The whole force of General Van Dorn was between five and six thousand, about one-half of which fought us, the balance holding the horses. They lost (as near as I can recollect) 135 killed, wounded, and prisoners, among the latter three officers wounded, one mortally. There were six of my men wounded through the port-holes, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Passing by in melancholy silence, the painful contrast which the subjoined order discloses, the General commanding the post of Bolivar has again to thank the defenders of Middleburg that a most determined and apparently overpowering effort of the enemy was defeated by their valor and fortitude. Headquarters Department of the Tennessee, Holly Springs, Mississippi, January [...]
{ 0 comments }
These regiments are entitled to inscribe upon their banners respectively Coldwater, Davis’s Mills, and Middleburg, with the names of other battle fields made victorious by their valor and discipline. It is gratifying to know that at every point where our troops made a stand during the late raid of the enemy’s cavalry, success followed, and [...]
{ 0 comments }
By command of BRIGADIER GENERAL M. BRAYMAN. John Peets, Acting Asst. Adj’t General. Embarking at Memphis on transports, the regiment arrived at Chickasaw Bayou, near Vicksburg, on the 3d of June, 1863. Disembarking at Sartalia, on the Yazoo river, the regiment marched to Mechanicsburg, skirmishing on the march with the rebel cavalry. From thence it [...]
{ 0 comments }
On the evening of the 29th it marched twelve miles, through mud knee deep, as guard for the wagon train of the army under General Steele. On the 30th it returned to Pine Bluffs, and proceeded by steamer on the following day to Little Rock. May 17th the regiment, in . command of Lieutenant Colonel [...]
{ 0 comments }
The regiment, then commanded by Major Phineas Graves, moved up the “White river on that day, but was ordered to return to the Bluffs, arriving there on the 2d of September. Proceeding again up the river on the 3d, the regiment, on the 4th, was fired into by guerrillas from the banks of the river, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Companies A, B, C, and F were detached on the 8th of July and moved to Camden, about sixty miles from Washington, arriving there on the 22d; on the 19th Company E was detached and marched to Arkadelphia, arriving at that place on the 22d, and on the 2. 1st Company D was detached and [...]
{ 0 comments }
The membership of the 12th was 2, 325, while its losses were 432, of which one officer, 23 men died of wounds, 28 men killed in action, three officers and 377 men died of disease. “Men whose glossy hair Grew gray on the edge of the grave, Who lie so humbly there, Because you were [...]
{ 0 comments }
