The 21st Missouri Regiment Infantry Veteran Volunteers
The 21st Missouri Regiment Infantry Veteran Volunteers
T W Holman
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We then moved on down, the 13th and 19th Corps going into camp at Simmsport, on the Atchafalaya river, while the 16th Corps took up a position some three miles in the rear, on the east bank of Yellow Bayou. Battle of Yellow Bayou. May the 18th, 1864, the long roll called us to arms about 12 m. Shaw's Brigade with Battery E, 2d Mo. Artillery, crossed the Yellow Bayou and double-quicked about a half mile to the front and immediately became engaged with the enemy's advance. As fast as the several ...regiments of the 16th and 17th Corps reached the field they formed on our left. All the afternoon the tide of 26 battle ebbed and flowed along the south bank of Bayou Rapides. Night closed in with Gen. Taylor falling back and Gen. Smith's men in possession of the battle-field. Our loss was about five hundred killed and wounded. The enemy's must have been much greater as they made seve- ral determined assaults on our lines. We captured about three hundred and fifty prisoners and from them we learned that Gen.
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