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After the retreat from Jackson we were ordered to Mobile. There Gen. Maxey was ordered to report to Richmond to take command elsewhere. Col. W. A. Quarles then assumed command, and was soon after made Brigadier-general. Gen. Quarles was a brave and dashing commander, and the boys had confidence in him. We remained in his brigade till the close of the war. We arrived at Mobile Sep- tember 1, guarding the coast from Pascagoula to Mobile.
At one time the Forty-eighth Regiment with a battery was sent to Pascagoula to guard a steamer that had succeeded in running the blockade, but she was pur- sued so closely that she had to beach herself. From Mobile we were ordered to the Army of Tennessee; reached Dalton, Ga., November 26th. In January we were again ordered to Mobile; were then sent to join Polk's army, to meet the ad- vance of Gen. Sherman-placed in Gen. French's division. We retreated with Gen. Polk's army to Meridian. Were again ordered back to Mobile. From Mobile ordered to the Army of Tennessee, joining Gen. Johnston at New Hope Church, May 27th, 1864, and taking part in all the engagements from New Hope, Pine Mountain, Kennesaw, Peach-tree Creek, Atlanta, Lick-skillet road, to July 28th. This was the hottest contest we engaged in during the war. Our brigade lost in killed and wounded over one-half of its men. On the extreme left of
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Hood's army the skirmish line was commanded by Capt. Jo. Love. On his right in a skirt of woods the Fifty-third and Forty-ninth were hotly engaged. The skirmish line extended through an old field some two hundred yards wide to a dense wood which the Federals were trying to occupy. The enemy would hurl their double line of battle against our forces and drive them down the hill; so soon as thy attempted to extend their line, our men would drive them back. This was repeated three times. The third time a Federal regiment emerged from the woods, one man carrying three guns and his comrades two rails each; in this way a line of breastworks was thrown across the open space in ten minutes. Lieut. J. W. Kerr was severely wounded here. In a short time after this engagement, Federal cavalry was threatening our railroad in rear of Atlanta. Gen. W. H. Jackson called for a small force of infantry to assist him in protecting the road. Gen. Reynolds, of Walthall's division, was ordered to go to Jackson's support. One regiment of his brigade being on picket line, the Forty-eighth Tennessee was ordered to accompany Gen. Reynolds, Lieut .- col. A. S. Godwin in command. Reynolds's whole force numbered about three hundred men. We got aboard the cars, ran down to Jonesboro, where the Federal cavalry had torn up the railroad track half a mile, and had passed on down the road. Another train below the break carried us on to Lovejoy's Station, where Jackson met us and informed us that there we could have a fight. We formed a line, and advanced but one hundred vards before we encountered the Federal cavalry. Although they were in force, and had built pens of rails and logs for protection, they seemed paralyzed when they saw they were attacked by infantry. A perfect panic followed. Gen. Jack- son was in their rear. Within the space of twenty minutes we killed seventy- four and captured twenty-three prisoners. Some of the prisoners were so drunk that we had to lift them on the train. We immediately returned to Jonesboro. . One incident connected with this engagement I would like to mention. When we reached Jonesboro two ladies living near came to our camp and reported that a squad of Federals had that morning plundered their house, and one had stolen various articles they prized very highly. Two rings given to them by a dead sol- dier brother had been taken from them. Sergt. Jo. Rainey, of Co. E, informed them that a wounded Federal in the car had on rings such as they described. He went with them to the car, and they recognized the man at once and secured their rings. Next morning that poor wretch was dead.
From this time on the regiment continued with Gen. Hood; went into Ten- nessee with him. We remained three days in Maury county, at our homes, there- fore were not in the battle at Franklin, Tenn. The regiment then joined Hood at Nashville, and took an active part in the two days engagement at that place. Early on the morning of Dec. 15, Capt. Love was put in command of a force to complete a fort on Hood's left, on the Granny White pike. About noon he was ordered to report to his regiment near by, and a detail from Quarles's brigade, under Major T. E. Jamison, of the Forty-eighth; Major Howard having resigned on ac- count of defective sight. Scarcely had the brigade moved away before a strong cavalry force attacked the fort, and was repulsed with great loss. Shortly they were attacked by the infantry. Our men stood heroically, many of them barefooted in the snow, and when overpowered fought with clubbed guns. Sergt. William Trousdale, of Co. E; Charley Jones, of Co. K; Lieut. Maclin, of the Fifty-third Tennessee, daringly cut through the Federal host and joined their commands
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that night. Major Jamison was severely wounded in the thigh. He was taken to Fort Delaware, and was one of the sixty-two who were kept there till August, 1865.
Our brigade took position behind a rock wall; soon the enemy captured another fort in our front, turned our own guns upon us, and a brigade of the enemy was rapidly moving on our left flank. We fell back in good order through a field of recently plowed ground. Here Capt. J. P. Church had his leg shot off. Color- bearer Craig was shot down, and others badly wounded. Next day we occupied an exposed space to the right of Finley's brigade, with no protection; the Federal line within seventy yards of us, we were compelled to lie down, as the least ex- posure was sure to result in death; all day long we could see the Federal line en- cireling us. Here Lieut. W. B. Wood, of Co. K, had one arm and part of the other hand shot off by a cannon-ball. We saw our line give way on the hill above us. Soon the Federals had full possession of the fort; then our whole line gave way. In the retreat Col. Voorhees was wounded in the leg and captured.
The regiment retreated with Hood and came under the command of Gen. For- rest, commanding rear-guard of Hood's army; was engaged in that sharp contest at Anthony's Hill, near Pulaski, Tenn., capturing a Federal battery. The regi- ment then went to North Carolina, reached Gen. Bragg at Kingston; a mere hand- ful of men took part in that engagement, Capt. Love commanding; Gen. George D. Johnson commanding Quarles's brigade here as at Nashville, Tenn., Gen. Quarles having been wounded at Franklin, Tenn. In this engagement Lieut. H. Crawford, of Co. H, Forty-eighth Tennessee, was killed; also Sergt. Trousdale, who had so bravely cut his way out through the Federal host at Nashville, Tenn. We also took an active part in the battle of Bentonville, charging and capturing one line of the enemy's breastworks. Surrendered March 19, 1865.
FORTY-EIGHTH TENNESSEE INFANTRY. (NIXON'S.)
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FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel, G. H. Nixon; Lieutenant-colonel, T. R. Hughes; Major, J. T. Younger; Quarter- master, J. C. Wooten; Commissary, W. C. Richardson; Surgeon, J. F. Scott; Assistant Sur- geon, H. W. Hunter; Adjutant, M. L. Montague; Chaplain, William Qualls.
COMPANY A. Captain, D. R. Sowell.
Campbell, Edward, k. at Richmond, Ky.
Hall, A. J., d. April 12, 1862.
Foster, S. F., d. May 14, 1862.
Prichard, T. B., d. May 20, 1862.
Pope, G. W., d. May 29, 1862.
Simms, John R., d. June 2, 1862.
Grimes, L. C., d. Harrell, T. J., d. July 13, 1862.
Turner, Jasper, d. May 17, 1862.
Turner, Abner, d. May 30, 1862.
COMPANY B. Captain, Samuel A. Whiteside.
Lintz, John, d. Jan. 30, 1862. Morris, Calvin, d. March 5, 1862. Warren, Enoch, d. Feb. 20, 1362. Oliver, Capt. J. A., d. Feb. 23, 1862. Brown, Samuel, d. March 5, 186%. Frizell, William, d. Jan. 31, 1862. Hale, A. J., d. April 24, 1862.
Jenkins, J. C., d. Feb. 14, 1862.
Overby, Drury, d. Feb. 5, 1962.
Steele, W. T., d. Jan. 8, 1862.
Wiun, B. F, d. Feb. 6, 1852.
Wood, T. J., d. Jan. 25, 1862.
Henderson, John T., k. at Richmond, Ky.
Finch, G. W., d. May 13, 1862. Grimes, W. E., d.
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COMPANY C. Captain, C. C. Harris.
Duggar, Alonzo, k. at Perryville, Ky.
Byrd, D. C., k. a+ Richmond, Ky.
Denton, W. J., d. May 3, 1862.
Griffin, M. J., d. May 13, 1862.
Norris, E. S., d. Sept. 6, 1862.
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Lee, G. W., k. at Richmond, Ky. McBride, C. W., d. June 1, 1862. Smith, D. J., k. at Richmond, Ky.
COMPANY D. Captain, S. J. George.
Perry, J. W., d. Feb. 2, 1862.
McCallup, M., d. Feb. 20, 1862.
Tatom, G. M., d. Feb. 4, 1862.
Denton, Henry, d. Feb. 20, 1862.
McCollum, D. M., k. at Perryville, Ky.
Gill, T. J., d. May 14, 1862.
Barnes, C. C., d. Aug. 1, 1802.
Shouse, F. C., d. June 16, 1862.
COMPANY E. Captain, Dooley Mckinney.
Estes, W. R., k. at Chickamauga.
Mathews, William, d. May 24, 1862.
Martin, M. L., k. at Chickamauga.
MeMorris, Wm., d. Dec. 12, 1861.
Brown, Martin P., d. Apr. 25, 1862.
Brown, W. D., d. Sept. 24, 1862.
Hoffman, Edward C., d. April 28, 1862.
Dooley, J. B., d. March 22, 1863. Kinzer, H., d. March 22, 1863.
COMPANY F. Captain, James Jackson.
Churchwell, D. M., d. April 29, 1863. Waller, Martin V., d. Feb. 8, 1862.
Duggar, Frank, d. March 6, 1863.
Howell, Henderson, d. March, 1863. Jewell, Wm. E., d.
Sanderson, H. J., d. Feb., 1862.
Reaves, Joseph C., d. Feb. 7, 1862.
Duggan, Alonzo, k. at Richmond, Ky.
Reynolds, Samuel, d. Feb. 15, 1862.
Smith, Elijah, d. Oct., 1862.
Leroy, Robert, d. Feb. 3, 1862.
Loyd, Owen, d. Jan. 27, 1863.
McMahon, W. J., d. Feb. 7, 1863.
Old, J. B, d. Jan. 20, 1862.
Harrington, A. B., d. Feb. 18, 1863.
Henry, Jesse, d. Nov. 30, 1862.
Benham, J. V., k. at Richmond, Ky.
Humphreys, J. H., d. Feb. 2, 1863. Carter, John F., d. Feh. 14, 1862. Whitaker, James W., d. Feb. 4, 1862.
Whitaker, W. H., k. at Richmond, Ky.
Moore, K. C., d. June 21, 1862.
Hardin, A. K., d. March 5, 1862.
Roberts. A. A., d. May, 1862.
Huckabee, J. R., k. at Chickamauga.
Crossus, Samuel, k. in battle.
Roach, William S., d. May, 1862. Staggs, James N., d. May, 1862.
COMPANY G. Captain, Lewis Miller.
Palmore, George W., d. Sept. 15, 1862. Baronett, James W., d. Feb. 25, 1862. Smith, Robert W., d. Feb. 8, 1862. Bean, Thomas J., d. Feb. 18, 1862.
Clifton, Thomas, d. Feb. 24, 1862. Foust, Thomas H., d. Feb. 18, 1862. Freeman, Alfred S., d. March 17, 1862.
Ingram, Elihu, d. Feb. 26, 1862. Pullin, John R., d. Feb. 23, 1802. Smith, John H., d. March 17, 1862. Griffin, Thomas B., d. May 15, 1862. Foust, Jesse M., d. June 23, 1862. Wisdom, T. H., d. Oct., 1863.
COMPANY H. Captain, N. A. Carroll.
Thomas, R. H., d. Nov. 30, 1863. MeAnally, W. J., d. July 26, 1863. Baird, J. C., d. July 5, 1863. Patter-on. A. N., d. June 23, 1862. Pollock, C. C., d. May 7, 1862.
Curry, J. E., d. Oct. 16, 1662. Ballentine, J. W .. d. Feb. 25, 1862. Bailey, J. W., d. Feb. 21, 1862. Churchweil, J. S., d. Feb. 28, 1862. Davis, J. A., d. March 2, 1862.
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Hill, William H., d. Aug. 25, 1862. Johnson, Harrison, d.
White, Noah E., d. May 10, 1862.
Brown, MeKinney, d. May 19, 1862.
Ratliff, John, d. July 1, 1862. - Burcham, W. J., d. April 8, 1862.
Easley, J. T., k. at Richmond, Ky.
Jewell, W. E., d. June 10, 1862.
Benham, E. J., d. Nov. 5, 1863.
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Davis, W. H., d. Feb. 10, 1862.
Rummage, J. A., d. Jan. 23, 1862. -
Edgar, William A., d. Dec. 19, 1862.
Robeson, H. J., d. June 17, 1862.
Scott, F. M., d. Feb. 19, 1862. Kinnaird, Albert D., d. March 3, 1862.
Hardison, Marshall E., d. March 12, 1862.
Fassett, Wm., d. March 12, 1862.
Derryberry, Marshall W., d. March 1, 1362.
Fox, Harris, d. June 1, 1862.
Wright, John H., d. March 17, 1862.
COMPANY I. Captain, Henry G. Evans.
Bradley, Robert I., k. at Chickamauga.
Hayes, C. P., d. Aug. 3, 1862.
Durbin, Thomas, k. at Chickamauga.
Olive, J. B., d. July 19, 1862.
Whitten, D. H., k. at Chickamauga.
Smith, Thomas, d. Sept., 1862.
Rickman, J. N., d. March 31, 1862.
Whitten, C. E., d. July 12, 1802.
Cunningham, W. B., d. March 15, 1862.
Burks, J. J., d. Sept., 1862.
Lyles, John, d. Nov. 18, 1862.
Allen, Bob, d. May 15, 1862.
Ives, John D., d. Sept. 11, 1862.
Wiley, J. C., d. May 27, 1862.
Allen, Dick, d. July 6, 1862.
Williams, B. M., d. May 18, 1862.
COMPANY K. Captain, J. B. Lindsey.
White, Capt. James M., d. Nov. 15, 1862.
Vick, J. W., d. June 14, 1862.
Lindsey, Capt. J. B., k. in battle.
Clayton, J. C., d. May 10, 1862.
Pettis, A. J., k. at Chickamauga.
Gower. W. F., d. May 1, 1863.
Crews, W. T., k. at Chickamauga.
Johnston, R. H., d. June 20, 1862.
Blake, W. O., d. Oct. 18, 1863.
Riddell, W. M., d. June 22, 1862.
Anthony, T. D., d. Aug. 2, 1863.
Tripp, L. F., d. March 18, 1862.
Simms, J. N., d. April 4, 1863.
Pennington. J. J., d. Jan. 8, 1862.
: Kirkland, John, d. Feb. 5, 1862. Vaughan, W. O., d. Feb. 8, 1862.
Phipps, Gardner M., d. March 2, 1862.
Chapman, T. M., d. Aug. 19, 1862.
Mccrary, Thomas, d. Feb. 27, 1862.
FORTY-NINTH TENNESSEE INFANTRY. BY POLK G. JOHNSON, CLARKSVILLE, TENN.
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JUST before the war the people of Montgomery county were almost unanimously in favor of preserving the Federal Union; but when President Lincoln called for troops to subdue the South, there was a complete revolution in public feeling. At the election held for "separation " or "no separation," they were almost unani- mous. I remember but one vote in the whole county for "separation." The spirit of the people was high. Every man able to speak spoke in opposition to the proclamation of the President, and advised resistance. The women were equally enthusiastic, and encouraged their husbands and sons to take part with their Southern friends. The little boys and girls evinced their sympathy with this feeling by wearing cockades, some of blue ribbon and a palmetto branch as representative of South Carolina, and some of red ribbon with corn-shucks and corn as representative of Tennessee.
During this excitement Gov. Harris made a call for troops, which was promptly responded to, Col. Wm. A. Forbes organizing the gallant Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment, which was forwarded to Virginia.
Col. Forbes was then a professor in Stewart College, Clarksville, and all the students were anxious to join him; but he would not allow the boys to go to war without the consent of their parents. At this they were indignant, thinking the restriction uncalled for.
Bullion, J. C., d. Feb. 14, 1862.
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Leave not our sires to stem the unequal fight,
Whose limbs are nerved no more with buoyant might Nor lagging backward let the younger breast Permit the man of age (a sight unblessed) To welter in the combat's foremost thrust, His hoary head disheveled in the dust, And venerable bosom bleeding bare.
He, however, allowed the boys in college to drill, and thus they were prepar- ing for the conflict ahead. Stewart College, now the South-western Presbyterian University, had its buildings and its campus in the city limits of Clarksville. The excitement which prevailed over the whole country was nowhere greater than in Clarksville, and the boys fully participated in it.
The boys had to submit only for a short time, as the Governor bad to make a second call. When this call was made James E. Bailey, of Clarksville, then upon the Military Board of the State, at Nashville, came to Clarksville to raise a com- pany, which was done in a few days; and on the 29th day of November, 1861, he organized a company of one hundred and twenty-one men, and was elected Cap- tain.
The spirit of the boys would not permit them to remain at home. No longer were groups of boys in the college, earnest in their studies, to be seen under the shade of the old oaks in the college campus, engaged with their books; no longer the idle in gay conversation upon the steps of the college. The whole scene was changed. Books were thrown away, and the grounds became a champ de Mars. The tramp of the soldier, the commands of the officer (Prof. Wm. A. Forbes) were alone to be seen or heard upon the grounds or in the halls; and the same spirit animated all the boys not in college. No wonder, then, that they made such prompt response to the call.
Col. Wm. A. Forbes, of the Fourteenth Tennessee, afterward killed at the sec- ond battle of Manassas, had prepared these boys for active service. Of thirty-two boys in the college department of its last catalogue of 1859-60, twenty-nine en- tered the Confederate army, leaving but three who did not. Of this twenty-nine all were faithful. There were killed in battle sixteen; died by disease, seven; total deaths, twenty-three; survivors, six.
The above is written to show the material of which the gallant old Forty-ninth Tennessee was made, this being the first company (A). The other companies were composed of material equally as good. On the 6th day of December, 1861. this company left Clarksville on a steam-boat for Fort Donelson, amidst the shouts of the citizens, the waving of the handkerchiefs of the ladies, and the firing of guns from the fort at Red River, and arrived at Fort Donelson that night. Thus commenced the organization of the Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment.
In December, 1861, it was organized by the election of James E. Bailey, Col- onel; Alfred Robb, Lieutenant-colonel; and D. A. Lynn, Major. R. E. Douglass was appointed Adjutant, and Dr. W. B. Williams, Surgeon. The regiment was composed of the following companies: A, Captain James E. Bailey, of Montgom- ery county ; B, Captain T. K. Grigsby, of Dickson county; C, Captain M. V. Fyke, of Robertson county; D, Captain J. B. Cording, of Dickson county; E, Captain J. M. Peacher, of Montgomery county; F, Captain D. A. Lynn, of Mont- gomery county; G, Captain Wm. F. Young, of Montgomery county; H, Captain Pugh Haynes, of Montgomery county; I, Captain T. A. Napier, of Benton county;
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K, Captain Wm. Shaw, of Cheatham county. A Chaplain was not appointed until after the reorganization in 1862, when the Rev. James H. McNeilly, now pastor of the Moore Memorial Church, Nashville, was appointed. No soldier discharged his duty better than this " man of God," who ministered to the wound- ed on every field of battle, and in the immediate presence of the enemy. F. P. MeWhirter acted as Adjutant during the battle of Fort Donelson. E. T. Free- man was appointed First Lieutenant and Adjutant at Clinton, Miss., and won the admiration of the whole command by his gallant conduct on every field.
After the reorganization in 1862 Dr. L. L. Lindsey was appointed Surgeon, and Dr. R. S. Napier Assistant Surgeon.
After its organization the regiment remained at Fort Donelson, drilling, build- ing fortifications, etc., until the battle of Fort Donelson, except that two compa- nies were sent to Fort Henry, but ordered back before the attack on Fort Henry. When the enemy was moving on Fort Donelson a part of the regiment (volun- teers) were sent out as cavalry under the command of Col. N. Brandon, of the Fourteenth Tennessee, who was at home on leave of absence, and had a skirmish with them, when they were worsted with a loss of six or eight wounded and ten or twelve captured.
During the battle of Fort Donelson the regiment was in the fort supporting the water batteries, under the command of the gallant Captains Reuben Ross, Thos. H. Beaumont, and B. G. Bidwell, until Saturday evening, February 15, 1862, when the Federals captured our works on the right, and were rapidly advancing upon the fort. Col. Bailey, then commanding the fort, promptly ordered the Forty- ninth and Fiftieth Tennessee regiments to attack the enemy, which was gallantly done, and the enemy driven back to the works. In this attack Lieutenant-colonel Alfred Robb, of the Forty-ninth Tennessee, was mortally wounded by the side of Col. Bailey, his old law partner. No braver or better soldier or man ever died. He went into the battle upon a large white horse, and being himself a very large man, was a fine target for the sharp-shooters. He was shot through the breast by one of these, and when shot put his hand on his breast, and saying he was shot started to the rear. Several men followed him, and he would have fallen from his horse in fifty yards but for their assistance. The men managed to get him to his quarters. During the night he was carried to the boats at Dover to be sent to Clarksville with the other wounded. Two boats were at the wharf, one fastened to the bank and the other on the side of this boat. He was placed on the first boat to be carried through to the second; in crossing from the one to the other the boats separated-the men holding his legs let loose and his body fell into the river, and he would have been drowned had it not been for his faithful old colored sery- ant (uncle Abram Robb) who, holding his arms. pulled him into the boat. He died at his home February 17th, 1862. Uncle Abram still lives, respected by both white and black.
We were surrendered with the army on February 16, and sent to prison-the field officers to Fort Warren, the other officers to Johnson's Island, and the pri- vates to Camp Douglas, Chicago, III.
The privates were exchanged September 17, 1862, at Vicksburg, Miss., where they met their officers, who had been exchanged in Virginia. The regiment was reorganized at Clinton, Miss., September 29, 1862, when Col. James E. Bailey was again elected Colonel.
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In about ten days we were ordered to Corinth, Miss., to reenforce General Van Dorn, then about to attack the enemy at Corinth; but only reached Holly Spring-, and were there halted, as our army had been defeated and were retreating.
From Holly Springs the regiment was ordered to Port Hudson, La., and arrived there in October, 1862. It sustained the severe bombardment of March 14, 1863, when Commodore Farragut succeeded in passing our batteries with two gun-boats. Soon after this Colonel Bailey, who had been sick for several months, resigned, and in August, 1864, was appointed one of the judges of the military court at- tached to Hardee's corps.
We were ordered from Port Hudson April 6, 1863, and marched to Jackson. Miss., by way of Brookhaven. At that point we made a detour to the Southern railroad, Jackson then having been captured by Gen. Grant. We were with the first infantry command which entered Jackson after Grant left the place and besieged Vicksburg. We were placed in Loring's division, and served through the Mississippi campaign with Johnston's army, taking part in the engagements around Jackson from July 10 to 16, 1863. After the retreat from Jackson we were ordered to Mobile, Ala., arriving there September 1, 1863. Here Capt. W. F. Young was promoted to the command of the regiment. From Mobile we were ordered to the Army of Tennessee, and arrived at Missionary Ridge November 24, 1863; and though ordered into battle, it was too late, as our army had then been defeated. Retreated with the army to Dalton, and were placed in Gen. John C. Breckinridge's division. On January 14, 1864, were ordered to Mobile, arriving there January 21. Were then sent to Gen. Polk's army in Mississippi to meet Gen. Sherman's advance through that State, joining the army at Brandon, and placed in Gen. French's division. We retreated with Gen. Polk's army to near Meridian, Miss., where we were again ordered to Mobile. From Mobile we were ordered to the Army of Tennessee, reaching it May 26, 1864, and taking part in the Georgia campaign under Johnston and Hood, being in the engage- ments of New Hope Church, May 27, 1864; Pine Mountain, June 15; Kennesaw Mountain, June 28; Smyrna Depot, July 4; Peach-tree Creek, Atlanta, July 20; and Lick-skillet road, Atlanta, July 28.
In the last battle the losses of the regiment were greater than in any other en- gagement during the war, unless it be that at Franklin.
Col. W. F. Young lost an arm while gallantly leading a charge upon the ene- my, and many good and brave men were killed and wounded. The colors of the regiment had thirty-two shots through it, and two or three through the flag- staff.
In this battle the Forty-second and Forty-ninth Tennessee regiments were consolidated under the command of Col. Young, of the Forty-ninth, and being on the right of Quarles's brigade met and checked the advance of the enemy; and such was the havoc that in less than fifteen minutes almost every officer was killed or wounded, and Capt. Thomas H. Smith, of the Forty-ninth, seventh from sen- iority when the fight began, found himself in command. Notwithstanding the terrible onset, the troops maintained their position without shelter under heavy fire for several hours, when they withdrew in perfect order to a new line about one hundred yards in rear of their position.
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