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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
ut himself in communication with General Hood, who was preparing to enter upon his disastrous campaign to Franklin and Nashville. On the 27th of January, 1865, Gen. Richard Taylor, commanding department, assigned General Forrest to the command of the district of Mississippi and Louisiana. On the 13th of the following month Brig.-Gen. W. H. Jackson was assigned to the command of all of the Tennesseeans in the district. Bell's and Rucker's brigades, the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Nixon's and Carter's regiments, and the Twelfth Confederate were consolidated into six regiments, to constitute two brigades, one commanded by Col. T. H. Bell, soon made brigadier-general; and in a few weeks Brig.-Gen. Alexander W. Campbell, just returned from prison and promoted, was assigned to the Second brigade. On the 22d of March, Major-General Wilson of the Federal army, with three divisions of cavalry, 10,000 strong, left Chickasaw, Ala. On the 30th he reached Elyton, whence Croxton's command was s
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
navy. The State of Tennessee furnished 31,000 white men to the Federal government during the war between the States. Among them were David G. Farragut and Samuel Carter. Admiral Farragut commanded the largest and most powerful force that had ever been controlled by any American naval officer, and the results of the operatio reduced the war from the position of a contest having many probabilities of success to a purely defensive struggle for safety. (Capt. James D. Bulloch.) Rear-Admiral Carter, then a lieutenant-commander, U. S. N., was withdrawn from the navy early in 1861, and commissioned as a brigadier-general of volunteers, charged with the oeat body of the people of east Tennessee, and secured that division of the State (in the heart of the Confederate States) to the Federal government. Farragut and Carter, both natives of east Tennessee, were important factors in making Confederate success impossible. Tennesseeans in the United States navy who resigned to accept