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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
n's army from Kentucky to Corinth. At the latter point the army was organized into three corps, commanded respectively by Bragg, Polk, and Hardee, and under this organization it entered the bloody battle of Shiloh. Hardee commanded the advance corps, and led in the attack. The country is familiar with the history of that battle, and the distinguished part taken by Gen. Hardee. After the retreat from Corinth, the last of May, 1862, the army halted at Tupelo, Miss., at which point Gen. Beauregard was relieved from command and Gen. Bragg succeeded to it. One of Gen. Bragg's first acts was to make Gen. Hardee the active commander of the Army of the Mississippi; and in this position he continued during the transfer of the army from Tupelo to Chattanooga, and until it was about to move into Kentucky, when it was divided into two wings, one under Polk and the other under Hardee. The battle of Perryville, in October following, was fought principally by the troops of Hardee's wing. I