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red as on outpost duty, and will be guided in all respects by General Orders, No. 5, from these headquarters, dated March 17, 1862. By command of General Beauregard: Thomas Jordan, Assistant Adjutant-General. Memphis, April 13, 1862. General Van Dorn: The following dispatch sent to Captain Carter, C. S. Navy, from Captain Huger, C. S. Navy, at Fort Pillow: The ball will open in the morning. Come up at once. Chased down this morning by seven gunboats and five mortar boats. Magnolia goes to Ox Bows, on White River, to-night. John Adams, Captain, C. S. Special orders, no. 21. Hdqrs. Army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., April 13, 1862. * * * * * * * IV. Brigadier-General Maxey is specially assigned to the command of the troops now at Burnsville and Iuka, and will repair there to execute the verbal instructions he has received from these headquarters. * * * * * * * VI. Brig. Gen. Franklin Gardner is assigned to duty with this army as commander of all the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cox, Jacob Dolson 1828- (search)
e was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practised in Warren, O., until elected State Senator, in 1859. He was appointed brigadier-general of State militia, and commanded a camp of instruction, in April, 1861, and in May was made brigadier-general of volunteers, doing good service in western Virginia. In August, 1862, he was assigned to the Army of Virginia, under General Pope, and in the fall was ordered to the district of the Kanawha. After the death of Reno, at South Mountain, he commanded the 9th Army Corps. He was in command of the district of Ohio in 1863; served in the Atlanta campaign in 1864; and was promoted to major-general in December of that year. He served in Sherman's army early in 1865; was governor of Ohio in 1866-68; Secretary of the Interior under President Grant, in 1869-70; and Representative in Congress in 1877-79. He published Atlanta; The March to the sea; Franklin and Nashville; The second battle of Bull Run, etc. He died in Magnolia, Mass., Aug. 4, 1900.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1865 (search)
ina(No Reports.) March 21-April 25: Expedifion from East Tennessee into S. W. Virginia and Western North Carolina (Stoneman's)KENTUCKY--11th and 12th Cavalry. MICHIGAN--10th and 11th Cavalry. OHIO--12th Cavalry. PENNSYLVANIA--15th Cavalry. TENNESSEE--8th, 9th and 13th Cavalry; Battery "E" Light Arty. March 22: Skirmish, Celina(No Reports.) March 25: Skirmish, Brawley Forks(No Reports.) March 28: Skirmish, GermantownNEW YORK--11th Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 2. March 31: Skirmish, Magnolia(No Reports.) April 1: Skirmish, White Oak Creek(No Reports.) April 3: Skirmish, Mount Pleasant(No Reports.) April 14: Skirmish, Mount Pleasant(No Reports.) April 18: Skirmish near GermantownNEW YORK--11th Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 6 killed, 2 wounded, 7 missing. Total, 15. April 19-23: Expedition from Memphis to Brownsville, Miss.ILLINOIS--4th and 11th Cavalry. UNITED STATES--3d Cavalry (Colored). April 23-26: Expedition from Pulaski to Rogersville, Ala.MICHIGAN--8th Cavalry (
onel Love, was guarding bridges near Knoxville; the Seventh cavalry battalion was in Carter county, Tenn.; Walker's cavalry battalion was in Monroe county, Tenn.; the Twenty-ninth, Colonel Vance, and the Thirty-ninth, Colonel Coleman, were in Bragg's army. In the State, General Whiting was in charge of the defenses of Wilmington, with 9,913 officers and men. Gen. S. D. French, in charge of the department of North Carolina, had his forces stationed as follows: General Pettigrew's brigade at Magnolia; Gen. N. G. Evans' South Carolina brigade at Kinston; General Daniel's brigade, General Davis' brigade, Maj. J. C. Haskell's four batteries, Colonel Bradford's four artillery companies, and Capt. J. B. Starr's light battery at Goldsboro; the Forty-second regiment, Col. George C. Gibbs, and Captain Dabney's heavy battery at Weldon; the Seventeenth regiment, Col. W. F. Martin, at Hamilton; Gen. B. H. Robertson and three regiments of cavalry at Kinston; Thomas' legion in the mountains. The f
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
on Fort, N. C. 40, 4; 67, 3; 117, 1; 135-A; 138, H11; 139, A13; 171 Fort McRee, Fla. 110, 1; 135-A; 147, F5; 171 Madison, Ark. 117, 1; 135-A; 154, B8 Madison Court-House, Va. 22, 5; 43, 7; 74, 1; 84, 9; 85, 1; 87, 4; 100, 1 Madisonville, Ky. 135-A; 150, C3; 171 Madisonville, La. 156, C10 Madisonville, Miss. 51, 1; 71, 15; 155, B10 Mad River, Cal. 134, 1 Magnolia, Fla. 146, B10 Magnolia, Md. 81, 4; 100, 1; 116, 2; 136, E10 Magnolia, Tenn. 24, 3; 150, G2 Maine (State) 162-171 Malheur River, Oreg. 134, 1; 171 Mallory's Cross-Roads, Va. 74, 1 Malvern Hill, Va. 17, 1; 19, 1; 21, 10; 22, 1; 74, 1; 77, 3; 92, 1; 100, 1, 100, 2 Battle of July 1, 1862 21, 10 Mammoth Cave, Ky. 135-A; 150, D7 Manassas, Va. 21, 13; 43, 7; 81, 4; 135-A Battles: July 21, 1861. See Bull Run, Va. Aug. 29, 1862. See Groveton, Va. Manassas Gap, Va. 22, 5; 27, 1; 43, 7; 74, 1; 85, 1; 100, 1;
n, in Holtzclaw's brigade; Colonel Jones commanding brigade. No. 79—(897) November 7, 1864, Thirty-second and Fifty-eighth consolidated, under Colonel Jones, 240 strong, with Gen. H. D. Clayton. No. 93—(665) In Holtzclaw's brigade, army of Tennessee, Nashville campaign. No. 103, No. 104-March 10, 1865, in Holtzclaw's brigade, district of the Gulf. April, called the Thirtysec-ond. (1131) Consolidated regiment, under Major Kimbell, ordered to be ready to skirmish with the enemy near Magnolia, and, if pressed, fall back to Spanish Fort, March 20th. The Fifty-Ninth Alabama infantry. The Fifty-ninth Alabama was formed from the Second and Fourth battalions of Hilliard's legion, at Charleston, Tenn., November 25, 1863, under the command of Col. Bolling Hall, Jr. It was in Gracie's brigade and took part in the East Tennessee campaign. It was at the investment of Knoxville, and the fights at Dandridge and Bean's Station. In April, 1864, it reached Richmond, and took part in
Two hundred and Seventy dollars reward. --Left Magnolia last night, without the least cause, the following negroes: Jefferson, 35 to 40 years old, ginger-bread color, medium height, stout built, of good address, very intelligent and artful. Fox, who calls himself Ben Quarles. about 25 years old, black, with white teeth, which he often shows with a grin when spoken to, is tall, and had some years ago a whitlow on one of his thumbs, believed the left. These negroes belong to me, and are well acquainted on the Chickahominy, both above the Meadow Bridges and ten miles below. Oscar, about 25 years old, below the medium size, black, rusty looking, and answering questions with an indifference almost amounting to stupidity. Jim, also under the medium height, black, about 18 years old, with a round and plump face. These were hired from Redwood & Keach, and belong to Mr. Chilton, of Lancaster, Va. Joshua, a boy about 16 years old, black, with large eyes,
Newspaper Enterprise. --Journalism seems to have received new life in the South since our separation from the North. The Magnolia is the name of a new family paper, of which the first copy was issued in this city Thursday, by Mr. Chas. Ballie, its proprietor. It is gotten up, in all respects, with great literary and mechanical taste, and will be a valuable, addition to the literary journals of the South. The Illustrated News, the pioneer in these new enterprises, has succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectations of its proprietors, and now issues several thousand copies weekly. Its list of contributors is the strongest array of literary men ever presented in any single journal at the South.
Tables of distances. At the present time, when the railroads of North Carolina and Virginia are the highways of the hostile armies, the following tables of distances will be found convenient for reference by the students of the situation: Wilmington and Weldon. From Wilmington toMiles.From Wilmington toMiles. Northeast10Magnolia49 Marlboro'12Warsaw56 Rocky Point15Bowden60 Burgaw23Faison64 South Washington30Mount Olive71 Leesburg34Dudley76 Teachy39Everettsville79 Rose Hill42Goldsboro'85 Atlantic and North Carolina. From Newbern toMiles.From Newbern toMiles. Bachelor's Creek8Kinston33 Tuscarora11Falling Creek40 Core Creek17Moseby Hall45 Dover23Bests50 Southwest29Goldsboro'59 North Carolina road. From Goldsboro' toMiles.From Goldsboro' toMiles. Boon Hill12Mebane's98 Smithfield22Haw River104 Stallings34Graham106 Raleigh48Company's Shops108 Morrisville61Gibsonville115 Durham's74McLean's122 Hillsboro'88Greensboro'130 Raleigh and Ga