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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 140 (search)
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136.-capture of Island no.10.
General Pope's official detailed report.
headquarters army of the Mississippi, five miles from Corinth, Miss., April 30th, 1862.
General: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations which resulted in the capture of Island No.10, and the batteries on the main shore, together with the whole of the land-forces of the enemy in that vicinity.
A brief sketch of the topography of the immediate neighborhood seems essential to a full understanding of the operations of the army.
Island No.10 lies at the bottom of a great bend of the Mississippi, immediately north of it being a long, narrow promontory on the Missouri shore.
The river from Island No.10 flows north-west to New-Madrid, where it again makes a great bend to the south as far as Tiptonville, otherwise called Merriweather's Landing, so that opposite New-Madrid also is a long, narrow promontory.
From Island No.8, about four miles above Island No.10 the distance a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 153 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc 153 .-the Tennessee expedition. (search)
Doc. 153.-the Tennessee expedition.
Cincinnati Commercial account.
camp Shiloh, five miles from Pittsburgh Landing, April 30, 1862.
on Sunday morning, twenty-seventh instant, Gen. Grant ordered Gen. Wallace to make a demonstration in the neighborhood of Purdy, a town of about eight hundred inhabitants, twenty-two miles distant from our camp, deriving a small degree of importance from its ___location on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
It is about twenty miles from Corinth, on a direct railroad line.
It was not known when the expedition started what force the rebels had at the point, but it was supposed they had a pretty strong garrison there, and were prepared to repel such a cavalry dash as is ordinarily made for the destruction of railroad bridges.
Accordingly it was determined to send a large force, and to make the attack partake of the nature of a surprise.
Seven regiments of infantry, from Gen. Wallace's division, including the Seventy-eighth and Twentieth Ohio, two bat
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 158 (search)
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154.-fight at Bridgeport, Ala.
General Mitchel's despatch.
Huntsville, Ala., April 30, 1862. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
on yesterday, the enemy having cut our wires, and attacked during the night one of our brigades, I deemed it my duty to head in person an expedition against Bridgeport.
I started by a train of cars in the morning, followed by two aditional regiments of infantry, and two companies of cavalry.
I found that our pickets had engaged the enemy's