Oliver O. Howard, Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland (reference)

Oliver O. Howard
Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland
1863 Reference in Official Records

"Oliver O. Howard, Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland" is referenced in an 1863 report. [Note: I don't know if this is before or after reorganization of troops. I thought that Oliver O. Howard was in charge of Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac, and that, once he was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, he was put in charge of the IV Corps. This may be some in-between state of things, or could be a fluke of the officer writing the report.]

The reference is in:

Official Records, Series 1, Volume , Part 1, Reports, Report no. 50
"Itinerary of the Eleventh Army Corps (Army of the Cumberland), Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, commanding." [The footnote says, "from Returns for November and December."]
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152578/m1/446/?q=eli%20long

East Tennessee Bridge Burning in Official Records

Link to Official Records, Series 2, Volume 1 (on Google Books)

This volume contains correspondence concerning the East Tennessee Bridge Burning incident:

Official Records, Series 2, Volume 1
East Tennessee Search Results (link)
http://bit.ly/OR2-ser1-srch-east-tenn

Here is page 858 of that volume, on that subject -
(East Tennesseans jailed):
http://bit.ly/OR-Ser2-Vol1-East-Tenn-Bridge-Burners-jailed

Long URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=2JsOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA876&lpg=PA876&dq=description+confederate+jail+bradley+county+tennessee&source=bl&ots=mK6qh7HcLZ&sig=Q3Xu1UtD4_l6DjkNcOVxWWQiDls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVju_A_eDSAhUO0IMKHbN3CgwQ6AEIQTAG#v=snippet&q=east%20tennessee&f=false

Tennessee County History Series: Bradley County (link to book)

Tennessee county history series : Bradley County 
by Roy G. Lillard

Link to book details at Archive.org:
Tennessee county history series : Bradley County
https://archive.org/details/tennesseecountyh06lill
by Roy G. Lillard ; Joy Bailey Dunn, editor, Charles W. Crawford, associate editor
by Lillard, Roy G.; Dunn, Joy Bailey; Crawford, Charles Wann, 1931-

Published 1980
Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Topics Bradley County (Tenn.) -- History

https://archive.org/details/tennesseecountyh06lill

Edna Wiefering - Tennessee Civil War catalog entries in WorldCat

Tennessee Civil War, of interest...

Edna Wiefering - Tennessee Civil War catalog entries in WorldCat ; listed as editor of the William E. Sloan Diary. I noticed some other Tennessee titles in her listing

(Edna Wiefering, editor of various Civil War Sources)

(Bradley County, Tennessee, etc.)

Catalog Reference in WorldCat

WorldCat Search Result on Edna Wiefering
http://bit.ly/Wiefering-in-WorldCat-search-result

Seward, General Thomas' Scout (mention); Red Clay, Georgia, May 1864

This is just my internal note on some references I'm trying to track down. Among other things, I'm looking for references for a scout of staff member, "Seward," who was under General Thomas. This is not Secretary of State, Seward; it's just a scout or department official under Thomas. I'm not sure of all the facts below, either. My comments are from memory.

____________________________________

Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 38, Pt. 4, Correspondence, etc., pg. 47, Schofield to Sherman, Red Clay, Ga., May 6, 1864.

"Red Clay, Ga., May 6, 1864.
"Major-General Sherman, Ringgold:
  "Your dispatch is received. I will be ready to move to-morrow morning. Could move to-day if necessary. It will take several days to repair the railroad here, but I can get along until it is done. I have frequent communication with Howard.
  "General Thomas' man Seward says Polk's corps gone to Rome.
            "J. M. Schofield,
               "Major-General.

OR, Ser. 1, Vol. 38, Pt. 4, pg. 47

"Howard" would be Gen. Oliver O. Howard. During or after the siege of Chattanooga, and after the slaughter of Federal mules in the supply train at Anderson's Crossroads on Walden Ridge by rebels about October 2, 1863, O. O. Howard, of the XI Corps, Army of the Potomac, was called in as an added reinforcement, to prevent future losses. The letter above is about seven months later, about the time the Federal Army leaves Cleveland, Tennessee, to move South on the Atlanta Campaign. [He is by then commanding the Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, or Dept. of the Cumberland.]

"Thomas' man, Seward" is mentioned. One reference is specific to story. Another reference to Seward shows that it could be a different person than mentioned in story... I don't have the other specific reference to Seward, but I think it was in some correspondence after the Battle of Chickamauga; just not sure!

Oliver O. Howard Reference:

FOURTH ARMY CORPS: OLIVER O. HOWARD
Headquartered at Cleveland, Tennessee, and nearby Blue Springs, Tennessee.
Partial extract of: Official Records, Ser. 1, Vol. 32, Pt. 3, 551.
(from earlier post) http://musescivilwar.blogspot.com/2016/08/fourth-army-corps-oliver-o-howard_22.html

Article on William T. Martin, commanding Martin's Cavalry, Confederate (link)

Chickamauga Blog:

"A Shooting Star: Brigadier General William T. Martin"
Article on William T. Martin (Martin's Cavalry), and Martin's conflict with General Wheeler.
https://chickamaugablog.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/a-shooting-star-brigadier-general-william-t-martin/

Subject: Confederate units, Confederate generals.

James G. Brown and the First Georgia State Troops (First Georgia Volunteer Infantry)

Articles about James G. Brown, of Murray County, Georgia, and his First Georgia Volunteer Infantry Battalion (U.S.), also called The First Georgia State Troops (first organized by James G. Brown in the Spring of 1864, under James S. Steedman, with the approval and recommendation of General Thomas). When the unit did not make, many of the men of the First Georgia Vols later joined the 5th Tennessee Infantry Volunteers.

The unit has a difficult, rather obscure history, and the various articles have conflicting information as to when it mustered, when it disbanded, etcetera. Part of the problem is that, under James Brown, the unit did not enlist enough men to become a regiment or a real battalion. Thomas recommended the unit to the War Department, who nixed the idea, on several counts. Not only did the War Department distrust Home Guard units, but the small battalion had run from battle in Dalton in October 1864. Steedman's criticism of the unit was very harsh.

Articles: 

"Forgotten Union Guerrillas of the North Georgia Mountains,"
Robert S. Davis, Jr., w/Bill Kinsland, asst.
Lumpkin County Genealogy
http://www.lcgen.com/UnionGuerrillas.html

Article in encyclopedia:
New Georgia Encyclopedia (link to article)
"Unionists," in "History & Archaeology: Civil War & Reconstruction, 1861-1877,"
New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/unionists

Mentioned in book:
A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South
Jonathan Dean Sarris
Google Books (short URL): http://bit.ly/James-G-Brown-brief-ref

Mentioned on: "Georgians in the Union Army" (Historic Marker)
http://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/historical-markers/georgia-civil-war-150/

JAMES G. BROWN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS THE CHIEF OF SCOUTS IN NORTH GEORGIA.