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Volunteer Infantry REGIMENTAL HISTORY :0F THE;: ^ntfy Missouri VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. BY M. O. FROST, OF COMPANY D. Printed and Bound at the M. O, FBOST PRINTING COMPANY'S ROOMS, 838 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kas. ** > - r *'• \ To my Comrades, living and dead to their Widows and Orphans, this volume is respectfully dedicated by THE AUTHOR. 90734 Colonel SAMUEL A. HOLMES. Index. CHAPER I—Regimental Organization—The Twenty-first and Twenty-second Missouri 17 CHAPITER II—Scout Through Northern Missouri—Orders To Move to the Front.... 21 CHAPTER HI—A Start for Dixie—Halt at St. Louis—Ar­ rival at Cape Girardeau.. 36 CHAPTER IV—Arrival in Tennessee—Rain and Mud— $®ig® and Evacuation of Corinth—Our Maiden Fight 50 CHAPTER v—John M. Foster's Battalion joins us—A Large Forage Yield—The Battle of Iuka.. 64 CHAPTER YI—The Two Days Fight at Corinth—List of Killed and Wounded—Official Reports 80 CHAPTER VII—A Raid on Holly Springs—A Narrow Escape—Promotions...... ......,.....*......,................. 102 CHAPTER VIII—The Yazoo Pass Expedition—Difficulties Encountered—The Return Trip. 107 CHAPTER IX—We Leave Milliken's Bend and cross the Mississippi River—Battle of Raymond—Stirring up the Johnnies.. ........................ 122 CHAPTER x—Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.................. 126 CHAPTER xi—Battle of Champion Hills ...' 135 CHAPTER, XXI—Vicksburg......... 143 CHAPTER xm—-From Memphis to Chattanooga—Battle of Missionary Ridge.. —........... 178 CHAPTER XIV—A Stay at Flint River—Start for the Front—Resacca, Ga,,—Homeward Bound."............... 197 CHAPTER xv—Complete Roster of the Regiment........... 210 CHAPTER"XVI—Company Histories.............;, ',.............257 CHAPTER XVII—Biographies............ 304" CHAPTER xvm—Reminiscences.. ............,.,,.„....,. 315 CHAPTER XIX—The Pioneer Corps 291 To My Comrades. There has been considerable talk for years among the survivors of our old Regiment of having a history of its exploits compiled for the sake of furnishing the survivors and the widows and orphans of those who have gone to the other shore, a truthful account of the doings of the'brave men' who went forth in 1861 to fight, and if needs be die to protect the honor and integrity of our Nation and the sanctity of our flag. At every Re­ union this matter was brought up and discussed, but on the adjournment each time, we we're no nearer accomplishing the object than the year before. It was a thankless undertaking, so few of the members taking interest enough in the enterprise to advance any funds to secure the object, and no one being willing to go to five or six[ hundred dol­ lars expense, to compile and publish it, with a slim chance of, in time, getting a portion of it back. Finally a few of the more enthusiastic ones, viz.: Comrades G. F. W. FROEHLICH, J. F. DAUGHERTY and myself agreed to start a guarantee fund of $300 by subscribing $30 each, so the work could be started. To this neucles others added until the sum reached $252.00, and on the strength of that this work was started. Every effort was made to secure the rolls of '• TENTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. f each Company,showing the disposition of every man wrho had ever belonged to the Regiment, and after trying every plan they had finally to be bought at about $10 each from the very loyal Adjutant Gen­ eral of Missouri. I had the promise of considerable aid in preparing matter for the work, but with the exception 'of Chapter II, III and VII, written by Adjutant JOHN W. BOYD, now of Philadelphia, I have had no help whatever on the work, I have tried to furnish the history as we made it, free from anything that will look like bombast or falsifying. Our record was good enough without any of that, and my Com­ rades, such as the work is, I trust it will please you, and will be handed down to generations yet to come as the history of a Regiment that did its duty—that and that only. M.O.FROST. Historical. The composition of the Tenth Missouri Volun­ teer Infantry, unlike that of a majority of the Regiments in the service appears and was some­ what peculiar. Six of the Companies, A, B, C, E, F, G and I, were raised in Illinois, and composed of citizens of the sucker State. Two of the Companies, D anci H, were boys in blue from the Hawkeye State of Iowa, leaving but one Company of the original organization, citizens of Missouri, to-wit: Company K. Why such was the case may require an explana­ tion, which I will now try and give briefly: The Illinois and Iowa Companies were recruited under the first call for three year volunteers, but owing to the almost spontaneous enlistment of patriotic men in said States, and the call being limited to a certain number of Regiments from each, and the number offered, largely exceeding the call from some, many Companies raised under the call were found to be in excess of same. Patriots they were, and determined to join in the fight for the preservation of the Union. Now just to the reverse of the loyal States of Iowa and Illinois, Missouri, owing to* the action of her Governor, PAP PRICE, and I believe almost without an exception, every State Officer from Governor down to janitor of the State Capital-—as TENTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. 9 well as a large number of her citizens, either joined the Rebel side, or sympathized therewith, the Germans excepted, thus resulting in the failure of Missouri filling her quoto of troops under the first three years call of the Government for troops. That gallant band of brave Union-loving Mis- sourians, seeing such to be the case, were only too glad to accept Companies from sister States to fill the call made upon her; and those brave Union- loving men who failed to find a place to be mustered into Regiments from their own States gladly ac­ cepted the offer to fill up, and join the Union side, though mustered in Missouri Regiments; thus it was that a large majority of the Tenth Missouri Infantry hailed from the sucker and hawkeye States. I am truly glad however in this connection to have it to record, that ere the war lasted long, Mis­ souri wheeled into the Union line, and her Union volunteer patriots exceeded in number, even the gallant and loyal hawkeye State of Iowa. The number of Union troops furnished during the war by Iowa, wras 76,242; Missouri raised for the Union side, 109,1.11, loyal to the core. Missouri enrolled on the Union side during the war many gallant regiments, second to none, and which never .disgraced their colors, and of the number I may truly say, that the Tenth Missouri Infantry, the Old Bloody Tenth, was the peer of the bravest from muster-in to muster-out. The organizing Colonel of the Tenth was CHESTER HARDING, jr., who was soon after ap- IO REGIMENTAL HISTORY OF THE pointed to the responsibile position of Adjutant General of the State of Missouri, Lieutenant-Colo­ nel GEO. R. TOOD, being promoted to the Colonelcy and Major SAMUEL A. HOLMES, Lieutenant Colonel. During the month of April, 1862, if my memory serves me correctly, all the commissioned officers of the Regiment were ordered before a board of regular army martinets t at St. Louis, Mo., for ex­ amination as to their ability to fill their honored and responsible positions; and to the regret of many officers who passed, and men of the Regi­ ment, several gallant officers, including Colonel TODD, were ordered to be mustered out. Taking into consideration the active service in which we were engaged continuously, prior to a completed Regimental organization, being ordered out to guard the line of railroads centering at St. Louis, Mo., Companies being detached, and many miles seperated, guarding same, or in pursuit of that' ubiquitous will-of-the-wist, Rebel General MART GREEN, thus preventing any opportunity for Regimental or Company drill, or even a school for officers drill and instruction, said order mustering out a number of brave comrade officers—the mak­ ing of efficient, active and brave Company and Regimental Commanders, seemed to their remain­ ing comrade officers and the men, the extreme of harshness, if not injustice. With good reason the same might be said of that General War Department Order, issued about TENTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. II July, 1862, mustering out a number of old and tried officers whose Companies were reduced in numbers by. sickness and deaths on the field of battle, made in order to consolidate Regiments, and bring them up to maximum number. The just, proper, and in my judgment the bet­ ter way for the good of the service, would have been for the Government to have filled up with new recruits, the old and tried Regiments, com­ manded by their veteran officers, thus retaining the esprit-de-corps of those old and tried Regiments, by retaining their Company, and Regimental organizations. By reason of the mustering out of the officers above referred to, Major SAMUEL A. HOLMES was promoted to the position of Colonel, and it is only merited justice to record that it was largely due to his pre-eminent ability as a commander, and brave soldier, that the officers of the Tenth, and the men under his command, became veterans in so short a. time, and the Regiment, the peer of any serving durin'g the war. Colonel HOLMES was a man of fine personal attainments, six feet in height, stand­ ing as straight as an Apache chief, a voice like the lion's roar, a gifted soldier, having served with dis­ tinction as a Lieutenant during the Mexican war,, an honored and gifted member of the St.
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