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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in Arkansas , December 7th , 1862 --September 14th , 1863 . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Vicksburg mine. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st -July 4th , 1863 . (search)
The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st-July 4th, 1863.
The composition, losses, and strength of each army as here stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records.
K stands for killed; w for wounded; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured.
Union forces: army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Escort: A, 4th Ill. Cav., Capt. Embury D. Osband. Engineers: 1st Batt. Eng. Regt. of the West, Maj. W. Tweeddale.
Ninth Army Corps (joined June 14-17), Maj.-Gen. John G. Parke.
First division, Brig.-Gen. Thomas Welsh.
First Brigade, Col. Henry Bowman: 36th Mass., Lieut.-Col. John B. Norton; 17th Mich., Lieut.-Col. Constant Luce; 27th Mich., Col. Dorus M. Fox; 45th Pa., Col. John I. Curtin. Third Brigade, Col. Daniel Leasure: 2d Mich., Col. William Humphrey; 8th Mich., Col. Frank Graves; 20th Mich., Lieut.-Col. W. Huntington Smith; 79th N. Y., Col. David Morrison; 100th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Mathew M. Dawso
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee . (search)
Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee. by Gilbert C. Kniffin, Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V.
The brief campaign which resulted in forcing the Confederate army to evacuate their works at Tullahoma and Shelbyville, Tenn., and retire behind the Tennessee River, began on the 23d of June, was prosecuted in the midst of drenching rains, and terminated July 4th, 1863.
Both armies had occupied the time since the battle of Stone's River in recruiting their strength and in fortifying their respective positions.
Murfreesboro' was Rosecrans's secondary base of supplies, while Tullahoma was Bragg's barrier against Rosecrans's farther advance toward Chattanooga, the strategic importance of which, as controlling Confederate railroad communication between the East and West, had rendered it the objective point of all the campaigns of the armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland.
As the contending armies stood facing each other on the 20th of June, 1863, General Bragg estimated the effective strength