Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Wood's Division
Status in the West
Both sides are now quickly converging on the next area of conflict: the area around Corinth, MS, a major rail hub and gateway to Memphis and the lower Mississippi River. Confederate armies have begun to combine at Corinth, MS. Halleck has ordered Grant to consolidate all the troops advancing up the Tennessee River at Savannah, TN, and to wait there for Buell's army to join them.
By the 18th, most Buell's divisions are about 40 miles to the SSE of Nashville, at Columbia and Mt. Pleasant. They will push toward Savannah, another 70 miles ESE of Columbia. Buell in dispatches complains of burned bridges, rains, and flooding slowing his progress.
Peninsula Campaign
In the eastern theater, McClellan has begun the Peninsula Campaign in an effort to take Richmond. This campaign would see most of the eastern army moved south by boat from the Washington, D.C. area to Fort Monroe (in the Hampton/Newport News area) and then an attack up the peninsula between the York and James Rivers toward Richmond. The first 10,000 troops were sent to Fort Monroe on the 18th.
More Information: .
- Link: War Operations, see Volume X, Chapter XXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 38-47
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp.62-63.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, pp. 272-274.
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