796 Series I Volume XXX-II Serial 51 - Chickamauga Part II
| Page 796 | KY.,SW. VA.,TENN.,MISS.,N. ALA.,AND N. GA. Chapter XLII. |
OCTOBER 5, 1863.-Transfer of the Second Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, from Memphis to Chattanooga, Tenn.
Itinerary of the Second Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General John E. Smith, U. S. Army, for the month of October, 1863.*
FIRST BRIGADE.
October 5, left Memphis on Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and arrived at Corinth after dark.
October 6, marched from Corinth to Glendale, Miss.; 9 miles.
October 17, marched from Glendale to Burnsville; 8 miles.
October 19, marched to Iuka; 8 miles.
October 21, marched to Bear Creek, Ala.; 6 miles.
October 23, marched to Dickson's Station; 4 miles.
October 29, marched to Chickasaw, Ala.; 12 miles.
October 31, crossed the Tennessee River, marched 2 miles, and encamped near Waterloo, Ala.
SECOND BRIGADE.
October 1, to the night of the 6th, remained in camp at Memphis, Tenn., when the brigade left on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and arrived at Glendale, Miss., on the night of the 7th. Encamped near Glendale and remained there until the 17th, and marched to Burnsville, 8 miles, and encamped until the 19th, and marched 9 miles to Iuka; encamped there.
October 21, marched to Bear Creek, Ala.; 8 miles.
October 23, marched 3 miles, to Dickson's Station, Ala., on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and went into camp.
October 29, marched 12 miles, to Chickasaw, Ala., on the Tennessee River.
October 30, crossed the river on the gunboat Hastings, and marched 1 mile, to Waterloo, Ala.
October 31, marched 5 miles, to Brush Creek.
THIRD BRIGADE.
October 3, the brigade left Memphis, Tenn., by railroad for Glendale, Miss., where it arrived at 5 p. m., the following day.
October 6, two regiments (the Tenth Iowa and Twenty-sixth Missouri) moved to Burnsville, where they remained in camp until the 20th, when they moved to Iuka.
October 22, 23, and 24, marched to Dickson's Station, where it remained in camp until the 29th, when it moved to Chickasaw, Ala., on the Tennessee River.
October 30 and 31, employed in crossing the river.
---------------
*From monthly return.
---------------
| Page 796 | KY.,SW. VA.,TENN.,MISS.,N. ALA.,AND N. GA. Chapter XLII. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments