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Vicksburg campaign and assisting
Hooker in the capture of
Lookout Mountain.
During the
Atlanta campaign, he was made major-general of volunteers (July, 1864), and he commanded the Fifteenth Army Corps on the march to the sea. He was
Major-General Canby's chief-of-staff in 1865.
After the war he resigned from the service, and was American consul at
Lyons, France.
Thereafter, remaining in
Europe, he made his home in
Mannheim, Germany.
Sixteenth Army Corps
Created from three divisions and troops of several districts of the Thirteenth Army Corps on December 18, 1862, with
Major-General S. A. Hurlbut in command.
The corps was much divided during its existence, and divisions were several times exchanged for others in the Seventeenth Corps.
Some of it saw service at
Vicksburg, but little active fighting at that place.
A division went with
Sherman to
Chattanooga.
Two divisions were in the
Atlanta campaign, and two on the
Red River expedition of 1864.
Some troops were sent to the Seventh Corps in
Arkansas.
The corps was officially discontinued on November 1, 1864, but the right wing, under
Major-General A. J. Smith, known as ‘Detachment, Army of the Tennessee,’ assisted
Thomas at
Nashville.
Besides
Hurlbut, the command was held by
Brigadier-General C. S. Hamilton and
Major-General N. J. T. Dana.
The left wing was commanded from time to time by
Major-Generals C. S. Hamilton,
R. J. Oglesby,
Brigadier-General G. M. Dodge,
Colonel A. Mersey, and
Brigadier-Generals E. A. Carr and
T. E. G. Ransom.
The ‘Detachment,’ which included a division of the Seventeenth Army Corps, was, on February 18, 1865, designated the Sixteenth Corps, with
Smith in command.
The corps was now in the Military Division of West
Mississippi and assisted in the last operations around
Mobile.
It was discontinued July 20, 1865.
was born in
Charleston, South Carolina, November 29, 1815, and was admitted to the bar in 1837.
In 1845, he removed to
Illinois and attained considerable prominence in politics.
At the opening of the
Civil War he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, and commanded a division at
Shiloh.
Later, he was at the head of several districts in the department and was given command of the reorganized Sixteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, in December, 1862.
In September, 1862, he was promoted to major-general of volunteers.
He succeeded
Major-General N. P. Banks in command of the Army and Department of the Gulf.
He left the volunteer service at the end of the war, and at the time of his death, March 27, 1882, was
United States minister to
Peru.
was born in
Danvers, Massachusetts, April 12, 1831.
He was a member of the
Government survey in the
West until the
Civil War broke out, when he went to the front as colonel of the Fourth Iowa Infantry, in July, 1861.
He fought with the Army of the Southwest, and, being transferred to the Department of Tennessee, he commanded the troops in several districts thereof, as well as divisions of the Thirteenth and Sixteenth corps, having been made brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1862.
In the summer of 1863, he was put in command of the left wing of the Sixteenth Army Corps as major-general of volunteers, and was wounded on August 19, 1864, at
Jonesboro, Georgia, in the
Atlanta campaign.
In December, 1864, he succeeded
Major-General Rosecrans in the Department of Missouri, and remained there until the close of the war. He resigned front the service in May, 1866, and became chief engineer of the
Union Pacific and
Texas Pacific railways.
In 1866-67, he was member of Congress from
Iowa.
In 1898, he was at the head of the commission appointed to investigate the conduct of the SpanishAmerican war.
(U. S. M.A. 1838) was born in
Berks County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1815, and served in the
Mexican War and in the
West.
He was made major in the cavalry when the
Civil War broke out. His appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers was dated March 17, 1862.
He had a division in the Army of the Ohio, but his name is chiefly associated with the Army of the Tennessee.
He commanded a division in the Thirteenth Corps and was with the
Yazoo Expedition and
McClernand's Army of the Mississippi, and took part in
