extended considerably beyond our right, having advanced so as to make it apparent that they would soon turu my right flank, I gave the order to retire; but again formed the regiment within twelve or fifteen rods of the first line; but broke and retreated precipitately when charged by me. The 51st Indiana advanced only to within three rods of our first line, and then threw forward skirmishers. My regiment charged past the first line. and to the right, down to near the fence, and full thirty rods in advance of our first position, overtaking and capturing the enemy from the place where the guns were recaptured, which was to the right and in front of our first line of battle, to the houses in our front, and into the cornfield on a line with the houses. The artillery ceased firing a short time before we opened upon the enemy, and fell back out of sight, with all but the guns captured. The enemy broke up the guns of the dead on the first line of battle while they occupied it. A lieutenant, whom we captured, informed me that our fire was very destructive, and that their loss in wounded must largely exceed ours. On the 1st inst., my regiment was exposed to a scattering fire all day, but was not actually engaged. At night we were ordered to the extreme front to protect the 6th Ohio battery, and lay on our arms all night. On the 2d inst., while supporting our battery, my regiment was exposed to a terrible fire from the artillery of the enemy, the number of guns playing upon us at one time being, as stated by Capt. Bradley, eighteen. Though necessarily inactive, my regiment steadily maintained its position for over an hour, when one of our batteries commenced playing upon us from the I then withdrew my regiment a few rods to the left to a less exposed situation. In the afternoon we crossed Stone's river with our division, and remained there, doing duty both Friday and Saturday night. On Sunday morning we recrossed the river and bivouacked near the hospitals."

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Colonel Harker, commanding the brigade in which the 13th was serving, in his report says of the regiment at Stone river:

"The 13th Michigan, from their position, fired upon the enemy with telling effect, and having caused his ranks to waver, followed up the advantage with a charge, supported by the 51st Illinois, which had come to our relief. They completely routed the enemy. The 13th Michigan retook the two pieces of artillery abandoned by our battery, and captured fiftyeight prisoners. For this act of gallantry Colonel Shoemaker and his gal lant regiment are deserving of much praise."

The gallant service of this regiment at Stone River, on December 31st, cannot be over-estimated, as it was pre-eminently prominent among the brave regiments that breasted the fearful current of disaster which was sweeping away the Federal right, fighting desperately in turning the tide of affairs in favor of the Union army, and during the following days of that great conflict never wavered in any position assigned it, and when the roll of the regiment was called at the close of the five days of this sanguinary strife, all answered to their names except the dead and wounded. In the fearful struggle at Chicamauga this noble regiment, under command of Colonel J. B. Culver, displayed again its brilliant fighting quali ties in the efficient service rendered on the 18th of September, while deployed as skirmishers, near Lee and Gordon's Mills, holding a position until 12 M., on the 19th, against a strong line of the enemy's skirmishers, supported by a section of artillery. On the 19th it rejoined its brigade and division some distance to the left of the Mills, executing the movement under a heavy fire of the enemy, on the double-quick, with the thermometer at ninety degrees above. Soon after the regiment charged in a handsome and gallant manner, checking the onset of the rebels, who were forcing

back a part of the brigade. In this charge it lost heavily, including among the killed Captains D. B. Hosmer and Clark D. Fox, and Lieutenant Charles D. Hall; all fell while nobly battling with treason and rebellion. In the engagement the regiment went in with 217 officers and men, and lost 14 killed, 68 wounded, (of whom 11 died,) and 25 missing.

This regiment was serving in Georgia on the 1st of November, 1864, and on the 3d was at Tilton, when it received orders to proceed to Romeo, where it remained until the 7th, when it joined the army of General Sherman, at Kingston, and was assigned to 2d brigade, 1st division, 14th corps, and formed a part of the general army that "marched down to the sea. The regiment, with its brigade, reached Savannah on the 16th of December, and was on duty in the trenches before that city until the 21st, when the enemy evacuated the place. On January 17th, 1865, the regiment moved forward with the army on the march through the Carolinas, and was engaged at Catawba River, S. C., February 29th, and at Averysboro, N. C., March 16th, and again at Bentonville on the 19th, where it fought the enemy the entire day, sustaining a loss of 110 killed, wounded, and missing. Amongst the killed was its commanding officer, Colonel W. G. Eaton. Pending the negotiations attending the surrender of Johnston's army, the regiment was stationed on the Cape Fear river, twenty-six miles south of Raleigh, and on the 30th of April it started, with the army, homeward, reaching Richmond on the 7th of May, and Washington on the 19th, and on the 24th participated in the grand review of General Sherman's army at the National Capital.

NOTE.-Greeley, in "The American Conflict," says of the battle of Stone River: "Bradley's 6th Ohio Battery at one time lost two of its guns; but they were subsequently recaptured by the 13th Michigan." There was connected with the recapture of these guns an incident worth recording of Julius Lillie, Orderly Sergeant of Company E. Harker's brigade, except the 13th Michigan, had been driven off the field with heavy loss; Bradley's 6th Ohio Battery, attached to this brigade, retreated with a loss of two guns. The 13th Michigan, left alone, had nobly maintained their position until they had lost over one-third of their number, and were about being surrounded. Col. Shoemaker then ordered them to retire, but, after moving them a few rods throngh quite a dense undergrowth, he reformed them and ordered them to charge the advancing enemy, which they did, every man shouting and yelling like so many born devils. The rebels, ten times their number, not being able to see their strength for the intervening thicket, and supposing they had fallen into an ambuscade, broke and fled. The 13th pursued them entirely off the ground, over an open space, into a woods full half a mile from the place of the fight. The rebels fired as they retreated, but were so closely pursued they had no opportunity to form, and the 13th took over fifty prisoners, besides recapturing the two guns belonging to Bradley's battery. As the regiment, every man on the full run, approached the guns, several men sprung forward to be the first to reach them, but Sergeant Julius Lillie outstripped all competitors, and as he reached them slapped his hand on one of the guns; at that moment a shot from one of the retreating rebels struck him in the right side, and, probably from the position in which he was standing, passing along without cutting the inner coating of his intestines, came out about eight inches from its entrance, causing of course an ugly wound. This was on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 31st day of December, and although the regiment was under fire every hour of daylight from this time until Saturday night, and slept every night on their arms on the battle field, yet Lillie refused to leave his command and go to the hospital, but remained with his regiment during the whole period and would only allow himself to be relieved from duty after the enemy had evacuated Murfreesboro and victory was assured to our forces.

THE FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.

The 14th regiment moved from Ypsilanti on the 17th of April, 1862, in command of Colonel Robert P. Sinclair, of Grand Rapids, under whose

direction it had been recruited, and joined the Western army at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. It was under Pope in the advance on Corinth, and was engaged in repeated skirmishes with the enemy while in front of that stronghold. In November and December of that year it was stationed at Stone river, in command of Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. Quackenbush. On the 3d of January following it participated in the great battle at that point, having marched from Nashville during the night previous, through mud and rain, a distance of thirty miles.

On the 21st of May, 1864, the regiment was ordered to proceed to Bridgeport, Ala., and thence moved by forced marches to Dallas, Ga., where, joining the army under General Sherman on the 4th of June, the regiment participated in all the active movements of the campaign_until the fall of Atlanta. It was engaged at Kenesaw Mountain on the 15th of June, and on the 5th and 6th of July it charged and drove the rebels from their rifle-pits at the Chattahoochie river, capturing a number of prisoners. Its casualties in the latter engagement were 9 killed and 35 wounded. On the 7th of August the regiment assisted in taking two lines of rebel works, and driving the enemy from the field, killing and wounding a number, and taking 92 prisoners, suffering a loss of 8 killed and 27 wounded. In this affair Lieutenant Joseph Kirk was mortally wounded and died next day.

The battle of Jonesboro, Ga., on September 1, 1864-the last of Sherman's great and brilliant operations around Atlanta, when he opened the gate of his great highway to the sea-and the important engagement at Bentonville, N. C., on the 19th and 20th of March, 1865—his last contest with the enemy on that remarkable and unequalled campaign which astonished the world-were the fields on which the 14th infantry gained much of its enviable reputation, by very prominently distinguishing itself in glorious achievements which added much to the success of these important affairs. The regiment was in the 14th corps, so conspicuously engaged at Jonesboro, and during that bloody conflict, while in command of Col. Henry R. Mizner, this gallant Michigan regiment charged the enemy with great enthusiasm, at fixed bayonets, first at quick, and then at double-quick, and without firing a gun or raising a shout carried the rebel works in its front, filled with the enemy, capturing Sweet's rebel battery of four 12-pounder Napoleon guns, shooting and bayoneting the artillerists at their guns, in the act of firing, and taking as prisoner General D. C. Govan, who surrendered his command to Sergeant Patrick Irwin, the first man inside the works. Govan had in his possession the sword of Major Cooledge, 16th U. S. infantry, who fell at Chicamauga. In the command surrendered were Captain Williams, A. A. A. G., Major Weeks, 2d Arkansas infantry, and three hundred enlisted men. During the charge the colors of the 1st Arkansas infantry were captured by Lieutenant Weatherspoon and Sergeant Smith, of company A, who killed one of the color-guard while in the act of firing upon Weatherspoon. Gaining the works, the colors of the regiment were gallantly planted on them by Sergeant Steiner, and were among the first placed on that rebel stronghold. After passing the first line of works, a second four-gun battery was captured, when one of the guns was instantly turned upon the fleeing enemy by Lieutenant Gifford, and a fire delivered with telling effect.

On November 1st the regiment, in command of Lieut.-Colonel George W. Grummond, broke camp at Rome, Ga., and commenced the grand march to Savannah, moving via Kingston and Atlanta, and thence through Milledgeville, destroying many miles of railroad; reaching Savannah on

the 16th, it lay in front of that city until the 21st, when the enemy evacuated the place. At that point the regiment remained until January 20th following, when it moved forward with the army, on the march through the Carolinas, reaching Sister's Ferry on the 28th, where it remained ten days, assisting in repairing the roads on the opposite side of the Savannah river, which had become impassable. Having crossed the river on the evening of February 6th, the march through South Carolina was commenced on the 8th. Moving on what is called the Augusta road, and proceeding onward, crossed the Salkehatchie, South and North Edisto, Broad, Catawba, and Big Pedee rivers, arriving at Fayetteville, N. C., March 10th, the regiment having lost on the march down to that time twenty-two men, captured while foraging. Reaching Cape Fear river, it crossed on the 12th, the enemy's rear-guard picketing along a small stream, about one mile distant, over which there was a high bridge, the plank of which had been removed by the enemy. On approaching that point it was found to be held on the opposite side by two regiments of cavalry. The 14th Michigan was ordered to push forward and drive the enemy from his position, and establish his line one mile in advance. The night being very dark, the men were obliged to cross in single file on the timbers. They pushed across very rapidly, however, and engaged the enemy, driving him over two miles, capturing his camp and a large quantity of forage, killing one and taking two prisoners. The regiment established its line, and remained there until the 14th, when it was relieved by the advance of the 1st division. On the morning of the 15th the march was resumed. Skirmishing with the enemy was kept up the entire day, and until 10 o'clock next morning, when he made a decided stand near Averysboro, and a severe battle ensued. The 1st brigade, 2d division, of which the 14th Michigan formed a part, was ordered immediately to the front, and placed on the extreme left of the line, having to cross a deep and wide ravine in getting into position. The brigade was formed in two lines, the 17th New York and 14th Michigan composing the first line, and the 10th Michigan and 60th Illinois the second. The first, advancing under a severe fire, gallantly carried the first line of the enemy's. works, taking a number of prisoners, but the enemy, becoming heavily reinforced, and after repeated attempts to carry the position, strongly supported by the second line, the men behaving exceedingly well, it was found impossible to dislodge him, the brigade holding its position until next morning, when the enemy abandoned his work, the regiment losing in the engagement twenty-two killed and wounded, including two officers wounded. At Bentonville on the 19th and 20th of March, 1865, the regiment, then in command of Lieut. Col. George W. Grummond, was fiercely assaulted in hurriedly constructed works by a largely superior force, which it successfully repulsed, and then most gallantly charging over its own works captured most of the assaulting party; and soon afterwards, on ascertaining that a flanking force of the rebels had taken possession of the works the regiment had but just left, it was instantly faced by the rear rank, charged, and retook the works at the point of the bayonet. During these charges the regiment took 19 officers and 390 enlisted men prisoners, together with the colors of the 54th Virginia and 65th North Carolina regiments. The loss of the 14th in this engagement was 23 in killed and wounded and 4 in prisoners.

The successes of the 14th on these occasions were among the most glorious in the Sherman campaigns, illustrating most forcibly the heroism of the regiment and placing it squarely up to the high standard of Michigan troops.

THE FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.

The 15th, in command of Col. J. M. Oliver, by whom it was organized, first met the rebels at Shiloh on the 6th and 7th of April, 1862. Arriving there only the day before the battle, it next morning became hotly engaged, and was thus early initiated into the sad realities of war, and at a great sacrifice, losing in the engagements of both days two officers and thirty-one men killed and one officer and sixty-three privates wounded and seven missing. Capt. George A. Strong and Lieut. Malvin W. Dresser, two officers of much merit, being among the killed of the 6th. After the affair at Shiloh the regiment composed a part of the force under Gen. Halleck which compelled the rebels to abandon Corinth. The 15th was in General Rosecrans' army when his position at Corinth was assaulted by the rebel forces under Price in October, 1862. At that time the regiment, under command of Lieut. Col. McDermott, held the outpost of that army at Chewalla, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, and about ten miles from Corinth, where it met and checked the advance of Price, and most signally made its mark as a most reliable and brave regiment. On the morning of the 1st of October the pickets of the 15th were driven in, the regiment holding the enemy in check during the day; in the evening was reinforced by the 14th Wisconsin and a section of a 12-pounder battery, the whole force in command of Colonel J. M. Oliver, of the 15th Michigan. The command fought during the 2d and 3d against overwhelming numbers, contesting every inch of ground, but falling back gradually upon Corinth, several times being completely flanked and obliged to retire on the double-quick, with the enemy on both flanks. It is claimed that the admirable disposition made by Col. Oliver of his force and the steadiness and gallantry of the men engaged delayed an army of 40,000 (or thereabout) at least twenty-four hours in making their main and final attack upon Corinth, thus enabling General Rosecrans to make the disposition of his forces which most successfully secured the repulse of the enemy and compelled him to make a most disas

trous retreat.

November 2d, 1862, the 15th was ordered with its division to move from Corinth, where it had been stationed, to Wolf Creek. From that point the regiment proceeded to Grand Junction November 19th, to serve as garrison and provost guard. It was also employed while at Grand Junction in guarding the Memphis and Charleston railroad and in scouting after guerillas. The regiment remained at Grand Junction and at La Grange until June 5th, 1863, when it was ordered to Vicksburg, Miss., with the 1st division, 16th corps, to which it had been attached since January 1st. Arriv ing at the mouth of the Yazoo, June 11th, the 15th proceeded up the river and disembarked at Hayne's Bluff. Having been attached temporarily to the 9th corps, it participated with it in the advance on Jackson on the 4th of July. The Big Black river was crossed on the 6th (this regiment leading) on rafts and by swimming, and until the arrival of the national forces before Jackson the regiment was engaged in skirmishing with the rebels. It participated in the movements of the 9th corps until the enemy were driven across the Pearl river on the 17th. On the 23d it began its march back to the Big Black. It was here attached to the 2d brigade, 4th division, 15th army corps. The 15th corps having been ordered to reinforce the Army of the Cumberland, the regiment arrived at Memphis, Tenn., October 8th, and at Corinth, Miss., on the 17th. On the following day it proceeded to Iuka, where it remained until October 25th, and on the 1st of November it arrived at Florence, Ala.