The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-05-04

On the 28th of July 1868, the Fourth Divis.
ion was permanently transferred to the
Thirteenth Corps, and the First Division
to the Fifteenth Corps. KimbalPs Provis-
July, 1853. sent to Helena, Ark, and on
the goth Gen Hurlbut under instructions
from Gen. Grant, issued an order including in
the Sixteenth Corps so much of the Depart
ment Of the Tennessee as lies north of the
Arkansas River. This included KimbalPs
Division and all the troops in the District of
northeastern Arkansas Under this order the
Thirteenth Division of the Thirteenth Corps
became the Thirteenth Division of the Six
teenth Corps. These troops were all placed by
Gen. Hurbut under the command of Mai Gen.
Frederick Steele, together with the Cavalry
Division under Brighten. Davidson. then
operating in Arkansas, who organized from
them an army styled by him the Army of
Arkansas for the purpose of operating from
Helena against the rebel Gen. Price. These
operations resulted in the capture of Little
Rock, Ark, on the 10th of September, 1863
The Third Brigade of KimbalPs Division
which had been left behind when that division
was sent to Vicksburg, joined Steele's army,
and on the - h of September it was assigned
to it's old DIVISION then known as the Second
Division of the Army Of Arkansas. The COM
position Of this brigade was as follows, Col.
James NJ. True commanding: 49th, 62d ILL.,;
50th Ind; 9th Iowa, Sd III. Art, Battery A.
Most of these troops remained in Arkansas and
were subsequently incorporated in the Seventh
Corps, Department of Arkansas.
Among the principal operations in western
Tennessee, western Kentucky, aud northern
Mississippi during the latter part of 1862 and
the year 1868 in which portions of the Six
teenth Corps took part, was the raid of the
rebel Gen. n. b. Forrest in western Ten
nessee and Kentucky. Gen. Forrest had been
instructed by Gen. Bragg, then at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, to operate against the communi-
cations of Gen. Grant in west Tennessee.
He accordingly, on the 18th of December, 1862,
moved his brigade from Columbia Tenn,
reaching the Tennessee River at Clifton on
the 18Th and succeeded in crossing the river on
the 18th.
On the 18th Forrest encountered Col. Robert
G. Ingersoll, of the 18th III. Cav, near Licking
ton, in command of detachments of his own
regiment the 9Th Ohio Cav. Cd West Tenn.
Cav, and section of the 18th Ind. bat
terry, the whole force between 700 and 800
strong, and after sharp skirmish succeeded in
overpowering them, killing and wounding
number and capturing two guns and 14S
prisoners. He now detached force, under
Col. Dibrell, to the right Of Jackson to tear up
the railroad ard destroy the telegraph wires,
and at the same time another force under Col.
A. A. Russell and Maj. n. N. Cox, was sent out
on the left of Jackson to destroy bridges and
culverts on the railroad from Jackson to Corinth
and Bolivar. With the rest Of his command
Forrest now pushed on toward Jackson, but a
force consisting of the ADD and 81st H. and
detachments of the 18th H., 9Th Ohio and I'd
West Tenn. Cav, under Col. Adolph Eugel-
mann, AID ILL.,, disputed his advance and kept
up running fight until within reach of the
Notifications and the arrival of reinfOrcements
from the south.
Gen. Forrest now withdrew, and with his
united forces moved rapidly on Trenton and
Humboldt, capturing both places. He next
captured Union City and destroyed the trestle
work northward and railroad bridges in that
vicinity. On the 23th he started on his return.
moving toward Lexington. The Union forces
had in the meanwhile been making prepare
tions to cut off his retreat, and on the 3lst he
was intercepted at Red Mound, or Parker's
Crossroads, on the road to Lexington, by bri-
gade under the command OF Col. G. L. Dun
ham, who Immediately engaged and fought him
for several hours, when the brigade of Col.
John w. Fuller reached the field and attacked
Forrest in the rear lie, was soon routed, but
succeeded i'll escaping and recrossed the Ten
nessee River at Clifton on the Cd of January,
1863
The Union loss in this affair was as follows: