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out he returned, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in November, 1861.
He served first under
Buell and then as division commander in the Department of the Tennessee (Thirteenth Army Corps). He commanded a division in the
Yazoo Expedition, and was the first commander of the reorganized Thirteenth Corps which he led at the capture of
Arkansas Post (January, 1863). Ill-health compelled him to resign from the service in June, 1863.
In 1868 and 1870, he was a member of Congress.
He died at
Old Point Comfort, Virginia, July 26, 1893.
was born in
Breckinridge County, Kentucky, May 30, 1812.
He became a lawyer and served in the
Black Hawk War as private.
He was a member of Congress when the
Civil War broke out and resigned to enter it, being made brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1861.
He first distinguished himself at
Belmont, November 7, 1861.
After
Fort Donelson, he was made major-general of volunteers in the Army of West Tennessee, and commanded a division at
Shiloh.
On January 4, 1863, he replaced
Sherman in command of the
Yazoo Expedition which, under the name of
McClernand's Army of the Mississippi, together with the Mississippi Squadron, captured
Arkansas Post, January 11th.
Grant removed
McClernand from the command, and he was placed at the head of the Thirteenth Army Corps, of which he was in turn relieved on June 19th, during the
siege of Vicksburg.
He commanded this corps again for a short time in 1864, while it was serving in the Army of the Gulf.
He resigned his commission on November 30, 1864, and resumed the practice of law. He died at
Springfield, Illinois, September 20, 1900.
was born in
Livermore, Maine, April 22, 1818.
He settled in
Wisconsin as a lawyer and financier.
At the outbreak of the war he raised the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and as its colonel was successful under
Major-General Curtis in
Arkansas.
He rose to the rank of major-general of volunteers in November, 1862, and later headed divisions in the Army of the Tennessee.
He was the first commander of the reorganized Thirteenth Army Corps, and went with it from the Army of the Tennessee to that of the
Gulf.
After that, he was at the head of the District of West Tennessee, and resigned from the volunteer service in May, 1865.
Later on, he was member of Congress and governor of
Wisconsin.
He died at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, May 14, 1882.
was born in
Norwich, Vermont, November 29, 1834.
He became a captain in an Illinois regiment in April, 1861, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in November, 1862.
He fought at
Fort Donelson and
Shiloh, and was for a time on
Grant's staff.
He commanded a brigade in the Seventeenth Army Corps during the
Vicksburg campaign, and a detachment of the Thirteenth Army Corps on the
Red River expedition, in 1864.
He was wounded at Sabine Cross Roads. In the
Atlanta campaign, he commanded a division of the Sixteenth Army Corps and headed that and the Seventeenth for sort periods.
On October 10th, he was obliged to give up the Seventeenth Corps on account of illness, and he died, October 29th, near
Rome, Georgia.
The brevet of major-general of volunteers had been conferred on him in September, a few weeks before his death.
Fourteenth Army Corps
The organization of the Army of the Ohio into three corps, in September, 1862, was changed on October 24th, when this force became the Army of the Cumberland, and consisted of the Fourteenth Army Corps, with
Major-General Rosecrans at its head.
In November, the Fourteenth Corps was divided into the Right Wing, Center, and Left Wing, and on January 9, 1863, the Center was designated the Fourteenth Army Corps, with
Major-General George H. Thomas in command.
The corps fought at
Stone's River and won its greatest fame at
Chickamauga.
It also distinguished itself at
Missionary Ridge.
It was prominent in the
Atlanta campaign, and was one of the two corps of the Army of Georgia in the march to the sea and the campaign through the Carolinas.
It was discontinued August 1, 1865.
Besides
Thomas, it was commanded by
Major-Generals John M. Palmer,
Jeff. C. Davis, and
Brigadier-General R. W. Johnson.
