Officers and Troops Engaged.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio in command of the Federal Forces in the attack on Fort Donelson, entered West Point in 1839, was appointed to the 4th Infantry, U. S. A., in 1843, with rank of Second-Lieutenant. He was transferred to the 17th infantry in 1845, was brevetted for gallant service at Moline del Ray in Mexico, and again at Chepultepec. He was a captain in 1853, resigning the service the year following. He resided in Galena at the outbreak of the rebellion and was appointed a Brigadier-General succeeding on such appointment General Prentiss on command at Cairo.
The following is Gen. Grant’s Staff:
Acting Major General | Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant |
STAFF | |
Assistant Adj’t Gen | Maj. J. A. Rawlins |
Quatermaster | Capt. Lawton |
Medical Director | Maj. Jas. Simmons, M. D. |
First Aid | Captain C. B. Lagone |
Second Aid | Captain W. S. Hiller |
Volunteer Aid | Captain Graham |
Acting Chief Engineer | Colonel Webster |
Brigade Surgeon | Captain Brinton, M. D. |
THE GUNBOAT[S] AND THEIR OFFICERS.
The following are the officers in command of the fleet, which was brought into action and of each boat:
OFFICERS OF THE FLEET | |
Flag officers | ANDEREW H. FOOTE, U. S. N. |
Fleet Captain | Commander A. M. Pennock, U. S. N. |
Ordnance Officer | Lieutenant J. P. Sanford, U. S. N. |
Ordnance Lieutenant | Byron Wilson |
Flag Lieutenant | James N. Prickett |
Flag Officer’s Secretary and Acting Paymaster-in-Chief | S. Heariques |
GUNBOAT ESSEX.
Commander, H. D. Porter, U. S. N., first master, Robert K. Riley; Second Master, James Lanning
GUNBOAT CARONDELET.
Commander, Henry Walker, U. S. N.; First master, Richard K. Wade; Second Master, Jno. Dorety.
GUNBOAT CINCINNATI.
Commander, R. N. Stembel, U. S. N.; First Master, vacant; Second Master, ___ Pratt.
GUNBOAT ST. LOUIS.
Lieutenant Commanding, Leonard Paulding, U. S. N.; First Master, Saml. Black; Second Master, Jamey Y. Clemson.
GUNBOAT CONESTOGA.
Lieutenant commanding, Phelps, U. S. N.; First Master, John A. Duble; Second Master, Charles P. Nobel.
GUNBOAT TAYLOR.
Leitenant Commanding, W. Gwin, U. S. N.; First Master, Edward Saw; Second Master, Jason Goudy.
GUNBOAT LEXINGTON.
Lieutenant Commanding, J. W. Shirk, U. S. N.; First Master, Jacob S. Hurd; Second Master, Martin Dunn.
ARMAMENTS OF THE GUNBOATS
Guns | |
Essex | 9 |
Carondelet | 18 |
Cincinnati | 18 |
St. Louis | 18 |
Conestoga | 9 |
Taylor | 9 |
Lexington | 9 |
These guns are all in battery, and none are less than 32-pounders – some are 42-pounders, some 64-pounders, and one (on the Essex) throws a shell weighing one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. In addition of these, each boat carries a Dahlgren rifled 12-pounder boat howitzer on the upper deck. Several of the larger guns on each boat are rifled.
LIST OF THE LAND FORCES.
We give below a list of forty-two regiments and seven batteries, forming Gen. Grant’s army, to which should be added Gen. T. L. Crittenden’s command that has lately joined him, from Calhoun, Ky. The entire force under Gen. Grant is hardly less than 50,000 men – an immense column, almost wholly the creation fo the last ten days. Indeed regiments have been moving about so fast that it is next to impossible to keep track of them, and for this reason it is difficult to tell how the brigades and divisions have been formed. The troops are as follows:
IOWA INFANTRY.
2d Iowa – Col. J. M. Tuttle.
3d Iowa – Col. N. G. Williams.
7th Iowa – Col. John G. Louman.
11th Iowa – Col. Abraham F. Hare.
12th Iowa – Col. Jackson S. Wood.
13th Iowa – Col. Marcellus M. Crocker.
14th Iowa – Col. William T. Shaw.
ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
7th – Col. John Cook, acting Brigadier General; Lieutenant Colonel, Andrew J. Babcock.
8th – Col. Richard J. Oglesby, Acting Brigadier General; Lieutenant Colonel, Frank L. Rhodes.
9th – Col. Augustus Mersey.
10th – Col. James D. Morgan.
11th – Col. Thomas E. R. Ransom.
12th – Col. John McArthur.
16th – Col. Robert F. Smith.
18th – Col. Michael K. Lawler.
20th – Col. Carroll A Marsh.
22d – Col Henry Dougherty, (invalid); Lieut. Co. H. E. Hart.
27th – Col. Napoleon B. Buford.
28th - Col. Amory K. Johnson.
29th – Col. James S. Reardon.
30th – Col. Philip B. Fouke, absent; Lieut. Colonel, E. L. Dennis.
31st – Col. John A. Logan.
32d – Col John Logan.
41st – Col. Isaac C. Pugh.
45th – Col. John E. Smith.
46th – Col. John A. Davis.
48th – Col. Isham N. Haynie.
49th – Col. Wm. R. Morrison, wounded; Lieut. Colonel, Thomas G. Allen.
50th – Col. – Moses M. Bane.
52d – Lieut. Col. John S. Wilcox.
55th – Col. David Stuart.
57th – Col. S. D. Baldwin.
ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
2d Regiment – Col. Silas Noble.
3d Regiment – Col. Eugene A. Carr.
4th Regiment Col. T. Lyle Dickey.
7th Regiment – Col. Wm. Pitt Kellogg.
ILLINOIS ARTILLERY.
Batteries – Schwartz’s, Dresser’s, Taylor’s McAllister’s, Richardson’s, Willard’s and Buell’s, in all thirty four guns.
TROOPS FROM OTHER STATES.
8th Missouri – Col. Morgan L. Smith.
13th Missouri – Col Crafts J. Wright.
1st Mo. Artillery – Col. Totten.
11th Indiana – Col. Geo. F. McGinnis.
23d Indiana – Col. Wm. L. Sanderson.
48th Indiana – Col. Norman Eddy.
52d Indiana – Col. James M. Smith.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 2
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