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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro', Tennessee + +Author: Frederick Phisterer + +Release Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32073] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REGULAR BRIGADE--14TH ARMY CORPS *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h2>THE REGULAR BRIGADE<br /> +OF THE FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,<br /> +THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,</h2> +<h3>IN THE BATTLE OF<br /> +STONE RIVER, OR MURFREESBORO’, TENNESSEE,</h3> +<h4><span class="smcap">From December 31st, 1862, to January 3d, 1863</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcaplc">BOTH DATES INCLUSIVE.</span></h4> +<p> </p> +<h4>BY</h4> +<h3>FREDERICK PHISTERER,</h3> +<h4><i>Late Adjutant 2d Battalion 18th U. S. Infantry</i>.</h4> + +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="center">To his Comrades,<br /> +THE SURVIVORS OF THE REGULAR BRIGADE,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Army of the Cumberland</span>,<br /> +IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAST DAYS,<br /> +AND TO PLACE ON RECORD A TRUE ACCOUNT<br /> +OF THE<br /> +PARTICIPATION OF THE BRIGADE<br /> +IN THE<br /> +BATTLE OF STONE RIVER.<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">July 1st, 1883.</span></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">When</span> General Rosecrans took command of the Army of the Ohio there were in +that army five battalions of regular infantry in two different divisions; +when he reorganized this army he determined to bring these battalions +together, to give them a regular battery, and form of them a Regular +Brigade. The 15th, 16th and 19th were already at Nashville; the orders +organizing the brigade found the two battalions of the 18th near Gallatin, +Tenn., as a part of General Stedman’s Brigade. On receipt of the orders, +the 18th marched, on the 23d of December, 1862, from Pilot Knob to +Nashville, Tenn., arriving there on the 25th day of December, 1862, and, +joining the other battalions and the battery, it completed the formation +of the brigade, which, as then organized, consisted of:</p> + +<p class="hang">The 1st Battalion of the 15th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G +and H; commanded by Major John H. King.</p> + +<p class="hang">The 1st Battalion of the 16th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G +and H, 1st Battalion, and Company B, 2d Battalion; Major A. J. +Slemmer commanding.</p> + +<p class="hang">The 1st Battalion of the 18th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G +and H, of the 1st, and A and D, of the 3d Battalion; Major J. N. +Caldwell in command.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<p class="hang">The 2d Battalion of the 18th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E and F, +of the 2d, and B, C, E and F, of the 3d Battalion; commanded by Major +Frederick Townsend.</p> + +<p class="hang">The 1st Battalion of the 19th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E and +F; Major S. D. Carpenter commanding.</p> + +<p class="hang">Battery H, 5th U. S. Artillery, commanded by 1st Lieutenant F. L. +Guenther.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant-Colonel O. L. Shepherd, 18th U. S. Infantry, the senior +officer, was placed in command of the brigade.</p> + +<p>When the Army of the Ohio—then become the Army of the Cumberland, or the +14th Corps—advanced from Nashville, Tenn., toward its objective point, +the enemy, the Regular Brigade broke camp on the 26th, encamping on the +evening of that day on the Petersburg Turnpike; on the 27th it encamped +near Nolansville, Tenn.; on the 28th, at night, it marched across the +country to Stewart’s Creek, and on the 30th to a point on the +Murfreesboro’ and Nashville Turnpike about four miles from Murfreesboro’, +Tenn.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the 31st of December the brigade left its bivouac at an +early hour and advanced on the Nashville Turnpike to a point a little less +than three miles northwest of Murfreesboro’, and, with its division, was +posted in reserve. The division consisted of Scribner’s, John Beatty’s, +Starkweather’s and the Regular Brigade, and was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> commanded by +Major-General Lovell H. Rousseau. Starkweather’s Brigade had been left at +Jefferson’s Crossing on Stone River. The division was part of the centre, +commanded by Major-General George H. Thomas. The formation in the brigade +was from right to left as follows: 15th, 16th, 18th, 1st and 2d +Battalions, and the 19th.</p> + +<p>To fully understand the events now following, it will be necessary to +preface them with a short résumé of the opening and progress of the battle +from 6.30 <span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span> until noon; from the right of the army to the left of +Palmer’s Division of the left wing.</p> + +<p>The left of Palmer’s Division, Hazen’s Brigade, rested on the Nashville +Turnpike, about two and a half miles northwest of Murfreesboro’, facing +south by east—the other brigades of this division faced almost east; +Negley’s Division, of the centre, next in order, faced south by east; +Sheridan’s, of the right wing, faced almost east; Davis’ faced south by +east, and Johnson’s, the right of the army, east and south, and a portion +of it on the right flank west by south. A line drawn from the extreme +right due north would have crossed the Nashville Turnpike near General +Rosecrans’ headquarters, about one mile northwest of Hazen.</p> + +<p>All the divisions, excepting Palmer’s and the left of Negley’s, had to +cross a dense cedar forest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> about three-quarters of a mile deep before +they could reach the Nashville Turnpike to their left and rear.</p> + +<p>The extreme right of Johnson’s Division was attacked about 6.30 <span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span>, and +the engagement extended gradually toward our left, the attacking columns +of the enemy moving in echelon from their left to their right; the attack +struck Johnson’s flank, and, although portions of the division made a +gallant stand, the weight of the attack was too much for the division. +Johnson having been flanked and driven back, it became Davis’ turn to be +taken in rear and right flank, and forced back after considerable +resistance. The next division, Sheridan’s, was forewarned, and offered a +most determined resistance, falling back and changing front to the west as +its flank and rear became vulnerable; ammunition falling short, the rebel +force on his flank increasing, Sheridan commenced his retreat about 9.30 +<span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span>, falling back slowly and fighting. Negley necessarily had now to +refuse his right, change front to the west and northwest, and, running out +of ammunition about 11 <span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span>, commence his retreat out of the cedars. This +exposed the right of Palmer’s Division, compelling him, after a sharp +fight, to change front to the west and fall back on the railroad, pivoting +his division on the left of Hazen’s Brigade, until it was at right angles +with its former position; this took place about noon.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>The general front of the line, which in the morning was south by east, was +now west by south; the new line formed about noon ran along the railroad +and turnpike, and in front of it were open fields from Hazen’s left to a +point about one-eighth of a mile southeast of General Rosecrans’ +headquarters from which point the now re-organized right wing was posted +in the forest in a semicircle facing south and west, with the right, +refused, facing north by west and resting near the turnpike. Between the +right wing and Palmer’s Division there were Van Cleeve’s Division of the +left wing, the Pioneer Brigade, Negley’s and Rousseau’s Divisions.</p> + +<p>During the remainder of the day these positions were not materially +changed, except that Van Cleeve’s and Negley’s Divisions were later +withdrawn and placed in reserve.</p> + +<p>To return to the Regular Brigade: About 9 o’clock <span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span> it became apparent +that the tide of battle was most decidedly against the right wing of the +army, and Rousseau’s Division was ordered to the support of General +McCook. The Regular Brigade with its battery moved by the right flank into +the dense wood of cedars, alluded to above; when near Sheridan the head of +the brigade changed direction to the right, and line of battle was formed +in the cedars facing west. Meanwhile it had become evident that on this +ground no use could be made of the battery, and that no<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> good position +could be obtained for the infantry; the advance was therefore discontinued +and the battery with the brigade ordered by General Rousseau to the open +field between the cedars and the turnpike, near where it started from.</p> + +<p>Guenther’s Battery first took position on a slight rise outside of the +woods, but moved shortly to a knoll between the turnpike and railroad, +shelling the woods in the direction of the advance of the enemy. The two +right battalions, the 15th and 16th, not receiving the orders to halt, +continued their advance, deployed skirmishers, and soon became engaged +with a rebel force sweeping down in the rear of Sheridan. This force +appeared to be clothed in the Union Blue, and for a time there was an +uncertainty as to its character; the skirmishers being soon driven in, the +status of these troops was quickly developed and the battalions had a hot +and fierce fight for a short time, in which they were assisted by the 6th +Ohio Volunteer Regiment on their right. Majors King and Slemmer having +finally received information of the movement of the brigade, prepared to +rejoin it, falling back through the woods, and halting twice to repulse +the enemy. Other forces coming to the support of the right, and Sheridan +having changed front and refused his right, enabled these battalions to +rejoin the brigade. Among the killed in this affair was Captain Bell, of +the 15th. The other battalions,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> though under fire, did not come into +action, but covered the movements, and followed in support of their +battery, all taking, finally, position on a rise or knoll near the +turnpike. At this point the 19th was shifted from the left to the right +wing between the 15th and 16th, thereby equalizing the strength of the two +wings more nearly. While in this position, the line facing southwest, the +brigade, the battalions of the 18th, and the battery especially, were +exposed to an enfilading artillery fire, and Captain Denison, of the 2d +Battalion, was mortally wounded, and Sergeant White, of Co. F. 3d +Battalion, 18th infantry, was killed by a solid shot. The brigade was not +long in position when Sheridan’s troops began to come out of the woods, +followed shortly after by the enemy, whose further advance was resisted by +it. At a point where a short thicket about half way between the battery +and the woods and nearly opposite the battery and right of the brigade +covered to some extent its approach, Wither’s Division formed and made a +desperate charge on Guenther’s Battery. The enemy advanced boldly and +bravely; Guenther turned his admirably served guns on him, and with the +fire of his supports broke the column, which made four gallant efforts to +continue the charge, but melted away under the dreadful fire; their battle +flag went down three times in succession. Portions of Scribner’s Brigade +flanked the enemy’s left, and,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> upon the repulse of his charge on the +Regular Battery, Scribner’s and John Beatty’s Brigades, Van Cleeve’s +Division, the Pioneer Brigade and other organizations, led by Generals +Rosecrans and Rousseau in turn, charged upon the enemy, driving him well +back into the cedars. The remnants of the right wing having meanwhile been +reorganized, reformed nearly all on the right, advanced and took +positions, held by them until the close of the battle. The enemy’s advance +on our right and his flanking operations had now been successfully +resisted, but Negley was still in the woods, flanked and almost +surrounded. Extraordinary efforts were then made by the enemy to crush the +centre and left; reinforcements were brought from their right and thrown +upon the left of Negley and against Cruft, Grose and Hazen. Negley, out of +ammunition, was compelled to almost cut his way out; Grose’s and Cruft’s +Brigades of Palmer’s Division, on Negley’s left, necessarily had to follow +in his wake, in a measure covering his retreat; Hazen’s right, on Cruft’s +left, fell back and changed front from southeast to northwest, pivoting on +his left.</p> + +<p>To enable these troops to fall back, to afford them protection, to gain +time to execute the now absolutely necessary movements in order to rectify +positions of troops and to form a new line from Hazen’s left toward the +right, Rousseau’s Division was again ordered into the cedars.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> General +Thomas himself gave the orders for the advance of the Regular Brigade, +saying to its commander: “Shepherd, take your brigade in there,” pointing +southwest toward the cedar forest, “and stop the rebels.” The brigade, +without the battery, for which there was no suitable position in this +movement, was at once put in march, advancing to the front (south) along +the railroad and turnpike. After reaching the further side (south) of the +open ground, it was suddenly directed to the right to enter the cedar +forest, and after a change of direction slightly to the right, it was +halted along the edge of the cedars facing southwest and west. During this +movement the 2d Battalion of the 18th executed a change of front to the +south, by companies on its left company, as if at ordinary battalion +drill, then marched by the right flank into the cedars; the other +battalions moved up by their flanks and shortest routes, preserving proper +intervals. This, all accounts agree, was about noon. The line was then +advanced about fifty yards, until our retreating troops were in sight. The +15th held the right; the 2d Battalion of the 18th the left, which rested +less than one hundred yards from the south end of the woods; each +battalion occupied the best position the rocky ground in its front +afforded, and the brigade covered a front of a little over one-fourth of a +mile. Let us review the situation: Negley and Grose were retiring; Cruft +was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> covering Negley’s retreat and following him; Hazen’s right was +falling back; the enemy’s force was victorious and reinforced by three +brigades—according to a Murfreesboro’ rebel paper and Bragg’s +report—which were fresh and intact and commanded by Jackson, Preston and +Adams, and in this breach stood the forlorn hope of the army, the Regular +Brigade. Hazen’s right retiring, left the left flank of the brigade +uncovered, but John Beatty’s Brigade covered that point and the rear in +reserve; on the right of the brigade, Scribner came up to cover that flank +and to connect with troops still further on the right. As soon as the +front of a battalion was clear of our retiring troops, its fire commenced; +this waiting for our men to retire, and, meanwhile, receiving the enemy’s +fire without being able to reply, was the most trying time of all. The +firing commenced at the left as soon as Cruft’s men—so reported by a +staff officer—had withdrawn, and soon rose into a continuous roar. Capt. +Oscar A. Mack, on General Thomas’ staff, who approached the brigade with +orders, and was severely wounded, declared the din of the fire to have +been appalling. The first line of the enemy were scattered like chaff; +their second line brought to a halt and held. The report of the men, +especially, is that there was a third line, which coming up, fixed +bayonets and with the remnants of the other two lines prepared for a +charge. General Negley, with some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> of his men, united with the 15th, our +right, and with them resisted the advance of his pursuers. Part of +Scribner’s Brigade formed on Negley’s right; John Beatty covered the left +and rear of the brigade. Officers and men were falling all along the line, +but not a man turned his back to the enemy; every one stood up to his work +and strove to be worthy of the hope placed in him, and to do credit to the +Regular Brigade. General Thomas’ orders had been obeyed; the enemy’s +onslaught on the centre had been repulsed, and his victorious troops +brought to a halt; the rebels had been stopped, and the key of the +battlefield secured, but at a loss of nearly half of the infantry force of +the brigade. The new lines along the turnpike and railroad having been +formed, troops moved into position, artillery posted to protect and cover +the new lines, the right of the brigade received orders to fall back; the +movement was executed under the protection of the battery, but unmolested +by the enemy, from right to left in perfect order, one battalion moving +after the other by the right of companies through the cedars to the rear. +Lieut. Ludlow’s section of the battery had been detached to the front and +right to cover the retreat of the right of the brigade. It was a bitter +disappointment to obey orders then, but as the object of the advance of +the brigade had been achieved, its further exposure would have been +useless, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> could only have resulted in its annihilation; still, this +was not understood at the time by the officers and men of the brigade. +When the heads of companies debouched from the woods, they were exposed to +a tornado of artillery fire from rebel batteries to our left. From the +position of the brigade in the cedars to a short distance outside, it was +a gentle decline, the ground then again commenced to rise as far as the +pike and railroad; about one hundred yards from the woods, on higher +ground, the brigade reformed and faced the enemy; as there was no pursuit, +it fell back of our new lines and joined again its battery in proper +supporting position. Here roll was called, reports were made, and now the +loss of the brigade was fully understood. John Beatty’s and Scribner’s +Brigades fell back with the left and right of the Regular Brigade, and the +artillery opened on the woods as soon as the brigade was out of them.</p> + +<p>When the action opened in the cedars, Major Slemmer, of the 16th, was +badly wounded, and Capt. Crofton took command; almost immediately after +giving the command to retire, Major Carpenter fell, mortally wounded, +struck by six bullets, and the command of the 19th devolved on Capt. +Mulligan; on the retreat between the cedars and the railroad, Major King, +of the 15th, was disabled, and Capt. Fulmer assumed command; in the +cedars; in the 1st Battalion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> of the 18th, Capt. Kneass was killed and +Lieut. McConnell mortally wounded; in the 2d Battalion of the 18th, Lieut. +Hitchcock was killed and Lieut. Simons mortally wounded; in the 15th Capt. +Wise was mortally wounded; Major Townsend had his horse shot under him; +the Adjutant of the 1st Battalion of the 18th had his horse wounded; and +the Adjutant of the 2d Battalion had his killed under him. When the +brigade was again in its supporting position, its left wing was committed +for the remainder of the battle to Major Townsend, the right wing, +deprived of its field officers, needing more the attention of the Brigade +Commander.</p> + +<p>This closed the enemy’s and our operations for that day as far as active +participation by the Regular Brigade was concerned; the battery, however, +continued to play on the enemy’s position, and when later in the afternoon +an attack was made to the left of the brigade, it assisted in the repulse +of the enemy in that quarter. During the night parties were organized to +collect the wounded of the brigade; the pickets of the enemy and of the +brigade were within speaking distance, and one of the parties was +captured; another party claimed to be an informal flag of truce, asking +for the privilege to collect our wounded, and thus after some parleying +was permitted to return. During the night also our lines were straightened +out; positions changed; the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> right of the first division of the left wing +posted on the left of the turnpike, by which movement our front was thrown +back about three hundred yards; and the left wing formed on a new line +toward Stone River; this gave us a shorter line, more reserves, and +allowed the Regular Brigade, at about 4 o’clock <span class="smcaplc">A. M.</span>, of the 1st of +January, to fall back to a little piece of woods near General Rosecrans’ +headquarters, there to bivouac and seek rest.</p> + +<p>Early on the 1st of January, 1863, the brigade, with its battery, was +ordered to the right to support McCook’s wing, against which +demonstrations were made, and several positions were held by it without +coming into action. Shortly after two o’clock the brigade was ordered to +Stewart’s Creek; having marched about four miles, it received orders to +return double quick, and marched nearly the whole distance at that gait. +Night coming on, the brigade bivouacked again to the left of the pike, +near General Rosecrans’ headquarters.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the 2d of January, before breakfast, the brigade +advanced under heavy artillery fire to the support of the left wing, +remaining as its support in different positions during the day and night; +the battery, being in action off and on during the day, assisted in the +enemy’s repulse by the left wing in the afternoon of the day.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>On the morning of the 3d, the fourth day of the battle, the battery opened +fire upon one of the enemy, which was annoying our troops, and soon +silenced and drove it from its position. During the forenoon the brigade +and battery advanced again to its position, the key of the field, held on +the 31st of December, threw up slight intrenchments and held them for the +remainder of the battle. The heavy rains during the day filled the ditches +partly with water and rendered them almost untenable, while the +surrounding ground was fast turning into a bed of mud; the men, at their +option, could stand or recline in water or mud, but not a word of +discontent escaped their lips in this trying and painful, as well as +arduous and dangerous service. About 6 <span class="smcaplc">P. M.</span>, under the cover of the +brigade and other batteries, an attack was made to the front by parts of +John Beatty’s and Spear’s Brigades; this attack, though spreading to the +front of the brigade, required on its part only increased watchfulness to +prevent surprise in case of a reverse; the battery, however, was actively +engaged in shelling the enemy’s position in the woods to our front, south.</p> + +<p>Before daylight of the morning of the fourth, the brigade pickets reported +the retreat of the enemy. The day, Sunday, was spent in the sad duty of +collecting the dead of the brigade, who were interred at night by +moonlight and with military honors just in front of the intrenchments.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>Thus ended the battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro’; and here it may be +proper to relate a few of the many incidents occurring in and during it, +showing the spirit which pervaded the officers and men of the brigade, +ready to laugh one moment, the next to suffer, and, if need be, to die.</p> + +<p>During the fight at noon of the 31st of Dec., the color-bearer of the 2d +Battalion of the 18th was killed by a shot in the head and fell with and +on the colors; the color-guard at once raised the flag, when the top +became entangled in a low cedar; the Adjutant of the battalion, then still +mounted, finally called Lieut. Bisbee to the aid of the color-guard and +the colors were at last free again and thrown to the breeze; it was a +moment of great anxiety to all near, for it was understood that there was +to be no losing of the colors. When the left reformed after leaving the +cedars, Major Townsend, when on the rise took the colors and rode along +the new line for all to see that and where the stand was to be made. Capt. +Douglass, of the 18th, described the rebel artillery fire in the open +field, as if a blacksmith shop full of rotten iron was being thrown at the +command. When the brigade was reformed near its battery, there was a large +pile of knapsacks back of it, and many men rested against it from time to +time; pretty soon a rebel battery commenced firing solid shot at it, +making the knapsacks fly in all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> directions, but doing no other harm. For +a while it was a pastime to watch the solid shot coming through the air, +and one ball was especially noticed, going apparently straight toward a +man crossing the large open field to the rear, coming from the hospital +probably; the ball seemed to strike in front of and close to the man, +ricochetted and passed over the man, who at the same time made a profound +obeisance; to all appearances the ball would have decapitated him, had the +man been erect; a shout of laughter, seemingly from all parts of the +field, at the ludicrousness of the scene, relieved the anxious feeling of +suspense. But what a closing and beginning of a year was that! A large +number of officers and men, in fact all, were without rations on the 1st +and 2d, and parched corn, horse and mule steaks were in demand and +appreciated; the double quick back from near Stewart’s Creek was doubly +hard on empty stomachs; at last, on the evening of the 2d, some bacon, +flour and coffee were received and helped to tide the command over the +worst; though the men were hungry, they were in the best possible spirits. +When on the 2d the brigade advanced by the right of companies double quick +to the front, one man, seeing a solid shot rolling along very leisurely, +put his foot out to stop it; the opposing forces did not overcome each +other, and, the shot being stronger, the man found himself nicely tripped +and rolling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> along with the ball, much to his surprise, and, not being +injured, to the merriment of his comrades. The Battalion Quartermasters, +with the teamsters, servants, cooks and sick, defended their trains +against the charges of rebel cavalry repeatedly, repulsing the enemy every +time, and saving and preserving their trains. Of the three rebel brigades +of Jackson, Preston and Adams, General Bragg, the commander of their army, +says: “How gallantly they moved to their work, and how much they suffered +in the determined effort to accomplish it, will best appear from the +reports of subordinate commanders, and the statement of losses therewith.” +This shows some of the work done by the Regular Brigade, and later by its +battery repulsing the determined charge of these troops on to the left of +the line of battle. General Thomas, when asked why he sent the brigade +into the cedars, a regular holocaust, replied that it became a necessity +to do so.</p> + +<p>The casualties in the brigade were fearful, and almost all were suffered +at noon of, and all occurred on, the 31st of December.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>The following statement is taken from official sources, and shows the +casualties in the brigade in detail:</p> + +<p> </p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="casualties"> +<tr><td colspan="4"> </td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td><td colspan="3" align="center">NUMBER<br />ENGAGED.</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="center">NUMBER<br />KILLED.</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="center">NUMBER<br />WOUNDED.</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="center">NUMBER<br />CAPTURED.</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="center">TOTAL<br />LOSS.</td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="5"> </td><td align="right"><small>Comissioned<br />Officers</small></td><td> </td><td align="right"><small>Enlisted<br />Men</small></td> +<td> </td><td align="right"><small>Comissioned<br />Officers</small></td><td> </td><td align="right"><small>Enlisted<br />Men</small></td> +<td> </td><td align="right"><small>Comissioned<br />Officers</small></td><td> </td><td align="right"><small>Enlisted<br />Men</small></td> +<td> </td><td align="right"><small>Comissioned<br />Officers</small></td><td> </td><td align="right"><small>Enlisted<br />Men</small></td> +<td> </td><td align="right"><small>Comissioned<br />Officers</small></td><td> </td><td align="right"><small>Enlisted<br />Men</small></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="4">Field and Staff of Brigade</td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td><td align="right">4</td></tr> +<tr><td>1st</td><td>Battalion,</td><td>15th</td><td>U. S. Infantry</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">16</td><td> </td><td align="right">304</td><td><span class="spacer2"> </span></td> +<td align="right">2</td><td> </td><td align="right">10</td><td><span class="spacer2"> </span></td> +<td align="right">3</td><td> </td><td align="right">74</td><td><span class="spacer2"> </span></td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">17</td><td><span class="spacer2"> </span></td> +<td align="right">5</td><td> </td><td align="right">101</td></tr> +<tr><td>1st</td><td align="center">"</td><td>16th</td><td align="center">"</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">15</td><td> </td><td align="right">293</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">16</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">7</td><td> </td><td align="right">127</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">16</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">7</td><td> </td><td align="right">159</td></tr> +<tr><td>1st</td><td align="center">"</td><td>19th</td><td align="center">"</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">10</td><td> </td><td align="right">198</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">1</td><td> </td><td align="right">6</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">55</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">7</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">1</td><td> </td><td align="right">68</td></tr> +<tr><td>1st</td><td align="center">"</td><td>18th</td><td align="center">"</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">16</td><td> </td><td align="right">273</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">1</td><td> </td><td align="right">27</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">6</td><td> </td><td align="right">109</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">2</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">7</td><td> </td><td align="right">138</td></tr> +<tr><td>2d</td><td align="center">"</td><td>18th</td><td align="center">"</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">16</td><td> </td><td align="right">298</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">1</td><td> </td><td align="right">30</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">5</td><td> </td><td align="right">98 </td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">5</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">6</td><td> </td><td align="right">133</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="4">Battery H, 5th Artillery</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">3</td><td> </td><td align="right">120</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">—</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">5</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">—</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">5</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="5"> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="right">—————</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="right">—————</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="right">—————</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="right">—————</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="3" align="right">—————</td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="4" align="right">Total</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">80</td><td> </td><td align="right">1486</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">5</td><td> </td><td align="right">89</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">21</td><td> </td><td align="right">468</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">—</td><td> </td><td align="right">47</td><td> </td> +<td align="right">26</td><td> </td><td align="right">604</td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="4" align="right">Aggregating</td><td> </td> +<td colspan="4" align="center"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">1566</span></td> +<td colspan="4" align="center"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">94</span></td> +<td colspan="4" align="center"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">489</span></td> +<td colspan="4" align="center"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">47</span></td> +<td colspan="4" align="center"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">630</span></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>In his official report, General Rosecrans gives his loss as follows: +Killed, 92 officers, 1,441 enlisted men; total, 1,523; wounded, 384 +officers, 6,861 enlisted men; total, 7,245.</p> + +<p>Total killed and wounded, 8,778 officers and men, or 20.22% of the entire +force in action; the loss of prisoners, he states, will fall short of +2,800 officers and men.</p> + +<p>The loss of the brigade compared with the loss of the army is as follows: +Officers killed in the army, 92; in the brigade, 5; = 5.4% of army loss. +Officers wounded in the army, 384; in the brigade, 21; = 5.4% of army +loss. Enlisted men killed in the army, 1,441; in the brigade, 89; = 6.1% +of army loss. Enlisted men wounded in the army, 6,861; in the brigade, +468; = 6.8% of army loss. Captured and missing in the army, 2,800; in the +brigade, 47; = 1.6% of army loss.</p> + +<p>The loss of the army in killed and wounded was about 20% of the force in +action; the loss of the brigade in killed and wounded was 37% of its +strength in action.</p> + +<p>The effective force of the army in the battle was, all told, 43,400 +officers and men; the effective force, of the brigade taken into action +was, all told, 1,566 officers and men, or 3.6% of the strength of the +army; while the loss of killed and wounded of the brigade is 6.6% of that +of the army.</p> + +<p>The loss of killed and wounded in Scribner’s Brigade was reported as 208 +officers and men, or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> about 2.3% of army loss; in John Beatty’s Brigade as +281 officers and enlisted men, or about 3.2% of army loss; while the three +brigades were virtually the same in strength of effective force.</p> + +<p>Only two brigades in the whole army report a larger loss of killed and +wounded than the Regular Brigade; both were about 200 men stronger than +that brigade, and suffered losses before and after the 31st December, +while the loss of the Regulars was all on that day; the brigades were +Carlin’s, of the right wing, loss 627—but lost on the 30th 175 men, and a +few more after the 31st; Grose’s, of the left wing, 585—but lost before +the 31st 10 men, and on the 2d of January, the brigade report states, met +with a severe loss, not as large as on the 31st, however.</p> + +<p>These figures tell the tale, and it is doubtful if in any other engagement +of the war any organization under similar circumstances suffered as large +a loss.</p> + +<p>The total number of men received by the general Government in its armies +during the war, for various periods, was 2,859,132; these, reduced to a +three years’ standard, would make 2,320,272 men.</p> + +<p>The average effective number of each 1,000 men in service has been +computed at 693 men; this, applied to the number of men of the three +years’ standard, would, in round numbers, give an effective force of +1,608,000 men.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>The total losses of the war, as near as it can be done with incomplete +returns, has been computed to be: Killed in action, 44,238, or about 1.9% +of the effective force; wounded in action, 280,000, or about 12% of the +effective force; while the Regular Brigade lost on the 31st of December +alone: Killed in action, 94, or 6% of its effective strength; wounded in +action, 489, or 31% of its effective strength. Of course, the above +computations can be applied only in a general way, inasmuch as after 1861 +the actual number of men in the United States service, on an average, was, +in round numbers, only about 850,000 per year.</p> + +<p>In his report of the battle, General Geo. H. Thomas says: “In the +execution of this last movement, the Regular Brigade came under a most +murderous fire * * * but with the cooperation of Scribner’s and Beatty’s +Brigades and Guenther’s and Loomis’ Batteries, gallantly held its ground +against overwhelming odds.”</p> + +<p>General Rousseau, in his report, speaks of the brigade as follows: “On +that body of brave men the shock of battle fell heaviest, and its loss was +most severe. Over one-third of the command fell, killed or wounded. But it +stood up to the work and bravely breasted the storm, and, though Major +King, commanding the 15th, and Major Slemmer (old Pickens), of the 16th, +fell severely wounded, and Major Carpenter, commanding the 19th, fell dead +in the last charge, together with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> many officers and men, the brigade did +not falter for a moment. These three battalions were a part of my old 4th +Brigade at the battle of Shiloh. The 18th Infantry, Majors Townsend and +Caldwell commanding, were new troops to me, but I am proud now to say we +know each other. * * * The brigade was admirably and gallantly handled by +Lieut.-Col. Shepherd. * * * Of the batteries of Guenther and * * * I +cannot say too much. * * * Without them we could not have held our +position in the centre.”</p> + +<p>Surgeon Eben Swift, Medical Director, Department of the Cumberland, +reports: “Much of the heaviest loss sustained to-day fell upon our Regular +Battalions, brigaded under command of Lieutenant-Colonel O. L. Shepherd, +in holding the cedar brake on the right of the centre against the columns +of the enemy sweeping down upon them after having forced back our entire +right wing.”</p> + +<p>W. D. Bickham, who was on the field himself, in his book, “Rosecrans’ +Campaign with the Army of the Cumberland,” published in March, 1863, makes +the following record: “The Regular Brigade, Lieut.-Col. Shepherd at the +head of the column, moved steadily into the thickets, and formed with +Colonel John Beatty’s Brigade on the left, and Scribner’s in close +support. Directly a dropping fire, like the big drops which precede a +storm, indicated the proximity of the enemy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> * * * But the enemy pushed +hard. The gallant regulars resisted with the staunchness of their +professional <i>esprit</i>, and refused to yield an inch. * * * The file firing +of the regulars at this point was fearfully destructive.”</p> + +<p>“Pont Mercy,” a correspondent of the New York <i>Tribune</i>, wrote from the +battle-field: “There is a record, however, which shall be more amply made, +when the Biography of the gallant Regular Brigade is ready for history. * +* * Almost one-half the casualties were regulars, while they numbered less +than one-fourth of the entire division. The missing indicates discipline +and skill of officers with unmistakable emphasis. It was so in the +sanguinary battle of Gaines’ Mills on the Peninsula.”</p> + +<p>The Regular Brigade of the West had indeed sent greeting to their comrades +in the East.</p> + +<p>As already stated, the dead of the brigade were buried in front of the +position held by it nearly throughout the battle; the intention was to +erect a monument over their remains, and officers and men subscribing +liberally, a large sum was collected—about $4,000. The dead heroes rest +now at the same point in the National Cemetery, established by the General +Government; and on the 12th of May, 1883, a monument made by the sculptor, +Launt Thompson, was erected over their resting-place.</p> + +<p>The foregoing is not a fancy painted history<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> of the brigade in this +battle; it is not embellished with rhetorical allusions to fire and smoke, +shot and shell, grape and canister, the roar of the cannon, the rattling +of the musketry, the groans of the dying and wounded; it is a simple and +plain statement of facts in unembellished terms; although the groans of +the wounded and dying, the rattling of the musketry, the roar of the +cannon, grape and canister, shot and shell, and fire and smoke were +constant accompaniments of the shifting scenes of this bloody and +destructive drama of the history of our country.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> +<h3>ROSTER<br /> +<span class="smcap">Of Commissioned Officers of the Regular Brigade</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcaplc">AT THE BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE.</span></h3> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="Roster"> +<tr><td align="center">BRIGADE STAFF.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Lieutenant-Colonel O. L. Shepherd, 18th Infantry, Commanding Brigade.<small><a href="#notes">[5]</a></small><br /> +Captain N. C. Kinney, 18th Infantry, Quartermaster.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Anson Mills, 18th Infantry, Commissary of Subsistence.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Robert Sutherland, 18th Infantry Act’g Assist. Adjut.-Gen’l.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">1st Battalion, 15th U. S. Infantry.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Major John H. King, Commanding Battalion.<small><a href="#notes">[3][5]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant F. D. Ogilby,<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small> Adjutant.<br /> +Captain Jesse Fulmer.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain W. W. Wise.<small><a href="#notes">[1]</a></small><br /> +Captain J. Bowman Bell.<small><a href="#notes">[1]</a></small><br /> +Captain Henry Keteltas.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain Joseph S. Yorke.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Horace Jewett.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Charles Wickoff.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Sol. E. Woodward.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant W. B. Occlestone.<small><a href="#notes">[3][4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant R. P. King.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant James Y. Semple.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant William Galloway.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Roman H. Gray.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">1st Battalion, 16th U. S. Infantry.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Major A. J. Slemmer, Commanding.<small><a href="#notes">[3][4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant John Power, Adjutant.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain R. E. A. Crofton.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +Captain R. P. Barry.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain James Biddle.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain N. L. Dykeman.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain J. C. King.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant A. W. Alleyn.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant E. McConnell.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant W. H. Bartholomew.<small><a href="#notes">[3][4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant W. W. Arnold.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant J. C. Howland.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant R. E. Kellogg.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant S. E. St. Onge.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant W. J. Wedemeyer.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">1st Battalion, 18th U. S. Infantry.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Major J. N. Caldwell, Commanding.<small><a href="#notes">[5]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant R. L. Morris, Adjutant.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Dan’l W. Benham, Quartermaster.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +Captain Henry Douglass.<small><a href="#notes">[3][7]</a></small><br /> +Captain William S. Thurston.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain David L. Wood.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain Charles L. Kneass.<small><a href="#notes">[1]</a></small><br /> +Captain Robert B. Hull.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain William H. H. Taylor.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Joseph L. Proctor.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Thomas T. Brand.<small><a href="#notes">[5]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Samuel I. Dick.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Joseph McConnell.<small><a href="#notes">[2]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Gilbert S. Carpenter.<small><a href="#notes">[3][7]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Merrill N. Hutchinson.<small><a href="#notes">[5]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Ebenezer D. Harding.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant John J. Adair.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">2d Battalion, 18th U. S. Infantry.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Major Frederick Townsend, Commanding.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Frederick Phisterer, Adjutant.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Wm. P. McClery, Quartermaster.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain Henry R. Mizner.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +Captain Charles E. Denison.<small><a href="#notes">[2]</a></small><br /> +Captain Henry Belknap.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain Ai B. Thompson.<small><a href="#notes">[3][5]</a></small><br /> +Captain Wm. J. Fetterman.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +Captain Henry Haymond.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +Captain Ansel B. Denton.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Morgan L. Ogden.<small><a href="#notes">[3][6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Herman G. Radcliff.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant James Simons.<small><a href="#notes">[2]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Henry B. Freeman.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant William H. Bisbee.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant John F. Hitchcock.<small><a href="#notes">[1]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Wilbur F. Arnold.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">1st Battalion, 19th U. S. Infantry.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Major S. D. Carpenter, Commanding.<small><a href="#notes">[1]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Howard E. Stansbury, Adjutant.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Captain James B. Mulligan.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant A. H. Andrews.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +1st Lieutenant Jacob D. Jones.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Joseph J. Waggoner.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Wm. R. Lowe.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Alfred Curtis.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Chas. F. Miller.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Geo. W. Johnson.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Arthur B. Carpenter.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Battery H, 5th U. S. Artillery.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>1st Lieutenant F. L. Guenther, Commanding.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant Israel Ludlow.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +2d Lieutenant J. A. Fessenden.<small><a href="#notes">[7]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcaplc">MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Assistant Surgeon Webster Lindsley, Acting Brigade Surgeon.<small><a href="#notes">[4]</a></small><br /> +Acting Assistant Surgeon Patton.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small><br /> +Acting Assistant Surgeon Henderson.<small><a href="#notes">[6]</a></small></td></tr> +<tr><td><a name="notes" id="notes"></a> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><span class="smcaplc">NOTES.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>1 killed in battle of Stone River<br /><br /> +2 died of wounds received at Stone River<br /><br /> +3 wounded at Stone River<br /><br /> +4 died in service since Stone River<br /><br /> +5 retired<br /><br /> +6 resigned, discharged, mustered out, and out of service<br /><br /> +7 still in the U. S. Army, active list</td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>BATTLES AND ENGAGEMENTS PARTICIPATED IN BY THE REGULAR BRIGADE.</h3> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="battles"> +<tr><td>Stone River or Murfreesboro’, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862 to Jan. 3, 1863.<br /> +Eagleville, Tennessee, March 2, 1863.<br /> +Hover’s Gap, Tennessee, June 26, 1863.<br /> +Chicamauga, Ga., September 19 to 21, 1863.<br /> +Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863.<br /> +Buzzard Roost and Tunhill, Ga., Feb. 25 to 27, 1864.<br /> +Rocky Faced Ridge, Ga., May 5 to 9, 1864.<br /> +Resaca, Ga., May 13 to 15, 1864.<br /> +New Hope Church, Ga., May 28, June 1 and 4, 1864.<br /> +Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 22 and 30, 1864<br /> +Neal Dow Station, Ga., July 3 and 4, 1864.<br /> +Peachtree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864.<br /> +Atlanta, Ga., July 27 and 31, and August, 1864.<br /> +Utoy Creek, Ga., Aug. 7, 1864.<br /> +Jonesboro’, Ga., September 1, 1864.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> +<h3>ENGAGEMENTS AND BATTLES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE BATTALIONS<br />BEFORE +ORGANIZATION OF THE REGULAR BRIGADE.</h3> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="battles"> +<tr><td align="center">15th, 16th and 19th U. S. INFANTRY.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Shiloh, Tenn., April 7, 1862.<br />Corinth, Miss., May, 1862.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">1st and 2d BATTALIONS, 18th U. S. INFANTRY.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Lick Creek, Miss., April 26, 1862.<br />Corinth, Miss., May, 1862.<br /> +Springfield to Texas, Ky., October 6, 1862.<br />Perryville or Chaplin Hill, Ky., October 8, 1862.</td></tr></table> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth +Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro', Tennessee, by Frederick Phisterer + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REGULAR BRIGADE--14TH ARMY CORPS *** + +***** This file should be named 32073-h.htm or 32073-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/0/7/32073/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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