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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 3.1: the Federal Navy and the South (search)
h Mississippi enlisted as the Home Guards of Marshall County, and were mustered into the State service at Holly Springs, February 16, 1861. Their checked trousers and workday shirts are typical of the simple equipment each man furnished for himself. The boots worn by Colonel Barry, at the right, were good enough for the average Confederate soldier to go through fire to obtain later on in the war. Lacking in the regalia of warfare, the Ninth Mississippi made a glorious record for itself in Chalmers' Brigade at Shiloh, where it lost its gallant Colonel, William A. Rankin. Never, said General Bragg, were troops and commander more worthy of each other and their State. the Southerners to hold their own against the ever increasing, well-fed and well-supplied forces of the North. To quote again the able Englishman just mentioned, Judicious indeed was the policy which, at the very outset of the war, brought the tremendous pressure of the sea power to bear against the South, and had her s
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Shiloh: the first grand battle (search)
men working their way up the slope came the order to retire. General Chalmers, of Withers Division, did not get the word. Down in the ravinf battle. Here they stand, ununiformed but fearless. Attached to Chalmers' Brigade on the extreme right at the opening of Shiloh these soldiierce attack that caused the surrender of Prentiss' division. General Chalmers wrote of the bravery of these Mississippians when attacked in il the order of retreat was received. Bragg reported: Brigadier-General James Chalmers, at the head of the gallant Mississippians, filled — h For an hour his guns increased the difficulties of Jackson's and Chalmers' brigades as they made their way to the surrounding of Prentiss. ithers set his division in motion to the right toward this point. Chalmers' and Jackson's brigades marched into the ravine of Dill's Branch athers' desperate attempt on the Landing. The dauntless brigade of Chalmers, whose brave Southerners held their ground near the foot of the ra
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil War with losses on both sides December, 1860-August, 1862 (search)
ssing. Maj.-Gen. A. P. Hill's Division, 619 killed, 3,251 wounded. Maj.-Gen. T. J. Jackson's command, 966 killed, 4,417 wounded, 63 missing. Maj.-Gen. T. H. Holmes' Division, 2 killed, 52 wounded. Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry, 15 killed, 30 wounded, 60 missing. Artillery, Brig.-Gen. W. N. Pendleton, 10 killed, 34 wounded. Total, 2,820 killed, 14,011 wounded, 752 missing. July, 1862. July 1, 1862: Booneville, Miss. Union, 2d Ia., 2d Mich. Cav. Confed., Gen. Chalmers' Cav. Losses: Union 45 killed and wounded. Confed. 17 killed, 65 wounded. July 4-28, 1862: Gen. Morgan's raid in Kentucky. July 6, 1862: Grand Prairie, near Aberdeen, Ark. Union, detachment of the 24th Ind. Confed. No record found. Losses: Union 1 killed, 21 wounded. Confed. 84 killed, wounded, and missing (estimate). July 7, 1862: Bayou Cache, also called cotton Plant, Round Hill, Hill's plantation, and Bayou de view. Union, 11th Wis., 33d Ill., 8