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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 29-June 10, 1862.-advance upon and siege of Corinth, and pursuit of the Confederate forces to Guntown, Miss. (search)
s with his artillery, but my regiment suffered no loss in consequence. May 20 the regiment was ordered to guard the trenches for twentyfour hours. In the mornings of May 21, 22, and 23 the regiment stood at arms, but remained in camp. May 24 the regiment was ordered to guard the trenches for twentyfour hours. May 28 the regiment was again ordered to the trenches for duty, but advanced with the division to within a mile of the enemy's works, where we remained until the evening of eing shot by mistake by one of our own pickets. A gentleman of scholarly attainments and amiable manners an excellent soldier, an earnest patriot, his fate throws a gloom not only on the Third Division, but the whole Army of the Mississippi. May 24.-A strong reconnaissance, composed of the Fifth Iowa, four companies Fourth Minnesota, with a section of Sands' battery, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Matthias,reconnoitered to the Memphis and Charleston road without seeing any large body
with the Third and Tenth Ohio and Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteers, and detachments from the Eighth Brigade, to EJk River, and formed a junction with General Negley on the morning of the 14th, returning to Huntsville on the evening of the 15th. On the 18th 300 men from the Ninth Brigade, under command of Colonel Lytle, marched for Winchester, and arrived there on the morn ing of the 24th. After a skirmish, dispersed a body of rebel cavalry, and occupied the town, and returned to Huntsville May 24. No. 2.-report of Brig. Gen. James S. Negley, . S. Army. headquarters United States forces, Rogersville, Ala., May 14, 1862. General: I have the honor to report the result of an expedition to this point. The command-consisting of the Seventy-ninth and a detachment of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Sypher's section of artillery, from Standart's battery; Major Owsley's battalion of Kentucky, and Captain Jennings' battalion, of the Seventh Pennsylvania Caval