3 Castel, “Iuka,” 16-17; 0R 17(1)’-134-36.
4 OR 17(1): 135-36.
5 OR 17(1): 101; Risedorph Reminiscences, 7-8, Risedorph Papers, MnHS; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota and “Fourth Minnesota at Iuka.”
6 OR 17(1): 108-9, 134; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 87; Absalom F. Dantz- ler to his wife, September 24, 29, 1862, Dantzler Letters, DU.
7 Leonard Brown, American Patriotism, 178; OR 17(1): 80, 107, 109, 134; Immell, “Iuka and Corinth”; Absalom F. Dantzler to his wife, September 29, 1862, Dantzler Letters, DU; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 87.
8 OR 17(1): 106, 109-10, 112; Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 313, 317-19; Kenderdinn, “Fired on Friends”; Sanders, “Iuka”; Spencer, “Baptism of Fire.”
9 Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 317-19; Kenderdinn, “Fired on Friends”; OR 17(1): no; Sanders, “Iuka.”
10 OR 17(1): 112.
11 Tunnard, Southern Record, 185; OR 17(1): 106.
12 OR 17(1)1106, no, 129.
CHAPTER TEN
1 Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 85-86; Pepper, Under Three Flags, 91; Hamilton, “Iuka,” 735; Sanborn, Descriptions of Battles, 13-14.
2 OR 17(1):85, 88; Hickok, “Iuka and Corinth”; Moore, Rebellion Record, 5:485.
3 OR 17(1):81, 86, 88-89; Bryner, Bugle Echoes, 53; James Mellor to his wife, September 29, 1862, Croton Papers, University of Wisconsin; J. H. Greene, Reminiscences, 29; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 4:118, Quiner Papers, WiHS.
4 OR 17(1):86, 88, 123, 132-33; William S. Stewart to parents, September 23, 1862, Stewart Letters, WHMC-Columbia; William David Evans to Caroline, September 26, 1862, Evans Papers, and William A. Britton to Editors, September 22, 1862, Britton Letters, both in WRHS.
5 Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 110-11; William David Evans to Caroline, September 26, 1862, Evans Papers, WRHS; Strickling Reminiscences, 19, OHS; OR 17(1):84, 101; Van Eman, “Iuka”; Alonzo L. Brown, “Fourth Minnesota at Iuka”; William M. Davis, “Iuka.”
6 OR 17(1): 126; Bailey Reminiscences, 16, Bailey Papers, ArU; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 31; Tunnard, Southern Record, 183.
7 Bevier, First and Second Missouri Brigades, 133, 136, 333-34; Anderson, Memoirs, 221-22; Hubbell, “Diary,” 98.
8 Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, in; Payne, “Sixth Missouri,” 463; Tunnard, Southern Record, 188; OR 17(1): 79; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:19; Bevier, First and Second Missouri Brigades, 334-35; Anderson, Memoirs, 225; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 94, 96; J. H. Greene, Reminiscences, 30.
9 Jackson Mississippian, September 24, 1862; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, III; Helm, “Close Fighting,” 171; Anderson, Memoirs, 223.
10 OR 17(1): 79; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 4:118, Quiner Papers, WiHS; Risedorph Reminiscences, 15-16, Risedorph Papers, MnHS.
11 Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 112, Jackson Mississippian, September 24, 1862.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1 Von Phul, “Little’s Burial,” 214; Philip T. Tucker, Fighting Chaplain, 83-84; Snead, “With Price,” 733; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 290.
2 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 290-91; OR 17(1): 122; Snead, “With Price,” 733; Von Phul, “Little’s Burial,” 214.
3 OR 17(1): 137; Von Phul, “Little’s Burial,” 214-15; Snead, “With Price,” 733.
4 “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:19; OR 17(1): 67, 74; William Starke Rosecrans to Annie E. Rosecrans, September 22, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA; Hamilton, “Iuka,” 735-36.
5 Van Eman, “Iuka”; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 111; Strickling Reminiscences, 19, OHS.
6 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 113; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:19; OR 17(1): 70; Pierce, Second Iowa Cavalry, 32-33.
7 Bailey Reminiscences, 17, Bailey Papers, ArU; Tunnard, Southern Record, 183-84; Frederick, “Porter Diary,” 303; Barron, Lone Star Defenders, 108.
8 Tunnard, Southern Record, 184, 187-88; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 291; Bailey Reminiscences, 17, Bailey Papers, ArU; OR 17(1): 122; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 32; Mattox, “Chronicle,” 208.
9 “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:19; OR 17(1): 87; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 112; Strickling Reminiscences, 19, OHS; Charles H. Smith, Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, 78; Sweet, “Civil War Experiences,” 245; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 96-97.
10 William S. Stewart to his parents, September 23, 1862, Stewart Letters, WHMC- Columbia; Simon, Grant Papers, 6: 72; OR 17(1):83; Pierce, Second Iowa Cavalry, 33; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 112.
11 OR 17(1):74, 82-83; William Starke Rosecrans to John Fuller, September 19, 1878, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA; McDonald,Iuka’s History, 19.
12 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:72-73; OR 17(1):70-71, 114, 117; Pierce, Second Iowa Cavalry, 33; Fox, Seventh Kansas, 33; William Starke Rosecrans to John W. Fuller, September 19, 1878, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA.
13 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 114-15; Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 170-71; John W. Fuller to David Sloane Stanley, August 23, 1887, West-Stanley-Wright Family Papers, USAMHI.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1 Cresap, Appomattox Commander, 63-64, 76-78.
2 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 117-18; Arthur C. Ducat to William Starke Rosecrans, April 24, 1885, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA.
3 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 118; OR 17(1): 118-19.
4 Theophilus L. Dickey to his wife, September 21, 1862, Wallace-Dickey Papers, ISHL; William Starke Rosecrans to John W. Fuller, September 19, 1878, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA.
5 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 119; OR 17(1): 67, 119.
6 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:63, 68-70; OR 17(1):67.
7 Simon, Grant Papers, 73; James C. Parrott to his wife, September 22, 1862, Parrott Papers, IaHS.
8 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 123.
9 Charles Brown Tompkins to his wife, September 22, 1862, Tompkins Papers, DU; James C. Parrott to his wife, September 22, 1862, Parrott Papers, IaHS; Clark, Downing’s Diary, 69; Adams Journals, 1:28, IaU; Schilling Diary, September 19, 1862, Brown County Historical Society.
10 OR 17(1):79.
11 Charles Brown Tompkins to his wife, September 22, 1862, Tompkins Papers, DU; James C. Parrott to his wife, September 22, 1862, Parrott Papers, IaHS; William S. Stewart to his parents, September 23,1862, Stewart Letters, WHMC- Columbia.
12 OR 17(1): 64, 68, 119; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:20.
13 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 291; Stirman, In Fine Spirits, 49; OR 17(1): 114, 137; Pierce, Second Iowa Cavalry, 33; Chance, Second Texas, 60-61.
14 McKnight Diary, September 20, 1862, Civil War Collection, MoHS; J. H. Greene, Reminiscences, 30; Stanley, Memoirs, 107; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:20.
15 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:79-80; Julia Dent Grant, Memoirs, 103; OR 17(1):71
16 Hartje, Van Dorn, 212; OR 17(1): 376; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:79-81.
17 OR 17(1): 71; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:71; William Starke Rosecrans to Annie E. Rosecrans, September 22, 1862, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:20.
18 Hartje, Van Dorn, 212; OR 17(1): 376.
19 Anderson, Memoirs, 226, 228; Wright Schaumburg to his wife, October 9, 1862, Schaumburg-Wright Family Papers, HNOC Jackson Mississippian, September 24, 1862; Garrett, Letters, 65; Hubbell, “Diary,” 99.
20 OR 17(1):72, 78-79, 126-27, 133 Kitchens, Rosecrans Meets Price, 187-89. From records in the National Archives, Kitchens obtained figures of 63 killed and 299 wounded for Hébert’s brigade.
21 Tyler Diary, September 25-29, 1862, WiHS; Throne, Boyd Diary, 70-71.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1 John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Wright Schaumburg to his wife, October 9, 1862, Schaumburg-Wright Family Papers, HNOC; OR 17(1): 377 and (2): 710-1
2.
2 Wright Schaumburg to his wife, October 9, 1862, Schaumburg-Wright Family Papers, HNOC; Carlisle Diary, September 25, 1862, NMMA; Anderson, Memoirs, 229; Tunnard, Southern Record, 190-91; Frederick, “Porter Diary,” 303; Ruyle Memoirs, 8, CWRT.
3 Castel, Price and the War, 104-6.
4 OR 17(1): 378, 432, 434-35, 457-58; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Payne, “Sixth Missouri,” 463-64.
5 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 293; OR 17(1) 1453.
6 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 293; Warner, Generals in Gray, 194-95; Van Dorn biographical sketch, Sigel Papers, WRHS; Mansfield Lovell to his wife, October 1, 1862, Lovell Papers, HL; OR 17(1):440-42, 453, and (2):697, 711, 713, 716; Pope, “War Reminiscences XII”; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Castel, Price and the War, 106-7.
7 OR 17(1): 378,455, and (2): 704, 714-15; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Hartje, Van Dorn, 215.
8 John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Mobile Advertiser and Register, undated clipping in Solomon Scrapbook, 396, DU; OR (1):385 and (2):417, 713,718
9 Barron, Lone Star Defenders, 115; Tyler Diary, September 29, 1862, WiHS; OR 17(1):416.
10 Anderson, Memoirs, 230; Barron, Lone Star Defenders, 115; sketch map dated March 15, 1946, Cockrell Papers, DU; J. P. Young, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, 49; Ruyle Memoirs, 8, CWRT.
11 OR 17(1):385; Tunnard, Southern Record, 191; Anderson, Memoirs, 230; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 34.
12 J. P. Young, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, 49; Stanley, “Corinth”; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; OR 17(1): 378 and (2) 1717-18; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 34.
13 OR 17(1) 1417, 419, 421, and (2):684; Quinnie Armor to Monroe Cockrell, April 6, 1946, Cockrell Papers, DU; Henry, “Bowen,” 172.
14 Hubbell, “Diary,” 99; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 34; Keen, Living and Fighting, 37.
15 Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, 4:82; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:83, 85-88.
16 Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:414
17 OR 17(1): 166, 242; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:110; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 740-41, 743; McCord, “Battle of Corinth,” 573; Stanley, “Corinth”; Warner, Generals in Blue, 301.
18 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 740-41, 743; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:20; OR 17(1): 166; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy,35
19 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 743; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:20-21; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:97; OR 17(1): 166.
20 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 742; OR 17(1):357; Clark, Downing“s Diary, 72; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 4; ”Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,“ 5:161, Quiner Papers, WiHS.
21 OR 17(1): 178-79; Charles H. Smith, Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, 82; Bryner, Bugle Echoes, 55-56; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 114; Sergent Diary, October 1, 1862, NMMA. In his report, Stanley mistakenly said he had been ordered to the Tuscumbia River.
22 OR 17(1):352, 357; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 37-38; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 4-5; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:161, Quiner Papers, WiHS; Dean Memoirs, 9, CWMC.
23 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:97-100, no; Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:415; OR17(1):157.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 743; OR 17(1):352, 407, 425; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 38; J. P. Young, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, 33-34.
2 Tunnard, Southern Record, 191; OR 17(1):407; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 290.
3 OR 17(1):336, 352-53, 378, 407, 425; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 5-6; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 38; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:162, Quiner Papers, WiHS.
4 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 743; McCord, “Battle of Corinth,” 573; OR 17(1):282, 363-64; General Orders No. 151, dated October 25, 1862, Hamilton Papers, WiHS; Throne, Boyd Diary, 71; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 112; Sergent Diary, October 2, 1862, NMMA.
5 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 744-45; OR 17(1): 167, 251; Stanley, “Corinth”; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 68-69.
6 OR 17(1):205, 220, 216, 218, 226; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 112; Warner, Generals in Blue, 53-54; Simon, Grant Papers, 3:302; Risedorph Reminiscences, 3, Risedorph Papers, MnHS.
7 Zearing, “Letters,” 162; Sergent Diary, October 3,1862, NMMA; OR 17(1): 251, 296, 299; Curtis Diary, 11, OHS; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 91; Soper, “Company D,” 134; Franklin Reed to Lemuel Reed, October 20, 1862, Reed Letters, IaHS.
8 OR 17(1): 179, 197; Bryner, Bugle Echoes, 57; Smith and Smith, Colonel Gilbert, 114; Stark County Democrat, October 29, 1862; A. B. Monahan to his wife, October 12, 1862, Sixty-third Ohio Infantry File, SNMP.
9 Belknap, Fifteenth Iowa, 209; OR 17(1):336—37, 346-47, 350, 359, 362; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 745.
10 OR 17(1):378, 385, 404, 407, 410, and (2):717; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 34; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC Columbia.
11 John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Anderson, Memoirs, 230-31; unidentified letter, October 9, 1862, McEwen Family Papers, MoHS.
12 Warner, Generals in Blue, 348; OR 17(1): 354, 410; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:161-62, and Special Order of Colonel John Hancock, October 13, 1862, Quiner Papers, WiHS; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 38; Christie, “Hot Times.”
13 Monroe Cockrell to Edward J. East, February 25, 1946, Cockrell Papers, DU; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 6; OR 17(1):337, 354, 357; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 39.
14 OR 17(1): 354, 357; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 7; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5 :161, Quiner Papers, WiHS; John A. Duckworth to William Rosser, December 25, 1862, Second Iowa Infantry File, SNMP.
15 OR 17(1): 344, 354, 357; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 117.
16 OR 17(1): 167, 344, 354; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 746.
17 OR 17(1): 197, 205, 251, 284, 359; Ducat, Memoirs, 34; McCord, “Battle of Corinth,” 574-75; Curtis Diary, 11, OHS; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 91-92; Chamberlin, Eighty-first Ohio, 25.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1 OR 17(1):378, 385-86, 389, 401; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Comte de Paris, Civil War, 21407.
2 Gottschalk, In Deadly Earnest, 138-40; Mobile Advertiser and Register, undated clipping in Solomon Scrapbook, 396, and William McCurdy to Mrs. A. F. Dantzler, October 11, 1862, Dantzler Letters, both at DU.
3 Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 117; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5 :161, Quiner Papers, WiHS; OR 17(1):270, 354,410.
4 Horton, “Battery F,” 1, Horton Manuscripts, NMMA; OR 17(1):384, 407, 410, 412; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:161, 166, Quiner Papers, WiHS; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 290.
5 OR 17(1): 379; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC- Columbia.
6 OR 17(i):251-52, 344, 354; Anders, Twenty-first Missouri, 98-99; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 8; Chamberlin, Eighty-first Ohio, 26.
7 OR 17(1):252; Curtis Diary, 11, OHS; Chamberlin, Eighty-first Ohio, 26.
8 OR 17(1): 252, 289; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 92.
9 OR 17(1): 167-68, 252.
10 Chamberlin, Eighty-first Ohio, 26; Curtis Diary, 11, OHS; Wright, Corporal’s Story, 56; OR 17 (1):252, 282, 284, 288; Langworthy, “Corinth”; Morrison, Ninth Illinois, 38-39.
11 OR 17(1):272, 276, 280; Bell, Tramps and Triumphs, 12; John S. Wilcox to his wife, Wilcox Papers, ISHL; Bowen Diary, October 3, 1862, Bowen Papers, HL.
12 OR 17(1)1205, 211, 213, 216, 226, 252, 289, 344; Cluett, Fifty-seventh Illinois, 39.
13 Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 92-93; OR17 (1):2
52, 290; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 131.
14 OR 17 (1):348-49, 407-8; “Comments about ’Lady Richardson,’” 205; Daniel Miller to his brother, October 9, 1862, Miller Papers, MoHS.
15 OR 17(1):296, 408-9, 418; “Comments about ’Lady Richardson,’” 205; Corinth Weekly Herald, September 6, 1912; Cluett, Fifty-seventh Illinois, 40.
16 Cluett, Fifty-seventh Illinois, 40; Zearing, “Letters,” 162; OR 17(1): 268, 290, 296, 408; “Comments about ’Lady Richardson,’” 205; Whitfield, “What Battery?”
17 OR 17(1): 270; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:165, Quiner Papers, WiHS; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 290-91.
18 Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 40; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 291; H.J. Reid, “Twenty-second Mississippi,” 14, Claiborne Papers, UNC.
19 OR 17(1):270, 357-58, 410, 412; Carter, “Lady Richardson,” 306; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 8-9; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 5:161, 163-65, Quiner Papers, WiHS; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 291; Abernathy, Private Stockwell, 48-49.
20 William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 291; Henry, “Bowen,” 171; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 9; OR 17(1): 176; Stephen E. Ambrose, Wisconsin Boy, 40-41.
21 William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 291; H. J. Reid, “Twenty-second Mississippi,” 14, Claiborne Papers, UNC; William H. Tucker, Fourteenth Wisconsin, 8.
22 OR 17(1):293, 297; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 93; Duncan, Recollections, 88-89; Mattox, “Chronicle,” 199-200; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 221.
23 Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 93; OR 17(1): 293, 344, 398, 410.
24 “Comments about ’Lady Richardson,’” 205; Henry, “Bowen,” 171; OR 17(1): 405, 408-11, 421-22, 426; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 292.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1 Wright, Corporal’s Story, 56-57; Nelson Memoirs, 2, CWMC.
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