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BRAITHREAN “Band of Brothers” John Loudermilk Chapter # 264

Military Order of the Stars and Bars Issue Twelve, Fall 2011

In 1861, Americans were preoccupied by THE SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION A continuation of the series depicting WBTS battles that were occurring 150 years ago The following are summaries of the question of which states would join battles in the late summer and fall of the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. In Missouri, it 1861. was largely settled at Wilson's Creek on Wilson's Creek August 10, 1861, in a contest that is rightly considered the second major Oak Hills Missouri battle of the Civil War. August 10, 1861

1 carried Price and his Missouri State Guard as far as Lexington. Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon's In late October, a rump convention, Army of the West was camped at convened by Governor Claiborne Fox Springfield, Missouri, with Confederate Jackson, met in Neosho and passed an troops under the commands of Brigadier . General Ben McCulloch approaching. Wilson's Creek, the most significant 1861 On August 9, both sides formulated plans battle in Missouri, gave the Confederates to attack the other. About 5:00 am on the control of southwestern Missouri. 10th, Lyon, in two columns commanded Result(s): Confederate victory by himself and Franz Sigel, Location: Greene County and Christian attacked the Confederates on Wilson's County Creek about 12 miles southwest of Campaign: Operations to Control Springfield. Missouri (1861) Rebel cavalry received the first blow and Date: August 10, 1861 fell back away from Bloody Hill. Principal Commanders: Brigadier Confederate forces soon rushed up and stabilized their positions. The Confederates attacked the Union forces three times that day but failed to break through the Union line. Lyon was killed during the battle and Major Samuel D. Sturgis replaced him. Meanwhile, the Confederates had routed Sigel's column, south of Skegg's Branch. Following the third Confederate attack, which ended at 11:00 am, the Confederates withdrew. Sturgis realized, however, that his men were exhausted General Nathaniel Lyon and Major and his ammunition was low, so he General Samuel D. Sturgis [US]; Major ordered a retreat to Springfield. General , Missouri State The Confederates were too disorganized Guard, and Brigadier General Ben and ill-equipped to pursue. This McCulloch [CS] Confederate victory buoyed southern Forces Engaged: Army of the West [US]; sympathizers in Missouri and served as a Missouri State Guard and McCulloch's springboard for a bold thrust north that Brigade [CS]

2 Estimated Casualties: 2,330 total (US Following the victory at Wilson's Creek, 1,235; CS 1,095) the Confederate Missouri State Guard, having consolidated forces in the northern and central part of the state, marched, under the command of Major Kessler's Cross Lanes General Sterling Price, on Lexington. West Colonel James A. Mulligan commanded August 26 1861 the entrenched Union garrison of about 3,500 men. On August 26, Brigadier General John Price's men first encountered Union Floyd, commanding Confederate forces in skirmishers on September 13 south of the Kanawha Valley, crossed the Gauley town and pushed them back into the River to attack Col. Erastus Tyler's 7th fortifications. Price, having bottled the Ohio Regiment encamped at Kessler's Union troops up in Lexington, decided to Cross Lanes. await his ammunition wagons, other The Union forces were surprised and supplies, and reinforcements before routed. Floyd then withdrew to the river assaulting the fortifications. and took up a defensive position at By the 18th, Price was ready and ordered Carnifex Ferry. an assault. During the month, General Robert E. Lee The Missouri State Guard moved arrived in western Virginia and forward amidst heavy Union artillery fire attempted to coordinate the forces of and pushed the enemy back into their Brigadier Gens. Floyd, Henry Wise, and inner works. William W. Loring. On the 19th, the Rebels consolidated their Result(s): Confederate victory positions, kept the Yankees under heavy Date: August 26, 1861 artillery fire and prepared for the final Principal Commanders: Col. Erastus attack. Tyler [US]; Brig. Gen. John Floyd [CS] Early on the morning of the 20th, Price's Forces Engaged: Brigades, Estimated men advanced behind mobile Casualties: 85 total (US 45; CS 40) breastworks, made of hemp, close enough to take the Union works at the Anderson

House in a final rush. Lexington Missouri Mulligan requested surrender terms after Battle of the Hemp Bales noon, and by 2:00 PM his men had September 13-20, 1861 vacated their works and stacked their arms. This Unionist stronghold had fallen, further bolstering southern sentiment and consolidating Confederate control in the Missouri Valley west of Arrow Rock. Result(s): Confederate victory Location: Lafayette County Campaign: Operations to Control Missouri (1861) Date(s): September 13-20, 1861 Principal Commanders: Colonel James A. Mulligan [US]; Major General Sterling Price [CS] Forces Engaged: Garrison (approx. 3,500) [US]; Missouri State Guard (12,000) [CS]

3 Est. Casualties: 1,874 total (US 1,774; CS Principal Commanders: Colonel Harvey 100) Brown [US]; Confederate Brigadier General Richard H. Anderson [CS] Forces Engaged: Santa Rosa Island Garrison (approx. 600 men) [US]; Santa Rosa Island infantry and artillery detachments (approx. 1,200 men) [CS] Florida Est. Casualties: 154 total (US 67; CS 87) October 9, 1861

Camp Wildcat Wildcat Mountain Kentucky October 21, 1861

After midnight on October 9, Brigadier General Richard Anderson crossed from the mainland to Santa Rosa Island with 1,200 men in two small steamers to surprise Union camps and capture Fort Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer's men Pickens. He landed on the north beach occupied Cumberland Gap and took about four miles east of Fort Pickens and position at Cumberland Ford to counter divided his command into three columns. the Unionist activity in the area. Brigadier General George H. Thomas After proceeding about three miles, the sent a detachment under Colonel T.T. Confederates surprised the 6th Regiment, Garrard to secure the ford on the New York Volunteers, in its camp and Rockcastle River, establish a camp at routed the regiment. Wildcat Mountain, and obstruct the General Anderson then adopted a Wilderness road passing through the defensive stance to entice the Federals to area. leave the fort and attack. Colonel Garrard informed Thomas that if Receiving reinforcements, Colonel he did not receive reinforcements, he Harvey Brown sallied against the would have to retreat because he was Confederates, who reembarked and outnumbered seven to one. Thomas sent returned to the mainland. Brigadier General A. Schoepf with what Result(s): Union victory amounted to a brigade of men to Colonel Location: Escambia County Garrard, bringing the total force to about Campaign: Operations of Gulf 7,000. On the morning of October 21, Blockading Squadron (1861) only battle soon after Schoepf arrived, some of his in campaign men moved forward and ran into Rebel Date: October 9, 1861 forces, commencing a fight. The Federals repelled the Confederate attacks, in part

4 due to fortifications, both man-made and Opothleyahola's band was at the Red natural. Fork of the Arkansas River, where they The Confederates withdrew during the were erecting a fort. Cooper's men night and continued their retreat to arrived there around 4:00 pm and Cumberland Ford, which they reached on ordered a cavalry charge which the 26th. A Union victory was welcomed, discovered that Chief Opothleyahola's countering the Confederate victory at band had recently abandoned the camp. Barbourville. The Confederates did find some Result(s): Union victory stragglers beyond the camp and followed Location: Laurel County them, blundering into Chief October 21, 1861 Opothleyahola's camp. Principal Commanders: Brigadier The Federals fired into the Rebel cavalry General Albin F. Schoepf [US]; Brigadier and, in large force, came out to attack General Felix Zollicoffer [CS] them. They chased the Confederates back Forces Engaged: Camp Wildcat Garrison to Cooper's main force. Darkness and Schoepf's Brigade (approx. 7,000 prevented Cooper from attacking until men) [US]; Zollicoffer's Brigade [CS] the main enemy force was within 60 Est. Casualties: 78 total (US 25; CS 53) yards. A short fight ensued but Chief Opothleyahola's men broke it off and retreated back to their camp. Cooper set out for Chief Opothleyahola's Round Mountain camp the next morning but found it gone. Oklahoma The Confederates claimed victory because November 19, 1861 Chief Opothleyahola had left the area. This was the first of three encounters between Chief Opothleyahola's Union bands and Confederate troops. The chief was forced to flee Oklahoma for Kansas at the end of the year. Result(s): Confederate victory Location: Unknown Campaign: Operations in the Indian Territory (1861) Date: November 19, 1861 Principal Commanders: Chief Opothleyahola [I]; Colonel Douglas H. Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, Confederate Cooper [CS] commander of the Indian Department, Forces Engaged: Creek and Seminole [I]; had not been able to reconcile differences Indian Department [CS] with Chief Opothleyahola, who Estimated Casualties: Unknown commanded a band of Unionist Creeks and Seminoles. Cooper set out on November 15, 1861, with about 1,400 men to either compel Yankees Who Fought under submission . . . or "drive him and his The Stars and Bars party from the country." His force rode up the Deep Fork of the Canadian River Samuel Cooper, adjutant towards Chief Opothleyahola's camp general of the U.S. Army since 1852, which they found deserted. reached a turning point on March 7, On the 19th, Cooper learned from 1861. On that day he decided to forget about his Hackensack, New Jersey, captured prisoners that part of Chief rearing and resigned his post to take up

5 the same job for the Confederacy. As York. adjutant general, he outranked Brig. Gen. Edward A. Perry, b. Richmond, practically all native-born fighters for Massachusetts. the Confederacy. Despite suspicions Brig. Gen. William McComb, b. Mercer about his loyalty, he remained at his City, Pennsylvania. post until Appomattox. Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles, b. Barre, Before First Bull Run, an estimated Massachusetts. two dozen natives of northern states Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, b. decided to cast their lot with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Confederacy; sixteen of them were Col. William C. Quantrill, b. Dover, Ohio. graduates of West Point. Among high- Col. Herman Haupt, b. Philadelphia, ranking officers or well-known scoun- Pennsylvania. drels of this group were: John Slidell, C.S.A. diplomatic Brig. Gen. , b. Running representative in France, b. New York Pumps, Pennsylvania. City. Brig. Gen. William Wallen, b. NYC. Brig. Gen. Johnson K. Duncan, b. York, Pennsylvania. Brig. Gen. William Miller, b. Ithaca, New Scenes from Charleston

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7 It’s Personal! Book Report

MY OLD CONFEDERATE HOME In the 1950s, Nobel Prize-winning author A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans William Faulkner took a Northern editor to By Rusty Williams the Oxford, Miss., home of a friend whose great-grandmother had been shot and killed This book traces the history of the Kentucky in her own bed by a Union soldier during the Confederate Home built in Pewee Valley Civil War. Kentucky. The home came into existence in He asked his friend's young daughter to lead 1902 and was finally closed in 1935. Using him and the editor to her bedroom. After detailed records of the home Mr. Williams is standing silently in the bedroom for a long able to cover the entire period of operation time, Faulkner pointed to a bullet hole in the from inception to the death of the final headboard. He turned to the editor and said, Veteran. From government and private "This is why the war will never die for these records he outlines the political and people in the South. This happened in this management aspects of the home but the girl's family." more interesting stories are from the records This anecdote, recounted in Willie Morris's of the old veterans themselves. From letters, "Faulkner's Mississippi," illustrates why logs, etc. he is able to confer a sense of what Americans - Northerners as well as these men were like, often in their own words. Southerners - have remained fascinated by These men were returning from War in 1865 Civil War history through the 20th century and there was no institutional support for st and into the second decade of the 21 . them. The Union Veterans were provided pensions, medical care and other assistance but none of these benefits were available TRIVIA #1 initially for the Confederate Veterans. As they aged and needed even more assistance, it 1. What future Confederate general lent travel just wasn’t available. Finally, in 1902, the money to U. S. Grant when Grant resigned from Kentucky UCV and UDC, with the help of the U. S. army in California? State Officials were able to open a home for these men. The personal stories of the 2. At First Bull Run, what fellow brigadier “inmates,” as they were called, make up the general coined the nickname “Stonewall” for majority of the book. The Chapter titles give Thomas J. Jackson? an idea of what kind of stories they are; “The Cripple and the Banker,” “The Boat Captain 3. A Louisiana Creole who spoke French before and the Bank Robber,” “The Governor and he learned English and was second in the West the Prisoner,” and “The Knight and the Point class of 1838 was given what three Icemaker” are a sampling of the chapters. baptismal names? There is also a section of excellent pictures from the 1890’s through the 1930’s printed 4. When ordered to return to Winchester on slick paper. Virginia in March of 1862, what commander of The book is an interesting and moving read a wing angrily offered to submit his resignation? and anyone interested in this phase of our Southern History will enjoy it.

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8 He was born near Vicksburg, Miss., June 11, RICHARD GATLING 1841, and when the first gun opened hostilities in South Carolina, Dick followed Like Henry Wirz, Richard J. Gatling his master into battle, acting as special expected to spend his life as a family doctor. servant and saddle boy. In 1862, when his Unlike Wirz, when war broke out he master was killed at New Orleans, young remained with his patients. Always a handy Dick shouldered his master's musket and fellow with tools and machinery, he designed became a private in his stead. He was several farm implements. Then he had an assigned to Company B, 17th Infantry, idea that led him to develop a rapid fire gun under Col. Wash Jones. He fought in the that could deliver 250 rounds per minute. Dr. Battles of Jenkins Ferry and Camden, in Gatling touted his new invention as "a great Arkansas, Berwick Bay, in LA, and was with life-saving device, sure to bring wars to a Gen. Ben McCulloch when that intrepid speedy end" but failed to convince skeptics at officer was killed at Pea Ridge. He was the U.S. War Department. The Gatling gun wounded at Mansfield, and captured by the was finally approved too late to see action Yankees at New Orleans. during the Civil War. After serving for six Declared free and an American citizen by years as president of the American General Benjamin “Beast” Butler, he refused Association of Inventors and Manufacturers, his freedom and sought to escape. He was "humanitarian" Gatling devoted his last then conscripted by the Yankees and forced productive years to work on a mechanized to fight against his rebel friends. Before many plow. days elapsed, however, Dick stole out of camp and made his way southward through the Louisiana swamps. A week later he emerged, half starved, before his old regiment and company, where he fought till the end of the Uncle Dick’s Devotion war.

From the April 1924 issue of Spencer "Dick" Perkins, Co. B 17th Texas The "" magazine, Infantry, is buried in Greenleaf Cemetery, Vol. XXXII No.4 page 155 Brownwood, Texas. One of the staunchest members of the Camp U.C.V., of Brownwood, is "Uncle Dick" Perkins, an old- Excerpt from the book, time Negro. He is a familiar figure at nearly all the general reunions of the boys in gray. “EVERYTHING YOU WERE He has been three times to New Orleans, TAUGHT ABOUT THE twice to Richmond, and once to Macon, CIVIL WAR IS WRONG” Memphis, Little Rock, Tulsa, Dallas and Page195 Houston. At all three reunions at New Orleans, "Uncle WHAT YOU WERE TAUGHT: Dick" visited the grave of his dead master, Confederate General Nathan Bedford cleaned off the lot, and placed a few flowers Forrest founded the KKK and was its first on the mound. At the last reunion in Dallas, grand wizard. Texas, he delighted the veterans with tales of his part in the memorable struggle between THE TRUTH: The names of the six the states. The old man has a very creditable men who founded the KKK on Christmas record in that war. Eve 1865 in a haunted house in Pulaski,

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10 GENERALS INVOLVED IN THE BATTLES LISTED IN THIS ISSUE Confederate

Felix Zollicoffer, Camp Wildcat

Union

Richard Anderson, Santa Rosa Island

Nathaniel Lyon, Wilson’s Creek John Floyd, Kessler’s Cross Lanes

Alvin Schoepf, Camp Wildcat Ben McCulloch, Wilson’s Creek

Samuel D. Sturgis, Wilson’s Creek Sterling Price, Wilson’s Creek/Lexington

11 Brown County Settlers BROWN COUNTY UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS'

CAMP 188 Since most of the early settlers of Brown

County came from the southern states, it was The Confederate veterans in Brown County a foregone conclusion that the sympathies of began to meet as early as 1887. It was in the area were with the South. When the March of 1892 that the veterans organized to state held its Secession Convention in 1861 join a host of other state veteran groups. The the Brown County people quickly voted to Brown County group first met on March 26, ratify the secession ordinance. Jane 1892. They chose the name "Stonewall Chandler, daughter of Welcome and Sarah, Jackson Camp No. 188 of United Confederate and Keziah Lee, wife of a famous Indian Veterans". G. W. Gordon was selected to be fighter, Brooks W. Lee, quickly made a large the commander and W. E. Mickle, adjutant. Confederate flag. The Stars and Bars emblem The Camp was a fraternal organization. They was raised with cheers on a one hundred- helped each other and worked with other foot flagpole during an impressive ceremony camps to pass measures to benefit the on the courthouse lawn. veterans. Mostly, the gatherings were a time Keziah Lee, who helped make the flag was of fellowship. the daughter of Ichabod and Caroline Adams. The Brown County camp met the first Keziah and Brooks were both natives of Sunday of January of each year and elected Tennessee and they, along with the Adams officers and made plans for the summer family, moved to Texas in 1857. Keziah was encampment. It was a time when families camped for two or three days on the banks of as intrepid a pioneer as her more famous the Pecan Bayou. Many came from other husband. She protected her isolated home counties. One of the favorite places to meet with a double-barrel shotgun day and night was at the "Gun Club Park" located on the during her husband's long absences. One Pecan Bayou near the C.C. Woodson bridge. time, on a cattle drive to California, Brooks There were speeches, testimonies, and music Lee was gone for over two years. His family with plenty of food, fellowship, and games. At by this time assumed that he was dead. night or in the afternoons, veterans sat in When he finally did return, according to groups under a tree or in the open, reliving Tessica Martin, "He walked in on his wife as the War days by telling tales of it. she was preparing a noon meal - and handed The Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 118 her $40,000 in gold." disbanded in the 1930 's. At a January 19, 1930 meeting, nine members were present. James E. Smith, the commander, and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth White, adjutant, were elected. Camp members present were: W. S. Garner, T. A. Witcher J .C. Allcorn, J. C. Jones, R. F. Clardy, Dr. J. A. Abney and Rev. J. W. Johnson. Dr. J. A. Abney outlived all his fellow Confederate veterans. He died July 29, 1947 at the age of 100.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION Brownwood Bulletin, May 6, 1930 “Pecan Valley Days” by Tevis C. Smith, Jr.

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Scenes from the War

Sharpsburg Dunker Church

Fall of Richmond

Lincoln and McClellan Meeting

Graves at Burnside Bridge

North Anna River Bridge

Richmond Canal

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These were men

Whom power could not corrupt

Whom death could not terrify

Whom defeat could not dishonor.

CONFEDERATE SUB UPRIGHT FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1864 By Bruce Smith, Associated Press, Friday June 24, Chapter Commander’s Report North Charleston, SC Gentlemen, The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time To say it has been hot and dry simply doesn’t in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its do justice to the severity of the weather these past few months. Thankfully, we just received hull not seen since it sank off the South over two inches of rain in my neck of the Carolina coast during the Civil War. woods, the first significant rainfall since last Workers at a conservation lab finished the October. I mention the weather because it is painstaking, two-day job of rotating the in part responsible for the canceling of our hand-cranked H.L. Hunley upright late July meeting. I would like you all to be Thursday. thinking about moving our meeting to either Spring or Fall. I will send out an e-mail soon to poll your opinions. In sesquicentennial history: in July we marked the 150th anniversary of the . I have always felt this battle was of more interest than most give it credit. It is true that there was much confusion and neither army was as organized as they would later become, but it is still worth study. Fought in beautiful countryside not yet spoiled by war, McDowell, who served with distinction in the war with Mexico, leading the Yankees, Johnston and Beauregard commanding the Confederate army. With Yankee losses getting close to 3000 and Confederate losses at near 2000, it

14 was a costly learning experience for both sides. Two Time Winner of the Captain John Morton Award for Best Our boys ran the yanks hard, if only they had Chapter Newsletter kept chasing them. If you haven’t reviewed the battle lately, now is a good time. Military Order of the Stars I also want to remind you that it isn’t too early to pay your MOS&B dues. They are not and Bars Benediction due until December, but everything always goes more smoothly if we are ahead of the Leader: I asked God for strength, that I game. Dues are still $50 ($35 National, $10 might achieve, State and $5 Chapter). You can send them to Members: I was made weak, that I might our Adjutant: learn humbly to obey. Ewell Loudermilk Leader: I asked for health, that I might do 6730 Treece Road greater things, San Angelo, TX 76905 Members: I was given infirmity that I might do better things. Don’t forget the MOSB National Convention Leader: I asked for riches, that I might be is coming to San Antonio in June 2012!! happy, Members: I was given poverty, that I might God Bless- be wise. Gary L. “Nux” Loudermilk Leader: I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men, Members: I was given weakness, that I might TRIVIA ANSWERS feel the need of God. Leader: I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life, 1. Simon Bolivar Buckner Members: I was given life, that I might enjoy 2. Bernard Bee all things. 3. Pierre Gustav Toutant (Beauregard) Leader: I got nothing that I asked for – but 4. Stonewall Jackson everything I had hoped for. 5. Joseph E. Johnston Members: Almost despite myself my 6. Alabama unspoken prayers were answered. 7. ALL: I am, among all men, most richly 8. Two horses in a team closest to the blessed. cannon Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier BANNAL AB BRAITHREAN Found on his body in the “Devil’s Den” (Band of Brothers) is a newsletter at Gettysburg published of and for the Major John Loudermilk Chapter # 264 of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. It is published electronically and issued seasonally. Comments, suggestions or questions may be sent to the Editor, Gary M. Loudermilk, at [email protected].

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