The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 450
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450 WEST TENN. AND NORTHERN MISS. [CHAr. XXIX.
the use of all proper economy of baggage and equipage, to supply the wants of that
portion of the returned prisoners under my command (which embraces about five-
sevenths of all sent to Holly Springs), in any movement independent of the aid of
railroad transportation.
The court adjourned to meet Friday, November 21.
FRIDAY, November 21, 1862.
The court met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: Maj. Gens. Sterling Price and D. H. Maury, Provisional
Army Confederate States; Brig. Geln. Lloyd Tilghman, Provisional
Army Confederate States; Capt. E. H. Cummins, Provisional Army
Confederate States, recorder, and Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, Provis-
ional Army Confederate States.
Brig. Gen. M. E. GREEN appeared before the court and offered the
following explanation, which was accepted:
I wish to explain an apparent discrepancy in my evidence, having said that I sau
no works in front of my position on the evening of October 3, but that on going in orn
the morning of the 4th I found fortifications existing in my front. I wish it under.
stood that I did not on the morning of the 4th advance over the ground which had
been in front of me on the evening of the 3d. General Phifer's brigade of Maury's
division had been extended to the left over my position of Friday evening and I had
been moved farther to the left and nearer to the railroad. The position I occupied on
Thursday morning was not in sight when I rode forward on Friday evening.
Dr. J. W. C. SMITH, surgeon, Provisional Army Confederate States,
was duly sworn.
By DEFENDANT :
Question. Were you surgeon of the post at Holly Springs when the
army returned to that place from Corinth on October 9 and 10 last ? If
so, do you know anything in regard to the conveyance of the wounded
on the cars to hospitals below ?
Answer. I was. I did superintend shipping most, if not all of them.
Question. Can you state whether or not the wounded were properly
provided; whether an officer and attendant were sent with them ?
Answer. I know that the wounded men were put aboard the cars and the most
dangerously wounded were put upon mattresses, and in some instances I could not get
mattresses. On every occasion I endeavored to have at least one day's cooked rations
sent with the men and I sent also a sufficient number of assistants to look after them.
I also sent either a surgeon or an assistant surgeon with the first four or five trains
that left Holly Springs after the wounded came in. These men were delivered to
hospitals below and the medical officers reported back to me that they had discharged
their duty.
Question. Do .you know whether or not the cars with the wounded
stopped all night at Water Valley; and, if so, why they stopped ?
Answer. It was reported to me by a medical officer whom 1 sent in charge of the
wounded that one train was stopped for the purpose of preparing warm rations for
the men, as they did not relish cold rations. The doctor's name was De Roche. He
is now at Canton. I think no other train was reported to me as having stopped there
at night by any medical officer. Mr. Frost, the superintendent of the railroad, told
me that the regular freight train left at 1 o'clock, and that when there were wounded
on board the train would go directly through to its destination. I made the proper
inquiries. I would not have allowed a train that had left Holly Springs to have re-
mained at Water Valley all night if I had known it.
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1886; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154626/m1/461/?q=%221862%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.