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Title: The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro', Tennessee

Author: Frederick Phisterer

Release Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32073]

Language: English

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THE REGULAR BRIGADE OF
THE FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,
IN THE BATTLE OF
STONE RIVER, OR MURFREESBORO', TENNESSEE,
FROM DECEMBER 31ST, 1862, TO JANUARY 3D, 1863,
BOTH DATES INCLUSIVE.

BY
FREDERICK PHISTERER,
_Late Adjutant 2d Battalion 18th U. S. Infantry_.

To his Comrades,
THE SURVIVORS OF THE REGULAR BRIGADE,
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,
IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAST DAYS,
AND TO PLACE ON RECORD A TRUE ACCOUNT
OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THE BRIGADE
IN THE BATTLE OF STONE RIVER.

JULY 1ST, 1883.

When General Rosecrans took command of the Army of the Ohio there were in
that army five battalions of regular infantry in two different divisions;
when he reorganized this army he determined to bring these battalions
together, to give them a regular battery, and form of them a Regular
Brigade. The 15th, 16th and 19th were already at Nashville; the orders
organizing the brigade found the two battalions of the 18th near Gallatin,
Tenn., as a part of General Stedman's Brigade. On receipt of the orders,
the 18th marched, on the 23d of December, 1862, from Pilot Knob to
Nashville, Tenn., arriving there on the 25th day of December, 1862, and,
joining the other battalions and the battery, it completed the formation
of the brigade, which, as then organized, consisted of:

The 1st Battalion of the 15th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G
and H; commanded by Majo