Couch, Darius N., major general United States Volunteers,
at Yorktown;
ordered to observe A. P. Hill at Harper's Ferry;
should have come on field of Antietam not later than Hill;
but did not appear;
reports to General Thomas for duty, assigned to 4th army corps;
owing to dissatisfaction in that corps assigned to 23d army corps;
outranks General Cox and displaces him as second in command;
at battle of Nashville;
on march from Columbia to Clifton;
commands 23d army corps en route from Clifton to Washington;
sails with his division to Beaufort, North Carolina;
commands two divisions 23d army corps left at Wilmington;
ordered to support of Cox at Kinston;
commands 2nd division 23d army corps under General Cox.
Coughlan, James,
lieutenant 24th Kentucky and aide-de-camp on General Cox's staff;
daring ride at Olley's Creek;
captured near Atlanta, exchanged, and killed at Franklin.
Councils of War,
why they never fight.
Cox, Jacob D.,
in Ohio Senate;
assists Governor Dennison in enrolling and organizing State militia;
appointed brigadier general O. S. V. April 23d, 1861;
inspects State arsenal with McClellan;
in command of Camp Jackson;
inspects site with McClellan and lays out Camp Dennison;
first lessons in camping out and brigade drill;
extensive reading of military works;
all but one of his regiments ordered away;
ill effects of repeated change of command;
appointed brigadier general United States Volunteers;
confirmed;
ordered to Kanawha valley with raw regiments not yet equipped;
begins operations on a base 100 miles broad;
with 3400 men ordered to drive out Wise, who had 4000;
begins advance July 11th;
wild rumors;
affair at Scary Creek;
turns enemy's flank at Tyler Mountain;
captures Charleston;
presuming colonels;
quiet manner often led to similar difficulties;
experience with newspaper correspondents;
captures Gauley Bridge with 1500 stands of arms and munitions of war;
congratulated by McClellan and Rosecrans;
establishes post at Gauley, scouts in all directions, sends out detachments to deceive enemy;
left with only 1800 men to oppose Wise and Floyd with 8000;
suppresses mutinous excitement;
meets Rosecrans at Cross Lanes;
joined by McCook's brigade;
at Camp Lookout;
at Big Sewell Mountain;
skirmish with Wise's legion;
difficulty of obtaining supplies forces retirement to Camp Lookout;
holds post at Gauley during occupation of Cotton Mountain by Floyd;
carries Cotton Mountain by front attack up river face;
commands District of Kanawha, headquarters at Charleston;
ordered to report to Buell in Kentucky, countermanded on Rosecrans' protest;
first military execution ordered;
weeding out incompetents and improving drill and discipline of Kanawha division;
scrutiny of correspondence between confederates and residents within the lines;
dealing with non-combatants;
disapproves of test oaths;
policy with regard to escaped slaves;
controversies with owners;
prefers seasoned volunteers to regulars;
rapid improvement of volunteer officers;
rebuilds bridge at Gauley;
uses batteaux for transportation on upper Kanawha;
reports to Frémont 8500 seasoned troops under his command;
pursuant to Frémont's plan of campaign moves to Princeton, West Virginia;
affair at Princeton;
retires to Flat Top Mountain, on advices that Jackson's defeat of Banks upsets campaign;
ordered to Washington with his command;
Kanawha division marches 90 miles in 3-1/2 days fully equipped, over mountain roads;
impressions of Secretary Stanton;
in defences of Washington under McClellan;
meets Pope and McDowell retreating to Washington;
commends general scheme of Pope's campaign;
learns through his scouts of Lee's invasion of Maryland;
methods of collecting and sifting information;
condemns McClellan's spy system;
ordered to report to Burnside;
first impressions;
attached to 9th Corps and takes advance;
shocked at straggling in Army of Potomac;
meets General Reno;
good impression made by Kanawha division;
at the Monocacy;
at Frederick, Maryland;
supports Pleasanton;
commands in action at Fox's Gap, South Mountain;
Reno arrives late in day, is killed almost immediately, and Cox succeeds to command of the corps;
expresses his pride in the conduct of the Kanawha division;
meets McClellan and principal officers of Army of Potomac at headquarters;
retained in command of 9th Corps;
part it was to take in the battle;
carries Burnside bridge and fords in front and drives confederate right wing back to Sharpsburg;
movement arrested by arrival of A. P. Hill's division from Harper's Ferry and flank attack;
holds his position and sleeps on battlefield;
gets hints of a project to make McClellan dictator;
consulted by McC. as to how he should treat Emancipation Proclamation;
warns him against putting himself in opposition to administration;
accompanies Lincoln in ride over battlefield of Antietam;
promoted to major general and command of 9th Corps;
ordered to return to Kanawha valley, overrun by confederate forces in his absence;
commands District of West Virginia;
takes leave of 9th Corps;
Stanton;
and Chase;
reports to General H. G. Wright at Cincinnati;
impressions of;
inspects commands of Morgan and Lightburn;
contracts for wagons and transportation;
reoccupies Kanawha valley, driving out Loring, Echols, and Jenkins;
administration of affairs in West Virginia;
headquarters at Marietta;
staff reorganized;
appointment as major general not confirmed;
severe disappointment;
evils of subjecting military appointments to political action;
reports to General Schenck at Baltimore;
ordered to Columbus to assist Governor in enrolling and organizing conscripts;
commands Military District of Ohio, headquarters at Cincinnati;
relations to Burnside;
disinclined to arrest Vallandigham followers;
District of Mich, added to his command;
acting chief of staff for Burnside;
transacts business of the Department of the Ohio, in Burnside's name;
firm dealing with extreme Democratic partisans;
nomination fails because it had support of neither regular army officers nor politicians;
secures approval of immediate commanders;
urgent to obtain field command;
reads Kinglake's "Crimean War" and derives comfort from record of experiments and blunders in English Army;
defeats plot to free prisoners on Johnson's Island;
offered corps command in E. Tennessee by Burnside;
investigates treatment of prisoners at Johnson's Island;
ordered to report to commanding general in E. Tennessee;
winter ride over Mountains;
meets Burnside and staff coming out;
assigned to command District of Kentucky;
distaste for such commands;
assigned to command 23d army corps;
at Strawberry Plains;
first meeting with Grant;
reports to Sheridan at Dandridge, in;
retreat to Strawberry Plains;
drives back rebel advance toward Knoxville;
threatened with pneumonia;
winter quarters at Knoxville;
yields command of 23d army corps to Major General Stoneman;
asks for command of Sheridan's division 4th army corps;
Major General Newton gets it;
meets Schofield;
acts as chief of staff for Schofield;
amusing occurrence on grand rounds;
at Newmarket, E. Tennessee;
at Morristown;
offers plan of campaign for Army of the Ohio;
approved by Schofield;
offered permanent position as chief of staff, or division in 23d army corps;
takes latter;
second in command to Schofield;
ordered to join Sherman, drives enemy out of E. Tennessee and destroys railroad back to Knoxville;
march to Dalton;
first meeting with Sherman and Thomas;
commands extreme left at Dalton;
retires left wing in presence of enemy;
movement praised by Sherman and Schofield;
protects exposed flank by fallen timber;
beginning of field intrenchments;
marches through Snake Creek Gap and takes position on left of army;
carries intrenchments on confederate right at Resaca;
commands advance and extreme left on march from Resaca to Cassville;
outflanks confederate army and forces abandonment of position before Cassville;
follows confederate rearguard to crossing of Etowah River;
privations when marching without baggage;
on march to New Hope Church lines;
assumes command of 23d army corps on Schofield's becoming disabled;
turns confederate position at New Hope Church;
closer relations with Sherman;
unseen perils, narrow escape;
heavy rains and discomfort;
gloomy thoughts;
occupies position on extreme right, separated a mile from rest of army;
forces crossing of Noyes' Creek;
supports Hascall at Kolb's farm, against Hood's attack;
forces crossing of Olley's Creek, intrenches in commanding position beyond enemy's left flank;
holds position gained, three miles from continuous lines of Sherman's army, for several days;
effects crossing of Chattahoochee at Soap Creek;
extreme right flank southwest of Atlanta;
his division covers its front with intrenchments in fifteen minutes;
at Decatur, Georgia;
in command of Army of the Ohio during October campaign;
mild reproof of brig, commander who prefers a cursing;
in pursuit of Hood;
Sherman plans to take 23d army corps on march to the sea with Cox in command;
Schofield protests, Cox yields;
resumes command of his own division;
recommended for promotion by Schofield and Sherman, App. C;
farewell to Sherman;
march to Dalton; visits Chattanooga;
and Nashville;
votes for Lincoln, on train;
pet lizard; at Franklin, Tennessee;
at Columbia;
at Pulaski;
race back to Columbia;
writes book on "Battle of Franklin;"
at Nashville, after retreat from Franklin;
position as second in command, reduced by appointment of Major General Couch to a division;
at battle of Nashville;
exposure on night after battle;
pursuit of Hood;
revisits Franklin and studies battlefield;
also Spring Hill and Columbia;
rebuilds bridges and improves roads;
suffers from malarial poisoning;
obtains sick leave;
does not use it, as active campaigning is proposed;
earnestly recommended for promotion by Schofield and Thomas, App. C;
appointed major general as of Dec. 7, to fill vacancy caused by McClernand's resignation;
hard march from Columbia to Clifton;
still suffering from malaria;
goes home while 23d Corps is transported from Clifton to Washington;
rapid improvement in health, and new zeal; rejoins corps at Washington;
interviews with Stanton, Chase, Garfield, Dennison, Schenck, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Winter Davis, and others;
sails with his division to Cape Fear River, North Carolina; at Federal Point;
commands column ascending right bank of Cape Fear River, capturing Ft. Anderson
and Town Creek, with two cannon and 400 prisoners, and compelling evacuation
of Wilmington;
uses discretion in not strictly obeying Schofield's orders;
permanent assignment to command 23d army corps urged by Schofield, App. C;
takes command of troops at New Berne, North Carolina, and advances on Kinston;
two battles at Kinston;
losses at Kinston, chiefly in Upham's brigade, which was surprised;
hears sound of battle of Bentonville, fifty miles away;
occupies Goldsborough;
permanently assigned to command 23d army corps, App. C;
march to Raleigh;
vigorous measures to stop pillage and arson;
precautions against soldiers wreaking vengeance for assassination of Lincoln;
commands western district of North Carolina, with headquarters at Greensborough;
interview with General Hardee;
with Johnston;
visit to Salisbury, confederate treatment of prisoners denounced;
recognizes local courts and magistrates;
notes complete submission on part of North Carolina people to results of the war;
limits authority to preserving the peace;
visits Guilford-Old-Court-House, and battlefield;
sentiments inspired thereby.
Cox, Theodore, brother of above, vol.
aide-de-camp, at South Mountain and Antietam;
lieutenant in 11th Ohio and aide-de-camp by appointmentt;
at skirmish before Knoxville;
at Knoxville;
adjutant general on General Cox's staff;
accuracy and business system of;
issues orders for good conduct of troops on shipboard.
Crane, Orrin J., major 7th Ohio, at Antietam.
Cranor, Jonathan, colonel 40th Ohio, in West Virginia
Crawford, Samuel W., brigadier general United States Volunteers, at Antietam.
Creighton, Wm. R., lieutenant colonel 7th Ohio,
comes in with Tyler after surprise at Cross Lanes;
reproaches himself with cowardice;
record of gallantry, until killed at Ringgold, Georgia
Crittenden, Eugene W., colonel commanding cavalry
brigade in 23d army corps, reports to General Cox at Olley's Creek