Identifier: annalsofarmyof00fitc (find matches)
Title: Annals of the Army of the Cumberland : comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles ; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries ... and official reports of the battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Fitch, John, of Alton (Ill.)
Subjects: United States. Army of the Cumberland Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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promotion to commissary of subsistence, with the rank of
captain. February 13, 1863, he was ordered on duty in the
commissary department as acting commissary of the 2d Division,
14th Army Corps

LIEUTENENANT E.H. COCHRAN, Provost-Marshal and Judge-Advo-
cate, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 25, 1836. His
father was an honest, frugal farmer, grandson of Captain Thomas
Cochran, who was slain by the Indians in West Virginia during
the Revolutionary War. His mother is a daughter of Ellis
Davis, deceased, who was a soldier in the War of 1812 and one
of the early settlers of Ohio. In September, 1861, young
Cochran entered the service as first lieutenant in the 15th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Lavergne, October 7,
1862,he was aide to Brigadier-General Palmer, where the enemy
under the rebel General Anderson were signally defeated. At
the request of General Negley, he was soon after appointed
provost-marshal on the general's staff by special order of Major-
General Rosecrans.


MAJ. GEN. PALMER
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AND
OFFICERS OF STAFF

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN MC AULEY PALMER AND STAFF

JOHN McAULEY PALMER was born on Eagle Creek, Scott
county, Kentucky, September 13, 1817. His father, Louis D.
Palmer (who is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-two),
emigrated to Kentucky from Northumberland county, Virginia,
in the year 1793, and was there married in 1813 to Miss Ann
Tutt, a native of Culpepper county, Virginia. The ancestors
of the family were from England, and among the earliest set-
tlers of Virginia.
At the time of the birth of the subject of this sketch, what
was then known as the Green Rver country was beginning to
attract attention, and the elder Palmer, a soldier in the War of
1812, and fond of adventure, removed to Christian county, where
he purchased a considerable quantity of the new cheap lands of
that then almost wilderness, and engaged in farming. Here his
son spent his childhood, attending the school taught in the
neighborhood in winter, and rendering assistance upon the farm.
This school was such as are common to early settlement.

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