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SIEGE OP OORINTH.
zens on account of their conduct, but no serious difficulty occurred. The next morning about one hundred changed their mind, went aboard the cars, and left for Chicago. The entire regiment was soon persuaded that no wrong was intended them, and that they would doubtless very soon receive their pay, and on the 28rd of March the last division left Madison. Upon reaching St. Louis they went to Benton Barracks for further drill and instruction, and on the 10th of April were ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, which they reached on the 14th, and went into camp. The regiment suffered very severely from sickness during the spring and early part of the summer, a very large number, indeed, being on the sick list.
SIEGE OF CORINTH.
Notwithstanding Beauregard's claim of a victory at Pitts¬ burg Landing, he and his army ran away fromisthat place to Corinth as fast as they could. They lined the roads where they went with wagons, ambulances, and accoutrements, and in many places felled heavy trees across the way, and de¬ stroyed all the bridges. If this does not prove that they lost the battle, it shows that they were in great haste to be at Corinth, and that they were afraid of being too soon followed by the Federals. The next day after the close of the battle, April 8th, General Sherman took two brigades and a cavalry force, and pursued the fleeing enemy on a reconnoissance; but finding the roads bad and badly obstructed, and knowing that the. Confederates could reach Corinth (at the rate of travel they had adopted) before he could reach them, he returned at night of the same day and rej)orted. The day following, the 9th, General Halleck left St. Louis to take command of the army in person. Before his arrival General Sherman, under orders from General Grant, had led an expedition up the Ten¬ nessee, accompanied hy gunboats, and destroyed the bridge over Big Bear Creek, at Eastport, thus severing the connection between Corinth and Richmond.
After the reduction of Island Number Ten, Commodore Foote with his gunboats, and General Pope with 20,000 troops on transports, sailed down the Mississippi to the vicinity of
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| Title | Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 1 |
| Source Title | William De Loss Love's Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 1 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Author/Creator | Love, William De Loss, 1819-1898 |
| Description | William D. Love (1819-1898) was a Congregational clergyman, abolitionist, and author who grew up in New York and graduated from Yale in 1847. He moved to Milwaukee in 1858 and during the war collected a large number of letters, questionnaires and other papers on which he based this 1866 book, Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion. The book totals more than 1,100 pages and has been artificially divided in half here to facilitate online use. It is rather haphazardly arranged, and users will benefit from searching by keyword. |
| Source Type | history |
| Place of Publication | Chicago; New York |
| Source Creation Date | 1866 |
| Source Publisher | Church and Goodman ; Sheldon & Co. |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN031010000 |
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| Title | 495 |
| Source Title | William De Loss Love's Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 1 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Year | 1862 |
| State | MS |
| Place | Corinth |
| Battle | Corinth, Siege of |
| Author/Creator | Love, William De Loss, 1819-1898 |
| Source Type | history |
| Place of Publication | Chicago; New York |
| Source Creation Date | 1866 |
| Source Publisher | Church and Goodman ; Sheldon & Co. |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2010 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2010 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Full text | SIEGE OP OORINTH. zens on account of their conduct, but no serious difficulty occurred. The next morning about one hundred changed their mind, went aboard the cars, and left for Chicago. The entire regiment was soon persuaded that no wrong was intended them, and that they would doubtless very soon receive their pay, and on the 28rd of March the last division left Madison. Upon reaching St. Louis they went to Benton Barracks for further drill and instruction, and on the 10th of April were ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, which they reached on the 14th, and went into camp. The regiment suffered very severely from sickness during the spring and early part of the summer, a very large number, indeed, being on the sick list. SIEGE OF CORINTH. Notwithstanding Beauregard's claim of a victory at Pitts¬ burg Landing, he and his army ran away fromisthat place to Corinth as fast as they could. They lined the roads where they went with wagons, ambulances, and accoutrements, and in many places felled heavy trees across the way, and de¬ stroyed all the bridges. If this does not prove that they lost the battle, it shows that they were in great haste to be at Corinth, and that they were afraid of being too soon followed by the Federals. The next day after the close of the battle, April 8th, General Sherman took two brigades and a cavalry force, and pursued the fleeing enemy on a reconnoissance; but finding the roads bad and badly obstructed, and knowing that the. Confederates could reach Corinth (at the rate of travel they had adopted) before he could reach them, he returned at night of the same day and rej)orted. The day following, the 9th, General Halleck left St. Louis to take command of the army in person. Before his arrival General Sherman, under orders from General Grant, had led an expedition up the Ten¬ nessee, accompanied hy gunboats, and destroyed the bridge over Big Bear Creek, at Eastport, thus severing the connection between Corinth and Richmond. After the reduction of Island Number Ten, Commodore Foote with his gunboats, and General Pope with 20,000 troops on transports, sailed down the Mississippi to the vicinity of |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN031010509 |