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THE OPPOSING FORCES AT IUKA, MISS.
thing was made ready for battle in the morning.The enemy, however, left the vicinity of the fieldduring the night, leaving the battery which hadbeen the object of such a sanguinary struggle buta short distance to the rear, and near their first lineof battle.
The Fulton road being open, there was nothingto interfere with the enemy’s escape. A pursuitwas made the following day — but a pursuit of adefeated enemy can amount to little in a countrylike that of northern Mississippi , heavily wooded,
and with narrow roads, when the enemy has timeenough to get his artillery and trains in front ofliis infantry. To make an effective pursuit, it mustbe so close on the heels of the battle that trains,artillery, and troops can be made to blockade theroads by being mixed in an indiscriminate mass.
On the following day, September 2lst, our troopswere back in their old encampments at Jacinto.Just two weeks later, the same divisions and bri-gades were measured against each other on thefield of Corinth.
THE OPPOSING FORCES AT IUKA, MISS.
September 19th, 1802.
The composition, losses, ami strength of each army as here stated give the gist of all tho data obtainable in the Official.Records. K stands for killed; w for wounded; m \v for mortally ■wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured.
THE UNION FOBCES.
ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.— Major-General William S. Rosccrans.
second division, Brig.-Gen. David S. Stanley .
First Brigade, Col. jolm W. Fuller: 27tli Oliio, MajorZephaniali S. Spaulding; 39tlx Oliio, Col. Alfred W. Gil-bert ; 43d Ohio, Col. J. L. Kirby Smith; 63d Ohio , Col.John W. Sprague; M, 1st Mo. Art’y* Capt. Albert M.Powell; 8th Win. Battery (section), Lieut . John D.McLean; F, 2d U. S. Art’y, Capt. Thomas D. Maurice.Brigade loss; w, 8. Second Brigade, Col. Joseph A.Mower: 26th Ill., Major Robert A. Gillmore; 47th Ill.,Lieut.-Col. William A. Thrush; 11th Mo. , Major AndrewJ. Weber; 8th Wis., Lieut.-Col. George W. Robbins; 2dIowa Battery, Capt. Nelson T. Spoor; 3d Mich. Battery,Capt. Alex. W. Dees. Brigade loss: k, 8; w, 81; 111,4 = 93.third division, Brig.-Gen.C.S. Hamilton. Staff loss: w,2.
Escort: C, 5th Mo. Cav., Capt. Albert Borcherdt (w).Loss : k, 1; w, 2 = 3.
First Brigade, Col. John B. Sanborn: 48th I nd., Col.Norman Eddy (w), Lieut.-Col. Do Witt C. Rugg; 5thIowa, Col. Charles L. Matthies; 16 tli Iowa , Col. Alex-ander Chambers (w), Lieut.-Col. Add. I-I. Sanders; 4thMinn., Capt. Ebcnczer Le Gro; 26th Mo. , Col. George B.Boomer (w); 11th Ohio Battery, Lieut . Cyrus Sears (w).Brigade loss; k, 127; w, 434; m, 27 =588. Second Bri-gade, Brig.-Gen. Jeremiah C. Sullivan: 10th Iowa, Col.
Nicholas Perczel; 17 th Iowa , Col. John W. Rankin (in-jured), Capt. Samson M. Archer (w), Capt. John L. Young;10th Mo., Col. Samuel A. Holmes; E,24th Mo.,Capt. Lafay-ette M. Rice; 80 th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Matthias II . Bartilson(w), Major Richard Lanning; 12th Wis. Battery, Lieut ,Lorenzo D. Immell. Brigade loss: k, 5; w, 76; in, 5=86.
cavalry division, Col. John K. Mizner: 2d Iowa , Col.Edward Hatch; B and E, 7th Kans., Capt. FrederickSwoyer; 3d Mich., Capt. Lyman G. Willeox. Divisionloss: w, 9. Unattached: Jenks’s Co., Ill. Cav., Capt.Albert Jenks. Loss: w, 1.
Total loss of the Union Army: killed, 141; wounded,613; captured or missing, 36 = 790.
GeneralRosecrauH says (“ Official Records,” Vol. XVII.,Pt. I., p. 74) that “ we moved from Jacinto at 5 a. m., with9000 men, on Price ’s forces at Iuka. After a march of18 miles attacked them at 4:30 3*. M. . . . with less thanhalf our forces in action.” Meanwhile tho command ofGeneral E. O. C. Ord, comprising the divisions of Davies,Ross, and McArthur, numbering about 8000 men, wasinarching from Corinth direct- on Iuka, and was withinfour or five miles of the battle-field on the 19th (see map,p. 730). The entire Union force near Iuka, includingOrd, was about 17,000 men.
first division, Brig.-Gcn. Henry Little (k).
First Brigade, Col. Elijah Gates; 16th Ark.,-; 2d
Mo., Col. Francis M. Cockrell; 3d Mo., Col. Janies A.
Pritchard; 5th Mo. ,-; 1st Mo. (dismounted cavalry),
Lieut.-Col. W. D. Maupin; Mo . Battery, Capt. WilliamWade. Brigade loss: w, 10. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen.
Louis Hubert: 34th Ark., -; 17th Ark., Lieut.-Col.
John Griffith; 3d La. , Lieut.-Col. J. B. Gilmore (w); 40thMiss., Col. W. Bruce Colbert; 1st Tex. Legion (dis-mounted cavalry), Col. John W. Whitfield (w), Lieut.-Col. E. R. Hawkins ; 3d Tex. (dismounted cavalry), Col.II. P. Mabry (w); St. Louis (Mo .) Battery, Capt, WilliamFT Dawson; Clark (Mo.) Battery, Lieut . J. L. Faris.Brigade loss : k, 63; w, 305; m, 40 = 408. Third Brigade,Brig.-Gen. Martin E. Green: 7th Miss.Battalion, Lieut.-Col. J. S. Terral; 43d Miss.. Col. W. II. Moore; 4th Mo.,Col. A. MacFaiiane : 6th Mo., Col. Eugene Erwin ; 3d Mo. (dismounted cavalry),-; Mo . Battery, Capt. Heury
Guibor; Mo . Battery, Capt. John C. Landis. FourthBrigade , Col. John D. Martin ; 37th Ala., Col. James F.Dowdell (w); 36th Miss., Col. W. W. Witherspoon ; 37thMiss., Col. Robert McLain; 38t.h Miss, Col. F. W. Adams.Brigade loss: k, 22 ; w, 95= 117.
cavalry, Brig.-Gen. Frank C. Armstrong: Miss, regi-ment, Col. Wirt Adams; 2d Ark., Col. W. F. Klomons;2d Mo., Col. Robert McCulloch; 1st Miss. Partisan Ran-gers, Col. W. C. Falkner. Loss not reported.
Total Confederate loss: killed, 85; wounded, 410; capt-ured or missing, 40 = 535.
The battle was fought on tho Confederate side by Lit-tle’s division, and mainly by the brigades of Hubert »udMartin, numbering 3179 men. But the effective strengthof Price ’s entire command is estimated at about 14,000,including Dabney IT. Maury’s division, of three brigades,which, (luring the 19th, was held near Iuka in readinessto confront Ord.