. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. themarch down through Missouri and Arkansas to Helena on theMississippi, he was assigned to the command of a brigade ;and on that march he won promotion to the rank of brigadier-general for his conduct of the battle at Cache river, where hisadvance, hardly five hundred strong, ran up against aboutfive thousand effectives, under the rebel General Rust, anddefeated them. Rusts command retreated, says the rebelreport (General Hindmans), in great disorder across Whiteriver. The rebels did not sto
. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. themarch down through Missouri and Arkansas to Helena on theMississippi, he was assigned to the command of a brigade ;and on that march he won promotion to the rank of brigadier-general for his conduct of the battle at Cache river, where hisadvance, hardly five hundred strong, ran up against aboutfive thousand effectives, under the rebel General Rust, anddefeated them. Rusts command retreated, says the rebelreport (General Hindmans), in great disorder across Whiteriver. The rebels did not stop running, says the Unionreport (General Steeles), until they had gone eight milessouth of Little Rock. He commanded the brigade on the ex-treme left of Shermans army at the disastrous assault from theYazoo and Chickasaw bayou on the rebel works back of Vicks-burg, near Hainess Bluff ; and the brigade on the extreme rightof McClernands army at the capture of Arkansas post, wherehe was wounded. He was brevetted a major-general for gal-lant and meritorious conduct in battle, particularly at Arkansas. BRIGADIER- AND BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES E. HOVEY, (from a war-time photograph.)
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