Annals of the Army of the Cumberland - comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent (14575965290)

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Title: Annals of the Army of the Cumberland : comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles ; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries ... and official reports of the battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Fitch, John, of Alton (Ill.)
Subjects: United States. Army of the Cumberland Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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entfor promotion to commissary of subsistence, with the rank ofcaptain. February 13, 1863, he was ordered on duty in thecommi^ary department as acting commissary of the 2d Division,14th Army Corps Lieutenant E. H. Cochran, Provost-Marshal and Judge-Advo-cate, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 25, 1836. Hisfather was an honest, frugal farmer, grandson of Captain ThomasCochran, who was slain by the Indians in West Virginia duringthe Eevolutionary War. His mother is a daughter of EllisDavis, deceased, who was a soldier in the War of 1812 and oneof the early settlers of Ohio. In September, 1861, youngCochran entered the service as first lieutenant in the 15th OhioVolunteer Infantry. At the battle of Lavergne, October 7,1862,he was aide to Brigadier-General Palmer, whci*e the enemyunder the rebel General Anderson were signally defeated. Atthe request of General Negley, he was soon after appointedprovost-marshal on the generals staff by special order of Major-General Eosecrans. 11/ tahf
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•hy H @Fra©iss ®F ST/^rr» Pajor-iicncnil John Pcjiukg ^iilmcr mxH ^taff. John McAuley Palmer was born on Eagle Creek, Scottcounty, Kentucky, September 13, 1817. His father, Louis D.Palmer (who is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-two),emigrated to Kentucky from ISTorthumberland county, Virginia,in l^he year 1793, and was there married in 1813 to Miss AnnTutt, a native of Culpepper county, Yirginia. The ancestorsof the family were from England, and among the earliest set-tlers of Virginia. At the time of the birth of the subject of this sketch, whatwas then known as the Green Eiver country was beginning toattract attention, and the elder Palmer, a soldier in the War of1812, and fond of adventure, removed to Christian county, wherehe purchased a considerable quantity of the new cheaj) lands ofthat then almost wilderness, and engaged in farming. Here hisson spent his childhood, attending the school taught in theneighborhood in winter, and rendering assistance upon the farm