ELEVENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY. ” For God and our country we’ll fight till we die; Here’s welcome to wounding and combat and scars, And the glory of death for the stripes and stars!” The raising of the 11th Regiment was given by the Secretary of War to Colonel William J. May, of White Pigeon, but met [...]
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A. Captain, David Oaks, Jr., Centreville. First Lieutenant, Christopher Haight, Leonidas. Second Lieutenant, Henry S. Fisher, Mendon. B. Captain, Melvin Mudge, Quincy. First Lieutenant, Jerome Bowen, Quincy. Second Lieutenant, Miles Warren, Quincy. C. Captain, Calvin Hood, Sturgis. First Lieutenant, Matthias M. Faulkner, Sturgis. Second Lieutenant, Loren H. Howard, Lagrange, Ind. D. Captain, Benjamin G. Bennett, [...]
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The regiment was rendezvoused at White Pigeon, the companies being mustered into the U. S. service at various dates, while its formation was completed on September 24th, 1862, having 1,004 officers and men on the rolls. The citizens of St. Joseph county, in December, while the regiment was in camp at White Pigeon, gave it [...]
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The chase of Morgan through the State of Kentucky was continued, the infantry pressing him closely from point to point, but did not succeed in bringing him to give battle. On August 13th the regiment, together with the 69th Ohio Infantry, and 4th Indiana Battery, were attacked by Morgan’s guerrillas near Gallatin, Tenn., when a [...]
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On his return he was attacked and a brisk engagement ensued, which resulted in repulsing and driving the enemy with a loss of sixteen killed and wounded. The regiment was stationed at or near Nashville during the time of what is known as the Buell and Bragg race to Louisville, and performed much hard service, [...]
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He also formed a regiment out of the convalescents of various regiments left by Bueil’s army in the rear. He made new laws for the regulation and control of the hostile citizens within his lines, and soon began at Nashville the process of government which had produced such happy results at Colum- bia. Perhaps in [...]
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14th (Thomas’s) corps, was warmly engaged at Stone river, losing thirty-two killed, seventy-nine wounded, and twenty-nine missing, including among the killed Lieutenants Thomas Flynn and Joseph Wilson. From Colonel Stoughton’s report: ” On the morning of the 31st December heavy firing was heard on our right and front, and apparently rapidly approaching the position occupied [...]
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and then retired to the cover of the cedar woods in our rear. Here some confusion was at first manifested; a large number of regiments had fallen back to this place for shelter and the enemy’s infantry and artillery opened upon us from all sides except to the left, towards the Murfreesboro pike. Order was, [...]
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As soon as the enemy came within range my regiment, with the others of this brigade, rose up, delivered its fire, and charged across the river. In passing the river my line of battle was necessarily broken, and I led the regiment forward to a fence on a rise of ground and reformed the line. [...]
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Greeley says: “Nearly half the ground held by our army at daylight had been won by the triumphant enemy, who had now several batteries in position playing upon our centre, where Neg-ley’s division of Thomas’s corps was desperately engaged, with its ammunition nearly exhausted, its artillery horses disabled, and a rebel column pushing in between [...]
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