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PVT Gouveneur H. Adgate
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Rank / Rate PVT War of Service Civil Date of birth May 3, 1842 Place of birth / home town Lima Family Members Son of Charles H. & Mary A (Carlile) Adgate High School Enlistment Date August 30, 1861 Branch Union Army Service Number Unit / Ship / duty Station Co B 81st Ohio Volunteers Date of Casuality Oct 03, 1862 Cause of Death or Status KIA Place of Incident Battle of Corinth: Corinth Adams, Mississippi Place of Burial or Memorial Corinth National Cemetery
Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi Awards  Links to More Information |
| https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/gouveneur-h-adgate-24-38yxlgk Son of Charles H. & Mary A (Carlile) Adgate: Age 20 Years 5 Months. Alcorn County, MS | Oct 3 - 4, 1862 From October 3 to 4, 1862, a Confederate army under the command of Gen. Earl Van Dorn attacked the vital city of Corinth, Mississippi. During the two-day battle, Van Dorn’s army gained initial success but was ultimately defeated due to a stiff Federal defense led by William S. Rosecrans. How It Ended Union Victory. After opening up a second attack along the entrenched Federal lines, Van Dorn’s army was met with a stout Federal defense. With his men unable to break through the Federal defenses, Van Dorn decided to retreat from the field. In Context In the late summer of 1862, Confederate armies were on the march everywhere in the western theater. The main thrust was General Braxton Bragg and his Army of Mississippi, who were preparing to invade Kentucky, where he hoped to capture the state and force a turnaround in the Union gains earlier that year. To accomplish this, Bragg had to separate the two major Union armies in the area, the Army of the Ohio under General Don Carlos Buell, based in northern Alabama, and the Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses S. Grant, based in the Memphis area. Bragg tasked both General Sterling Price and General Earl Van Dorn to keep Grant in lower Tennessee to combine their two armies and attack the vital southern town of Corinth, Mississippi. |
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