r John H. King.

The 1st Battalion of the 16th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G
and H, 1st Battalion, and Company B, 2d Battalion; Major A. J.
Slemmer commanding.

The 1st Battalion of the 18th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G
and H, of the 1st, and A and D, of the 3d Battalion; Major J. N.
Caldwell in command.

The 2d Battalion of the 18th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E and F,
of the 2d, and B, C, E and F, of the 3d Battalion; commanded by Major
Frederick Townsend.

The 1st Battalion of the 19th Infantry: Companies A, B, C, D, E and
F; Major S. D. Carpenter commanding.

Battery H, 5th U. S. Artillery, commanded by 1st Lieutenant F. L.
Guenther.

Lieutenant-Colonel O. L. Shepherd, 18th U. S. Infantry, the senior
officer, was placed in command of the brigade.

When the Army of the Ohio--then become the Army of the Cumberland, or the
14th Corps--advanced from Nashville, Tenn., toward its objective point,
the enemy, the Regular Brigade broke camp on the 26th, encamping on the
evening of that day on the Petersburg Turnpike; on the 27th it encamped
near Nolansville, Tenn.; on the 28th, at night, it marched across the
country to Stewart's Creek, and on the 30th to a point on the
Murfreesboro' and Nashville Turnpike about four miles from Murfreesboro',
Tenn.

On the morning of the 31st of December the brigade left its bivouac at an
early hour and advanced on the Nashville Turnpike to a point a little less
than three miles northwest of Murfreesboro', and, with its division, was
posted in reserve. The division consisted of Scribner's, John Beatty's,
Starkweather's and the Regular Brigade, and was commanded by
Major-General Lovell H. Rousseau. Starkweather's Brigade had been left at
Jefferson's Crossing on Stone River. The division was part of the centre,
commanded by Major-General George H. Thomas. The formation in the brigade
was from right to left as follows: 15th, 16th, 18th, 1st and 2d
Battalions, and the 19th.

To fully understand the events now following, it will be necessary to
preface them with a short resume of the opening and progress of the battle
from 6.30 A. M. until noon; from the right of the army to the left of
Palmer's Division of the left wing.

The left of Palmer's Division, Hazen's Brigade, rested on the Nashville
Turnpike, about two and a half miles northwest of Murfreesboro', facing
south by east--the other brigad