. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . Kentucky, ex-pediting and facilitating operations in progress up theTennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and organizing a di-vision to be commanded by himself; bore a distinguishedpart in the battle of Shiloh and in the operations againstCorinth ; commanding District of Memphis and an ex-pedition against Vicksburg, 1862; assigned to commandof Fifteenth Army Corps in January, 1863 ; participatedin capture of Arkansas Post; took part in operationspreceding and attending siege of Vicksburg ; assigned tocommand of Department of
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . Kentucky, ex-pediting and facilitating operations in progress up theTennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and organizing a di-vision to be commanded by himself; bore a distinguishedpart in the battle of Shiloh and in the operations againstCorinth ; commanding District of Memphis and an ex-pedition against Vicksburg, 1862; assigned to commandof Fifteenth Army Corps in January, 1863 ; participatedin capture of Arkansas Post; took part in operationspreceding and attending siege of Vicksburg ; assigned tocommand of Department of the Tennessee October 27,1863 ; joined his forces to the army under General Grantat Chattanooga, Tennessee, and bore a conspicuous part inthe battle of that name ; moved with great energy to therelief of General Burnside at Knoxville, Tennessee, andreturned to Chattanooga, 1863 ; made an expedition fromVicksburg to Meridian, Mississippi, destroying much rail-road and war material thereabouts, and returned to Vicks-burg ; assumed command of Military Division of the Mis-. sissippi March [8, 1864; captured Atlanta, Georgia, andmade his march to the sea which terminated in the cap-ture of Savannah, Georgia, December 21, 1864 ; marchednorthward from Savannah, captured Columbia, SouthCarolina, compelling the evacuation of Charleston ; re-pulsed the enemy under General J. E. Johnston at Ben-tonville, ami joined his forces with those of General Scho-tield at Goldsborough ; moved against General Johnston,who, on April 26, 1865, surrendered his army on thesame terms as had been granted General Lee. General Sherman was appointed major-general of vol-unteers May 1, 1862, and brigadier-general U. S. ArmyJuly 4, 1863. He had conferred on him the commissionof major-general, August I 2, I 864, for gallant and distin-guished services as commander of the Mississippi Divisionin the conduct of the campaign in Georgia, and was fur-ther honorably mentioned by Congress in the followingjoint resolutio
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