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A. Rust (search for this): chapter 24
ne of action, General Beauregard's telegrams and instructions to Generals Polk, Withers, Stewart, Rust, and Villepigue, to Captains Harris and Lynch, to Lieutenant Meriwether, and other officers of thn for immediate service, and report. G. T. Beauregard. 9. Corinth, April 14th, 1862. Brigadier-General Rust, Fort Pillow: No arms here, or available at present. Employ unarmed men to constructill Memphis gunboats be ready? Are much needed. G. T. Beauregard. On the 13th of April, General Rust, of General Price's division of Van Dorn's Trans-Mississippi Department, was sent to Fort Pilof the name or rank of the officer who was to accompany them. He soon learned, however, that General Rust ranked him, and wrote for instructions to army headquarters. General Beauregard authorized he fort, but who never came, his services being required at Mobile. On the 24th, the whole of General Rust's command—less one regiment left at Randolph—was ordered to Corinth via Memphis. The object
Walter H. Stevens (search for this): chapter 24
s three times wounded: once by a Minie-ball, touching him over the left temple; then by a contusion on the head and slight wound in the hand and shoulder; then, struck from the deck insensible, he was, for the moment, supposed to be killed, but he regained consciousness, and, dauntless as ever, resumed his place and command till the end of the battle. Among the wounded was Lieutenant G. W. Gift, who, with Grimball of South Carolina, the second lieutenant, ably commanded the bow-guns. Lieutenant Stevens, the executive officer, discharged with honor, both in preparation for and during the action, every duty of his responsible position. Barbot, Charles Reid, Wharton, and Dabney Scales, lieutenants who, like their commander, were recently from the United States navy, were alike distinguished for the bravery and precision with which they served their guns. Captains Harris and McDonald, of a Missouri regiment, with sixty of their men, volunteered for the naval service, and though they we
Paine (search for this): chapter 24
ing, near Tiptonville, where General Beauregard had had collected, through the activity and energy of Colonel Pickett, commanding at Union City, quite a number of canoes, skiffs, and other small boats, for such an emergency. With these Colonel Cook succeeded in saving, not only his own command, but several hundred stragglers who had gathered there during the night. Meanwhile, towards midnight on the 7th, General Pope's entire army had crossed the river and was advancing on Tiptonville, General Paine's division leading the march. With such overwhelming odds against him, General Mackall was compelled to surrender with his small force, aggregating about three thousand men. It follows, as a matter of course, that General Pope's official report of the number of Confederate prisoners taken on that occasion, namely, six thousand seven hundred, was a greatly exaggerated statement. The enemy had now full control of the river as far down as Fort Pillow, one hundred and ten miles below Isl
Samuel Cooper (search for this): chapter 24
river. apprehensions of General McCown. General Beauregard's despatch to General Cooper. General McCown exhibits still greater anxiety. General Beauregard doubts Appendix to Chapter XVI. to the latter's communication of February 21st to General Cooper; Ibid. to his circular of same date to the governors of Tennessee, Alabay district. Acting under that impression, he, on the same day, telegraphed General Cooper as follows: Jackson, Tenn., March 6th, 1862. For the sake of our s so urgently asked See General Beauregard's letter of February 24th, to General Cooper, in Chapter XVI. See all his telegrams to same purpose. of the War Departm to our assistance. G. T. Beauregard. 10. Corinth, April 14th, 1862. General Sam. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.: Cannot a more active d night until finished. G. T. Beauregard. 2. Corinth, May 14th, 1862. General S. Cooper, A. and I. G., Richmond, Va.: I have ordered the Memphis ram to the Ya
Isaac Brown (search for this): chapter 24
f Fort Pillow. instructions to Captain Harris. surrender of New Orleans. bombardment of Fort Pillow. the Montgomery rams. General Beauregard has steam ram Arkansas completed, equipped, and manned. history of the Arkansas. tribute to Captain Isaac Brown and crew. prisoners with smallpox sent to Fort Pillow. what became of them. letter to General Villepigue, May 28th. he is directed by General Beauregard to prepare for withdrawing his troops from Fort Pillow. Fort evacuated 1st of June flotilla, under Commodore Hollins, did not display the energy, resoluteness, and daring afterwards evinced by many an officer in the Confederate States navy, most conspicuous among whom were the heroic Admiral Semmes, Commodore Maffitt, and Captain Brown of the Arkansas. Among the gunboats brought from New Orleans by Commodore Hollins, or sent to him after he had left, was the celebrated ram Manassas, which, however, could not then be used to any advantage, for the reason, as it appears, t
S. R. Mallory (search for this): chapter 24
nt a few days longer to finish the Arkansas. G. T. Beauregard. On the 19th he asks General Smith, at Vicksburg, if it is true that more iron is needed for the Arkansas, and if no work is being done on her, and on the 21st he telegraphs Hon. S. R. Mallory, as follows: I want a general order to get what rope is necessary for this army. Steamram Arkansas reported, cannot be got ready for one month. Is it not, possible to expedite its construction? Safety of the river depends on it nowm destruction, completed, and officered has already been described. The feats she performed under her dauntless commander, Captain Isaac N. Brown, who, upon General Beauregard's demand for an able officer, was judiciously selected by the Hon. Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, are deserving of enthusiastic praise; the more so, since Commodore Lynch, after inspection, said of her, she is very inferior to the Merrimac in every particular; the iron with which she is covered is worn and indiffere
John M. Reid (search for this): chapter 24
l consist of ten or twelve 8-inch and 10-inch guns, fifteen 42pound-ers, three 24-pounders, and several mortars, with a dozen field rifled guns, and half a dozen 24-pounder howitzers; those being all the guns we can spare at present for the defence of the river at that point. The total garrison will consist of about three thousand men. There should be ample space in those works for magazines-traverses in every direction, field bomb-proofs, and a few storehouses and cisterns. Acting Captains John M. Reid and Pattison, also Acting Lieutenant John H. Reid, have been ordered to report to you for the construction of these works. The two Reids (father and son) I am well acquainted with; they were for years employed by me in the construction of my forts in Louisiana. They are very reliable, practical men, and will be of much assistance to you; the other gentleman I am not personally acquainted with. Colonel Aubrey, military commander of Vicksburg, has been ordered to afford you all t
Trudeau (search for this): chapter 24
nd as soon as the works in process of construction there should have reached a sufficient state of completion to be properly armed and manned. The surplus ammunition removed from Columbus was to be sent to Fort Pillow, and also the surplus guns, which were to be mounted with the greatest possible celerity. General McCown, according to a telegram forwarded to that effect, repaired to Jackson, Tennessee, to receive personal instructions from General Beauregard. He was accompanied by General Trudeau, of Louisiana, acting Chief of Artillery on General Polk's staff. The line of conduct to be adopted and the mode and manner of defence were minutely traced out for him. He was told by General Beauregard that he must not count upon reinforcements, for all available troops were now being collected in or about western Tennessee, to oppose the Federals, should they attempt to cross the Tennessee River; that he must therefore make up his mind to do his utmost with the troops he would take w
Gideon J. Pillow (search for this): chapter 24
pon? Have you given orders to provision Fort Pillow for two or three months for five thousand men? G. T. Beauregard. 4. Jackson, Tenn., March 21st, 1862. Captain D. B. Harris, Engineers, Fort Pillow: Look as soon as practicable to land defences of fort. Construct detached works first, then cremaillere. Total garrison about three thousand men; defensive lines must not be too extensive. G. T. Beauregard. 5. Jackson, Tenn., March 21st, 1862. Brigadier-General A. P. Stewart, Commanding Fort Pillow: Is water battery unserviceable from high water? If so, remove guns immediately to better position. Put all river batteries in immediate serviceable condition. How many negroes have you? If not enough, call on Captain Adams, Memphis, for more forthwith, also for tools. How are batteries off for ammunition? Look to this. Thomas Jordan, Acting Adjutant-General. 6. Jackson, Tenn., March 22d, 1862. Captain J. Adams, Comdg. Memphis: Send Captain Owen's Arkansas company to
Cook (search for this): chapter 24
n the ground made caverns in the soil. Water stood on the ground within, and the artillerists waded in mud and water. From Fort Henry to Corinth, p. 80. Lieutenant-Colonel Cook, of the 12th Arkansas, had been placed in command of the Island on the morning of the 7th, by order of General Mackall. Having had news, on the evening ot the Confederate troops had already fallen back, he ordered and effected the evacuation of the work, leaving it in charge of Captain Hawes, of the artillery. Colonel Cook, that night, retreated with his regiment (about four hundred men) along the western shore of Reelfoot Lake, until he reached a ferry landing, near Tiptonvillee activity and energy of Colonel Pickett, commanding at Union City, quite a number of canoes, skiffs, and other small boats, for such an emergency. With these Colonel Cook succeeded in saving, not only his own command, but several hundred stragglers who had gathered there during the night. Meanwhile, towards midnight on the 7th,
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