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Company "F."
CAPTAINS-Harbert King, John Brennan, Joseph J. Carson, James M. Gooch. 1st LIEUTS .- Albert F. Hoarine. Daniel Severence, Samuel D. Powell. 2d LIEUTS .- James H. Bridgewater, Nathaniel D. Wilmot, SERGTS .- Lewis Ball, Robert A. Willis, Wyatt T. Smith, John S. Ball, Lewis M. Warren, Wm. C. Hendrickson, John C. Miller. CORPLS .- Calvin S. Thompson. William Ball, William Cummins, William C. De- laney, John W. Snodgrass, Andersson Briddle, Nathan G. Mills.
PRIVATES-Jas. C. Allen. John T. Allen. Zachariah T. Adams, Jas. P. Ballard. Jno. Ballard, Elijah Childers, Reuben Delaney, Jas. Dishon, John Gooch, Jackson Hippard. James A. Harness, George W. Horain. Samuel R. Heed, Robert W. Jones, John C. Leach, Alexander Mobbley, Harrison S. Payne, Andrew J. Payne, William Playforth, Alexander Soard, William Wordlow, Benjamin F. Withers, James F. Carson. Jno. C. Cogle, Henry Delaney, Louis Dishon, Matthew Delaney. John C. Dol- lins, Joseph Frith. Joseph Grant, Isaac Homles. Jas. V. Hendrickson, W'm. H. McQuerry, Jonathan Mason, William Mefford. Reuben Mena- fee, Andrew Payne, John Routon, George W. Rogles, George W. Sev- France. John Salmonds, John Wickersham, Eli M. Cleveland, William P. Hodges, Sevier Laman, Harrison W. Rhea. David Collins. William Hayse, William Hicks. Willam H. Jones, John H. Leach, James L. Payne. John Roberts, William J. Warren, Alfred Adams. George W. Brady, Lawrence Carcaran. James Gentry, George W. Grady, Andrew W .. Howard, James W. Hall, Henry B. King, John G. Laman, John W. Minks, James H. Roberts, James Soard, William H. Temple, George A. Cox, John E. Daugherty, John Woodall. William Delaney, William Ed- wards. John C. Rayland, Chapman A. Whitley. James B. Barnett. Jas.
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Croucher, William P. Grady, Henry J. Lamar, George W. Lasier, Hiram McElmore, Samuel McQuery, John Newcomb, George W. Rider. James W. Smith, Weden Williams, Harrison W. West, William R. Warden. Thompson Yates.
Company " G."
. CAPTAINS-Isham Bolin, Wm. T. Jackman, John W. Tuttle. 1st LIEUTS .- Benjamin J. Bolin, Jas. L. Hardin, John Akers. 2d LIEUTS. -John C. Bolin, James T. Bramlette, Barnett C. Young. SERGTS .- George S. Blankenship, Spencer B. Hughes, Isaac M. Wells, DeWitt C. McFarland, Isaac B. Popplewell, Reuben S. Pierce, William A. Rip- petal, Hanibal C. Haynes, Hiram B. Wright. CORPLS .- Geo A. Rex- roat, Wm. A. Vanhay, Daniel Ballinger, Moses Hopper, Wm. D. Mur- rath, Samuel M. Haynes. Abner J. Hughes. HOSPITAL STEWARD -- Samuel K. Rhorer.
PRIVATES-Lewis Baley, William T. Belk, Henry Burris, John S. Brummett, Jas. Brummett, Jno. B. Collins, George W. Carroll, Sr., Thes. Hadley, Richard Hill, Felix W. Harris, Henry C. Lucas, Garland A. Marvin, Jacob A. Miller, Charles Marshall, John Nesbit, Richard Pop- plewell, Mason Popplewell. James Pierce, Alexander D. Polsten, John F. Paul, Simon Rexroat, Wm. F. Rexroat. Wm. F. Stevens, Wm. S. Smith. John W. Turner, Francis M. Woolridge, Henry J. Bolin, Alexander Carnes, Job Kerns, Hector O. Mckinley. John O. Southerland, David Wells, Herriford Alvis, Sonville Coe, Robert Elmore, Benjamin Holt. Richard Hadley, John C. Kimbler, Aaron Pierce, Francis B. Reese. Christopher C. Vanhoy, William J. Brown, Geo. W. Carroll, Jr., Francis M. Fox, Thomas Hampton, Eli Loy, Jacob Age, Cleveland Coffey, Virgil Coffey, Christopher W. Dutton, Joab Glover, William Godsey, James W. Litteral, Samuel F. Loy, Ebenezer C. Mckinley, Flint Popplewell, Stew- art Rexroat, William H. Webb, Reuben Western, George W. Blanken- ship, Benjamin F. Coffey, William Crisp, Harrison V. Volley, Shelby Coffey, Willis A. Coffey, Jasper Fugett, Job Glover, Benjamin Lawless, Martin A. Turner, Jackson Tucker. Smith Williams.
Company " H."
CAPTAINS-Henry S. Taylor. William H. Hudson. 1st LIEUTS .-- John W. Tuttle. James M. Bristow, Harrison B. Carter. 2d LIEUT .- William L. Bramlette. SERGTS .- Calvin H. Jeffries, James L. Francis. Richard J. Bristow, John C. Jarvis, Charles L. Carter. Alfred W. Wright. Michael Buster. CORPLS .- Josephus Wood, John V. H. Petty, Samuel W. Hull, Martin Richardson, Allen M. Smith, John W. Warren, George W. Pults, John W. White, Joseph Griffin, Christopher C. Kearns. TEAMSTER-George W. Warren.
PRIVATES-John W. Brummitt, Isaac Bunch, Francis M. Bunch, John P. Burchett, Isaac Coffey, John Dickerson, Fountain G. Gill, Oscar J. Harvey, James M. Martin, Richard S. Means, Jacob Paul, William Petty, John T. Puyear, William Sandusky. Thomas Stockton, James C. Santhenband. Lewis G. Sumpter. Samuel Tucker, Martin B. Upchurch. Thomas J. Winfrey, Jesse Cidwell, Martin V. Fauber, W. T. Henderson. Calvin Mayberry. Joseph Morehead, Andrew J. Pults, Andrew J. Wilson, Cyrus W. Wright, William Burchell, William H. Booher, Person Crouch. Wiliam Mullins. George MeDonald, Anthony Razor, William R. Razor, James M. Smith, William C. Smith, Hillory Sells, William Storey, Har- well M. Smith. George H. Smith, James H. Wallace, Lewis Green, Henry B. Noel, Jonathan Buck, Thomas Bullard. Andrew Carter. Joseph Cis- sell, Reuben Crutcher, John W. Hatfield, John Kelly. John Lawson, Mar- quis D. L. Millsaps, Micajah P. Pittman, Geo. Perdew, Sampson Petty. Elliott Puyear, Harrison B. Phillips. David L. Sandusky, Alexander A. Smith, James W. Smith, W. A. Smith, Newton Smith. James Sweigert, John A. Smith, Abraham Booher, James M. Isbell, Wiley B. Smith, Wil- liam Shoemake, Willis Smith. George A. Smith, C. S. Craig, William E. Dutton. Alexander Huff, James M. Hollingsworth, Jas. M. Knight, Richard Pittman, William A. Rains, Asa Shoemake, John Shelton. Rus- sell Salmons, Calvin Trail.
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Company "I."
CAPTAINS-Milton Frazer. John S. S. Maret, Norman R. Christie. Ist LIEUTS .- John L. Gilmore, Joseph J. Carson, William D. Murrah. "d LIEUTS .- George W. Roberts, Solon D. Moore. SERGTS .- William Allen, David Stephens, Arren G. Lewis, George W. Paynee, Jr., Barnett Hayes, Wade H. Merat. CORPLS .- William E. Myers, James Cum- mins, Napoleon B. Price. John W. Moore, Nimrod Smith, John C. M. Redman, Shelton Ballard, George W. Bullock, Alfred Hayes, Morgan Flemon. WAGONER-Larken Durman.
PRIVATES-Leonidas Buford, Elijah Ballard, John G. Cummins, Josiah Cummins, Bluford H. Cummins, John Cantwell, Peter S. Cable, John Dowell. George W. Drew, Lafayette Ellis, Thomas J. Ellis, Zeph- aniah Ellis, Thomas J. Hayse, Joseph P. Keaton, Samuel Leffew, Let- tral Morgan, Hartford Matherly, George W. Murry, Edwin McPherson, James M. Moore, Valentine Nicely, Benjamin F. Nicely, John Pruitt, George W. Paynee, Isaac Phillips, Cherley Payne, Jerome Price, Elias Pruitt, James M. Pierce, Josiah Ramsey, Thomas Rigsby, James Rob- erts. James Reece, David Reece, Smith Sayers, Charles Sheridan, James Wallin, Joseph Wallin, Solomon Abrams, Elijah Abrams, John Car- michael, William P. Carpenter, Mathew Cullen, William J. Davis, Chas. C. Darmon, John M. Isaacs. Isaac Maden, William S. Phillips, John Quil- lin, Jasper Ramsey, James Smith, John W. Taylor, Warren Benge, Vir- gil Evans, Jefferson Fields, Henry G. Jiles, David Murry, John Lakes, John C. Bloomer, Linsey Cox, John S. Cummins, Francis K. Davis, Milton Hicks, Lafayette Newcomb, Milton W. Padgett, Daniel Radford, Jilas Radford, William W. Vaughan, Jacob Vaughan, Edward Harris, Lu- ther M. Willhelm, William J. Brown, Absalom Nicely, William Wallin, Wansley Baker, Caleb Dunn, Thomas Laffew, William Murry, Newton Ramsey, John Seward, John Trusty.
Company "K."
CAPTAINS-James T. W. Barnett, John Roberts, George W. Rob- erts. 1st LIEUTS .- Wm. R. Buford, George McClure. 2d LIEUTS .- John H. Black, Robert I .. Tracy, Spencer B. Hughes. SERGTS .- Geo. Reed, Harvey G. Nicholds, Samuel W. Gibson, William Lasley, William II. Owens, Cyrenis Childers. CORPLS .- James Jackson, Thos. J. Ad- kins, Eli Wells, Wm. B. Brady, Charles Pollock, John Jackson, Riley J. Earp, William W. Yates, Henry H. Hinds.
PRIVATES-James Adkins, Thomas Adams, Squire Burdine, Joseph Burdine, Allen Brock, John Bobbett, Peter S. Brady, Riley R. Bullock. James Delaney. Wm. K. Debord, Montrose Graham, Stapy Holton, Wil- liam Lickliter, Daniel Mathias, Nicholas Mahar, Joseph Moore, James Parkey, Elisha Price, William Phelps, Fountain F. Rash, James Rey- nolds, Isaac Reed, Jesse Stogsdill, Jonathan Smith, William Trusty, William Wilder, James W. Wilder, John Whalen, John Whiles, William Dugger, William Jackson, Elias Lickliter, Noah Salmons, Joseph N. Smith, David Brock, John Debord, John Martin, Marion Meece, Wyatt Adkins, David Burdine, James M. Blankenship, Thos. Cummins, Henry H. C. Haggard, Joseph Jackson. Charles Lawson, Jackson Price, Boler Raney, Robert Stewart, Reuben Woodall. Hugh G. Barkley, Robert Gill, Hugh Holton, Isaac P. A. Lickliter, Isaac Misser, Alfred Parkey, Isaac N. Price, William Rash, Richard A. Smith, John Trusty, James F. Tay- lor, George M. Trusty. Elihu Trusty, Henson Williams,
Van Buren Young, Green Harrison, Miles Price, Martin Vanhook. William Whitley, Green Williams, David Doolin. James Lawson. Edley Lawson, Joel Wil- liams, George Woodall, William Woodall, William D. Ashley, Willis G. Barnes, Daniel Doolin, Bolin G. Ping, Thomas H. Smith, Silas Whit- aker. Samuel B. Watson.
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The Fourth Kentucky Infantry. -
BY COL. R. M. KELLY.
The 4th Infantry Volunteers was one of the three in- fantry regiments which President Lincoln authorized Lieut. Win. Nelson, of the Navy, a native Kentuckian of Mason county, to raise in Kentucky in the early sum- mer of 1861. Capt. Speed S. Fry, of Danville, who had served in the Mexican war, was selected by Lieut. Nelson for one of his colonels, and he chose for his lieutenant- colonel, JJohn T. Croxton, a young lawyer of Paris, son of a Bourbon county farmer and a recent graduate of Yale; and for major, P. Burgess Hunt, of Lexington, son of a Fayette county farmer and a member of the Lexing- ton Chasseurs, a noted company of the State Guard, com- manded by Capt. Sanders D. Bruce, afterward colonel of the 20th Ky. Infantry, and recruiting for the regiment actively began. The leaders of the Union men of Ken- tucky had requested Lieut. Nelson not to open any camp until after the legislative elections, on the first Monday in August, and recruits wore enrolled with the under- standing that they were to rendezvous immediately after that date at a camp in Garrard county, situated on the Lexington and Danville turnpike, between the Kentucky and Dicks rivers, where the turnpike to Crab Orchard branches off, which was styled Camp Dick Robinson, in honor of the staunch Union man on whose land it was located.
Recruiting was done in most cases rather quietly and the Home Guard companies, which had been organized during the spring, supplied the most ready material, though a quota came from the State Guard. The terri- tory from which Col. Fry was to draw his men was of con- siderable extent, and, as the time was short and recruit- ing hurried, the companies were gathered from widely separated localities. One came from Danville and vicinity ; two from Mercer, Washington and Anderson; two from Rockcastle and Laurel; one from Estill; one from Mont- gomery and Rowan; one from Lewis; one from Bourbon. Nicholas and Pendleton, and one from Harrison and Grant.
The day after the August election, 1861, Col. Fry with a detachment from Danville, the nucleus of what became Company A, opened Camp Dick Robinson, and the next day organized companies and parts of companies for his and the other three regiments began to pour in, and with-
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in a few weeks enough men to fill the four regiments had assembled. Col. Fry's regiment was originally called the 2d Ky., but after the legislature assembled in Septem- ber, and determined to respond to the President's call for troops, the two regiments enlisted at Camp Cook, Ohio, were recognized by the state and numbered 1st and 2d, and the number of Fry's was changed to 4th, Bramlette's was changed from 1st to 3d, and Garrard's to 7th, Rous- seau's and Whittaker's being numbered 5th and 6th, re- spectively. There was some temporary irritation over these changes, but it soon subsided. Wolford's regiment was mustered as the 1st Cavalry and retained that desig- nation.
One of Gen. Nelson's plans for accustoming his new soldiers to be ready for emergencies was to have frequent night alarms and the long roll was sounded on many oc- casions at late hours of the night and the whole force arrayed in line to meet imaginary foes. As rumors of Zollicoffer's advance were rife through the country, these alarms were taken very seriously by most of the command.
Shortly after the camp was opened it was reinforced by a large body of East Tennessee Unionists, soon organ- ized into the 1st and 2d East Tennessee, who had first rendezvoused near Barboursville. Many came into Camp Dick afterward, and had thrilling tales to tell of their perils in escaping through the rebel lines. There were a number of preachers with them and prayer meetings were held nearly every night.
The camp had not been opened very long until there was an outbreak of the measles, which proved fatal in not a few cases. Many of the sick were removed to Dan- ville, and the men of Camp Dick Robinson owe a debt of gratitude to the good people, and especially to the good women, of that town.
The first active service performed by any portion of the regiment was when a detachment of several com- panies, with a similar detachment from the 3d, was sent to Nicholasville to escort a wagon train, loaded with muskets and ammunition, from Nicholasville to the camp. The regiment was first armed with the old smooth bore musket, but soon after the two flanking companies were ยท supplied with Enfield rifles. One peculiarity in the or- ganization of the 4th Ky. Regiment must be noted. Its companies were arranged in alphabetical order from right to left, so that while A was the right company, K was the left company, and that arrangement was observed throughout its four years' service. The matter was re- forred to Gen. Thomas and he decided that it was a per-
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fectly proper arrangement as the company commanders all bore commissions of the same date.
In the latter part of October, the regiment moved to Crab Orchard and became a part of the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio. After a few weeks spent at Crab Orchard, it was ordered to Lebanon to join the rest of the brigade, consisting of the 10th Ky., 14th Ohio and 10th Ind. On the way, at Brumfield's, it had its first ex- perience of pay day. The paymaster was Maj. Philip Speed, whose clerk was Geo. K. Speed, afterward captain, 4th Ky. Cavalry. The pay was in Kentucky bank notes with some gold and silver, all equally good at the time and equally welcome. At Lebanon, another brigade of the division was found. While there, Gen. Buell re- viewed and inspected the brigade. An outbreak of typhoid fever there cost the regiment some valuable lives, among them that of Chap. J. W. Jacobs, who literally wore himself out nursing the sick. The good people of Lebanon were most helpful and sympathetic during this trouble.
About the 1st of January, 1862, the regiment started with the brigade on the campaign against Zollicoffer, then entrenched at Mill Springs. Up to that time the tents used were the Bell tent; for that campaign it was furn- ished with the Sibley tent, each one of which would ac- commodate twenty men. Up to that time, also, each com- pany had been allowed two wagons and the field and staff as many as were desired. The marching orders for that campaign cut down the allowance to one wagon for a company and one for field and staff, and the general opinion was that it would be impossible to move. It was done, however, though many home comforts were abandoned. Later experience showed the regiment that one wagon to a brigade might be enough, and that tents were not essential.
The regiment marched with the command by way of Campbellsville, Columbia and Webb's Crossroads, arriv- ing at Logan's Crossroads, about nine miles from the the enemy's entrenched camp, on the evening of January 18th. Early the next morning, which was Sunday, the enemy attacked the pickets, consisting of detachments of Wolford's cavalry and the 10th Ind. Infantry. The 4th being nearest the front moved to their support and be- came immediately engaged. The following is an extract from the report of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas commanding our army:
"Upon my arrival on the field soon afterwards, I found the 10th Ind. formed in front of their encampment
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apparently awaiting orders, and ordered them forward to the support of the 4th Ky., which was the only entire regiment then engaged. I then rode forward myself to see the enemy's position so that I could determine what disposition to make of my troops as they arrived. On reaching the position held by the 4th Ky., 10th Ind. and Wolford's cavalry, at a point where the roads fork lead- ing to Somerset, I found the enemy advancing through a cornfield and evidently endeavoring to gain the left of the 4th Ky. Regiment, which was maintaining its position in the most determined manner. A section of Capt. Kinney's battery took a position on the edge of the field to the left of the 4th Ky., and opened an effective fire on a regiment of Alabamians, who were advancing on the 4th Ky. Soon after the 2d Minn. arrived, the colonel re- porting to me for instructions. I directed him to take the position of the 4th Ky. and 10th Ind., which regiments ' were nearly out of ammunition. Col. S. S. Fry, 4th Ky., was slightly wounded while his regiment was gallantly resisting the advance of the enemy, during which time Gen. Zollicoffer fell from a shot from his (Col. Fry's) pistol, which, no doubt, contributed materially to the discomfiture of the enemy."
The enemy was driven from the field in confusion, and our forces followed in immediate pursuit. Evidences that the enemy was demoralized soon began to appear. Hundreds of small arms and haversacks, filled with three days' rations of corn bread and bacon, very welcome to our breakfastless men, were strewn along the roadside and through the fields.
Our forces reached the neighborhood of the enemy's entrenchments before dusk and were put in position to attack them at daybreak. The first light showed that the enemy was retreating and crossing in a steam ferry boat to the south shore of the Cumberland. A battery opened fire on the boat, and it was taken to the other shore and burned. Our troops hastened forward and found the enemy all gone except some of their wounded. Two six-gun batteries, with the horses hitched up and ready for moving, were left near the landing, and the bottom was filled with a wagon train.
The road up from the river on the other side was strewn with trunks and baggage of various kinds thrown from wagons. Rafts were speedily improvised and a force thrown over, which followed the retreating enemy as far as Monticello.
It is questionable whether the capture of the whole 20
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rebel force would have had as much effect as its panic stricken retreat and disorganization. The reports of Gen. Crittenden show that only two or three regiments preserved any organization, and that most of the com- mand dispersed. A year afterward the 4th Ky. found some of them at Lavergne, who had never returned. to duty after the Mill Springs fight. The 4th Ky. lost in action, one officer, Lieut. J. M. Hall, Company B, and eight men killed and fifty-two wounded, which was a pretty heavy percentage in a regiment depleted by sick- ness and detachments to less than four hundred for duty.
The following pleasing incident occurred during the battle: Capt. Wellington Harlan was under arrest at the time the battle began, on charges preferred by Lieut. Col. Croxton. Capt. Harlan marched in rear of his com- pany, and when the regiment was ordered into engage- ment took a musket and fought gallantly in the ranks. Col. Croxton, seeing his conduet, with the permission of Gen. Thomas, went to him during the fight, released him from arrest and restored him to the command of his com- pany.
The regiment remained in the rebel cantonments at Mill Springs till February 14th, when it was relieved by the 19th Ky.
The regiment marched by Coffey's Mill, Danville, Lebanon and Bardstown to Louisville and there embarked on boats for Nashville, where it arrived March 4th. At Louisville it was presented with a flag by the ladies of the city. Left Nashville March 20th and marched, via Franklin, to Spring Hill, where it was in camp some days with the rest of the division. After a few days' rest there. started for Pittsburg Landing, moving by regular marches till April 5th, when the guns of Shiloh were heard and a forced march began. In the order of march that day, the division of Gen. Thomas was in the rear. Reveille was sounded on the 6th about 3 a. m., and march began in the dark. The road cut up by trains was knee deep in mud, and the men stuck lighted candles on their bayonets and made flambeaux of various kinds, but many fell in ditches and ruts. The division did not reach Savannah till nearly dark, and did not reach the battle- field in time to take part in the battle.
The regiment took part in the . advance on Corinth, frequently skirmishing and sometimes sustaining loss. Shortly after reaching Shiloh field Col. Fry received his commission as brigadier-general. Lieut. Col. Croxton was promoted colonel; Maj. Hunt, lieutenant-colonel, and Capt. R. M. Kelly, Company K, major. During this time
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the brigade, commanded by Gen. Fry, with a battalion of cavalry, all under command of Gen. W. T. Sherman, went on boats up the Tennessee river and marching inland burned the bridge over Bear river, on the Memphis & Charleston R. R. In the reorganization of the army after the battle of Shiloh, Gen. Thomas was put in command of the right wing, and his division, then called the 7th Division, was commanded by Gen. W. T. Sherman. The regiment after the evacuation of Corinth pursued the enemy as far as Booneville, Miss., and then returning to Corinth marched via Iuka to Tuscumbia. Gen. Thomas had then resumed command of the division and Gen. Fry commanded the brigade.
After a stay of some weeks at Tuscumbia, the regi- ment moved with the command on July 24th, via Florence, Lawrenceburg, Pulaski, Fayetteville, Lynchburg and Winchester to Decherd by August 4th. It was on this march that Col. McCook, of the 9th Ohio, was killed by guerrillas while riding in his ambulance. From Decherd the regiment moved with the command to Pelham, and thence by Manchester and Murfreesboro, to Nash- ville. Leaving Nashville September 15th, it marched with Buell's army to Louisville, by September 24th. At Louisville the 74th Ind. was added to the brigade. ' In the reorganization of Buell's army at Louisville, Gen. Thomas was made second in command, and Gen. Gilbert put in command of the center to which the 1st Division, now in command of Gen. Albin Schoepf, was attached. The regiment marched, via Bardstown and Springfield, to Perryville, but was not under fire there though the 10th Ind. of the brigade, under direction of Gen. Fry, did some sharp skirmishing. From Perryville, after the battle, the regiment moved with the command, via Danville to Crab Orchard, and thence via Greensburg and Glasgow to Gallatin, Tenn .; and thence to Castalian Springs, half way between Gallatin and Hartsville. Aroused by the firing of Morgan's attack on the troops at Hartsville, ten miles off, it made a rapid march to reinforce them, but arrived only in time to exchange a few shots with Mor- gan's rear guard. Marched thence to Gallatin and on evening of 25th took the cars to oppose Morgan's raid on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The Bacon creek bridge had been burned and leaving train there the com- mand marched to Elizabethtown, joined at Munfordville by the 12th Ky. Cavalry and 13th Ky. Infantry, had a fight with Morgan's rear at Rolling Fork; moved thence to Lebanon Junction, and thence to Nashville. Marched to Little Harpeth, to meet a reported raid of Forrest, re-
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turned to Nashville and moved to Lavergne, where the brigade remained till May; then removed to Triune, where Gen. Brannan took command of the division, which had then become the 3d Division, 14th Army Corps, relieving Gen. Fry, who had been ordered to Kentucky. Col. Croxton was shortly after assigned to command of the brigade and Lieut. Col. Hunt commanded the regiment. The regiment took part in the Tullahoma campaign and was in action at Hoover's Gap, Concord Church, and near Tullahoma, but with slight loss. Marched from Tulla- homa to Winchester, and thence, on August 13th, started on the Chickamauga campaign. Croxton's - brigade opened that battle on the morning of September 19th. Lieut. Col. Hunt was wounded severely on the morning of the 19th, and Maj. Kelly, who had been on staff duty as division inspector, took command of the regiment.
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