The War of the Rebellion:
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

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O.R. -- SERIES I -- VOLUME X/1 [S#10] [pp #8]
MARCH 9-14, 1862.--Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn.

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REPORTS.

No. 1.--Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith, U. S. Army.

No. 2.--Brig. Gen. Lewis Wallace, U.S. Army.

No. 3.--Maj. Charles S. Hayes, Fifth Ohio Cavalry.

No. 4.--Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, C. S. Army.

No. 5.--Brig. Gen. Adley H. Gladden, C. S. Army.

No. 6.--Col. Daniel W. Adams, First Louisiana Infantry.

No. 7.--Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

No. 8.--Maj. Charles Baskerville, Second Mississippi Cavalry (Battalion).

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O.R. -- SERIES I -- VOLUME X/1 [S#10] [pp #15]

MARCH 9-14, 1862.--Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn.

No. 7. -- Report of Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

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HDQRS. 4TH BRIGADE, 1ST CORPS, 2D GRAND DIV.,

ARMY OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY,

Near Corinth, nine miles towards Pittsburg, March 12, 1862.

SIR: A mounted courier has just reached me with a verbal message from Major Baskerville, stating that the enemy had landed a force at Crump's Landing 18,000 strong, firing upon the cavalry pickets, driving them in. The same courier informs me that a regiment of infantry, a company of our artillery, and all the cavalry are retreating on Purdy.

Yours, respectfully,

ALFR. MOUTON,

Colonel Eighteenth Regiment Louisiana Vols.,

Comdg. Fourth Brig., C. S. Forces, Mississippi Valley.

Capt. Roy MASON HOOE,

A. A. G., Corinth, Miss.

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Referrence:
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
as illustrated on the CD by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.

 

 

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