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The Battalion mustered into Confederate service on June 2, under the command of General Benjamin F. Cheatham. [2] [3] The Battalion was sent to New Madrid, Missouri, and fought in a skirmish at Bird's Point, Missouri on October 14 and the Battle of Belmont on November 7. Col. A.J. Lindsay was appointed to take command of the Battalion in April ...
Frémont was placed in command of the Department of the West which included all states and territories between the Mississippi River and the Rockies as well as the state of Illinois and the western part of Kentucky. The department was headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Frémont arrived there and assumed command on July 25, 1861. [10]
On April 25 the Governor ordered General Anderson to take command at Memphis and to organize the volunteer forces that were assembling there. He remained there until May 3, when the command was turned over to General Sneed. Ten companies mustered into state service in Nashville became the First Tennessee Regiment on May 3.
The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.A 2005 study of the army states that it "was present at most of the great battles that became turning points of the war—Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta" and "won the decisive battles in the decisive theater of the war."
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army from 1841 to 1861, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, American Indian Wars, Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the American Civil War.
Beatie, Russel H. Army of the Potomac: Birth of Command, November 1860 – September 1861. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 0-306-81141-3. Beatie, Russel H. Army of the Potomac: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861 – February 1862. New York: Da Capo Press, 2004. ISBN 0-306-81252-5.
Following the unsuccessful attack to take Cheat Mountain to the north, Lee moved south to take command of the Army of the Kanawha Valley District after Floyd's defeat at Carnifex Ferry on September 10, 1861. Prior to Carnifex Ferry, Floyd sent a dispatch to General Wise stating he needed support in order to keep his position.
On April 27, 1861, Virginia Governor John Letcher ordered Colonel Jackson to take command at Harpers Ferry, where he would assemble and command the unit which later gained fame as the "Stonewall Brigade", consisting of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33rd Virginia Infantry regiments.