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very active campaign,
Price was driven into
Arkansas at the end of November by
Major-Generals Rosecrans and
Pleasanton, and the Army of the
Missouri again became identified with the forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
was born in
Prince Edward County, Virginia, September 14, 1809.
He settled in
Missouri in 1830, and was a member of Congress in 1845, when he went to the
Mexican War, in which he was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
From 1853 to 1857, he was governor of the
State, and president of the State Convention of 1853.
He was made major-general of the
Missouri militia in May, and assumed command of the Missouri State Guard, July 30, 1861.
As
major-general of the Confederate Army he commanded the Army of the West from July 2 to September 28, 1862, and later a corps of
Van Dorn's Army of Mississippi.
In February, 1863, he was ordered to the Trans-Mississippi Department, where he held various commands in
Arkansas and elsewhere.
His most noteworthy effort was the expedition into
Missouri, August-December, 1864, in an attempt to gather a large number of recruits from the independent bands in that State.
But
Rosecrans drove him back to
Arkansas.
After the war he became interested in a colonization scheme in
Mexico, but returned to the
United States in 1866, and died in
St. Louis, September 29, 1867.
Army of Mississippi
In December, 1863,
Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk, succeeding
Pemberton, was put in command of the force of the Department of
Alabama,
Mississippi and
East Louisiana.
It had two divisions of cavalry and a strength of about twenty thousand.
This is the force that contended with
Major-General Sherman in
Mississippi during the winter of 1864.
In May,
Polk joined the Army of Tennessee to oppose
Sherman's advance to
Atlanta, and he then denominated his troops the Army of Mississippi.
Polk was killed on
Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14th, and was succeeded by
Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart.
On July 26th, the Army of Mississippi was joined to the Army of Tennessee as
Stewart's Corps.
Stewart (U. S.M. A. 1842) was born in
Rogersville, Tennessee, October 12, 1821.
He resigned from the army in 1845.
He entered the
Confederate service from
Tennessee, rising to the rank of lieutenant-general in June, 1864, which rank was confirmed the following year.
He had a brigade in
Polk's command in the Western Department, and later a division in the Army of Tennessee.
He was wounded at Ezra Church in the
Atlanta campaign, and after
Polk's death, he succeeded to the command of the Army of Mississippi, which later became a corps of the Army of Tennessee.
On March 16, 1865, he was assigned to the command of the infantry and artillery in that army.
He died at
Biloxi, Mississippi, August 30, 1908.
was born in
Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1831.
He became a lawyer, practising in
Coffeyville,
Mississippi.
He entered the
Confederate service, in 1861, as lieutenant of the Fifteenth Mississippi Infantry, and in December, 1862, became brigadier-general, and major-general in June, 1864.
He fought gallantly at
Missionary Ridge and covered
Hood's retreat at
Nashville, where he prevented the capture of the Army of Tennessee by
Thomas.
In March, 1865, he had command of
Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee, until the reorganization of April 9th, when he returned to the head of his division.
After the war he became
United States senator from
Mississippi.
He died in
Washington, April 21, 1898.
Confederate generals
(U. S. M.A. 1854) was born in
Edgecombe County, North Carolina, February 6, 1834.
He resigned from the army in March, 1861, to enter the
Confederate service as colonel of the Sixth North Carolina Infantry.
In June, 1862, he became brigadier-general and was made major-general in May, 1863.
He was brigade and division commander in
