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: 76
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WEST TENN. AND NORTHERN MISS.
GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
No. 130. Corinth, eptember 28, 1862.
The general commanding has forborne to notice in orders the facts
and results of the battle of Iuka until he should have before him the
reports of all the commanders who participated in the action.
Brothers in arms : You may well be proud of the battle of Iuka. On
the 18th you concentrated at Jacinto; on the 19th you marched 20
miles, driving in the rebel outposts for the last 8, reached the front of
Price's army advantageously posted in unknown woods, and opened
the action by 4 p. m. On a narrow front, intersected by ravines and
covered with dense undergrowth, with a single battery, Hamilton's
division went into action against the combined rebel hosts. On that
unequal ground, which permitted the enemy to outnumber them three
to one, they fought a glorious battle, mowing down the rebel hordes until,
night closing in, they rested on their arms on the ground, from which
the enemy retired during the night, leaving us masters of the field.
The general commanding bears cheerful testimony to the fiery alac-
rity with which the troops of Stanley's division moved up cheering to
support, when called for, the Third Division and took their places to
give them an opportunity to replenish their ammunition, and to the
magnificent fighting of the Eleventh Missouri, under the gallant Mower.
To all the regiments who participated in the fight he presents con-
gratulations on their bravery and good conduct. He deems it an espe-
cial duty to signalize the Forty-eighth Indiana, which, posted on the
left, held its ground until the brave Eddy fell and the whole brigade of
Texans came in through a ravine on the little band, and even then
only yielded a hundred yards until relieved.
The Sixteenth Iowa, amid the roar of, battle, the rush of wounded
artillery horses, the charges of a rebel brigade, and a storm of grape,
canister, and musketry, stood like a rock, holding the center, while the
glorious Fifth Iowa, under the brave and distinguished Matthies, sus-
tained by Boomer with part of his noble Twenty-sixth, bore the thrice-
repeated charges and cross-fires of the rebel left and center with a
valor and determination seldom equaled, never excelled, by the most
veteran soldiers.
The Tenth Iowa, under Colonel Perczel, deserves honorable mention,
for covering our left flank from the assault of the Texan Legion. Sands
Eleventh Ohio Battery, under Lieut. Sears, was served with unequaled
bravery, under circumstances of danger and exposure such as rarely,
perhaps never, has fallen to the lot of one single battery during this war.
The Thirty-ninth Ohio and Forty-seventh Illinois, who went into posi-
tion at the close of the fight, and held it during the night, deserve
honorable mention for the spirit they displayed in the performance of
their duty.
The general commanding regrets that he must mention the conduct
of the Seventeenth Iowa, whose disgraceful stampeding forms a melan-
choly exception to the general good courage of the troops. He doubts
not that there are many good officers and men in that regiment whose
cheeks burn with shame and indignation at the part the regiment acted,
and he looks to them and to all its members, on the first opportunity,
by conspicuous gallantry to wipe out the stain on their fair fame.
To the brave and gallant Hamilton, who formed and maintained his
division under the galling fire from the rebel front, having his horse
shot under him in the action; to the veteran and heroic SulliP an, young
in years, but old in fight; Colonel Sanborn, commanding the leading
brigade in his maiden battle; Brig. Gen. D. S. Stanley, indefatigable76
[CHAP. XXIX.
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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/m1/87/?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.