. The volunteer soldier of America . e so-calledpursuit of the enemy from Corinth, ten thousand prisonersand deserters from the enemy and fifteen thousand stand of armscaptured, which Halleck here says is the exact language of Gen-eral Pope, and which the fornier telegraphed on the 4th of June,1862. It is due to a brave, able, and truthful soldier, that historyshall set General Pope right in the estimation of his countrymenby at least rendering to him this scant and long-delayed can be broadly alleged that General Pope never made any suchstatement of fact as that attributed to him b
. The volunteer soldier of America . e so-calledpursuit of the enemy from Corinth, ten thousand prisonersand deserters from the enemy and fifteen thousand stand of armscaptured, which Halleck here says is the exact language of Gen-eral Pope, and which the fornier telegraphed on the 4th of June,1862. It is due to a brave, able, and truthful soldier, that historyshall set General Pope right in the estimation of his countrymenby at least rendering to him this scant and long-delayed can be broadly alleged that General Pope never made any suchstatement of fact as that attributed to him by Halleck. No suchreport or statement can be found. The most careful search of theofficial documents fails to develop anything, directly or indirectly, 6 74 MILITAR Y REMINISCENCES. warranting either the language of Hallecks sensational dispatchof the 4th of June, or his attempted defense of himself, of July 3d,against Beauregards charge of disgraceful falsification, by tryingto shift the blame upon General Popes innocent z< < CO zu o UJ _l1-f—<CO THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. I I N the attempt to take Vicksburg in the rear made by Gen- eral Grant in the fall of 1862, I commanded the First Division ofthe right wing of the Thirteenth Corps, so denominated, whichwas organized at Bolivar, Tennessee. This command consisted ofthe following troops: First Brigade, Colonel C. C. Marsh com-manding; John E. Smith, Forty-fifth Illinois; L. S. Ozburum,Thirty-first Illinois; Captain Conrad, Twentieth Illinois; J. , One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth Illinois; Elias H. Evans,Thirtieth Illinois. Second Brigade, M. D. Leggett commanding;C. S. Chandler, Seventy-eighth Ohio; M, F. Force, TwentiethOhio; Shook, Sixty-eighth Ohio; W. P. Davis, Twenty-third Indiana. Artillery—Ninth Indiana Battery; De GolyersMichigan Battery; W. S. Williams, Third Ohio Battery; W. , Company D, First Illinois Artillery; G. C. Gunback, Com-pany E, Second Illinois Infantry; besides Nor
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