was engaged constantly in constructing intrenchments, [685] picket duty, skirmishing with the enemy, and guarding trenches.

On May 21, while skirmishing with the enemy immediately in front of our intrenchments, Private Michael Donner, of Company I, was severely wounded in the thigh by a musket-ball from the enemy's pickets.

On the morning of May 29 the regiment was ordered, with the brigade which was then commanded by General Ammen, to move forward toward the enemy's works. We took up a position in easy range of the rebel fortifications, and under cover of heavy forest and a strong picket force commenced the construction of rifle pits and trenches. The brigade threw forward a picket guard of six companies consisting of two companies from the Twenty-fourth Ohio, two from the Sixth Ohio, and two from the Thirty-sixth Indiana, under the command of Major Bennett, of the Thirty-sixth Indiana.

Early on the morning of May 30 these skirmishers were ordered forward to the rebel works, which they found entirely abandoned by the enemy. These companies were then deployed as skirmishers and moved through the rebel works over the town and formed into line beyond the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, on the south side of Corinth, and were there at least one hour before any forces entered the town. The division of General Nelson, with the Tenth Brigade in advance, was the first Federal force to enter after these skirmishers. The regiment, with the brigade, moved back to camp in the evening, where it remained, doing only guard duty, until the morning of June 4, when it was ordered on a forced march, to re-enforce Generals Pope and Rosecrans in the direction of Baldwin, Miss., on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

After a fatiguing march, consequent upon the extreme heat of the weather, dusty roads, and scarcity of water, we arrived at the lines of General Pope, at Blackland, where we bivouacked until the evening of June 9, when we moved toward Iuka by way of Jacinto, and where we arrived, after a very severe march, on the 11th, and where we have since been bivouacked.

During all this time the regiment has been in fine order and ready at all times to promptly obey every order given it.

Respectfully,

O. H. P. Carey, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding. Brigadier-General Ammen, Comdg. Tenth Brigade.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
J. Ammen (3)
John Pope (2)
Oliver H. P. Carey (2)
William S. Rosecrans (1)
William Nelson (1)
William Grose (1)
Michael Donner (1)
Comdg (1)
Bennett (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
May 29th (2)
May 2nd (2)
June 14th, 1862 AD (1)
June 11th (1)
June 9th (1)
June 4th (1)
May 30th (1)
May 21st (1)
May 10th (1)
May 7th (1)
11th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: