. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, emy had scarcely begun to waverwhen his whole force fled in dismay, throwing away their arms, coats, andhats. We took from the enemy eighty-one prisoners, including three com-missioned officers. On the field, the scene of the battle, immense quantitiesof arms, coats, and blankets were found and destroyed us. I had nomeans of ascertaining the enemys loss in killed and wounded, but from theevidence of the battle-field it must have been heavy. Florence M. Corxyj^.Colonel Tenth Missouri Caralrii. Commanding Cavalry Brigade. Colonel
. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, emy had scarcely begun to waverwhen his whole force fled in dismay, throwing away their arms, coats, andhats. We took from the enemy eighty-one prisoners, including three com-missioned officers. On the field, the scene of the battle, immense quantitiesof arms, coats, and blankets were found and destroyed us. I had nomeans of ascertaining the enemys loss in killed and wounded, but from theevidence of the battle-field it must have been heavy. Florence M. Corxyj^.Colonel Tenth Missouri Caralrii. Commanding Cavalry Brigade. Colonel Cornyn was a very efficient cavalry officer and alwaysaccomplished whatever he was sent to do. He was an aggressivefighter, always attacking, no matter what the force before him,and had won a deserved standing as a Brigade commander. Whenhe was killed, by his Lieutenant-Colonel, Bowen, during the latterstrial before a court-martial on charges preferred by Colonel Cormn,there was a bitter personal dispute and enmity between themwhich came to this sad THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE Address to the Army of the Tennessee Delivered at the National Encampment, G. A. , D. C, October, 1902 By Major-General Grenville M. Dodge Coiiiradcs of ilie- Army of the Tennessee: On the 28th of August, 18G1, General U. S. Grant was as-signed to duty in command of the District of Southeast Missouri,with headquarters at Cairo, 111., and here commenced the organiza-tion and growth of the Army of the Tennessee. It remained underhis personal command, or as a uwit of his great Army, from thebeginning until the end of the war. except for two short intervals,one after the great Battle of Donelson, and the other after the great-er Battle of Shiloh, both of which he won, and gave the first greatlight and hope to our country; and it is hard noAv, after readingall the records, to understand the reasons for his being relieved. Itappears to have been done through a misunderstanding, and with noint
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