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First Lieutenants-E. B. Mosley, James M. Ray, S. W. Rye.
Second Lieutenants-B. F. Johnson, Robert Crenshaw, John Hill.
Third Lieutenants-S. W. Rye, John Hill, A. F. Budine.
Enrolled, 67.
Company G, enlisted at Chickasaw City 11 March, 1863 ; re-enlisted, 1864.
Captains-George Isbell, T. L. Irby.
First Lieutenants-C. T. Crittenden, W. T. Clarke, T. L. Irby, J. O. Clark.
Second Lieutenants-W. A. Harold, J. O. Clark, G. W. Owen.
Third Lieutenants-J. O. Clark, G. W. Owen, J. P. Hall. Enrolled, 98.
Company H, J. V. Harris Guards, enlisted at Athens by Captain Gille- lyn 12 November, 1862, and at Okolona by Captain Park 30 July, 1863; re-enlisted, 1864.
· Captains-D. C. Gillelyn, B. Gillelyn, M. B. Park, O. H. Pollard at reorganization.
First Lieutenants-B. Hilliard, W. P. Boggan, J. R. Lyle.
Second Lieutenants-W. P. Boggan, Thomas Chisolm, W. J. Smith. Third Lieutenants-Thomas Chisolm, J. R. Lyle, G. H. Robards.
Enrolled, 1863, 114; 1864, 67. This company was on duty with General Ruggles, headquarters Columbus, in January, 1863.
Company I, enlisted in Chickasaw County February 13, 1864.
Captain-W. T. Clarke.
First Lieutenant-W. D. Carr.
Second Lieutenant-Richard Thomas.
Third Lieutenant-T. W. McNamee.
"All captured, consisting of I Lieutenant, 7 privates, about the first June, balance having deserted whilst being transferred to C. S. Army." Company is included in roll of May 20, 1864, however.
.. Company K, Pettus Rangers, enlisted at Baldwyn, Pontotoc, etc.' in Tippah and neighboring counties January, 1863-January 17, 1864' Captains-W. L. Lowry, J. R. Wallis, E. A. Burton.
, .First Lieutenants-J. A. Horton, G. H. Cunningham, W. J. Page, James Watts.
Second Lieutenants-Wm. M. Robards, E. A. Bruton, G. A. Woods, H. W. Chisholm.
Third Lieutenants-G. A. Woods, W. J. Page, H. M. Willbanks. Enrolled, 74.
Company L, enlisted in Tishomingo and neighboring counties Jan" uary, 1863; re-enlisted, 1864.
Captain-John'A. Lowry.
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First Lieutenant-S. W. Frazier. Second Lieutenants-John A. Lowry, T. G. Stocks. Third Lieutenant-Wade Moody. Enrolled, 69.
This regiment was organized partly from companies of Partisan Rang- ers, of which Sol. G. Street's company was one of the most famous. This company was on active duty in December, 1863. Major Emerson, West Tennessee Cavalry, reported an encounter January 25, 1863, between Bolivar and Ripley, with 15 men, who "were dressed party in Federal uniform and were a portion of the noted Sol. Street's command of guerrillas ·who infest that section of the country." General Brayman, at Bolivar, reported, March 25, Colonel Miller of Confederate troops killed, "Sol. Street said to be desperately wounded." In April, reported. by General Chalmers as Mississippi Cavalry Company, Capt. Col. G. Street, under his command at Panola. Colonel Richardson, commanding in Northeast Mississippi, reported in October, 1863, that he had with him two com- panies under Major Street. January 25, 1864, assigned by General For- rest to Richardson's Brigade of Forrest's Cavalry.
Congress repealed the act permitting partisan companies, February, 1864. But, before this, General Forrest had given them energetic atten- tion, reorganizing, consolidating and appointing officers. "This consoli- dation of commands took place principally in troops of Richardson's com mand and some scattered bands and battalions, claimed to have been raised by Collins, Dawson, Street, Bennett and others." (Report of Col. George W. Brent, Adjutant-General, June 10, 1864.) These organiza- tions were principally merged in Gholson's Brigade.
This regiment was organized in the State service April, 1863 (see Minute Men), the original field officers being commissioned April 16, the date of their election. Lowry was elected Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment was organized under the call of Gen. J. E. Johnston, and, by direction of President Davis, the men were not to be interfered with by conscript officers during their term of service. They were rationed and paid by the Confederate States. April, 1863, "in addition to Smith's Regiment of State troops (650 men) seven other companies are reported by General Gholson, tolerably well mounted and armed with shotguns." (Columbus Committee of Defense.)
At the outset of Grierson's raid, Hatch's Iowa Regiment moved through Ripley, April 18, skirmishing through the day, Hatch reported, "with Smith's Regiment of Partisan Rangers, organized near there at a place called Chesterville." After Hatch left Grierson below Houston and started for Macon, he was encountered at Palo Alto, April 22, by Colonel Barteau with his Tennessee Regiment, Smith's Regiment, and Inge's and Ham's commands, and the battle was going against Hatch when he changed front to rear, and opening artillery fire at short range, cut his way through the commands of Smith and Ham, though those officers gallantly strove to check the attack. Smith's Regiment after this was engaged in the
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pursuit of Hatch as far as Camp Creek, near Birmingham, where a two hours' engagement was fought, and the bridge burned to stop the pursuit.
April 27, Colonel Barteau reported his regiment and Smith's near Prairie Mound, Chickasaw County.
The regiment was with the forces of General Gholson and General Ruggles, attacked at Tupelo, May 5, 1863, by Cornyn's Brigade of Dodge's Division, at the time of the Streight raid from Eastport to the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad.
June 22, General Ruggles reported that the regiment was turned over to Confederate service about June 4, but had virtually disbanded before the inspecting officer arrived. "The following day the enemy burned New Albany, near which it had been stationed. I respectfully recommend that the regiment be disbanded and that the conscripts be immediately put into Confederate service. The regiment has in the meantime been directed to concentrate for inspection at Pontotoc, preparatory to receiv- ing them into Confederate service.". .
In July, 1863, when conscript age had been extended to forty-five years, General Ruggles reported that Smith's Regiment and Ham's Bat- talion "classed strictly as State troops, had virtually disbanded, no in- specting officer having been able to identify the enrollment as sufficiently legal to authorize taking them into Confederate service."
August, 1863, attached to Chalmers' command, during the Federal raid from the Big Black River and LaGrange, Tenn., to Grenada. Then disbanding on account of expiration of service, but some new companies were recruiting near Carrollton. August 31, Capt. J. T. Lawler, of the Seventh Tennessee, was sent to De Soto County to take command of the companies composing the regiment. Lieut .- Col. Lowry was reported in command in September. General S. D. Lee urged that the regiment, then near West Point, should be reorganized.
General Chalmers assigned the regiment and other State troops in the northeastern district to the command of Colonel Richardson, who was succeeded by General Ferguson. Colonel Lowry's Regiment was on the front line of the district of Northeastern Mississippi in October, 1863, under the command of General Gholson, State troops.
At the visit of President Davis in 1863 Governor Pettus made an agreement with him for the turning over of the State Cavalry organiza- tions to the Confederate service, but in November, 1863, General John- ston reported that Governor Pettus never carried out the agreement and that Governor Clark had feferred the subject to the Legislature. Gov- ernor Clark hoped all obstacles to immediate transfer would be removed. October 28, 1863, Colonel Richardson, commanding in Northeast Missis- sippi, reported: "Colonel Lowry, Major Ham and Major Harris have been assigned to me, but they are State troops and refuse to obey my orders, but promise co-operation. They are under the command of General Gholson, and are now in the front line of my district." There was a clash between Colonel Lowry and General Ferguson in December, which led General S. D. Lee to write that the State troops "have been
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inefficient from the want of proper understanding between the Confederate States and State authorities and from no fault of the men."
In General Forrest's arrangements to meet the cavalry expedition from Memphis under Gen. Sooy Smith in February, 1864, he sent "Major- General Gholson with the State forces under his command to Palo Alto to watch any movement of the enemy from the direction of Houston." General Smith reported that in his advance he was met by an outpost of State troops under Gholson. This was ten miles south of Okolona, at an important road forking, where Gholson's camp had been, and where the General was found with part of his command, who made a warm fight before retiring. The battles about Pontotoc followed, after which Gholson was ordered to press the retreating Federals across the Talla- hatchie, Forrest's command having been exhausted in repelling the Federal cavalry charge ten miles from Pontotoc. Gholson kept up the pursuit toward Memphis. .
At Dresden, Tenn., having returned from his raid to Paducah, March 27, General Forrest wrote to Lieutenant-General Polk at Demopolis: "Have dispatched Gholson, at Tupelo, to meet prisoners at Corinth and take them to you." General Gholson covered Forrest's communications with the Confederate headquarters while he was in Tennessee. Gholson had about 550 prisoners at Aberdeen, April 9.
General Gholson reported with him near Buena Vista, March 17, 1864, Lieut .- Col. Lowry's Regiment, aggregate 350, with McGuirk's Regiment and Ham's and Harris' Battalions.
The brigade was transferred to the Confederate States service May I, 1864, as a result of the efforts of General Forrest, who went into North Mississippi in October, 1863, to reorganize the scattered companies, par- ticularly in the northeast, General Chalmers having the northwest pretty well in hand. Lowry, Johnson and Marshall were commissioned May 3, 1864, as field officers of the "Sixth Regiment Cavalry."
May 10, 1864, Col. William L. Lowry commanding, in independent brigade (Gholson's) commanded by Col. John McGuirk. May 22, by order of General Forrest, Grig .- Gen. S. J. Gholson assigned as command- ing officer of the brigade of Mississippi State troops recently turned over to the Confederate States, now commanded by Colonel McGuirk. List June 1, brigade attached to Buford's Division, Forrest's Cavalry.
Sherman, to Stanton, June 14: "Forrest has only his own cavalry which had started for North Alabama, and the militia under Gholson. I cannot understand how he could defeat Sturgis with 8,000 men."
The brigade was transferred to Gen. Wirt Adams' command in June, 1864, but was ordered northward during Sturgis' raid, which was followed by the raids of A. J. Smith from Memphis and Slocum from Vicksburg. General Slocum marched from Vicksburg July 2, 1864, with 2,200 in- fantry, 600 cavalry and six guns, to destroy the railroad bridge which had been rebuilt at Jackson. At the same time A. J. Smith's formidable expedition was advancing against Forrest. Gholson's Brigade returned to the vicinity of Jackson in time to move under General Adams' com-
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mand in an attempt to cut off Slocum's expedition as it retreated from the capital. There was severe fighting on the 6th near Jackson, and Lowry's Regiment was conspicuous in the fight, July 7, about two miles east of Clinton, making a bold but ineffectual attempt to capture a battery. Captain Irby was killed, Captain Crenshaw and Lieut. G. H. Roberts mortally, and Capt. J. R. Watkins, severely wounded. Total casualties Io killed or mortally wounded, 21 wounded. A newspaper account said that 110 men of the regiment charged a battery supported by four regi- ments of infantry and were within twenty paces of the battery when with- drawn by General Gholson, who was severely wounded. General Adams had about a thousand men, including Scott's and Powers' Regiments. The casualties of Gholson's Brigade were 8 killed, 69 wounded, 3 miss- ing. Slocum's casualties were 33 kined, 158 wounded, 30 missing.
In the latter part of July Cholson's Brigade, about 450 or 500 strong, was in Georgia. They took part, dismounted, in the battle of July 28, near Atlanta, under Gen. S. D. Lee, Major Marshall commanding the regiment, and had Sergt. Niblet, of Company A, killed, and 9 wounded. (See Third Cavalry for notice of brigade.)
General Gholson, with 250 mounted men, skirmished against the advance of General Grierson's raiders from Memphis on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in December, 1864, falling back through Okolona and meeting reinforcements at Egypt, 700 men under Lieutenant-Colonel Burke and King's Battery mounted on flat cars, from Mobile. They were attached at Egypt, on the morning of December 28. General Grierson, with the Fourth Missouri Cavalry, attacked Gholson's command behind a railroad embankment and was held in check until a charge was made by the Fourth Illinois Cavalry. General Gholson was wounded (lost an arm), with 15 or 20 others of his command, and a number captured. Burke took position in a stockade and after a stubborn fight, in which Karge's Brigade had 90 killed and wounded, was compelled to surrender with 500 men. General Gholson was left at Egypt by General Grierson, with 35 or 40 severely wounded of the Second New Jersey Cavalry, under the care of Surgeon Krauter of that regiment.
Colonel Lowry was in command of the brigade at Palo Alto, January 24, 1865. General Gholson, at Aberdeen, was notified in February, 1865, that the Secretary of War had "no authenticated transfer of your brigade to the Confederate service." General Chalmers, by direction of General Forrest, notified him that the regiments of his command would necessarily be consolidated and placed in some other brigade. "He desires me to say that he has a high appreciation of your gallantry and capacity as a soldier and officer, and that if you should ever again be fit for active field duty, which he thinks highly improbable, he will endeavor to give you a suitable command."
February 18, 1865, Gholson's Brigade ordered consolidated in one regiment to be commanded by Colonel Ashcraft, and assigned to Arm- strong's Brigade. (See Ashcraft's Regiment.) The brigade was then near Columbus, Miss. Armstrong's Brigade was distinguished for gal-
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lantry in the defense of Selma against assault April 2, 1865. Many were killed, wounded and made prisoners when the city was carried by Wilson's Cavalry.
The brigade was paroled under Lieutenant-General Taylor's capitu- lation of May 4, 1865.
THIRD REGIMENT-CAVALRY.
Colonel-John McGuirk.
Lieutenant-Colonels-James A. Barksdale, 1863; H. H. Barksdale, 1864-65.
Majors-B. M. Kilgore, F. W. Webb.
Adjutant-Wm. Joe Walker.
Quartermasters-H. E. Williamson, F. M. Griffin.
Commissary-Perry M. Morgan.
Ordnance Sergeant-Robert F. Hubert.
Quartermaster-Sergeant-Robert R. Williamson.
Commissary Sergeant-William F. Baker.
Surgeons-R. B. Dandridge, J. F. Butler.
Assistant Surgeons -- - Reid, A. F. Clayton.
Company A, organized September 22, 1862.
Captain-Thomas Stillwell. First Lieutenant-S. J. Chester.
Second Lieutenant-Lewis Malone.
Third Lieutenant-H. S. Rogers.
Company B, organized April 10, 1863.
Captain-M. L. Ferris.
First Lieutenant-Thomas E. Hogg.
Second Lieutenant-W. M. Swindell.
Third Lieutenant-James Hogg.
Company C, organized 22 April, 1863; reorganized 25 April, 1864, as Company A.
Captain-T. J. Kyle.
First Lieutenant-N. B. Towns, E. M. Fewell.
Second Lieutenant-F. J. Dudley, Joseph Fox. Third Lieutenant-M. L. Rives, L. P. Pipkin. Enrolled, 1864, 49.
Company D, organized April 24, 1863; reorganized April 25, 1864, as Company C.
Captain-John W Logan.
First Lieutenant-Samuel H. White. Second Lieutenants-W. H. Dow, James Miller. Third Lieutenants-J. H. Rowland, Josiah S. Ford. Enrolled at organization, So.
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Company E, organized April 24, 1863 ; reorganized 23 April, 1864, as Company C.
Captain-T. M. Griffin. ·
First Lieutenant-S. S. Fatherree, J. F. Peeler.
Second Lieutenants-R. C. Stewart, Thomas J. Grafton.
Third Lieutenant-Aaron Price.
Enrolled at reorganization, 52.
Company F, Barksdale Rangers, of Yalobusha, organized I June, 1863 ; reorganized April 30, 1864, as Company H. Captains-H. H. Barksdale, J. L. Brannon. First Lieutenant-E. J. Hardin. Second Lieutenants-J. E. Gillis, H. P. Bridges. Third Lieutenants-J. E. Holley, W. L. Brannon. Enrolled at reorganization, 66.
Company G. Captains-James A. Barksdale, James D. McKie.
First Lieutenant-Perry M. Morgan. Second Lieutenants-James D. McKie, L. C. Underwood.
Third Lieutenant-W. D. Hurt.
Company H, Kilgore Rangers, organized June 7, 1863; reorganized May 1, 1864, as Company D.
Captains-B. M. Kilgore, G. W. Gwartny (ley.)? First Lieutenants-G. W. Gwartney, Samuel Downing. Second Lieutenants-J. H. Alexander, E. H. Bogard. Third Lieutenants-J. M. Johnson, R. A. Butler.
Company E, reorganized regiment, 24 March, 1864. Captain-E. L. Richmond. First Lieutenant-William O. Cochrane. Second Lieutenant-C. G. Yarbrough. Third Lieutenant-E. Q. Withers. Enrolled, 51.
Company F, reorganized regiment, 25 April, 1864. Captain -- J. G. Kennedy. First Lieutenant-W. H. Thornton. Second Lieutenant-B. F. Bibb. Third Lieutenant -- G. W. Sadler. Enrolled, 74.
Company G, reorganized regiment, 25 April, 1864. Captain-S. T. Daniel. First Lieutenant-Joseph L. Hamer. Second Lieutenant-James G. Hamer. Third Lieutenant-C, C, Wilkins. Enrolled, 68,
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Company I, reorganized regiment, 25 April, 1864.
Captain-C. W. Orr, enlisted October, 1863. First Lieutenant-Charles M. Richards, enlisted July, 1863. Second Lieutenant-R. F. Dickens.
Third Lieutenant-R. B. Shugog.
Enrolled, 90.
Company K, reorganized regiment, 25 April, 1864. Captain-R. H. Turner.
First Lieutenant-John T. Dubard. Second Lieutenant-J. H. Carr. - Third Lieutenant-J. W. Griffis. Enrolled, 88.
The companies were originally organized as Minute Men in 1862, and re-enlisted for twelve months in 1863, under the call of Gen. J. E. Johnston, it being understood between the Governor and President Davis that the men should be exempt from conscription during their term of service. They were understood to be rationed and paid by the Confederate States, but the pay was generally several months in arrears. It is first mentioned as Mississippi cavalry, three companies, Col. John McGuirk, with General Chalmers, headquarters Panola, April, 1863. April 8, at Holly Springs, ordered to take post near Chulahoma. April 19, detailed to defend Panola, time of Federal raid. May 30, assigned to brigade of Gen. J. Z. George, State troops. Colonel McGuirk was commissioned June 9, 1863; other officers June II.
The regiment served under General George in the operations attending the raid of Colonel Mizner, June 15-25, 1863, who set out from LaGrange, Tenn., with orders to break the railroad south of Panola, turn on Chalmers and sweep the country of horses, mules, negroes and the new crop of wheat. Colonel McCulloch skirmished with Mizner after he had crossed the Tallahatchie at Wyatt, and, in view of the Federal strength, General George retreated from Panola across to Yockeney, sending one company to protect the railroad bridge. The whole command moved to that point, but too late to prevent the destruction of the bridge. Colonel McGuirk, with his regiment, then pursued the Federal column on its return to LaGrange, swimming the Tallahatchie at Belmont, overtaking Mizner at Tyro and pursuing eighty miles to Hudsonville, "where, on Sunday evening, he overtook and chastised him handsomely, killing and wound- ing several and capturing-27 prisoners with about the same number of horses and equipments, an extraordinary achievement," considering the arduous service of the command. George's headquarters were at Grena- da, and Colonel McGuirk was in command of the brigade in July, 1863.
July 21, General George reported that a detachment from Colonel McGuirk's Regiment had cut the railroad and taken 15 prisoners near Germantown. In July regiment was ordered to Vaiden for enlistment in Confederate service. General George reported, "I fear half of Mc- Guirk's Regiment cannot be gotten to Vaiden." The enlistment was not made.
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In the field during the Federal raid from the Big Black and LaGrange, Tenn., to Grenada, August, 1863, of which there are no reports. Regiment then in Chalmers' Cavalry command, 200 in number, Colonel McGuirk commanding, but scattered between Panola and Grenada, arresting deserters and conscripts. Chalmers could not collect a command sufficient to hold Grenada, which the raiders occupied August 20, break- ing the railroad and burning the rolling stock. The regiment, with Chalmers' command, moved from Grenada to Abbeville September 12. Assigned to Slemon's Brigade October 18. "The battalion under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Barksdale" was in Chalmers' command, September, 1863.
This regiment, the Seventh Tennessee (Colonel Duckworth), A. H. Chalmers' Eighteenth Battalion, and one rifled gun of Mclendon's Bat- tery, in all about 850 men, constituted the immediate command of General Chalmers when he was collecting forces for the raid to Collier- ville, Tenn., in October, 1863. With this command Chalmers was about to move to Salem for a juncture with Richardson's Brigade, when a column of Illinois cavalry, under Colonel McCrillis, advanced from LaGrange, Tenn., against Holly Springs, whither Chalmers moved on the 5th. McCrillis, with 750 cavalry, heard on his approach that Chal- mers was ahead of him, and began to recross the Coldwater, when Chal- mers attacked at Lockhart's Mill, October 6. There was a brisk skirmish, in which the four howitzers posted by McCrillis on the north bank of the river, played an important part. Chalmers then moved to Salem, and on the morning of the 8th set out for Collierville, leaving Hovis' Regiment to occupy Salem. Meanwhile McCrillis had returned from LaGrange to the vicinity of Salem with 1,250 cavalry and mounted infantry and six guns. He attacked Hovis and drove him from the town, and Chalmers, learning of this, at a distance of ten miles, returned rapidly and attacked McCrillis, who occupied a strong position on a long ridge, with his skir- mishers through the town. Chalmers had been reinforced and had 1,200 in the battle, but only one piece of artillery, which was useless after the third fire. After three hours' hard fighting, said Chalmers, the enemy was driven from every position. "In this affair the Second Missouri Cavalry (Lieutenant-Colonel McCulloch), Third Regiment Mississippi State Cavalry (Colonel McGuirk), and the Eighteenth Mississippi Bat- talion (Major Chalmers) bore the brunt of the conflict, and although the last two were composed almost entirely of untried men, they behaved with a gallantry equal to that which has ever distinguished the veterans of the Second Missouri Cavalry." Colonel McGuirk, who moved from his camp at Wyatt, was the first to reinforce Hovis, and was ordered to take the two regiments and command the front attack, but Chalmers decided to also attack in front. The regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Barks- dale, charged the Federal position at Hamer's house, drove the skirmish line from the village and compelled the retreat of the artillery from a hill. Captain Hartin and Lieutenant Kennedy were wounded in the fight. Captains Logan, Farris, Griffin, Barksdale, McKie, Webb and
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Lieutenants Thornton and Towns gallantly commanded the companies. The casualties of McGuirk's Regiment was I killed, 22 wounded; of the rest of Chalmers' troops 5 wounded. General Sweeney, commanding at LaGrange, reported that on October 8, "our cavalry, under Colonel McCrillis, with the mounted infantry and a section of Captain Tannrath's Battery, under Colonel Phillips, were attacked by the enemy at Salem and driven back on the railroad with considerable loss." In the night following Chalmers was reinforced by Richardson's Brigade, about 850 men. Colonel Hatch on the other side came up from LaGrange with 750 Union cavalry, and no artillery, expecting to join McCrillis and Phillips, but finding them gone, he sent for reinforcements from Davis' Mills. "Chalmers remained most of October 9 in line of battle at Hamar's house, with his force of over 2,000 men and six guns, believing that Hatch had against him "nine regiments and nine pieces of artillery." He reported that "there was some slight skirmishing, but the enemy did not. make his appearance in force." Hatch received orders to fall back to LaGrange, which made it possible for Chalmers to carry out his plan of a raid on Collierville, while Hatch, with a force of 2,200, returned again to hunt for him at Salem and Holly Springs. Chalmers moved to Holly Springs on the roth for food and ammunition, and approached Collierville early on the 11th. In the disposition for attack, Colonel McGuirk, with his own regiment and First Mississippi Partisans, was sent to gain possession of the town and attack the fort from the rear. The movements on the left and right drove the garrison to the rifle pits and part of them into the fort, and possession was taken of the train of cars on which General Sherman was traveling with a battalion of regulars as an escort, but the movement on the rear was not so successful, and General Chalmers ascribed this to Colonel McGuirk's delay at the cavalry camp northwest of town. In the attack upon the cavalry camp, Lieu- tenant-Colonel Barksdale commanded the regiment, about 175 men. He reported that after the First Partisans were repulsed, his regiment advanced upon the camp, firing steadily, and drove the enemy to shelter in the woods and swamp, and that he never saw men, even in the Army of Northern Virginia, deport themselves with more gallantry. He gave special mention to the conduct of Maj. B. M. Kilgore, who fell wounded while leading a charge, and to Captains Logan, Barksdale, Griffin, Gwartney and Lieutenants Towns and Thornton, company commanders. Lieutenant Turner, Company H, and Lieutenants Thornton and Tyer, Company K, collected the prisoners, 89 in number. Lieut. J. H. Alex- ander brought off 18 wagons with mule teams. Sergeant Grizelle, the color bearer, distinguished on this as on former fields for gallantry, fell with a severe wound as he was carrying the flag, with a captured flag in his other hand. Lieutenant White, Company D, carried the colors forward. The casualties of the regiment were I killed, 6 wounded. The attack on Collierville failed, and General Chalmers retreated. At the crossing of the Tallahatchie, near Wyatt, October 13, the Confederate command, under Col. R. V. Richardson, was attacked by Hatch. Mc-
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