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Battle of Hatchie Bridge
Part of American Civil War
Iuka-Corinth Campaign2.png
Second phase of the Iuka–Corinth Campaign
Date October 5, 1862 (1862-10-05)
Location
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States United States (Union) Confederate States of America CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Edward O. C. Ord
Stephen A. Hurlbut
Earl Van Dorn
Sterling Price
Units involved
District of Jackson
(3 brigades)
Army of the West
Casualties and losses
500 400

The Battle of Hatchie's Bridge, also known as Battle of Davis Bridge or Matamora, was fought on October 5, 1862, in Hardeman County and McNairy County, Tennessee, as the final engagement of the Iuka–Corinth Campaign of the American Civil War. Confederate Major General Earl Van Dorn's army successfully evaded capture by the Union Army, following his defeat at the Battle of Corinth.

Van Dorn's (Confederate) Army of Tennessee retreated from Corinth, Mississippi, on October 4, 1862, but Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans did not send forces in pursuit until the morning of October 5. Maj. Gen. Edward O.C. Ord, commanding a detachment of Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, was, pursuant to orders, advancing on Corinth to assist Rosecrans. On the night of October 4–5, he camped near Pocahontas. Between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. the next morning, his force encountered Union Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut's 4th Division, District of Jackson, in the Confederates’ front. Ord took command of the now-combined Union forces and pushed Van Dorn's advanced element, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Army of the West, back about five miles to the Hatchie River and across Davis's Bridge. After accomplishing this, Ord was wounded in the ankle and Hurlbut assumed command. While Price's men were hotly engaged with Ord's force, Van Dorn's scouts looked for and found another crossing of the Hatchie River. Van Dorn then led his army back to Holly Springs. Grant ordered Rosecrans to abandon the pursuit. Ord had forced Price to retreat, but the Confederates escaped capture or destruction. Although they should have done so, Rosecrans's army had failed to capture or destroy Van Dorn's force.

Order of battle

Union
District of Jackson – Major General Edward O. C. Ord (w)

Hatchie's Bridge: Union Order of Battle
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

4th Division
     MG Stephen A. Hurlbut

Cavalry Escort
  • Company A, 2nd Illinois Cavalry
1st Brigade


   BG Jacob G. Lauman

  • 3rd Iowa Infantry: Lt Col Matthew M. Trumbull
  • 28th Illinois Infantry: Col Amory K. Johnson
  • 32nd Illinois Infantry: Col John Logan
  • 41st Illinois Infantry: Col Isaac C. Pugh
  • 53rd Illinois Infantry
  • Battery C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery
  • 15th Ohio Battery
  • 5th Ohio Cavalry (1st and 2nd Battalions)
2nd Brigade


   BG James C. Veatch (w)

  • 14th Illinois Infantry: Col Cyrus Hall
  • 15th Illinois Infantry
  • 46th Illinois Infantry: Col John A. Davis (mw)
  • 25th Indiana Infantry
  • 53rd Indiana Infantry
  • Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery
  • 7th Ohio Battery
Provisional Brigade


   Col Robert K. Scott

  • 12th Michigan Infantry
  • 68th Ohio Infantry

Confederate
Army of the West – Major General Earl Van Dorn

Price's Corps – Major General Sterling Price

Battlefield

Davis Bridge Battlefield
Battle of Hatchie's Bridge is located in Tennessee
Battle of Hatchie's Bridge
Location in Tennessee
Battle of Hatchie's Bridge is located in the United States
Battle of Hatchie's Bridge
Location in the United States
Nearest city Pocahontas, Tennessee
Built 1862
MPS Archeological Resources of the American Civil War in Tennessee MPS
NRHP reference No. 97001549
Added to NRHP July 13, 1998

The battlefield site, known as Davis Bridge Battlefield, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. A 5-acre (20,000 m2) area of the battlefield is part of the Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991. The total battlefield area deemed potentially eligible for the National Register is 5,103 acres (2,065 ha), of which 861.5 acres (348.6 ha) has protected status. The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 859 acres (3.48 km2) of the battlefield.

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