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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
camp at the four brigade places of rendezvous—Iuka, Enterprise, Corinth and Grenada. On May 21, 1861, the following companies were ordered to proceed forthwith to Corinth and report to Maj.-Gen. Charles Clark, commanding: Choctaw Guards, Capt. J. W. Hemphill. Long Creek Rifles, Capt. L. S. Terry. Shubuta Rifles, Capt. R. J. Lawrence. Cherry Creek Rifles, Capt. John B. Herring. McClung Rifles, Capt. Edgar Sykes. Confederate Rifles, Capt. Jos. M. Jayne. Winona Stars, Capt. Thomas Booth. Magnolia Guards, Capt. John M. Lyles. Water Valley Rifle Guards, Capt. B. H. Collins. Burnsville Blues, Capt. J. C. Walters. Grenada Rifles, Capt. W. S. Statham. Gainesville Volunteers, Capt. J. B. Deason. Summit Rifles, Capt. J. D. Blincoe. Vicksburg Southrons, Capt. D. N. Moody. Enterprise Guards, Capt. R. Stuart Wier. Columbus Riflemen, Capt. Wm. E. Baldwin. Wigfall Rifles, Capt. W. F. Brantley. Beauregard Rifles, Capt. John W. Balfour. Madison Guard
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
mers, Forrest attacked the garrison at Fort Pillow, about 700 strong. After the Federal forces, partly negroes, were driven into the fort, Forrest demanded their surrender, which was refused, after considerable parley. General Forrest, in his report of what followed, says: I stormed the fort, and after a contest of thirty minutes captured the entire garrison, killing 500 and taking 200 horses and a large amount of quartermaster's stores. The officers in the fort were killed, including Major Booth. I sustained a loss of 20 killed and 60 wounded. Among the wounded is the gallant Lieut.-Col. Wiley M. Reed, while leading the Fifth Mississippi. Over 100 citizens who had fled to the fort to escape conscription ran into the river and were drowned. General Chalmers, reporting the assault, in relating how Reed was struck down while standing on the rifle-pits cheering on his men, states that Lieutenant Barton was killed by his side. Lieutenant Hubbard of the Eighteenth battalion, a yo