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Second Corps—Army of the Mississippi and of Tennessee
was given command of the Second Corps of the Army of the Mississippi on its organization, March 29, 1862.
There were ten divisions, composed chiefly of
Alabama,
Mississippi, and
Louisiana troops.
In July,
Major-General Samuel Jones had command, and on August 15th, when
General Bragg resumed command of the whole army, his former corps passed to the control of
Major-General Hardee.
There was an aggregate present of about sixteen thousand men. On November 7th, the Left Wing, in an organization that had a short existence after August 15th, again became the Second (or
Hardee's) Corps.
In July, 1863,
Lieutenant-General Hardee was relieved by
Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, who commanded at
Chickamauga, and the later commanders were
Major-Generals J. C. Breckinridge,
T. C. Hindman,
Lieutenant-General J. B. Hood,
Major-General C. L. Stevenson and
Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee.
After 1864, the corps was known as
Hood's, or
Lee's Corps,
Hardee having assumed command of the other corps.
(U. S.M. A. 1838) was born in
Savannah, Georgia, October 10, 1815, and served in the
Seminole and
Mexican wars.
He resigned his commission of lieutenant-colonel in January, 1861, to join the Confederate forces, in which he was appointed a brigadier-general in June.
He was given command of
Fort Morgan,
Mobile Bay, in March, and later, as major-general, was transferred to the
Central Army of Kentucky, of which he had command from December, 1861, to February, 1862.
He was given the Second Corps in the Army of the Mississippi and led the advance at
Shiloh.
He took part with this army as corps or wing commander in
Bragg's invasion of
Kentucky, at
Stone's River, and at
Chattanooga, having been made lieutenant-general in October, 1862.
In the summer of 1863 he had charge of the defenses of
Mississippi and
Alabama.
He had temporary command of the Army of Tennessee after
Bragg was removed in December, 1863.
He had a corps during the
Atlanta campaign, and in October, 1864, he was placed in command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida.
He was unable to prevent the capture of
Savannah, and, in February, 1865, joined
Johnston, serving in the Army of Tennessee, at the head of a corps formed from the troops in his department, until its surrender.
After the war, he lived at
Selma, Alabama, and died at
Wytheville, Virginia, November 6, 1873.
（U. S.M. A. 1842) was born at
Hill's Iron Works,
York District, South Carolina, July 12, 1821.
He resigned from the army after the
Mexican War, in which he had received the brevet of major, and was engaged in teaching until he entered the Confederate army, in 1861.
As colonel of the First North Carolina Infantry, he showed marked talent at Big Bethel, June 10th, and was made brigadier-general the following month.
As
major-general, he had a division and later a command, or corps, in the Army of Northern Virginia, and fought through the
Peninsula campaign.
He was assigned to the Department of North Carolina in July, but fought with his division at
South Mountain, where he held the
Federal forces in check, and at
Antietam.
In July, 1863, he was made lieutenant-general, and replaced
Lieutenant-General Hardee in command of the Second Corps, Army of Tennessee, which he led at
Chickamauga, and of which he was relieved in November.
With the rank of major-general, he took command of a division in
Lee's Corps, Army of Tennessee, in March, 1865, and at the
battle of Bentonville he led the corps itself.
After the war, he became an editor, and from 1877 to 1884 was president of the
Arkansas Industrial University.
He died at
Charlotte, North Carolina, September 25, 1889.
(U. S.M. A. 1838) was born near
Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 21, 1817.
He was dismissed from the army in June, 1861, having entered the
Confederate service as lieutenant-colonel.
He did duty at
Cumberland Gap, from which lie drove
Brigadier-General G. W. Morgan away, and commanded a division in the Army of Tennessee.
He rose to the rank of major-general in October, 1862.
His division was with
Pemberton's forces in the
battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 26, 1862.
He fought at
Chickamauga and in the
Atlanta campaign onward with the Army of Tennessee, having on July, 1864, temporary command of
Hood's Corps, before the appointment of
Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee.
He also assumed command of
Lee's Corps, when the latter was wounded after the
battle of Nashville, until the army had crossed the
Tennessee.
He died August 15, 1888.
was born in
Tennessee, November, 1818.
He became a lawyer and served in Congress.
He fought in the
Mexican War, and in 1860 was a
