Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Wood's Division
There was little in the way of major activity to report for April 16-19. The army remained at Pittsburg Landing, and was mostly engaged in drill; there was an effort to gain more control of the troops and stop them moving around without orders. There was a little action in Alabama, as Tuscumbia was taken and then vacated. There was a slow Union movement down the Mississippi River toward Memphis.
In the far south, on the 19th, Union gunboats initiated the attack against the forts protecting the approaches to New Orleans. An army of about 18,000 Union troops awaited the neutralization of the forts that would allow the occupation of the city.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume X, Chapter XXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 108-114.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 67.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, p. 372
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Struggle Intensifies, pp. 701-702.
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