_Patriot_, the Nashville, cited, 60, 61

Peabody, Colonel, 122, 141

Pearce, General, 4

Pea Ridge, battle of, 12, 13 et seq.

Perczell, Colonel N., 70

Phelps, Lieutenant, 30

Pillow, Fort, 19, 66, 80 (see Artillery)

Pillow, General G.H., 21;
at Fort Donelson, 36, 45 et seq.;
his advice in the Council at Fort Donelson, 57;
leaves Fort Donelson, 59

Pilot Knob, Mo., 16

"Pittsburg," the, 46

Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., 130 et seq., 162, 163, 181;
selected as the place of assembly of the army in West Tennessee, 99

Pleasant Point, Tenn., 79

Plummer, Colonel J.B. (afterward General), 17, 69, 70

Polk, General Leonidas, 18, 19, 128, 161, 169, 170;
evacuates Columbus, 66;
occupies Island Number Ten, 68

Pond, Colonel, 160, 169, 174

Pond, General, 129

Pope, General John, 7, 9, 10;
made Major-General, 65;
appointed to command the force against New Madrid and Island Number Ten, 66;
lands at Commerce, 69;
his conduct of the New Madrid campaign, 74 et seq.;
goes into camp at Hamburg, 183;
commands left wing of the Army of the Mississippi, 184;
advances from Hamburg, 186;
occupies Farmington, 187, 189, 190;
pushes on to Corinth, 191

Porter, Captain (afterward Commodore and Admiral), at Fort Henry, 30, 60

Powell, General, 142

Prentiss, General, at Pittsburg Landing, 102 et seq.;
referred to, 158, 159;
his loss in guns, 181

Price, General Sterling, 1, 2 et seq.; 7, 8, 10 et seq., 184

Pride, Colonel, 131

Pugh, Colonel, 151, 154

Purdy road, 136

Purdy, Tenn., 101

Raith, Colonel, 129

Rawlins, Captain (afterward General), 53

Reardon, Colonel, 134

Reelfoot, Lake, 67

Rice, Lieutenant-Colonel, 130

Rienzi, 190

Rolla, Mo., 4, 7, 12

Rosecrans, General, 184, 190, 191

Ross, Colonel, 56

Rousseau, 163-169, 170-171, 172-174, 175

Ruggles, General, 145, 154, 157, 170

Russell, Colonel, 135, 169, 170

"Russell's," position of, 187

Russellville, Ky., 37

Savannah, Tenn., 97

Schofield, Captain, 17

Schwartz, Captain, 31, 49

Schwartz's battery, 136 (see Artillery)

Sedalia, Mo., 10

Selma, Ala., 91

Shaver, Colonel, 123, 127

Shaw, Colonel, 147

Sheridan, Colonel P.H., assigned to Second Michigan Cavalry, 187

Sherman, General W.T., suggestions of, to General Halleck, 25;
assigned to command Military District of Cairo, 65;
at Pittsburg Landing, 101 et seq.;
in the expedition up the Tennessee, 96, 122 et s