28 Neil, Battery at Close Quarters, 19-20; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 124; St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 14, 1884; OR 17(1) 1226; Reeves Diary, October 4, 1862, Reeves Papers, MnHS.
29 William McCurdy to Mrs. A. F. Dantzler, October n, 1862, Dantzler Letters, DU; Andrew J. Patrick to his father, October 15, 1862, Patrick Letters, University of Southern Mississippi; Tunnard, Southern Record, 192; OR 17(1): 223, 226.
30 OR i7(i):2i5-20, 224.
31 Franklin B. Reed to Lemuel C. Reed, October 20, 1862, Reed Letters, IaHS; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 145-47; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 753.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
1 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 298; OR 17(1): 398; Duncan, Recollections, 94; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 221.
2 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 85.
3 William P. Rogers, “Diary and Letters,” 260-61, 267, 276-77, 289, 295; Lawrence S. Ross to his wife, August 25, 1862, Ross Family Papers, Baylor University; Cockrell, Lost Account, 51-52; Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, July 16, 1862; William P. Rogers to his wife, August 21, 1862, Rogers Papers, TxU; McGinnis, “Roger’s Death”; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 221.
4 OR 17(1): 379, 339; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 298.
5 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 85; Duncan, Recollections, 94; Hawke, Corinth, 45; Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, November 5, 1862; OR 17(1): 185, 398; Griscom, Fighting with Ross’ Texas Cavalry, 46.
6 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 71; Minturn, “Corinth”; OR 17(1): 185; Gilmore, “63d Ohio”; Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 174; Hatheway, “Fierce Fighting”; Lybarger, “Corinth.”
7 OR 17(1): 394, 402; Bevier, First and Second Missouri Brigades, 154; Gottschalk, In Deadly Earnest, 150.
8 OR 17(1): 238, 402; Raum, “Corinth.”
9 OR i7(i):238, 260-61, 391, 402; Raum, “Corinth”; Martin, “Reminiscences,” 69.
10 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 71, 81.
11 Ibid., 72; Harper’s Weekly, November 1, 1862; Minturn, “Corinth”; George H. Cadman to his wife, October 13, 1862, Cadman Papers, UNC; OR 17(1): 196; Duncan, Recollections, 96; Corinth Herald, February 20, 1902.
12 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 72, 85-86; Duncan, Recollections, 97; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 221; OR 17(1): 192, 398-99; Strickling Reminiscences, 21, OHS; Charles H. Smith, Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, 86; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, 11.
13 Cockrell, Lost Account, 30-31; OR 17(1): 185, 398; “Col. William P. Rogers,” 57; Stirman, In Fine Spirits, 52.
14 Charles H. Smith, Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, 86; Strickling Reminiscences, 21, OHS; OR 17(1): 192; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, 11; Arnold, “Corinth,” 199.
15 OR 17(1): 181, 185-92; Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 174-76; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 72; Bradney, “Saw the 63d.”
16 OR 17(1): 185,192; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, n;Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 72; Harper’s Weekly, November 1, 1862; A. B. Monahan to his wife, October 12, 1862, Sixty-third Ohio Infantry File, SNMP.
17 Duncan, Recollections, 97; Arnold, “Corinth,” 199; Mobile Advertiser and Register, undated clipping in Solomon Scrapbook, DU; Mayo, “Colonel Rogers,” 57-58; Galveston Daily News, March 8, 1896; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 78.
18 OR 17(1): 185; Bradney, “Saw the 63d”; Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 175.
19 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 86; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 221; Corinth Herald, February 20, 1902.
20 Arnold, “Corinth,” 199; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, n; Budd, “Colonel Rogers.”
21 Minturn, “Corinth”; Hatheway, “Fierce Fighting”; Lybarger, “Corinth.”
22 OR 17(1): 192; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, 11; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 74-76.
23 OR 17(1): 192, 202; Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, n; McNeal, “Charge of the Texans”; Henney, “nth Mo. at Corinth”; Frank T. Gilmore to David Sloane Stanley, January 13, 1897, and John W. Fuller to David Sloane Stanley, November 1, 1887, both in West-Stanley-Wright Family Papers, USAMHI.
24 Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 175; “What One Comrade Knows”; Stanley, Memoirs, 113-14; OR 17(1): 181; Dayton Weekly Journal, November 4, 1862; Frank T. Gilmore to David Sloane Stanley, January 13,1897, West-Stanley-Wright Family Papers, USAMHI.
25 William S. Stewart to his mother, October 12, 1862, Stewart Letters, WHMC- Columbia; Henney, “The Eleventh Missouri”; OR 17(1): 202.
26 Arnold, “Corinth,” 199; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 86; McKinstry, “With Rogers,” 222; Ray Reminiscences, 26, Ray Papers, ArU; Wade Diary, October 4, 1862, CWMC.
27 Battle of Corinth Souvenir Program, n; Arnold, “Corinth,” 199; “Death of Colonel Rogers”; “Death of Colonel Rogers at Corinth”; Budd, “Colonel Rogers”; Adams, “Battery Robinett”; Duncan, Recollections, 99-100; Ray Reminiscences, 26, Ray Papers, ArU; Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 174; Daniel H. J. Cobb to his sister, November 1, 1862, Cobb Letters, MiU; John A. Duckworth to William Rosser, December 25, 1862, Second Iowa Infantry File, SNMP; McGinnis, “Corinth to Vicksburg”; Lindsey, “At Corinth”; Pomeroy Diary, October 4, 1862, KHS; Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, November 5, 1862. There are nearly as many versions of Colonel Rogers’s death as there were witnesses to it. Some say he died on horseback carrying the colors; others say he was atop the parapet of Battery Robinett on foot, waving either his handkerchief, his sword, his pistol, or a flag; still others claim he was dismounted in the ditch. I have tried to reconstruct the moment from the most plausible accounts.
28 “Col. William P. Rogers,” 58; Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 87-88; J. B. Rogers, War Pictures, 202.
29 Bryner, Bugle Echoes, 63; OR 17(1): 185, 191; Daily Toledo Blade, October 14, 1862; JJtica Evening Telegraph, October 22, 1862; Stark County Democrat, October 29, 1862; FrankT. Gilmore to David Sloane Stanley, January 13, 1897, West-Stanley- Wright Family Papers, USAMHI; Minturn, “Corinth”; Stanley, Memoirs, 113.
30 Strickling Reminiscences, 22, OHS; Cockrell, Lost Account, 31; William D. Evans to Caroline, October 8, 1862, Evans Papers, WRHS; Benner, Sul Ross, 86; Scott, Four Years’ Service, 15.
31 Graves Diary, October 4, 1862, TxU; H. S. Halbert to Green W. Kerr, June 20, 1881, NMMA.
32 Charles H. Smith, Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, 88-89, IQI; 0R 17(1): 186,188; Gilmore, “63d Ohio”; Daily Toledo Blade, October 20, 1862; Moore, Civil War in Song and Story, 463; Charles W. Smith, “Address,” 2, OHS; Frank T. Gilmore to David Sloane Stanley, January 13, 1897, West-Stanley-Wright Family Papers, USAMHI.
33 Hawke, Corinth, 47; Cockrell, Lost Account, 33; Stirman, In Fine Spirits, 52; OR 17(1): 180; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 101; Du Bois, “Journal and Letters,” 48.
34 Stanley, “Corinth”; OR 17(1): 180, 443; Pomeroy Diary, October 4, 1862, KHS; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 143; Du Bois, “Journal and Letters,” 48.
35 Corinth Herald, January 3, 1895; OR 17(1): 209, 236-37; Ingersoll, Iowa and the Rebellion, 294-95; Reeves Diary, October 4, 1862, Reeves Papers, MnHS; Raum, “Corinth”; Stirman, In Fine Spirits, 52; “Correspondence of Jeremiah C. Sullivan,” 140.
36 Lucius F. Hubbard to his aunt, October 13, 1862, Hubbard Papers, MnHS; William B. McGrorty to his wife, October 7, 1862, McGrorty Papers, MnHS; Minnesota in the Wars, 263-64; Jack Arkins to his brother, October 25, 1862, Arkins Papers, MnHS; Lucius F. Hubbard, Minnesota in the Battles of Corinth, 15-16, 21-22.
37 OR 17(1): 180; Gottschalk, In Deadly Earnest, 157; Bevier, First and Second Missouri Brigades, 155.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
1 OR 17(1) 1408; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 292; G. A. Foote to his father, October 26, 1862, Foote Family Papers, Filson Club; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia.
2 OR i7(i):4o8, 412-13; Henry, “Bowen,” 171; Hirsh, “Shot Through,” 505-6; H.J. Reid, “Twenty-second Mississippi,” 15, Claiborne Papers, UNC; William C. Holmes, “Corinth,” 292.
3 Throne, Boyd Diary, 75.
4 OR 17(1): 380.
5 Maury, “Campaign
against Grant,” 297-99; J. H- Greene, Reminiscences, 32.
6 “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 8:36-37, Quiner Papers, WiHS; Alexandria Democrat, October 22, 1862; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 297; Rose, Ross’ Texas Brigade, 73; OR 17(1): 380, 411; Grenada Appeal, October 14, 1862.
7 OR 17(1): 181, 345; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 159; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 752; Montgomery, Reminiscences, 92-93; Stanley, Memoirs, 114; Adams, “Battery Robinett”; McCord, “Battle of Corinth,” 581-82.
8 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 752-53; OR 17(1): 170; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:21; Fox, “Seventh Kansas Cavalry,” 35; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 4:128, Quiner Papers, WiHS; OR 17(1): 170; Dean Memoirs, 10, CWMC.
9 McCord, “Battle of Corinth,” 581-82; Chetlain, “Corinth,” 379-80; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 159.
10 Bryner, Bugle Echoes, 64-65; Adams, “Battery Robinett”; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 4:124, Quiner Papers, WiHS; J. B. Rogers, War Pictures, 203; Chetlain, “Corinth,” 380.
11 Fuller, “Our Kirby Smith,” 176-77.
12 “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22; Morris, Thirty- first Regiment Volunteers, 49; Bedford Memoirs, 25, Bedford Papers, DLC; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 753; OR 17(1): 154-55, 3°5> 3^7> Simon, Grant Papers, 6:111-15.
13 OR 17(1): 170, 246, 370; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:115; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 753.
14 Castel, “Corinth,” 21; Maury, “Recollections of Van Dorn,” 195.
15 Fay, This Infernal War, 165; Hubbell, “Diary,” 102; Anderson, Memoirs, 239.
16 Hartje, Van Dorn, 234-35; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Maury, “Recollections of Van Dorn,” 195.
17 OR 17(1):380 and (2):720; John Tyler to William L. Yancey, October 15, 1862, WHMC-Columbia; Hartje, Van Dorn, 234-35; Maury, “Recollections of Van Dorn,” 196.
18 Maury, “Recollections of Van Dorn,” 196; Castel, Price and the War, 120; Hartje, Van Dorn, 235; Cockrell, Lost Account, 72.
19 OR 17(1): 380; Cockrell, Lost Account, 73; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 302; Hartje, Van Dorn, 235.
20 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 302-3; OR 17(1): 380; Hartje, Van Dorn, 235.
21 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
1 Warner, Generals in Blue, 244-45; Lash, “Hurlbut,” v-vii, 135-41, 146-47; I5°_52-
2 Ainsworth Diary, October 4, 1862, Ainsworth Papers, University of Southern Mississippi; OR 17(1): 155, 302, 305, 320, 321, 333; Comte de Paris, Civil War, 2 =415-16; Quinnie Armour to Monroe Cockrell, April 6, 1946, and Fred Smith to Cockrell, February 18, 1946, both in Cockrell Papers, DU.
3 OR 17(1):302, 305, 315, 320-21, 325, 328-29; Robert L. Smith, “Hurlbut’s Men”; Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 185.
4 OR 17(1):322, 325, 328-29, 331-32; Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 185; McDaniel, Davis Bridge, 5.
5 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303; McDaniel, Davis Bridge, 5.
6 Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 166-67; OR 17(1):317, 392, 399; Wilder Reminiscences, 30, DLC; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303.
7 McDaniel, Davis Bridge, 27; Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 174.
8 OR 17(1):309, 310, 321-22, 399; Jacob Brunner to his wife, October 13, 1862, Brunner Letters, OHS; Wilder Reminiscences, 30, DLC; Robert L. Smith, “Hurlbut’s Men”; Quinnie Armour to Monroe Cockrell, April 6, 1946, Cockrell Papers, DU; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303.
9 OR ij(i):^io, 325, 327; Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 175.
10 Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 175; OR ij(i):^22, 327, 329, 333, 393; Albert McCollom to his brother, December 5, 1862, McCollom Papers, ArU; Daily Toledo Blade, October 17, 1862; Wilder Reminiscences, 30-31, DLC; Thomas B. Jones, Forty-sixth Illinois, 223-24; Camm, “Diary,” 911; Jacob Brunner to his wife, October 13, 1862, Brunner Letters, OHS.
11 Grebe Memoirs, 14, Grebe Collection, DLC; Albert McCollom to his wife, October 13, 1862, McCollom Papers, ArU; Keen, Living and Fighting, 39; OR 17(1): 323, 325, 400; Camm, “Diary,” 911; Barber, Army Memoirs, 82.
12 Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 179-80.
13 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303; OR 17(1): 132, 383, 400; Mobile Advertiser and Register, undated clipping in Solomon Scrapbook, 400, DU.
14 Benner, Sul Ross, 87; Sid S. Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray, 94-95; Scott, Four Years’ Service, 17; “General and Governor Ross,” 169; Rose, Ross’ Texas Brigade, 165-66; Griscom, Fighting with Ross’ Texas Cavalry, 47; Sparks, War between the States, 194; OR 17(1):388, 393, 395, 400; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 303-4.
15 OR 17(1): 302, 306, 313, 323; Cockrell, Lost Account, 73; Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 167.
16 Camm, “Diary,” 911; OR i7(i):323-3i; McDaniel, Davis Bridge, 27; Dugan, Hurlbut’s Fighting Fourth, 176; Barber, Army Memoirs, 82-83.
17 Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 163; Willit S. Haynes to his sisters, October 8, 1862, Haynes Letters, Bradley University; OR 17(1):312-13, 316; Mark Bassett to Edward Lecour, May 27, 1896, Fifty-third Illinois Infantry File, SNMP.
18 Stirman, In Fine Spirits, 63; OR 17(1): 403.
19 Camm, “Diary,” 911; Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 167; OR 17(1): 323.
20 OR 17(1): 306, 308; Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 167.
21 Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, 167; OR 17(1): 306, 308, 312, 317, 323.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
1 Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 304; Barron, Lone Star Defenders, 121-22; Fred B. Smith to Monroe Cockrell, February 18, 1946, Cockrell Papers, DU; OR 17(1): 380, 396, 399, 403; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 35.
2 OR 17(1):306-8, 383, 388, 391-92, 394-95, 403; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 304; Bevier, First and Second Missouri Brigades, 344.
3 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:116-18; OR 17(1): 158; Stanley, Memoirs, 114-15.
4 Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 109; Chamberlin, Eighty-first Ohio, 34; Stanley, Memoirs, 115.
5 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 160; OR 17(1): 182, 246, 266.
6 OR 17(1): 210; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 8:36, Quiner Papers, WiHS.
7 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 160-61; Stanley, Memoirs, 115; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 162; Oi? 17(1): 162, 210; “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 8:36, Quiner Papers, WiHS.
8 OR 17(1): 182, 263; Lamers, Edge of Glory, 161; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 754-
9 OR 17(1): 161, 246, 345-46, 367-73, 413, 423; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22; Dean Memoirs, 10-11, CWMC.
10 OR 17(1): 368, 413, 423; Morris, Thirty-first Regiment Volunteers, 49; Henry, “Bowen,” 171.
11 OR 17(1): 161, 345-46; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22; Cockrell, Lost Account, 71.
12 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 754.
13 OR 17(1): 161-62 and (2)1267; Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:416, 418.
14 Barron, Lone Star Defenders, 122; Corinth Herald, November 17, 1904.
15 Carlisle Journal, 8, CWMC.
16 Anderson, Memoirs, 243-44; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 35.
17 Carlisle Journal, 8, CWMC; OR 17(1): 721; Scott, Four Years’ Service, 20; Anderson, Memoirs, 241.
18 Anderson, Memoirs, 241; Barron, Lo/ze Star Defenders, 123.
19 Barron, Lowe Star Defenders, 123-24; Anderson, Memoirs, 244; John M. Hubbard, Notes of a Private, 36; Tunnard, Southern Record, 193.
20 Fay, This Infernal War, 167; Anderson, Memoirs, 244; OR 431, 436, 439; Scott, Four Years’ Service, 18; Montgomery, Reminiscences, 94.
21 OR 17(1^423; Fauntleroy, “Elk Horn to Vicksburg,” 35; Tunnard, Southern Record, 193.
22 “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22
; Lamers, Edge of Glory, 164; OR 17(1): 338.
23 Clark, Downing’s Diary, 74; Charles Cody to his family, October 16, 1862, Cody Papers, IaU; William B. Britton to “Messrs. Editors,” October 9, 1862, Britton Letters, WRHS; Bedford Memoirs, 27, Bedford Papers, DLC; Throne, Boyd Diary, 76-77.
24 “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:126-27; OR 17(1): 162-63, 368, 371, 373.
25 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:129; OR 17(1): 162; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:22.
26 OR 17(1): 306; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:127; Lash, “Hurlbut,” 139-40.
27 OR 17(1): 381, 417-18, 423-25, 429; Tunnard, Southern Record, 193.
28 Cole, “War Experiences,” 262; Tunnard, Southern Record, 193; OR 17(1).-721.
29 Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 163; OR 17(1): 183, 210; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, hi; Alonzo L. Brown, Fourth Minnesota, 134.
30 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 166-67; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” in Report of the Joint Committee, 3:23; Simon, Grant Papers, 6 :131-32.
31 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 167; OR 17(1): 133, 158-59; Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:4^9’ Simon, Grant Papers, 6:138.
32 OR 17(2):269; Simon,Grant Papers, 6:130, 133-34, 142; “Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” inReport of the Joint Committee, 3:23; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 755-
33“Rosecrans’s Campaigns,” inReport of the Joint Committee, 3:23; John J. Bennett to his brother, October 7, 1862, Bennett Family Papers, Louisiana State University; Hubert,Fiftieth Illinois, 164; Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 755-56.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
1 Rosecrans, “Battle of Corinth,” 751; Bowen Diary, October 4, 1862, Bowen Papers, HL; Ferguson, “Annals of the War.”
2 OR i7(i):382-85, 395-97; Livermore, Numbers and Losses, 94.
3 Wright Schaumburg to his wife, October 9, 1862, Schaumburg-Wright Family Papers, HNOC;OR 17(1):395-96.
4 Bevier,First and Second Missouri Brigades, 154; Stirman,In Fine Spirits, 52; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 298.
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