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Index
Adams, Col. Fleming W., 111
Adams, Henry Clay, 130
Adams, Pvt. W. W., 233
Adams, Col. Wirt, 119–20, 278, 280, 282
Adams’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 63, 131, 326, 328, 329
Alexander’s Crossroads, 150–51, 154–57* x59
Allen, Col. Benjamin, 327
Allen, Pvt. J. H., 95
Ambrose, Sgt. Leib, 173
Anderson, Ephraim, 214, 236, 277, 297
Andrews, Capt. Harman, 211
Appeal Battery, 328, 329
Armstrong, Brig. Gen. Frank, 46–57 passim, 62, 67, 78, 119–20, 131, 159, 278, 291–92, 326, 328
Army of Tennessee (C.S.), 11
Army of the Mississippi (U.S.), 35, 52, 317,325,326
Army of the Ohio (U.S.), 35, 314 Army of the Tennessee (U.S.), 28
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Army of the West (C.S.), 38, 42, 325
Army of West Tennessee (C.S.), 327
Army of West Tennessee (U.S.), 155,326, 328
Arnold, Pvt. T. B., 265
Atkinson, Capt. Tom, 169
Atlanta Southern Confederacy, 307
Babcock, Col. Andrew, 165, 172–73, 182
Baker, Col. James, 207
Baldwin, Col. Silas, 162, 181–82, 186, 221–22, 327
Baldwyn, Miss., 120, 132, 135
Bannon, John, 100, 118, 121
Barnett, Col. William, 233
Barnett’s Crossroads, 64, 68, 72, 74, 131
Barron, Pvt. Samuel, 58, 90, 98, 298
Bartholomew, Lt. William, 244
Bartilson, Lt. Col. Matthias, 106
Bassett, Sgt. Mark, 288
Baton Rouge, La., 45–46, 59
Battery B, Second Illinois Light Artillery, 268
Battery F, 155, 158, 181–83, 187–88, 192, 199, 215
Battery F, Second Illinois Light Artillery, 181–82, 327
Battery F, Second United States Artillery, 325, 326
Battery L, Second Illinois Light Artillery, 281, 287, 328
Battery Lathrop, 37
Battery Phillips, 37, 228, 271
Battery Powell, 146, 227, 228, 237, 240, 243–45, 249–50, 256–57, 269, 275
Battery Robinett, 37, 146, 194–95, 198, 209, 211, 213, 216, 224, 225, 232, 233, 234, 245, 253–63passim, 265, 275, 355 (n.27)
Battery Tanrath, 37, 228
Battery Williams, 37, 195, 198, 211, 225, 234, 253, 258, 266
Bay Springs, Miss., 53, 54, 132
Beauregard, Gen. Pierre G. T., 11, 23, 31306
Belknap, Col. William, 188–89, 192
Bell, Cpl. John, 197
Bethql, Tenn., 230, 231
Bevier, Lt. Col. Robert, 58, 114–15, 179, 229, 235, 237, 240, 243, 245, 249, 306
Bickham, William D., 312
Big Bear Creek, 125
Big Hill, 295
Big Muddy Creek, 280
Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery (C.S.), 131, 155,205,328,329,
Bodley, Pvt. Billy, 250
Bolivar, Tenn., 47–48, 61, 132, 136, 138, 279, 281, 304
Bolton, Capt. William H., 282
Boneyard road, 142, 279, 291, 297, 299
Boomer, Col. George, 79–80, 82, 93, 110
Bowen, Brig. Gen. John, 142–43, 161, 174, 192–93, 215, 223, 230, 272–73, 295, 308, 328
Boyd, Cyrus, 65, 134, 189, 192, 299, 337 (n.31)
Bradley, Cpl. James, 212
Bragg, Gen. Braxton, 6, 23, 38, 40–46, 50, 52, 309, 317–18, 322
Breckinridge, Maj. Gen. John C., 45, 46
Brown, Sgt. Alonzo, 109, 113, 123
Brown, Capt. Charles E., 233, 234
Brown, Capt. De Witt, 93–95
Bruner, Lt. John, 243
Bryner, Clyde, 211
Buell, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos, 14, 31, 35, 41,47, 309, 317–18
Buford, Brig. Gen. Napoleon B., 153, 217–18, 326
Burnet, Col. William, 233–34, 286
Burnsville, Miss., 56, 62–63, 127, 136
Burnsville road, 62, 64
Burr’s Branch, 283
Busby house, 149–50
Byers, Pvt. Samuel H. M., 70, 93, 222- 23, 250–51
Cabell, Brig. Gen William, 160, 213, 237, 240, 245, 256–57, 289, 292, 328, 329
Campbell, Archibald, 117, 130, 133, 221
Campbell, Maj. Charles, 283
Camp Big Spring, 152
Camp Clear Creek, 33, 53
Camp Montgomery, 152
Cane Creek, 156–57, 160, 161, 293, 295
Cartersville, Miss., 71
Caruthers' Mississippi Battalion, 150, 169, 328
Castel, Albert, 100, 332 (n.3)
Casualties: from friendly fire, 91, 108- 9, 112–14; at Iuka, 98, 133; first, at Corinth, 149; from heat, 160, 165–66, 181–82, 186, 196, 282, 293; importance of first volley to, 189; at Corinth and Davis Bridge, 305–6
Cellum, Sgt. T. J., 100
Chamberlin, Capt. W. H., 158, 164, 178
Chambers, Col. Alexander, 91
Chattanooga, Tenn., 40–41, 47, 317
Chattanooga Rebel, 323
Chetlain, Col. Augustus, 164, 176, 178, 207, 274, 275
Chewalla, Tenn., 142, 146–47, 155, 294, 296, 298, 299
Chewalla road, 142, 146, 149–50, 156- 57, 161–62, 165, 170, 173, 179–81, 183, 194, 273, 276, 293, 348 (n.2)
Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 311
Clark, Temple, 252
Clark Missouri Battery (C.S.), 79, 82, 85, 88, 325, 327
Clausewitz, Karl von, 318
Cockrell, Col. Francis M., 241, 244
Colbert, Col. W. Bruce, 237, 240, 244, 250 327
College Hill, 145–46, 152, 224, 272
Columbus road, 162–63, 165, 180–81, 194, 203, 276
Colwell, Charles, 180, 196–97, 222, 233–34
Coman house, 118, 121
Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry, 328
Companies A, B, C, D, H, and I (Siege Artillery), First U.S. Infantry, 326
Companies A, B, C, and E, Eighteenth Missouri Infantry (U.S.), 327
Companies B and E, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, 325
Company C, Fifth Missouri Cavalry (U.S.), 326
Company F, Twenty-fourth Missouri Infantry (U.S.), 325, 326
Conant, Lt. John, 179
Corinth, Miss., 16,17, 47, 61, 132, 136, 139> 151–152, 154, 197, 213–15, 276, 291, 298, 309, 311, 318; strategic importance of, 17, 19, 31–32, 67; description of, 19, 22; unhealthy climate of, 32–33; Federal fortifications around, 37, 145–46, 155, 159, 224, 237, 259, 278; old Confederate entrenchments around, 152, 154, 159, 160, 162, 164, 165, 167–68, 179, 198;
Confederates overrun, 251, 257, 269; significance of Battle of, 315–17
Corinth House, 222
Corona Female College, 22, 37, 186, 213, 225, 228, 271
Coulter, Lt. Col. John, 196
Crippled Deer Creek, 131
Crocker, Col. Marcellus, 61–62, 152, 155, 186–88, 192, 327
Crum’s Bridge, 279, 291–92, 299
Crum’s Mill, 142, 279, 296–97
Cummins, Capt. Edward, 306
Curtis, Pvt. Erastus, 164, 176
Curtis, Brig. Gen. Samuel, 143
Curtis farm, 76
Cutler, Lt. George W., 168
Cutter, Sgt. H. D., 74
Daily Richmond Whig, 24
Dantzler, Capt. Absalom, 102
Danville, Miss., 52, 152, 154, 242
Darkness: as combat factor, 99
Davenport’s Mill, 68
Davies, Brig. Gen. Thomas A., 64, 145, 152–55, 158, 160, 162–66, 180–81, 194–209 passim, 220–22, 224, 227, 228, 240–42, 276, 294–95, 319, 326
Davis, Jefferson, 138, 254, 307, 309; contempt of, for Price, 4–5, 23–26; military policy of, toward Western Theater, 6, 7, 23, 42, 59–60, 307, 310; esteem of, for Van Dorn, 6–7
Davis Bridge, 141–42, 147, 231, 276–89 passim, 291, 292, 299
Davis House, 142–43, 283
Dawson’s St. Louis Artillery, 86, 283–84,325,327,329
Dean, John, 97–98
Denmark, Tenn., 48
Department Number One (C.S.), 24
Department Number Two (C.S.), 7, 42
Department of East Tennessee (C.S.), 40–41
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (C.S.), 307
Department of Missouri (U.S.), 14
Department of the Ohio (U.S.), 14, 28
Desertion, 38, 53, 63, 286, 299, 310
De Woody, Samuel, 124
Dick, Franklin, 144
Dickey, Col. Theophilus, 72–73, 126, 128
Dillon, Capt. Henry, 244
Disease and illnesses, 19, 22, 32–33, 52, 58, 211–12, 235, 298, 310
Dismal Swamp, 19, 22
District of the Mississippi (C.S.), 42, 328
District of the Tennessee (C.S.), 42
Dodge, Brig. Gen. Grenville, 315
Doran, Col. John, 181, 183
Downing, Sgt. Alexander, 130
Drunkenness. See Liquor
Du Bois, Col. John, 129, 198, 200, 228, 268, 327
Ducat, Col. Arthur, 128, 164, 199, 201, 216–17, 223, 293, 301, 310, 316
Dugan, James, 283
Duncan, Thomas, 258
Dunlap, Sam, 219
Eastport, Tenn., 52
Eastport and Fulton Stage Route, 55
East Tennessee, 32, 42
Eddy, Col. Norman, 81, 85, 90
Eighteenth Arkansas Infantry, 257, 328, 329
Eighteenth Wisconsin Infantry, 146–47, 156, 327
Eighth Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, 325, 326
Eighth Iowa Infantry, 327
Eighth Wisconsin Infantry, 111, 209- 12, 325, 326
Eightieth Ohio Infantry, 103–4, Io6> 113,227, 244,325
Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, 158, 164, 173, 176, 196–97, 242, 327
Elam Creek, 241, 267
Eleventh Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, 80, 85, 88, 91–108 passim, 122–23, 227, 250, 325, 326
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, 326
Eleventh Iowa Infantry, 187–88, 327
Eleventh Missouri Infantry (U.S.), 110–12, 208–11, 225, 256, 261, 264–66, 325, 326
Erwin, Col. Eugene, 206
Faris, Lt. James, 79
Farmington, Tenn., 230
Farrington, Lt. Samuel, 176
Fauntleroy, James, 179, 248
Fay, Edwin, 277 Fayetteville Observer, 324
Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry, 172, 183, 267, 328, 329
Fifteenth Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, 328
Fifteenth Illinois Infantry, 284, 287, 328
Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, 187–89, 192, 327
Fifteenth Michigan Infantry, 146–47, 149, 156, 161–62, 165, 170, 181, 183, 327
Fifteenth Mississippi Infantry, 295, 328
Fifth Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, 327
Fifth Iowa Infantry, 75, 80, 86, 92–93, 95, 106, 250, 325, 326
Fifth Minnesota Infantry, 225, 269, 326
Fifth Missouri Infantry (C.S.), 114–15, 243, 245, 327
Fifth Ohio Cavalry, 328
Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, 164, 166,182, 186, 252, 267, 327
Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry, 327
Fifty-ninth Indiana Infantry, 244
Fifty-second Illinois Infantry, 165, 195, 209, 210, 243, 245, 249, 327
Fifty-seventh Illinois Infantry, 165, 167, 182, 245, 327
Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, 227, 248- 49, 257, 326
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