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J. Knox Walker (search for this): chapter 1.8
ion and a regiment of infantry and a section of artillery, to be held as a reserve. The ammunition was sent, and Colonel J. Knox Walker's regiment and two companies from Colonel Logwood's cavalry battalion were immediately forwarded. Two field battillery under the bank of the river. The two lines were united again at the upper landing, where I was ordered by Colonel J. Knox Walker, commanding brigade, to fall in with my command on the left of the Second Tennessee regiment and proceed to charg my men shouting and huzzaing as they rushed on to the charge. I have not been able to find the report made by Colonel J. Knox Walker of the engagement at Belmont. It will be remembered that Colonel Marks had been ordered by General Polk to cro the fragments of the Thirteenth regiment Arkansas volunteers, Colonel Tappan; Second regiment, Tennessee volunteers, Colonel Walker, and Thirteenth regiment, Tennessee, Colonel John V. Wright, were formed and anxious to again confront the enemy. Th
McClernand (search for this): chapter 1.8
d awaited the onset. But he had not long to wait. In one hour after his arrival on the ground General Grant struck his little force with two brigades, under McClernand and Dougherty, with cavalry and artillery. The attack was made on both right and left flank almost simultaneously, and was followed up by an assault on the cenion. Colonel Blythe's regiment and my own numbered, probably, 1,000 together, making in all about 5,000 Confederates on the ground during the whole day. General McClernand puts down the Federal force at 3,500 strong, the enemy double that number. His command consisted of three Illinois regiments; two companies of cavalry, andstained from the enemy's fire upon them was three men wounded, one of whom belonged to the boats. He does not estimate the Confederate strength or loss. General McClernand puts down the Federal loss at about 300 in killed, wounded and missing. Brigade Surgeon and Medical Director J. H. Brinton gives the total of killed in t
Hamilton (search for this): chapter 1.8
avalry. General Pillow was also ordered to proceed immediately, with four of his regiments, to the relief of Colonel Tappan, commanding the Thirteenth Arkansas regiment, who was threatened on the west side of the river. General McCown advanced a battery of long-range guns, under command of Captain R. A. Stewart, of the Louisiana Pointe Coupee battery, to a point from which he could easily reach the enemy's gunboats. He also ordered fire from the heavy siege battery under command of Captain Hamilton, and from several of the guns of the fort. After an hour's brisk engagement the gunboats were driven out of range. They afterward returned, however, throwing shot and shell into the works, but after an hour's fighting were again compelled to retire. In obedience to orders, General Pillow proceeded across the river to the relief of Colonel Tappan, taking with him for this service Colonel R. M. Russell's, Colonel J. V. Wright's, Colonel Edward Pickett's and Colonel Thomas J. Freeman'
Marks (search for this): chapter 1.8
k and were held as a reserve, were ordered forward. I directed Colonel Marks to land his regiment higher up the river, with a view to a flanmpanied this command during the execution of the movement under Colonel Marks. Captain Jackson, who had reported to General Pillow that he coight on the shore, and to support the flank movement ordered by Colonel Marks. It was just at this moment that the enemy fired our camp, aor his gunboats. On his line of retreat he was struck first by Colonel Marks and afterward by General Cheatham on his flank. These conflictpassed was strewn with the dead and wounded of the conflicts of Colonel Marks and General Cheatham, and with arms, knapsacks, overcoats, etc.ker of the engagement at Belmont. It will be remembered that Colonel Marks had been ordered by General Polk to cross the river and attack the enemy in the flank. On landing, Colonel Marks moved along up the river bank until he saw General Pillow, who gave him the same order,
T. H. Logwood (search for this): chapter 1.8
d, General Pillow had dispatched to General Polk for additional ammunition and a regiment of infantry and a section of artillery, to be held as a reserve. The ammunition was sent, and Colonel J. Knox Walker's regiment and two companies from Colonel Logwood's cavalry battalion were immediately forwarded. Two field batteries, one under command of Captain W. H. Jackson and the other under command of Captain Marshall T. Polk, were also forwarded. Unfortunately, the steamer transporting these bat Mississippi regiment and the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth senior regiment of Tennessee volunteers, of which I was lieutenant-colonel and in command. General Polk took command of these regiments, together with Captain White's company, of Colonel T. H. Logwood's battalion of cavalry, and crossed the river. He ordered two regiments of General McCown's division to follow. General McCown dispatched Colonel Neely's Fourth Tennessee and Colonel Scott's Twelfth Louisiana regiments, but they arrived
Jefferson Thompson (search for this): chapter 1.8
ouri. Here Colonel Tappan was posted. His command consisted of his own regiment, the Thirteenth Arkansas, Captain Beltzhoover's (Watson battery), of six guns, and two companies of Colonel Miller's battalion of cavalry, under Captain Bowles and Lieutenant Jones. It was between two and three o'clock on the morning of the 7th of November, 1861, that General Polk received information from his aid-de-camp, Major Winslow, that the enemy was moving a strong force, designed to attack General Jeff. Thompson's position at Bloomfield and New Madrid. Soon after daybreak he received further information, from the same source, that the enemy had made his appearance in the river, with gunboats and transports, and was landing a considerable force on the Missouri shore, five or six miles from Belmont. General John P. McCown was immediately directed to proceed in the direction of the enemy, on the east bank of the river, with a strong force of infantry and cavalry. General Pillow was also or
A. J. Vaughan (search for this): chapter 1.8
General Pillow, meantime holding my position, my men receiving and returning an incessant fire. This was kept up for an hour and a half, when I ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Vaughan to report to General Pillow that my ammunition was nearly exhausted and that my men were suffering greatly from the fire of the enemy. Colonel VaughanColonel Vaughan returned and brought with him orders from General Pillow for my regiment to retire. I gave the order and the regiment retired to near the river, where some confusion occurred, and a portion of the regiment went up the river, led by Colonel Vaughan, and the balance followed me up the bank of the river, taking protection from the aColonel Vaughan, and the balance followed me up the bank of the river, taking protection from the artillery under the bank of the river. The two lines were united again at the upper landing, where I was ordered by Colonel J. Knox Walker, commanding brigade, to fall in with my command on the left of the Second Tennessee regiment and proceed to charge the enemy. This was done most promptly, and in a short time we found ourselves
R. M. Russell (search for this): chapter 1.8
ders, General Pillow proceeded across the river to the relief of Colonel Tappan, taking with him for this service Colonel R. M. Russell's, Colonel J. V. Wright's, Colonel Edward Pickett's and Colonel Thomas J. Freeman's regiments of Tennessee voluntd him, with his regiment and that of Colonel Carroll, to move rapidly on the enemy's flank. General Pillow directed Colonel Russell, with his brigade, to support that movement, and himself accompanied this command during the execution of the movemehim to do. Colonel Bell's regiment remained in position nearly an hour, when the enemy attacked in strong force. Colonel Russell, commanding the brigade, then gave the order to charge. The order was promptly obeyed and the enemy was driven backgaged over an hour and a half, being subjected to and returning the fire of an overpowering force of the enemy when, Colonel Russell's regiment getting out of ammunition, it gradually and in good order, without any confusion, retired through the tim
C. F. Smith (search for this): chapter 1.8
bout three thousand Confederates on the St. Francis river, Arkansas, about fifty miles from Cairo, and had sent Colonel Oglesby there, with a force equal to that of the Confederates, to oppose them and hold them in check. Learning that General Polk was about to detach a large force from Columbus to be moved down the river and to reinforce General Price, he had orders to prevent this movement. He then ordered a regiment under Colonel W. H. L. Wallace to reinforce Oglesby, and ordered General C. F. Smith to move all the troops he could spare from Paducah directly against Columbus. Added to these, he took all the troops which could be spared from Cairo and Fort Holt and moved them down the river for the attack on Belmont. General Grant says in his narrative: Belmont was severely criticised in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results; or the possibility of them from the beginning. If it had not been fought, Colonel Oglesby would probably have been captured or d
Marshall T. Polk (search for this): chapter 1.8
as in camp at Columbus, Kentucky. This was General Polk's headquarters. His encampment was stronglen Colonel Tappan received information from General Polk of the threatened attack, together with ordnt opened, General Pillow had dispatched to General Polk for additional ammunition and a regiment ofackson and the other under command of Captain Marshall T. Polk, were also forwarded. Unfortunately, was broken in the center, as above stated, General Polk says in his official report: By this h I was lieutenant-colonel and in command. General Polk took command of these regiments, together wving at the point where his transports lay, General Polk ordered the column headed by the One Hundrepursuit of the enemy, which pursuit, led by General Polk, was continued, the enemy being constantly column had reached the lower battery, near General Polk's headquarters, when they directed their fi our brigade. Colonel Smith says: Major-General Polk, who, in company with Brigadier General [12 more...]
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