tive, and from
that moment the battle became general. At one time two regiments of
mounted infantry, commanded by the rebel General Ruggles, forced their
way between my fighting column and my reserve, but were suddenly
induced to retire much more rapidly than they came. My left at one
time fell back toward the battery, which then poured charge after
charge of canister into the rebel ranks, with considerable effect,
forcing them to retreat, rapidly followed by the cavalry. The enemy
had scarcely begun to waver when his whole force fled in dismay,
throwing away their arms, coats, and hats. We took from the enemy
eighty-one prisoners, including three commissioned officers. On the
field, the scene of the battle, immense quantities of arms, coats, and
blankets were found and destroyed by us. I had no means of
ascertaining the enemy's loss in killed and wounded, but from the
evidence of the battle-field it must have been heavy.

FLORENCE M. CORNYN,

_Colonel Tenth Missouri Cavalry, Commanding Cavalry Brigade_.

Colonel Cornyn was a very efficient cavalry officer and always
accomplished whatever he was sent to do. He was an aggressive fighter,
always attacking, no matter what the force before him, and had won a
deserved standing as a Brigade commander. When he was killed, by his
Lieutenant-Colonel, Bowen, during the latter's trial before a
court-martial on charges preferred by Colonel Cornyn, there was a bitter
personal dispute and enmity between them which came to this sad ending.

[Illustration: ARMY AND CORPS COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

Left to Right--Front Row, Major-General W. T. Sherman, Major-General U. S.
Grant, Major-General James B. McPherson, Major-General O. O. Howard. Rear
row, Major-General John A. Logan, Major-General G. M. Dodge, Major-General
Frank P. Blair. Extreme right, Brigadier-General John A. Fuller, leading
Division of the Sixteenth Army Corps. Copy of painting by James E. Taylor
for Major-General W. T. Sherman.]

THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

ADDRESS TO THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE
DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT, G. A. R.
WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER, 1902
BY MAJOR-GENERAL GRENVILLE M. DODGE

_Comrades of the Army of the Tennessee_:

On the 28th of August, 1861, General U. S. Grant was assigned to duty in
command of the District of Southeast Missouri, with headquarters at Cairo,
Ill., and here commen