ARMY OPERATIONS (1862). 



Expedition down the Mississippi under Com- 

 modore Foote, 60 ; land and naval forces, 60 ; 

 reaches Columbus, 60 ; Island No. 10, 60 ; its 

 situation, 60 ; fortifications, 61 ; movement of 

 General Pope, 61 ; capture of New Madrid, 

 61 ; occupies Point Pleasant, 61 ; takes his 

 army across the Mississippi, 61 ; gunboat Ca- 

 rondelet runs past the batteries on the island, 

 63 ; evacuation of Island No. 10, 63 ; capture 

 of Confederate force, 63. 



New Confederate line of defence, 63 ; gun- 

 boats move down the Mississippi, 63 ; anchor 

 at Plum Point, 64; naval battle with Con- 

 federate gunboats, 64 ; evacuation of Fort Pil- 

 low, 65; General Pope ordered to Corinth, 

 65 ; naval battle before Memphis, 65 ; surrender 

 of Memphis, 66 ; expedition up the White 

 River, 66. 



Operations in Tennessee, 67 ; forces of Gen- 

 eral Grant, 67 ; line of defence, 67 ; Confeder- 

 ate force, 67 ; movements of the Federal force, 

 67; plan of General Buell, 68; Pittsburg 

 Landing, 68; battle at Shiloh, 69-73; dis- 

 patch of General Beauregard, 73; message 

 of President Davis to the Confederate Con- 

 gress, 73 ; General Halleck takes command and 

 moves on Corinth, 74; its situation, 75; ad- 

 vances of the Federal army, 75 ; dispatches of 

 General Halleck, 75; evacuation of Corinth, 

 76; Confederate works, 76; pursuit of the 

 Confederate forces, 78 ; movements of General 

 Mitchell, 78 ; capture of Huntsville, 78 ; seizure 

 of the railroad, 79; operations in Alabama, 

 79; close of operations in Tennessee, 80. 



Situation in Virginia, 80; movements of 

 General Lander, 80; intended movements of 

 General Jackson, 80; attack at Blue's Gap, 

 81 ; march of General Lander from Romney, 

 81 ; position of the Confederate army, 81 ; ad- 

 dress of General Beauregard, 81 ; do. of Gen- 

 eral Johnson, 82 ; design of General McClellan, 

 82 ; effects of the order of the President for a 

 general movement of all the troops, 82 ; a de- 

 cided injury, 82 ; opinion at Richmond on this 

 order, 82 ; salvation of the Confederacy, 82 ; 

 Federal movement at Harper's Ferry, 82 ; re- 

 treat of Confederate army commenced, 83 ; 

 battle of Winchester, 83; new Confederate 

 line, 83; order of the President dividing the 

 Army of the Potomac into corps, 84 ; assigning 

 General McClellan to the command, 84 ; effect, 

 84; address of General McClellan, 84; expos- 

 ure of his plans, 85 ; his position, 85 ; move- 



ment of troops begun, 86 ; number in the Army 

 of the Potomac, 86 ; withdrawal of General 

 Blenker's division, 86 ; reason, 86 ; letter of 

 President Lincoln, 86 ; withdrawal of General 

 McDowell's corps, 87 ; statements in the Sen- 

 ate, 87 ; statement of General McClellan at a 

 court-martial, 88 ; his instructions to General 

 Wadsworth, 88 ; do. to General Banks, 88, 89 ; 

 letter to General Thomas, 89; further state- 

 ments of General McClellan in a court-martial, 

 90 ; generals under command of General McClel- 

 lan, 90; countermanded, 90; order creating 

 the Mountain Department, 90 ; do. Shenan- 

 doah, 90; do. Rappahannock, 90; duty as- 

 signed to General McDowell to protect the capi- 

 tal, 90 ; movements of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac from Fortress Monroe, 90 ; Yorktown, 90 ; 

 Gloucester, 90; progress of army, 92; attack 

 of Vermont troops on the enemy's line, 93 ; 

 sharp-shooters, 93 ; operations of the siege, 93 ; 

 evacuation of Yorktown, 94 ; causes to retard 

 its capture, 94; guns captured, 94; situation 

 of Williamsburg, 94 ; advance upon, 94 ; move- 

 ments of General McClellan, 94 ; misinformed 

 of affairs in front, 94 ; fight before Williams- 

 burg, 95 ; success of General Hancock, 95 ; 

 arrival of General McClellan, 96; address to 

 the troops, 96 ; advance of General Franklin 

 to West Point, 96 ; conflict, 96 ; aid of the gun- 

 boats, 96; delays at Williamsburg, 97; evacu- 

 ation of Norfolk, 97; its occupation by Federal 

 troops, 97; advance of General McClellan's 

 army, 98 ; description of the country, 98 ; con- 

 centration of Confederate forces, 99 ; skirmish- 

 ing, 99; instructions from the War Depart- 

 ment, 99; to General McDowell to join 

 General McClellan, 99 ; movement under Gen- 

 eral Porter upon Hanover Court-House, 99; 

 conflict, 100 ; opinion of General McClellan on 

 the effect of a junction with General McDow- 

 ell, 100 ; Prince de Joinville, 100 ; cause of the 

 failure of General McDowell to join General 

 McClellan, 100; advance of the former to 

 Fredericksburg, 101; General Shields sent to 

 join General McDowell, 101 ; orders from the 

 War Department to General McDowell how to 

 proceed after the junction with General Shields, 

 101 ; force of General Shields, 101 ; joins Gen- 

 eral McDowell, 101 ; ordered to fall back to 

 relieve* General Banks, 101; correspondence, 

 101 ; General Shields falls back, 102 ; General 

 Fremont's department, 102; his movements, 

 102; conflict at McDowell, 104; General Fre- 



