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NINETEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
On the 23d of July the regiment was ordered to Murfreesboro and went upon garrison duty in the fortifications. Company
D, of the 19th, commanded by Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, numbering fifty men, having been stationed at a stockade on the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad at Stone river, were attacked on the 5th of October by a large force of rebel cavalry and artillery under Major General Wheeler, and after a most gallant but hopeless resistance, having lost six in wounded, the company surrendered, but after having been plundered were released. October 25th, the regiment, then in the 2d brigade, 3d division, 20th corps, was ordered to McMinnville, Tenn., where it was employed in the construction of fortifications.
American Civil War
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