The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23

Brig. Gen. Ransom, commanding the corps
Lieut. Col Aaron b. Flory, First Brigade,
Third Division; Col. Frank Emerson. First
Brigade and Col. JOS w. Vance, Second Bril-
gade, Fourth Division, were wounded. Coils.
Emerson and Vance We're captured.
On the Goth Of April Maj Gen McClernand,
with the Second Brigade, First Division, ar
rived at Alexandria, and assumed command
Of the portion of the corps operating in that
vicinity. There was constant skirmishing
with the enemy while at Alexandria, and DUR
ing the withdrawal from the Red River coun-
try.
The close of May found the First and Third
Divisions at Morganzs, La; Fourth Division
at Baton Rouge, and the Second Division,
under Maj Gen. Heron, at Brownsville, Tex.
On June u, 1864, the corps was temporarily
discontinued in compliance with War Depart
ment orders dated June II, 1864.
On Feb 10, 1865 the Thirteenth Corps was
reorganized from the Reserve" of the Mill
tary Division of West Mississippi The reor-
ganized corps was composed as follows:
Maj. Gen Gordon Granger commanding.
Mortar batteries-6th Mich. II. A., Cos. A
and K.
First Division-Brig.- Gen. James G. Veatch.
First Brigade-Brig. Gen. James r. Slack
Goth Ill. five companes), 47th Ind, 21st Iowa,
29th Wis. Second Brigade-Brig- Gen. Elias
8. Dennis-sth, 18th, 18th III. Third Brigade
Lieut. Col. William B. Kinsey-29th ILL.,,
30th Mo. -four companies) 16lst n. Y, 23d
Wis. Artillery Brigade-4th and 7th Mass.
batteries.
Second Division-Brig.-G Gen. Christopher c.
Andrews. First Brigade-Col Henry Bertram
oath ILL.,; 10Th, 23d Iowa; Goth Wis. LIST Mo-
L. A., Battery F. Second Brigade-Col. Wm
r. Spicey-76th 9th H.; Oath, 69th Ind.
-four companies.) Third Brigade-Col. Frede-
rick w. Moore-37th Ill goth, 34th Iowa. 63d,
114th Ohio. Artillery Brigade-Conn. Light,
Cd battery; Mass. Light, 18th battery.
Third Divsion-Brig.- Gen. William P. Ben
ton. First Brigade-Col. David P. Grier-2Sth,
18th Ill. Goth Ohio five companies), 35th Wis.
Second Brigade-Col. Henry 81. Day-91st ILL.,,
50th Ind. five companesl, Goth Iowa. 7th Vt.
Third Brgade-Col. Conrad Krez-33d Iowa,
77th Ohio; 9th, 2sth Wis., Artillery Brigade
-o1st and Goth N. Y. batteries.
Early in January, 1865, Gen. Candy was
ordered by Gen. Grant to move against Mobile.
Candy determined to approach Mobile on the
east, where the full cooperation of the navy
could be secured, the principal works which he
would have to reduce being Spanish Fort, COM
manding the mouth, and B!akely, commanding
the head of the Appalachee where the Tensas
leaves it.
The movement was made in two columns,
one from Dauphine Island, under Candy him.
self; the other from Pensacola undor Maj Gen.
Frederick Steele. Canby's own forces consisted
in part of Veatch's and Benton's Divisions and
Bertram's Brigade, of the reorganized Thir-
teenth Corps, under Maj Gen. Gordon Granger,
and c. G. Andrews's Division, Of the Thirteenth
Corps, Except Bertram's Brigade,) formed part
of Steee's force.
Mobile was defended by about 10000 troops,
with 800 field and siege guns, and five gum
boats.
On the 18th of March Canby's movement
began, the Thirteenth Corps marching from
Fort Morgan. On March 81 the forces united
at Danley's Ferry, near the mouth of Fish
River and laid siege to Spanish Fort. Bentons
and Veatch's Divisions and Bertram's Brigade
held tho right of the Federal line. On the 9Th
OF April, the trenches being well advanced, a
bombardment was begun by 80 guns in posi-
ton and by all the gunboats within range.
By evening Judgment was effected ON the
right of the Confederate lines, and during the
night the garrison retreated, leaving in the
hands of the besiegers about 500 prisoners and
so guns.
On March 20 Steele moved from Pensacola.
and after q march of hundred miles deployed
before Blakely. His supplies had become nearly
exhausted and on March 81 Veatch's Division,
of the Thirteenth Corps, was sent out with a
Commssary train of rs wagons. On April 9
the siege of Blakely began the lines of attack
from left to right being held by Garrard's Di-
vision, Of the Sixteenth Corps, Veatch's and
Andrewss, of the Thirteenth Corps, aud Haw-
kins's Colored Division.