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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.67 (search)
the troops from that position with such morale and material as to be of further service to the Confederacy. This allegation was refuted by the courage, fortitude, and discipline displayed by that army in the long siege. The investment of the place was completed on the 19th; on the 20th Gist's brigade from Charleston, on the 21st Ector's and McNair's from Tennessee, and on the 23d Maxey's from Port Hudson joined Gregg's and Walker's near Canton. This force was further increased on the 3d of June by the arrival of Breckinridge's division and Jackson's (two thousand) cavalry from the Army of Tennessee, and Evans's brigade from Charleston. These troops, except the cavalry, having come by railroad, were not equipped for the service before them: that of rescuing the garrison of Vicksburg. They required artillery, draught horses and mules, wagons, ammunition, and provisions, all in large numbers and quantity; the more because it was necessary to include the Vicksburg troops in our est
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.69 (search)
In Halleck's instructions, dated November 9th, 1862, General Banks was authorized to assume control of any military forces from the Upper Mississippi which may come within your command. . . You will exercise superior authority as far as you may ascend the river. . . editors. Of course I could not comply with his request, nor did I think he needed them. He was in no danger of an attack by the garrison in his front, and there was no army organizing in his rear to raise the siege. On the 3d of June a brigade from Hurlbut's command arrived, General Nathan Kimball commanding. General Kimball was wounded at Fredericksburg, and on recovering was assigned to the command of a division in the West.--editors. It was sent to Mechanicsburg, some miles north-east of Haynes's Bluff, and about midway between the Big Black and the Yazoo. A brigade of Blair's division and twelve hundred cavalry had already, on Blair's return from up the Yazoo, been sent to the same place — with instructions to
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st-July 4th, 1863. (search)
. Third Brigade, Col. Geo. E. Bryant, Col. Amory K. Johnson: 28th Ill., Maj. Hinman Rhodes; 32d Ill., Col. John Logan, Lieut.-Col. Wm. Hunter; 12th Wis., Lieut.-Col. DeWitt C. Poole, Col. Geo. E. Bryant. Cavalry: F and I, 15th Ill., Maj. James G. Wilson. Artillery, Capt. Geo. C. Gumbart: E, 2d Ill., Lieut. Geo. L. Nispel; K, 2d Ill., Capt. Benj. F. Rodgers; 5th Ohio, Lieut. Anthony B. Burton; 7th Ohio, Capt. Silas A. Burnap; 15th Ohio, Capt. Edward Spear, Jr. Provisional division (joined June 3d), Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. Engelmann's Brigade, Col. Adolph Engelmann: 43d Ill., Lieut.-Col. Adolph Dengler; 61st Ill., Maj. Simon P. Ohr; 106th Ill., Maj. John M. Hunt; 12th Mich., Col. Wm. H. Graves. Richmond's Brigade, Col. Jonathan Richmond: 18th 111., Col. Daniel H. Brush; 54th Ill., Col. Greenville M. Mitchell; 126th Ill., Maj. Wm. W. Wilshire; 22d Ohio, Col. Oliver Wood. Montgomery's Brigade, Col. Milton Montgomery: 40th Iowa, Col. John A. Garrett; 3d Minn., Col. Chauncey W. Gri