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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 Browse Search
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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
ry, Lieut. E. S. Walton—Sixth brigade, Col. Edmund W. Rucker: Eighth Mississippi, Col. William L. Deparations to meet him with Buford's division, Rucker's brigade, and Col. A. T. Johnson's brigade ologs and rails to hold his position. Lyon and Rucker fought mostly dismounted, holding back the Fede Federal wagon train by General Chalmers with Rucker's brigade, near Bartram's shop. He had possesd, and after Mabry and Bell had been repulsed, Rucker made an assault equally futile. The men behavere both the brigade commanders, McCulloch and Rucker, and Colonel Duff. Captain Middleton, a gallanned to command in Kentucky, and Mc-Culloch and Rucker wounded, he had but one experienced brigade cing with him parts of the brigades of Bell and Rucker, the latter now under Col. J. J. Neely. With . The Tennessee brigade formerly commanded by Rucker was in charge of Col. D. C. Kelly, and McCullon to watch General Hatch. With his escort and Rucker's brigade Forrest moved from Corinth on the 19
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
1862 Chalmers' command was a part of his force, performing its duties with courage and zeal. In the battle of Murfreesboro he and his men again rendered brilliant service. In April, 1863, General Chalmers was placed in command of the military district of Mississippi and East Louisiana. In 1864 he was assigned to the command of the cavalry brigades of Jeffrey Forrest and McCulloch, forming the First division of Forrest's cavalry. This division was subsequently enlarged by the addition of Rucker's brigade. General Chalmers bore a conspicuous part in the battle of Fort Pillow and in all the brilliant campaigns of Forrest in north Mississippi, west Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as in the Tennessee campaign of Hood. February 18, 1865, he was put in command of all the Mississippi cavalry in the Confederate service in Mississippi and west Tennessee. After the war General Chalmers was quite prominent in the politics of Mississippi. He was elected to the State Senate in 1875 and 1876