008 (anc. 12) Coosa River, Ala - Casualties of Streight's Raid at Blount's Farm, Alabama, Day's Gap, Crooked Creek, Hog Mountain, Alabama Unknowns D-601 to D-606, N-4512, N-4513: a Virtual Cemetery

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008 (anc. 12) Coosa River, Ala - Casualties of Streight's Raid at Blount's Farm, Alabama, Day's Gap, Crooked Creek, Hog Mountain, Alabama Unknowns D-601 to D-606, N-4512, N-4513

4 miles S of Carthrans Ferry (Cothran's Ferry?), Ala & 30yds E of a Church near the road, 3 graves: D-601 Unknown, F-318 Unknown(col'd), D-605 Unknown; was a Lieut buried in same place but was taken up by friends.

2) 2 miles S of Carthrans Ferry, Ala & 20yds from a Church, 2 graves: D-602 Unknown and D-603 Unknown. Was captured by Gaitwood near Chattanooga while guarding cattle & was taken to Carthrans Ferry & killed.

3) On John Croft's land 1 mile from river: D-604 Unknown. on road from Gadsden to Rome near where Col. Hathaway was killed, was in Streight's cmd.

4) At Wm Dyche's 2 miles from Blounts Farm: John F Winters.

5) At Wm King's 3 miles N of Blounts Farm, was wounded at or near Blounts farm: McWilliams, Samuel White, P.O. Address Crown Point Lake Co Ind.

6) Taken up at Dublin, Ala. captured by Gaitwood while guarding cattle near Chattanooga, Tenn. & was taken to Carthrans Ferry & killed & thrown in the river: D-606 Unknown.

Crooked Creek, Day's Gap (Sand Mountain), Hog Mountain
On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade about 1,700 officers and men, composed of my regiment (the Fifty-first Indiana), Seventy-third Indiana, Colonel Hathaway; Third Ohio; Colonel Lawson; Eightieth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Rodgers, and two companies of the First Middle Tennessee Cavalry, Capt. D. B. Smith to Nashville, and to fit out as speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country...

We arrived at Tuscumbia about 5 p.m. on April 24.

We started from Moulton, in the direction of Blountsville, via Day's Gap, about midnight on April 28.

We marched the next day (the 29th) to Day's Gap, about 35 miles, and bivouacked for the night... We destroyed during the day a large number of wagons belonging to the enemy... Many of Captain Smith's men (Alabamians) were recruited near this place, and many were the happy greetings between them and their friends and relations.

I soon learned that the enemy had moved through the gaps on my right and left... we dismounted and formed a line of battle on a ridge circling to the rear... We had hardly completed our arrangements when the enemy charged Captain Smith in large force, following him closely, and no sooner had he passed our lines than our whole line rose up and delivered a volley at short range. We continued to pour a rapid fire into their ranks, which soon caused them to give way in confusion; but their re-enforcements soon came up, when they dismounted, formed, and made a determined and vigorous attack. Our skirmishers were soon driven in, and about the same time the enemy opened upon us with a battery of artillery. The enemy soon attempted to carry our lines, but were handsomely repulsed. During their advance they had run their artillery to within 300 yards of our lines, and as soon as they began to waver I prepared for a charge. I ordered Colonel Hathaway, Seventy-third Indiana, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sheets, Fifty-first Indiana, on the left, to make a charge, in order to draw the attention of the battery, and immediately threw the Third Ohio, Colonel Lawson, and the Eightieth Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Rodgers, forward rapidly, hoping to capture the battery. The enemy, after a short but stubborn resistance, fled in confusion...

Our loss was about 30 killed and wounded, among the latter Lieutenant-Colonel Sheets, Fifty-first Indiana (mortally), a brave and gallant officer, and one that we were illy prepared to lose, and Lieutenant Pavey, Eightieth Illinois (on my staff), severely. It was now about 11 o'clock, fighting having continued since about 6 o'clock in the morning. I had learned, in the mean time, that the enemy were in heavy force, fully three times our number, with twelve pieces of artillery, under General Forrest...

Sharp skirmishing commenced at Crooked Creek, which is about 10 miles south of Day's Gap, and finally the enemy pressed our rear so hard that I was compelled to prepare for battle. I selected a strong position, about 1 mile south of the crossing of the creek, on a ridge called Hog Mountain... Fighting continued until about 10 p.m... We proceeded in the direction of Gadsden... the next morning, May 2, when the rear guard was fiercely attacked at the crossing of Black Creek... The enemy followed closely, and kept up a continuous skirmish with the rear of the column until about 4 p.m., at which time we reached Blount's plantation, about 15 miles from Gadsden... the command formed in line of battle on a ridge southwest of the plantation. Meanwhile the rear guard, in holding the enemy in check, had become severely engaged and was driven in. The enemy at once attacked our main line, and tried hard to carry the center, but were gallantly met and repulsed by the Fifty-first and Seventy-third Indiana, assisted by Major Vananda, with two mountain howitzers... It was in this engagement that the gallant Colonel Hathaway (Seventy-third Indiana) fell, mortally wounded, and in a few moments expired...
-from OR, Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) page 290.
Men killed during raid for whom I did not find a grave: April 30, 1863:
51st Indiana Infantry:
Samuel Clark, Co B.
Silas Osborn, Co C.
Washington Parker (DoW May 3) and at Crooked Creek, Enoch Rhoads, Co F.
Henry Bird and Shannon Carr, Co K 73rd Indiana Infantry went MIA at Day's Gap.
3rd Ohio Infantry:
Benjamin F Riley, Co A, age 27, KIA Sand Mountain, April 30, 1863.
Charles Stafford, Co B, age 27, KIA Day's Gap, May 2(?), 1863.
Solomon Swaney / Sweney / Swinney, Co F. Listed under Sheenel.
Frank A Haughey, Co H, Dow received at Flat Top Mt, Ala., April 30
There are 6 Unknowns (N-4506, N-4508, N-4511, N-4512, N-4513, N-4542) in Section N originally buried in Winston and Lawrence Counties, and Hog Mountain and 5 Unknowns (N-4507, N-4510, N-4541, N-4543, N-4544) found near Summerville (Somerville), Alabama.

2) 2 miles S of Carthrans Ferry, Ala & 20yds from a Church, 2 graves: D-602 Unknown and D-603 Unknown. Was captured by Gaitwood near Chattanooga while guarding cattle & was taken to Carthrans Ferry & killed.

3) On John Croft's land 1 mile from river: D-604 Unknown. on road from Gadsden to Rome near where Col. Hathaway was killed, was in Streight's cmd.

4) At Wm Dyche's 2 miles from Blounts Farm: John F Winters.

5) At Wm King's 3 miles N of Blounts Farm, was wounded at or near Blounts farm: McWilliams, Samuel White, P.O. Address Crown Point Lake Co Ind.

6) Taken up at Dublin, Ala. captured by Gaitwood while guarding cattle near Chattanooga, Tenn. & was taken to Carthrans Ferry & killed & thrown in the river: D-606 Unknown.

Crooked Creek, Day's Gap (Sand Mountain), Hog Mountain
On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade about 1,700 officers and men, composed of my regiment (the Fifty-first Indiana), Seventy-third Indiana, Colonel Hathaway; Third Ohio; Colonel Lawson; Eightieth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Rodgers, and two companies of the First Middle Tennessee Cavalry, Capt. D. B. Smith to Nashville, and to fit out as speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country...

We arrived at Tuscumbia about 5 p.m. on April 24.

We started from Moulton, in the direction of Blountsville, via Day's Gap, about midnight on April 28.

We marched the next day (the 29th) to Day's Gap, about 35 miles, and bivouacked for the night... We destroyed during the day a large number of wagons belonging to the enemy... Many of Captain Smith's men (Alabamians) were recruited near this place, and many were the happy greetings between them and their friends and relations.

I soon learned that the enemy had moved through the gaps on my right and left... we dismounted and formed a line of battle on a ridge circling to the rear... We had hardly completed our arrangements when the enemy charged Captain Smith in large force, following him closely, and no sooner had he passed our lines than our whole line rose up and delivered a volley at short range. We continued to pour a rapid fire into their ranks, which soon caused them to give way in confusion; but their re-enforcements soon came up, when they dismounted, formed, and made a determined and vigorous attack. Our skirmishers were soon driven in, and about the same time the enemy opened upon us with a battery of artillery. The enemy soon attempted to carry our lines, but were handsomely repulsed. During their advance they had run their artillery to within 300 yards of our lines, and as soon as they began to waver I prepared for a charge. I ordered Colonel Hathaway, Seventy-third Indiana, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sheets, Fifty-first Indiana, on the left, to make a charge, in order to draw the attention of the battery, and immediately threw the Third Ohio, Colonel Lawson, and the Eightieth Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Rodgers, forward rapidly, hoping to capture the battery. The enemy, after a short but stubborn resistance, fled in confusion...

Our loss was about 30 killed and wounded, among the latter Lieutenant-Colonel Sheets, Fifty-first Indiana (mortally), a brave and gallant officer, and one that we were illy prepared to lose, and Lieutenant Pavey, Eightieth Illinois (on my staff), severely. It was now about 11 o'clock, fighting having continued since about 6 o'clock in the morning. I had learned, in the mean time, that the enemy were in heavy force, fully three times our number, with twelve pieces of artillery, under General Forrest...

Sharp skirmishing commenced at Crooked Creek, which is about 10 miles south of Day's Gap, and finally the enemy pressed our rear so hard that I was compelled to prepare for battle. I selected a strong position, about 1 mile south of the crossing of the creek, on a ridge called Hog Mountain... Fighting continued until about 10 p.m... We proceeded in the direction of Gadsden... the next morning, May 2, when the rear guard was fiercely attacked at the crossing of Black Creek... The enemy followed closely, and kept up a continuous skirmish with the rear of the column until about 4 p.m., at which time we reached Blount's plantation, about 15 miles from Gadsden... the command formed in line of battle on a ridge southwest of the plantation. Meanwhile the rear guard, in holding the enemy in check, had become severely engaged and was driven in. The enemy at once attacked our main line, and tried hard to carry the center, but were gallantly met and repulsed by the Fifty-first and Seventy-third Indiana, assisted by Major Vananda, with two mountain howitzers... It was in this engagement that the gallant Colonel Hathaway (Seventy-third Indiana) fell, mortally wounded, and in a few moments expired...
-from OR, Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) page 290.
Men killed during raid for whom I did not find a grave: April 30, 1863:
51st Indiana Infantry:
Samuel Clark, Co B.
Silas Osborn, Co C.
Washington Parker (DoW May 3) and at Crooked Creek, Enoch Rhoads, Co F.
Henry Bird and Shannon Carr, Co K 73rd Indiana Infantry went MIA at Day's Gap.
3rd Ohio Infantry:
Benjamin F Riley, Co A, age 27, KIA Sand Mountain, April 30, 1863.
Charles Stafford, Co B, age 27, KIA Day's Gap, May 2(?), 1863.
Solomon Swaney / Sweney / Swinney, Co F. Listed under Sheenel.
Frank A Haughey, Co H, Dow received at Flat Top Mt, Ala., April 30
There are 6 Unknowns (N-4506, N-4508, N-4511, N-4512, N-4513, N-4542) in Section N originally buried in Winston and Lawrence Counties, and Hog Mountain and 5 Unknowns (N-4507, N-4510, N-4541, N-4543, N-4544) found near Summerville (Somerville), Alabama.