hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott). You can also browse the collection for May 31st or search for May 31st in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 1 document section:

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 29-June 10, 1862.-advance upon and siege of Corinth, and pursuit of the Confederate forces to Guntown, Miss. (search)
ithin a mile of the enemy's works, where we remained until the evening of May 30, when the regiment advanced with the division and took possession of Corinth. May 31 the regiment performed guard duty in the second parallel of trenches for twenty-four hours. June 2 the regiment moved with the division into Corinth, occupyin this corps daarmde moved forward in pursuit of enemy we moved with them, encamping at night about 2 miles this side of the Tuscumbia River. On the morning of May 31 we were ordered forward with the Yates Sharpshooters, the Tenth and Sixteenth Illinois Regiments, to dislodge the enemy, who had thrown up an earthwork and plantequally inaccurate, reckless, and unworthy are the statements of these Federal commanders in their several official reports by telegraph, bearing dates of May 30 and 31, and June 1, 2, and 4, as published in Cincinnati and Chicago journals, touching the amount of property and stores destroyed by us at Corinth and General Pope's all