Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-10-07
Logan from Bul, Run to Peace.

July, 1861. He was then a Representa-
1--WE IN Congress from an Egypt" dis
trlct. Three days before the battle
proper his silk hat and striking person
allty attracted General Arson G. Nc
Cooks attention
Logans constituents were Southern
partisans. The popular idol of few
months previous was spurned and exc
Grated all over his district, and he was
threatened with personal violence OH
his return to his home at Marion, Will
hanson County.
He explained the consequences of
treason and inspired his neighbors
with enthusiasm for the flag they had
been really to trample upon. Within a
few days the Thirty-irst Illinois Vol
unteer Infantry was organized, with
Logan as Colonel. The organization
OF the Twenty-second, Twenty-seventh
anr Thirtieth followed quickly, and
they were assigned, with Logan's regi-
ment, to Netherlands First Brigade.
under Grant.
Colonel Logan received favorab bic
Mo-, but his first laurels were won at
Fort Henry, which he was the first I'M
ion soldier to enter. He shared the hard
campaigning around Fort Donelson,
Which made Grants reputation, and
was severely wounded in the left ARM
shoulder, and thigh He kept his sad
ole, rallied his men, and held them in
position until he was carried exhausted
from the field.
On Grants recommendation Logan
was made Brigadier General, and was
assigned to the First Brigade, Third
Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. He
reached his command the evening of
the battle of Shiloh, April Z, 1862.
General Logan took an active part in
the movement against Corinth, his con
duct winning General Sherman's warm
approval.
General Logan declined reelection to
CONGRESS- in 1862 and went with Grant
into the Vicksburg campaign, earning
his next promotion to Major General
on Nov. 80, 1862. On Jan. II following
he took command at Memphis, Tenn,
of the Third Division, Seventeenth
Army Corps.
Logan's division proceeded from
Memphis to Lake Providence, near
Vicksburg, on transports, and his
troops manned the transports, which
passed in front of the frowning guns
Of Vicksburg. On Feb. %, 1868, his
command moved from Lake Proyi-
dence, proceeding by way of Milliken's
Bend, Carthage, and Hard Times
Landing to Grand Gulf. With the
transports that had passed Vicksburg
the command was ferried across the
Mississippi on May 1 and sent to aid
General McClernand at Fort Gibson.
All authorities give Logan the chief
credit for the subsequent rapid evacua
ton of Port Gibson and Grand Gulf.
He set out for Jackson without delay.
striking the enemy under Gregg and
Walker in a clump of timber on May
II and driving the gray soldiers from
the field before the other union troops
came up. Grant called this lone Of
the hardest small battles Of the war"
On May II Logan's division took part
in the battle of Jackson, fighting with
Mcpherson outside the state capital.
The bulk Of General Joseph e. John
ston's command was routed and all his
artillery was captured.
A successful flank movement under
taken by Logan decided the day at
Champion Hills soon after the capture
of jackson.
On May Is Pemberton shut himself
ND in Vicksburg. The Investment Of
the town was completed by the next
morning. Logan was in the front as
always and his command undermined
and blew up Fort Hill and fought a
bloody hand to hand fight over the wa
ter. His command was the first to
enter Vicksburg and Logan became
Military Governor of the place.
The following November General
Logan succeeded General Mcpherson
in the command of the Fifteenth Army
Corps. the corps which Grant and
Sherman had successfully commanded
Logan spent the winter at Huntsville,
Ala. In May, 1864, he joined Sherman.
Logan led the advance on Resaca on
May Is, 1864, and during the three
DAYS fighting left his men neither to
eat nor sleep. The. enemey's position
was forced.
Still moving on the right Logan came
llD with the enemy again at Dallas on
May 81, and was engaged the following
day with Hardee's corps, $4,000 strong.
Little Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta,
and Stone Mountain were successive
scenes of his activity on the march
to Atlanta, which he reached on July
81, being the first to shell the town.
Then came July % the battle of At
lanta. Mcpherson fell and was sue
ceeded by Logan. With nightfall Hood
retired his forces within the city.