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Tennessee, and Col. Thomas H. Logwood, Fifteenth Tennessee, rendered conspicuous and valuable service.
Maj. J. G. Thurmand, Fourteenth Tennessee, fell dead at the head of his regiment.
His brigade commander named him as ‘one of the bravest of brave men.’
General Ross reported that ‘the fighting was very desperate.
The hardest and hottest part of the engagement was made by the Fourteenth Tennessee, under Major Thurmand, in driving the enemy and the gunboats from town.’
The Confederates lost about 60 killed and wounded, among the latter, Captain Thrall of the artillery.
Another expedition into west Tennessee was inaugurated on the 9th of March, 1864, by an order to the Seventh Tennessee, Colonel Duckworth, and to McDonald's battalion, Colonel Crews, to prepare rations and ammunition for a movement in the direction of Corinth.
A few days thereafter General Forrest advanced with a division commanded by Brig.-Gen. A. Buford.
The Third Kentucky, Lieutenant-Colonel Holt; the Seventh Kentucky, Colonel Crossland; the Eighth, Colonel Lyon; Faulkner's Kentucky regiment, Colonel Faulkner, and Wisdom's Tennessee regiment, Lieut.-Col. D. M. Wisdom, constituted the Third brigade, Col. A. P. Thompson commanding.
Col. T. H. Bell commanded the Fourth brigade, composed of the Second Tennessee, Col. C. R. Barteau; Sixteenth, Col. A. N. Wilson, and Russell's Tennessee regiment, Col. R. M. Russell.
The division was 2,800 strong.
The Second brigade of Chalmers' division, commanded by Colonel Duckworth, composed of the Seventh Tennessee, Lieut.-Col. W. F. Taylor; the Twelfth Tennessee, Col. John U. Green; the Thirteenth Tennessee, Col. J. J. Neely; the Fourteenth Tennessee, Col. F. M. Stewart; was ordered to form a part of the expedition.
At this time, west Tennessee was dominated by certain Federal troops, notably the Sixth regiment United States cavalry, recruited in Tennessee and elsewhere and commanded by Col. Fielding Hurst.
It was disputed territory,
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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