GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE REGULAR ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. Officers not thus * designated are graduates of the Military Academy. VOLUNTEER SERVICE.-GENERAL OFFICERS APPOINTED UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS, DEC., 1562. Ethan A. Hitchcock, Ulysses S. Grant, Irvin McDowell, Ambrose E. Burnside, William S. Roseraus, Don Carlos Buell, John Pope, Saumel R. Cartis, Franz Sigel, John A. MeClermand,* Lewis Wallace,* George H. Thomas, George Cadwalader, Wiliam T. Sherman, Edward O. C. Ord, Sam. P. Hetzelnian, Erasmus D. Keyes, Joseph Hooker, Silas Casey, Wiliam B. Franklin, Darius N. Coach, Henry W. Slocum, John J. Peck, John Sedgwick, Alex. MeD. McCook, Thom. L. Crittenden,* John G. Fister, John G. Parke, Christopher C. Augur, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Gordon Granger, Charles S. Hamilton, Lovell H. Russeau, James B. M-Pherson, Benjamin M. Prentiss,* George Stoneman, George G. Mende, Oliver O. Howard, Daniel E. Sickles, Robert H. Milroy, Daniel Butterfield, Winfield S. Hancock, George Sykes, William H. French, David S. Stanley, James S. Negley, John M. Palmer, Frederick Steele, Abner Double lay, Napoleon J. T. Dana, Richard J. Oglesby,* John A. Logan, James G. Bunt," George L. Hart3uff, Cadw. C. Washburne,* Francis J. Herron,* Frank P. Blair,* Joseph J. Reynolds, Philip H. Sheridan, 1863. Julins II. Stahel,* Carl Schurz,* John Newton, 10 Feb. Vt. IMO. 16 Feb. Ohio. Ill. 14 Mar. Ohio. Ohio. 18 Mar. Ind. R. I. 21 Mar. Ohio, Ohio. 21 Mar Ohio. Ind. 21 Mar. Ky. Iil. 91 Mar N. Y. Iowa. 21 Mar. Germ. Mo. 21 Mar Ky. 11. 21 Mas Ind. 'lad. 25 Apr.Va. 25 Apr. Pa. 1 MayOhio. 2 May. Md. 5 May. Pa. 5 May. Mass. Me. 5 May. Mass. Cal. 31 May R. I. R.I. 4 July. Pa. Pa. 4 July N. Y. Mass. 4 July. N. Y. N. Y. 4 July. N. Y. N. Y. Va. Pa. Ohio, D. C. Pa. 4 July. Conn. Conn. 17 July.Ohio. Ohio. 17 July. Ky. Ky. 18 July N. H. N. II. 15 July. Pa. Pa. 9 Aug. N. Y. Mich. 17 Sept. S. C. II. 11 Sept. N. Y. N. Y. 19 Sept. N. Y. Wis. 80-t. Ky. Ky. 8 Ost. Ohio, Ohio. 29 Nov.Va. Iil. 29 Nov. N. Y. N. Y. 2) Nov. Spain. D. C. 29 Nov. Me. Me. 23 Nov. N. Y. N. Y. 19 Nov. Ind. Ind. 29 Nov. N. Y. N. Y. 20 Nov. Pa. Pa. 29 Nov. Md. Md. 23 Nov. Md. D. C. 23 Nov.JOhio. Ohio. 29 Nov. Pa. Pa. 29 Nov. Ky.. 29 Nov. N. Y. N. Y. 23 Nov. N. Y. N. Y. 29 Nov. Me. Minn. 19 Nov. Ky. 23 Nov.. 23 Nov. Me. 29 Nov. N. Y 29 Nov. Me. 29 Nov. Pa. 29 Nov. Ky. 29 Nov. Ky III. Kansas. Mich, Wis. Iowa. Mo. 31 Dec. Mass. Ohio. 14 Mar. Hung. N. Y. 14 Mar. Germ. Wis. 30 Mar. Va. Va. BRIG, GENERALS-continued. 1861. Henry H. Lockwood, Thomas J. McKean, Lewis G. Arnold, 3 Feb. Irel'd. N. Y. 4 Feb. Pa. Pa. 4 Mar. N. C. fenn. 5 Mar. Tenn. Tenn. 7 Mar. N. Y. N. Y. 7 Mar. N. Y. N. Y. 13 Mar. Conn, Conn. 17 Mar. Md. 17 Mar. Pa. Pu. 17 Mar. N. Y. N. Y. 17 Mar. Conn, Conn. 19 Mar. N. H. N. H. 21 Mar. Md. V. Y. 21 Mar. Ill, 111. 21 Mar. Se t.. 21 Mar. Md. I wa. 21 Mar. N. J. Miun.. 21 Mar Ky, BRIG.-GENERALS-continued. 1862. Henry Prince, Romeyn B. Ayres, David M-M. Gregg, 9 Jene. Pruss., M. 9 June. Kr. Ky. 11 June. PA. F 11 June. Me. 16 Jely, Vt. 16 Joly, D. C D. C. 16 July Va. Hi 16 Julye Masa ¦ wa 16 July N. Y. MA 16 July. Ind. Ind. 16 Jely Pass. W ́s. 17 July. Ross. (!!). 17 July. Mass. Mass. 17 July 17 July. Presa, jeda 17 July, Conn. Mab 17 July, Orio. Pas 18 July. Me. MA 22 Aug. MdI. Md. 25 Aug. Ohio. c. T. 29 Aug. Ohio, Jis 7 Set Ofix, liking 7 Sept. N. Y. N. Y. 7 Sept. Pa. Pa. 7 Sejt N. J. N. J. 13 Sept. Maas. N. Y. 15 Sejt abie ... 19 S N. Y. N. Y. 24 Sept. N. Y. TO 14 Sept. Mass. Vie. 15 SD. C. D. C. $6 S. Pa. Pa 26 Set N. Y. V. Y. 24 Sept. N. Y. N. Y. 29 St. Pa .3. 29 Sept. Mich., Minn. 10. N. Y. V. Y. 40. N. Y. V. Y. 60.t N. C. ind. 11 Ot. N. Y. V Y. Andrew A. Humphreys.. Joseph B. Carr..... Henry H. Sibley. Joshua T. Owens.. Major-General, Date. A. L. Chetlaint. Brigadier-General, April 11 C. G. Harkert. 66 Sept. 7 66 Oct. 4 Adelbert Ames. May 20 Wiliam Birney May 22 Daniel H. Rucker. 66 May 28 Robert Allen.. May 23 Bufus Ingalls. May 23 Gustavus A. DeRussy.. May 23 Alexander Shaler.. 66 May 26 Edmund Kirby. May 28 Benjamin H. Grierson. June 3 Stephen H. Weed*. June 6 Robert S. Foster.. Judson Kilpatrick. Alexander S. Webb. Alfred N. Duffie.. Walter C. Whitaker.. George A. Custer.. E. J. Farnsworth* Strong Vincent*. JC. Starkweather.. William D. Whipple.. July 3 July 17 Kenner Garrard.. July 17 July 23 Charles A. Woods... Aug. 4 Jha B. Sanborn.. Aug. 4 Gles Smith.. Samael A. Rice Master A. Maltby. Altander Chambers. emas K. Smith.. Aug. 11 Aug. 11 John M. Corse... Meaning M. Force...... Robert A. Cameron... ..... VOL. III.-3 06 Aug. 11 Aug. 11 CASUALTIES IN THE VOLUNTEER FORCE. Major-General Edwin V. Sumner, at Syracuse, N. Y., March 21, 1863. Major-General John F. Reynolds, killed on the first day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Major General Hiram G. Berry, died of wounds received at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Major-General John Buford, Dec. 16, 1863. Brigadier-General Edward N. Kirk, January, 1863, of wounds received at the battle of Murfreesboro'. Brigadier-General James Cooper, at Camp Chase, Ohio, March 28, 1863. Brigadier-General Joseph B. Plummer, at Corinth, Miss., May 4, 1863. Brigadier-General Amiel W. Whipple, May 5, 1863, of wounds received at the battle of Chancellorsville. Brigadier-General Edmund Kirby, at Washington, June 1, 1863, of wounds received at the battle of Chancellorsville. Brigadier-General Stephen H. Weed, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Brigadier-General Samuel Kosciusko Zook, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Brigadier-General Elon J. Farnsworth, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Brigadier-General George C. Strong, July 30, 1863, of wounds received at the storming of Fort Wagner, Charleston harbor. Brigadier-General Benjamin Welch, Jr., at Cincinnati, Aug. 14, 1863. Brigadier-General William Haines Lytle, killed at the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863. Brigadier-Gen'l Wm. P. Sauders, at Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1863, of wounds received at Campbell's Station. Brigadier-General Michael Corcoran, Dec. 22, 1863. A ARMY OPERATIONS. Near the close of the year 1862, the battles at Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro were fought. The latter was not ended until the 3d of January, 1863. The armies engaged in these conflicts then ceased active operations. No other important military movement of the Federal or Confederate forces was in progress at that time except that under General Grant against Vicksburg, and the concentration of a force under Gen. Banks at New Orleans. The campaign against Vicksburg really commenced about the 28th of November. At that time, the forces of Gen. Grant were at Lagrange, three miles east of Grand Junetion, on the Cairo and New Orleans railroad, with garrisons at Columbus, Humboldt, Trenton, and Jackson, in Tennessee, and Bolivar and Corinth in Mississippi. These forces were designated as the Army of West Tennessee. The Confederate forces were at Coldwater and Holly Springs, about twenty miles distant. The plan of Gen. Grant was-that Gen. Sherman should take command of the forces at Memphis in Tennessee, and Helena in Arkansas, and descend the river on transports with the gunboat fleet, and make an attack on Vicksburg by the 29th of December, and that Gen. McClernand should take the forces at Cairo and move down to Vicksburg, thus reenforcing Gen. Sherman soon after his attack on the town. Meanwhile Gen. Grant was to advance rapidly upon the Confederate troops in Mississippi north and east of Vicksburg, which formed the main body of their army, and keep them fully employed, and, if they retreated to Vicksburg, arrive there with them, ready to cooperate with Gen. Sherman. Large reënforcements and supplies were received, and the advance of Gen. Hamilton's corps, on the 28th of November, began to move in the direction of Holly Springs, which was reached on the 29th. By the 1st of December, Gen. Grant's forces had arrived, and were chiefly encamped at Lumpkin's Mills, south of Holly Springs, and seven miles north of the Tallahatchie river. The Confederate force, now under the command of Gen. Pemberton, retired to that river, and finally fell back beyond Granada. Meanwhile Gen. Grant advanced to Oxford, and on the 20th of December an attack was suddenly made in his rear, by a Confederate force under Gen. Van Dorn, on the garrison under Col. Murphy at Holly Springs, which surrendered. The prisoners were paroled, and the supplies collected there for Gen. Grant's army were destroyed; also a large quantity of cotton which had been purchased of the people in the vicinity. This surrender of Holly Springs is thus noted in the orders of Gen. Grant: HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, DEPART- * It is with pain and mortification that the General commanding reflects upon the disgraceful surrender of this place, with all the valuable stores it contained, on the 20th inst., and that without any resistance, except by a few men, who form an honorable exception; and this, too, after warning had been given of the advance of the enemy northward the evening previous. With all the cotton, public stores, and substantial buildings about the depot, it would have been perfectly prac ticable to have made in a few hours defences sufficient brought against them, until the reenforcements, which to resist, with a small garrison, all the cavalry force the commanding officer was notified were marching to his relief, could have reached him. by The conduct of officers and men in accepting paroles, under the circumstances, is highly reprehensible, and, to say the least, thoughtless. By the terms of the Dix Hill cartel, each party is bound to take care of their prisoners, and to send them to Vicksburg, Miss., er a point on James river, Va., for exchange or parole, unless some other point is mutually agreed upon the generals commanding the opposing armies. By a refusal to be paroled, the eneray, from his inability to take care of the prisoners, would have been com pelled either to have released them unconditionally, or to have abandoned all further aggressive movetheir recapture and the discomfiture of the enemy ments for the time being, which would have made almost certain. It is gratifying to notice, in contrast with this, the conduct of a portion of the command, conspeuous among whom was the Second Illinois cavalry, who gallantly and successfully resisted being taken prisoners. Their loss was heavy, but the enemy's was much greater. Such conduct as theirs will always insure success. Had the commandant of the post exercised the usual and ordinary precautions for defence, the gar enemy, saved our stores from destruction and them rison was sufficiently strong to have repulsed the selves from capture. The General commanding is satisfied that a majority lessly, and from want of knowledge of the cartel referred of the troops who accepted a parole did so thoughtto, and that in future they will not be caught in the same way. By order of Major-General U. S. GRANT. JNO. A. RAWLINS, Assist. Adjutant-General. The post was under the command of Col. Murphy, who was surprised and captured with all his force except a small body of cavalry, The enemy estimated the stores destroyed as follows: "1,809,000 fixed cartridges and other ordnance stores, valued at $1,500,000, including 5,000 rifles and 2,000 revolvers; 100,000 suits of clothing and other quartermaster's stores, valued at $500,000; 5,000 barrels of flour and other commissary stores, valued at $500,000; $1,000,000 worth of medical stores, for which invoices to that amount were exhibited, and 1,000 bales of cotton and $600,00) worth of sutlers' stores." On the same day an attack was made at Davis's Mills, a little further north, which was bravely repulsed. Near Jackson, Tennessee, an attack was made by a body of cavalry under Col. Forrest on the 19th. The telegraph wire was cut and the railroad destroyed. On the next day Humboldt was captured and an attack made on Trenton. Other stations on the railroad, as Dyer's, Rutherford, and Keaton, were taken on the same day. The purpose appeared to be to destroy every railroad bridge from Columbus to Corinth, and thus cut off the communications and supplies of Gen. Grant. The consequence of these movements was to make Gen. Grant fall back upon Holly Springs. Arkansas Mammoth TUCK 13 Trenton Humboldt MEMPHIS Ticksbur TI Natchez Red MISSISSIPPI 19 Jackson 12 Lov L ENNESS 17 Bolivar 19 12 GRAND JUNC. Lamar ¡Mem. 13 Holly Sps Malones! 17 Oxford 12 Springdale MIS &15S SIPPI 19 10 15 West's 15 14 Canton 23 Vaughan's JACKSON 16 Terry Bahala 21 Summit Decat & Chart UL F rendezvous. On the next day he was joined by Admiral Porter, in his flagship, with the gunboats Marmora, Capt. Getty, and Conestoga, Capt. Selfridge, to act as a convoy. The main body of the naval force was at the mouth of Yazoo river. On the same evening the troops at Helena, making another division, embarked in transports, and came to Friar's Point. The arrangements were completed by the military and naval commanders during the next forenoon, the 22d, and the fleet got under way, and moved down just below the mouth of White river, where it came to, at sunset. On the next day it descended to Gaines's Landing, and at two P. M. came to anchor, to await the arrival of those transports in the rear, and also a division of troops from Memphis. Half of the town of Gaines's Landing was destroyed by fire while the army was there. Similar destruction had also been made at Friar's Point. These acts led to stringent measures on the part of Gen. Sher man. On the night of the 24th and the morning of the 25th, the fleet arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo river. The fleet consisted of more than sixty transports, with a number of ironclad and other gunboats, and several mortar boats. The Yazoo is a deep, narrow, and sluggish stream, formed by the Tallahatchie and Yallobusha rivers, which unite in Carroll county, Mississippi. It runs through an alluvial plain of extreme fertility, about 290 miles, and empties into the Mississippi river twelve miles above Vicksburg. By this time Gen. Grant's communications in his rear had been cut off, and he had been compelled to fall back. The confederate forces in his rear retired toward Vicksburg, where they had already begun to concentrate, both from the east and the west, although these facts were unknown to Gen. Sherman. It was supposed by the Federal forces that they would now receive the coöperation of Gen. Banks and Admiral Farragut. The former had left New York, near the close of the year, with a considerable military force, for New Orleans, where the latter commanded the naval forces. On the 26th, the expedition, under convoy of the gunboats, moved up the Yazoo, and the troops were landed at various points from the junction of Old River with the Yazoo to Johnson's Farm, a distance of about three miles, without opposition. The distance from Vicksburg was about eight miles. A strong position, known as Haines's Bluff, some distance above on the river, was held by the Confederate forces, and in the mean while attacked by the gunboats De Kalb, Cincinnati, Louisville, BenMEXIC ton, and Lexington. It was the plan of Gen. Sherman to attack Vicksburg in the rear. For this purpose he was engaged, on the 28th, in getting his forces into position. NEW ORLEANS eston OF Meanwhile Gen. William T. Sherman, who had been stationed at Memphis, embarked with one division on the 20th of December, and dropped down to Friar's Point, the place of The bluffs on which Vicksburg is built take their rise a little below the city, and extend in a direction north of northeast to the Yazoɔ ARMY OPERATIONS. Near the close of the year 1862, the battles at Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro were fought. The latter was not ended until the 3d of January, 1863. The armies engaged in these conflicts then ceased active operations. No other important military movement of the Federal or Confederate forces was in progress at that time except that under General Grant against Vicksburg, and the concentration of a force under Gen. Banks at New Orleans. The campaign against Vicksburg really commenced about the 28th of November. At that time, the forces of Gen. Grant were at Lagrange, three miles east of Grand Junetion, on the Cairo and New Orleans railroad, with garrisons at Columbus, Humboldt, Trenton, and Jackson, in Tennessee, and Bolivar and Corinth in Mississippi. These forces were designated as the Army of West Tennessee. The Confederate forces were at Coldwater and Holly Springs, about twenty miles distant. The plan of Gen. Grant was-that Gen. Sherman should take command of the forces at Memphis in Tennessee, and Helena in Arkansas, and descend the river on transports with the gunboat fleet, and make an attack on Vicksburg by the 29th of December, and that Gen. McClernand should take the forces at Cairo and move down to Vicksburg, thus reenforcing Gen. Sherman soon after his attack on the town. Meanwhile Gen. Grant was to advance rapidly upon the Confederate troops in Mississippi north and east of Vicksburg, which formed the main body of their army, and keep them fully employed, and, if they retreated to Vicksburg, arrive there with them, ready to cooperate with Gen. Sherman. Large reenforcements and supplies were received, and the advance of Gen. Hamilton's corps, on the 28th of November, began to move in the direction of Holly Springs, which was reached on the 29th. By the 1st of December, Gen. Grant's forces had arrived, and were chiefly encamped at Lumpkin's Mills, south of Holly Springs, and seven miles north of the Tallahatchie river. The Confederate force, now under the command of Gen. Pemberton, retired to that river, and finally fell back beyond Granada. Meanwhile Gen. Grant advanced to Oxford, and on the 20th of December an attack was suddenly made in his rear, by a Confederate force under Gen. Van Dorn, on the garrison under Col. Murphy at Holly Springs, which surrendered. The prisoners were paroled, and the supplies collected there for Gen. Grant's army were destroyed; also a large quantity of cotton which had been purchased of the people in the vicinity. This surrender of Holly Springs is thus noted in the orders of Gen. Grant: HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, DEPART- the 20th inst., and that without any resistance, except this, too, after warning had been given of the advance by a few men, who form an honorable exception; and of the enemy northward the evening previous. With all the cotton, public stores, and substantial buildings about the depot, it would have been perfectly prac ticable to have made in a few hours defences sufficient brought against them, until the reenforcements, which to resist, with a small garrison, all the cavalry force the commanding officer was notified were marching to his relief, could have reached him. The conduct of officers and men in accepting paroles, under the circumstances, is highly reprehensible, and, to say the least, thoughtless. By the terms of the Dix Hill cartel, each party is bound to take care of their prisoners, and to send them to Vicksburg, Miss., or a point on James river, Va., for exchange or parole, unless some other point is mutually agreed upon by the generals commanding the opposing armies. By a refusal to be paroled, the encray, from his inability to take care of the prisoners, would have been com pelled either to have released them unconditionally, or to have abandoned all further aggressive movements for the time being, which would have made their recapture and the discomfiture of the enemy almost certain. It is gratifying to notice, in contrast with this, the conduct of a portion of the command, conspicuous among whom was the Second Illinois cavalry, prisoners. Their loss was heavy, but the enemy's was who gallantly and successfully resisted being taken much greater. Such conduct as theirs will always insure success. Had the commandant of the post exercised the usual and ordinary precautions for defence, the gar rison was sufficiently strong to have repulsed the enemy, saved our stores from destruction and them selves from capture. The General commanding is satisfied that a majority of the troops who accepted a parole did so thoughtlessly, and from want of knowledge of the cartel referred to, and that in future they will not be caught in the same way. By order of Major-General U. S. GRANT. JNO. A. RAWLINS, Assist. Adjutant-General. The post was under the command of Col. Murphy, who was surprised and captured with all his force except a small body of cavalry. The enemy estimated the stores destroyed as follows: "1,809,000 fixed cartridges and other ordnance stores, valued at $1,500,000, including 5,000 rifles and 2,000 revolvers; 100,000 suits of clothing and other quartermaster's stores, valued at $500,000; 5,000 barrels of flour and other commissary stores, valued at $500,000; $1,000,000 worth of medical stores, for which invoices to that amount were exhibited, and 1,000 bales of cotton and $600,000 worth of sutlers' stores." On the same day an attack was made at Davis's Mills, a little further north, which was bravely repulsed. Near Jackson, Tennessee, an attack was made by a body of cavalry under Col. Forrest on the 19th. The telegraph wire was cut and the railroad destroyed. On the next day Humboldt was captured and an attack made on Trenton. Other stations on the railroad, as Dyer's, Rutherford, and Keaton, were taken on the same day. The purpose appeared to be to destroy every railroad bridge from Columbus to Corinth, and thus cut off the communications and supplies of Gen. Grant. The consequence of these movements was to make Gen. Grant fall back upon Holly Springs. |