Colonel Phillips Commands Indian Brigade
In making the final disposition of his troops General Schofield directed Colonel W. A. Phillips to take command of the Indian Brigade, consisting of the First, Second and Third Indian Regiments.
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Enroute to Baton Rouge
19 Dec 1862. Scarcely three days after accepting a clerkship for General Banks at New Orleans, James requests dismissal to return to the 52nd Regiment. Gen. Banks agrees, and James jumps aboard the Iberville to head towards Baton Rouge where his Regiment is temporarily quartered.
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Battle of Prairie Grove (Part 2)
(Page 135) The battle was rapidly developing. After crossing the creek, Colonels Orme and Bertram formed their brigades in line under cover of the bluff on the left and right of the road. Colonel McNulta, with the Ninety-fourth Illinois, formed on the left of the line; Colonel McFarland, with the Nineteenth Iowa, formed in the [...]
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General Schofield Resumes Command
After the return of the troops from the expedition to Van Buren to Rhea’s Mills and Prairie Grove, General Schofield, who had been absent on account of illness for more than a month, returned and as stated, resumed command of the Army of the Frontier about the first of January, and as there were no organized forces of the enemy in Western Arkansas or Indiana Territory north of the Arkansas River, new operations were to be planned and new dispositions of the forces to be made.
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Rockbridge First Dragoons Roster
The following is a list of the dead and living who at any time during the war served in the Rockbridge First Dragoons, Company C, 1st Virginia Cavalry.
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The Van Buren Expedition
The battle of Prairie Grove was one of the three big battles between the Union and Southern forces in Western Arkansas and Missouri during the war in that region, and the success of the Union arms had far-reaching effects in maintaining the confidence in the Government of those who had espoused its cause early in the war, and it gave many of the people an opportunity of coming in and showing their devotion to the Union, and the men of military age a chance to enlist in one of several loyal Arkansas regiments then being organized
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