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Title: From Fort Henry to Corinth

Author: Manning Ferguson Force

Release Date: January 27, 2008 [EBook #24438]

Language: English

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FROM

FORT HENRY TO CORINTH

CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR.--II.

FROM

FORT HENRY TO CORINTH

BY

M.F. FORCE

LATE BRIGADIER-GENERAL AND BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U.S.V., COMMANDING
FIRST DIVISION, SEVENTEENTH CORPS.

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Facsimile Reprint Edition from the original edition of 1881-1883 by The
Archive Society, 1992. Address all inquiries to:

_The Archive Society_ _130 Locust Street_ _Harrisburg, PA 17101_

PREFACE.

I have endeavored to prepare the following narrative from authentic
material, contemporaneous, or nearly contemporaneous, with the events
described.

The main source of information is the official reports of battles and
operations. These reports, both National and Confederate, will appear in
the series of volumes of Military Reports now in preparation under the
supervision of Colonel Scott, Chief of the War Records Office in the War
Department. Executive Document No. 66, printed by resolution of the
Senate at the Second Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, contains a
number of separate reports of casualties, lists of killed, wounded, and
missing, which do not appear in the volumes of Military Reports as now
printed. Several battle reports are printed in volume IV., and in the
"Companion," or Appendix volume of Moore's Rebellion Record, which are
not contained in the volumes of Military Reports as now printed. The
reports of the Twentieth Ohio and the Fifty-third Ohio, of the battle of
Shiloh, have never been printed. Colonel Trabue's report of his brigade
in the battle of Shiloh has never been officially printed; but it is
given in the history of the Kentucky Brigade from Colonel Trabue's
retained copy, found by his widow among his papers.

The Reports of the Committee on the