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  Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 8)

  One of 12 volumes TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. Formal Secession from the United States—Union with the Confederate States—Preparation for War—Organization of Troops—General Polk in Command—Occupation of Columbus—Battle of Belmont 3 CHAPTER II. Loss of the Line of the Cumberland—Battle of Fishing Creek—Death of General Zollicoffer—Fall of Fort Henry—Battle of Dover and Capitulation of Fort Donelson—New Madrid and Island No. 10—Evacuation of Nashville 15 CHAPTER III. The Battle of Shiloh—Organization of the Confederate Army—Assignment of Tennessee regiments—Their Prominence in the Army—Gallant Service in the Two Days' Battle—Tennessee Artillery—Lockridge Mill Fight 33 CHAPTER IV. Bragg and Kirby Smith in Kentucky—Victory at Richmond—The Battle of Perryville—Important Service of Tennesseeans—Fruits of the Campaign 45 CHAPTER V. The Battle of Murfreesboro—Tennessee Commands Engaged—Operations of the Cavalry—McCown Opens the Battle—Heroic Deeds of the Tennessee Brigades—Severe Losses—Cheatham and His Division 57 CHAPTER VI. Tennesseeans in Mississippi—At Chickasaw Bayou—Gregg's Brigade at Raymond—One Tennessee Brigade Combats an Army Corps—The Brigades of Reynolds and Vaughn at Vicksburg—The First Regiment Heavy Artillery—The State's Representation at Port Hudson, La 78 CHAPTER VII. Campaign in Middle Tennessee—Bragg Retires to Chattanooga—Battle of Chickamauga—Part of Tennesseeans in the Great Victory—Oppression of the People 90 CHAPTER VIII. The Fatal Pause on Missionary Ridge—Changes in Command—Cheatham's Division—The Fight at Lookout Mountain—Disaster on Missionary Ridge—Gallantry of Tennessee Commands—Battle at Ringgold—The Knoxville Campaign 113 CHAPTER IX. The Atlanta Campaign—Johnston takes Command—Reunion of Cheatham's Division—Tennesseeans at Resaca—New Hope Church—Dallas—Kenesaw Mountain—Losses of the Army—Battles about Atlanta—Jonesboro 125 CHAPTER X. The Campaign Against Sherman's Base—Allatoona and Dalton—Hood's Campaign in Tennessee—Spring Hill—Responsibility for the Lost Opportunity—The Battle of Franklin—Siege of Murfreesboro—Siege and Battle of Nashville—Retreat to Mississippi 143 CHAPTER XI. Tennesseeans in Virginia—Records of Archer's and Johnson's Brigades 179 CHAPTER XII. Tennessee Cavalry—West Tennessee Expedition—Streight's Raid—Forrest's New Command at Jackson—Battles of Okolona and Yazoo—West Tennessee Again—Fort Donelson, Fort Pillow and Other Battles—Forrest in North Alabama and Tennessee 217 CHAPTER XIII. Tennessee and the Navy 254 CHAPTER XIV. Tennessee and the Medical Department 265 CHAPTER XV. Tennessee and the Church. By Rev. M. B. DeWitt, Chaplain of the Eighth Tennessee 269 BIOGRAPHICAL 283 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FACING PAGE. ADAMS, JOHN 288 ANDERSON, SAMUEL R 288 ARMSTRONG, FRANK C 288 BATE, WILLIAM B 288 BELL, TYREE H 288 BROWN, JOHN CALVIN 288 CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER W 336 CARROLL, WILLIAM H 288 CARTER, JOHN C 336 CHATTANOOGA, MAP OF BATTLEFIELDS ABOUT. 121 CHEATHAM, BENJAMIN F 336 DAVIDSON, HENRV B 336 DIHRELL, GEORGE G 288 DONELSON, DANIEL S 336 FRANKLIN, MAP OF THE BATTLEFIELD 153 FRAZER, JOHN W 288 GORDON, GEORGE W 336 HATTON, ROBERT 336 HILL, BENJAMIN J 336 HUMES, W. Y. C 336 JACKSON, ALFRED E 288 JACKSON, WILLIAM H 336 JOHNSON, BUSHROD 304 MANEY, GEORGE 304 McCoMB, WILLIAM 304 McCowN, JOHN P 304 MURFREESBORO, PLAN OF BATTLE Between pages 64-5 NASHVILLE, MAP OF THE BATTLEFIELD 164 PALMER, JOSEPH B 328 PILLOW, GIDEON J 328 PORTER, JAMES D 1 QUARLES, WILLIAM A 304 RAINS, JAMES E 304 SHILOH, MAP OF THE BATTLEFIELD 41 SHILOH, MAP OF THE FIELD OF, NEAR PITTSBURG LANDING. 33 SMITH, PRESTON 328 SMITH, THOMAS B 304 STRAHL, OTHO F. 328 WALKER, L. M.. 328 WILGOX, CADMUS M. 328 WRIGHT, MARCUS J 328 ZOLLICOFFER, FELIX K 328
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  Brig. Gen. William McComb, C.S.A

  Colonel William McComb (1828 - 1918) Home State: Tennessee Command Billet: Commanding Regiment Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: 14th Tennessee Infantry On the Campaign-He commanded his regiment at Sharpsburg. In his after-action report, his Brigade commander, General Archer noted: My loss in this action was 15 killed and 90 wounded; among the latter Colonel [William] McComb, Fourteenth Tennessee, severely, and Captain [T. W.] Flynt, Nineteenth Georgia, dangerously. The gallant conduct of both these officers attracted my attention, though where all who were engaged behaved so gallantly it is difficult to select examples of particular merit.
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  Fair Oaks, Va., vicinity. Brigade officers of the Horse Artillery commanded by Lt. Col. William Hays

  Lieutenant Colonel William Hays (1819 - 1875) Home State: Tennessee Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1840;Class Rank: 18th Command Billet: Corps Chief of Artillery Branch of Service: Artillery Unit: VCorps Artillery Reserve On the Campaign-He commanded the V Corps Reserve Artillery, stationed on the heights east of the Antietam Creek on the 17th, providing long range fire, mainly against Confederate infantry positions between the East and West Woods.