The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

south of Corinth, and Oh ne 18th OF
September broke camp and marched
north. No army says Van Dorm.
ever marched to battle with prouder
steps, more hopeful countenances, nor
with more courage than marched the
army of West Tennessee out of Ripley
on the morning of September 18th,
on it's way to Corinth.
i The greatest Importance was at
tached to the attempt On Corinth by
the rebels. Its capture would redeem
| West Tennessee from the federals.
1T must be taken at whatever ac-
rifice
THE attack on Corinth," says Van
Dorm, was military necessity
Gen. Earl Van Dorm marched his
| army quickly and straight north, till
he struck the Memphis railroad at
| Pochontas, twenty miles west and
north of Corinth-then he suddenly
turned east. and marched for Corinth
itself.
The night of October I'd, his army
slept at the village of Chewalla, ten
miles away, and long before daylight
of the 3rd, he was approaching the
outer works at Corinth. Gen. Sterling
Price. whom the Iowa soldiers had de-
!
Ioka, commanded Van Dorn's left
wing, whlle Van Dorm, leading the
right, commanded the whole.
/ Cen Rosecran's troops were little
| more than in position when stiff fight
\ ing had commenced by detachment
/, under Col. Oliver and Gen Macarthur
far out on the left and toward Che
| walla. Nine o'clock found Rosecran's
| army lying in semi-cirele reaching
i from the west around north and north
east of the town, with c. S. Hamil
/ tons division on the right across the
: Pordy road, Davies division in the
! center, McKean's division on the lief
and Stanley's division back in re
! serve.
All of the divisions except Stanley
included Iowa troops, and that had tn
Second Battery Iowa light artillery
The Fifth Iowa Infantry was il
Buford's brigade, and the Tenth AM
Seventeenth were in Sullivan's bri
|. gade, of Hamiltons division.
The Second and Seventh Iowa an
the Union brigade (the latter, cor
0 sisted of such fragments of the Stf
18th, and 14th Iowa and the 5Sth Ill
9, nois regiments, as had not been car
tured at Shiloh) were in Hackle
p mans brigade of Davies division
,, while Crockers' whole brigade, con
prising the Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fl
., teenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiment!
was in McKean's division on the lief
u The Second Iowa Cavalry was there
{ under Col. ~ Hatch and Maj. Cool
i while the Third Iowa Infantry, unde
D. Hurlbut at the Hatchie, gallant
fought the enemy later on his retrea
1t There were some fifty regiments c
G. parts of regiments in the battle {
Corinth
i OF these fifteen and a battery {
nearly one-third were from Iowa
Ten o'clock found heavy fightin
going on in front of Davies divisio
u near the Columbia railroad, where til
y Second and Seventh and the "Unio
20 brigade" were hotly contesting tt
% field. Just at their right were figh
IN ing the Tenth and Seventeenth low
!, in Hamiltons division.
II IL Was a Hard Battle Day.
-, The rays of an almost tropical ST
poured an intense heat straight dow
r on the unprotected heads of the ST
=. diers. Scarcely a breath of a
" W moved.
@ The thermometer registered i
~ degrees'in the shade.
=" Water was scarce and almost K
!. hot to drink from the heated tin ca
iU teens
Added to all were the heat and Il
'. smoke of tons and tons of burnil
powder, the awful explosions of mas
j. ed artillery, the heated crash of MI