The Darkest Days of the War- the Battles of Iuka and Corinth

by Peter Cozzens

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  Langworthy, L. L. “The Battle of Corinth. A Claim That the 12 th 111. Had a Strong Hand in Saving the Day.” January 24, 1901.

  Lindsey, W. J. “At Corinth.” March 1, 1906.

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  Milburn, Henry. “A Round of Reminiscences. Boy Lieutenant Writes of Corinth.” March 7, 1901.

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  Shuman, J. T. “The 63d Ohio at Robinett.” March 2, 1899.

  Smith, Robert L. “Hurlbut’s Men.” July 18, 1896.

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  Stanley, David S. “Corinth.” February 8, 1894.

  Van Eman, J. H. “Battle of Iuka. Experiences of a Fuller’s Brigade Veteran.” May 29, 1902.

  _____. “Bloody Robinett.” May 24, 1894.

  “What One Comrade Knows about Battery Robinett.” March 15, 1894.

  Whitefield, W. G. “What Battery Was This?” July 11, 1895.

  OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

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  The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C., 1880-1901.

  ADDRESSES, ARTICLES, AND ESSAYS

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  Carter, Frank. “Lady Richardson.” Confederate Veteran 3, no. 10 (October 1895): 306.

  Castel, Albert. “Battle without a Victor . . . Iuka.” Civil War Times Illustrated11 n, no. 6 (October 1972):12-18.

  _____. “Victory at Corinth.” Civil War Times Illustrated 17, no. 6 (October 1978): 12, 16-22.

  ______, ed. “The Diary of Gen. Henry Little.” Civil War Times Illustrated 11, no. 6 (October 1972): 4-11,41-47.

  Chetlain, Augustus. “The Battle of Corinth.” In Military Essays and Recollections. Papers Read before the Cwnmandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 2: 373-82. Chicago, 1894.

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  “Col. H.J. Reid.”Confederate Veteran 14, no. 3 (March 1906): 132.

  Colwell, Charles. “An Infantryman at Corinth.” Civil War Times Illustrated 13, no. 7 (November 1974): 11–14.

  “Col. William P. Rogers.” Confederate Veteran 4, no. 2 (February 1896): 57–58.

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  Crane, John. “Letter to Mrs. Bownson, Chairman of the William P. Rogers Monument Committee.” Confederate Veteran 15, no. 6 (June 1907): 245–46.

  “Dabney Herndon Maury.” Southern Historical Society Papers 17 (1899–1900): 335–45.

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  Frederick, J. V., ed. “An Illinois Soldier in North Mississippi.” Journal of Mississippi History 1 (1939): 182–94.

  _____. “War Diary of William C. Porter.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 11 (1952): 286–314.

  Fuller, John W. “Our Kirby Smith.” In Sketches of War History, 1861–1865. Papers Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1886–1888, 2:161–79. Cincinnati, 1888.

  Gaither, Rice. “Back to Corinth.” New York Times Magazine, June 22, 1947, 13, 41–44.

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  Gunn, Jack W. “The Battle of Iuka.” Journal of Mississippi History 24 (1962): 142–57.

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  Hamilton, Charles S., and Arthur C. Ducat. Correspondence in Regard to the Battle of Corinth, Miss., October 3d and 4th, 1862. Chicago, 1882.

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  Hubbard, Lucius F. Minnesota in the Battles of Corinth, May–October 1862. St. Paul, 1907.

  Hubbell, Finley L. “Diary of Lieut. Col. Hubbell.” Land We Love 6, no. 2 (December 1868): 97–105.

  Inge, F. A. “Corinth, Miss., in War Times.” Confederate Veteran 23, no. 9 (September 1915): 412–13.

  Johnson, Frederick Marion. “Diary of a Soldier in Grant’s Rear Guard .”"Journal of Mississippi History 45 (1983): 194–204.

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ters.” Journal of Mississippi History 1 (1939): 110–27.

  “Letter of Lieut. Col. Wm. E. Small.” Annals of the State Historical Society of Iowa, April 1863, 87.

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  Neil, Henry M. A Battery at Close Quarters. A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, October 6, 1909. Columbus, 1909.

  Parkhurst, Clint. “The Attack on Corinth.” Palimpsest 3, no. 6 (June 1922): 169–91.

  Payne, James E. “The Sixth Missouri at Corinth.” Confederate Veteran 36, no. 12 (December 1928): 462–65.

  “Reminiscent Paragraphs.” Confederate Veteran 1, no. 9 (September 1893): 267.

  Roberts, J. C. “Caring for the Wounded at Iuka.” Confederate Veteran 2, no. 10 (October 1894): 328.

  Rogers, William P. “The Diary and Letters of William P. Rogers.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 32, no. 4 (April 1929): 259–99.

  Rosecrans, William S. “The Battle of Corinth.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 2:737–56. New York, 1887.

  Sanborn, John B. Some Descriptions of the Battles in which the Commands of Gen. John B. Sanborn, of St. Paul, Minnesota, Participated. St. Paul, 1900.

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  Snead, Thomas L. “With Price East of the Mississippi.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 2:717–34. New York, 1887.

  Soper, E. B. “A Chapter from the History of Company D, Twelfth Iowa Infantry Volunteers.” In War Sketches and Incidents as Related by the Companions of the Iowa Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 2:129–42. Des Moines, 1898.

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  Von Phul, Frank. “General Little’s Burial.” Southern Historical Society Papers 29 (January–December 1901): 213–15.

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  AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, COLLECTED WORKS, DIARIES, LETTERS, MEMOIRS, AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES

  Abernathy, Byron R., ed. Private Elisha Stockwell, Jr., Sees the Civil War. Norman, Okla., 1956.

  Ambrose, Stephen E., ed. A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: The Selected Letters of James K. Newton. Madison, Wis., 1961.

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  Beatty, John. The Citizen Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer. Cincinnati, 1879.

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  Byers, Samuel H. M. With Fire and Sword. New York, 1911.

  Cater, Douglas John. As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry. Austin, 1911.

  Chetlain, Augustus. Recollections of Seventy Years. Galena, 111., 1899.

  Clark, Olynthus B., ed. Downing’s Civil War Diary by Sergeant Alexander G. Downing. Des Moines, 1916.

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  Goodloe, Albert T. Confederate Echoes. Nashville, 1907.

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  UNIT HISTORIES

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