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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 16. operations in Tennessee. (search)
I am, very respectfully Your obedient servant, Wm. J. Palmer, Colonel, commanding. S. B. Moe, Major and Assistant Adjutant-General. Captain Osborn's report. headquarters Twentieth Indiana battery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 20, 1864. Major Moe, Assistant Adjutant-General, District Etowah: sir: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the Twentieth Indiana battery, in the engagement near Nashville, Tennessee, on the fifteenth and sixteenth of December, 1864. The battery was engaged from eight o'clock A. M., of the fifteenth instant, throughout the day, both sections having taken position early in the day, within five hundred yards of the enemy's main line of works, the right section operating with Colonel Morgan's U. S. colored brigade and the left section with Colonel Thompson's U. S. colored brigade. The right section changed its position at ten o'clock A. M., and took a position in the open field, within three hundred yards of t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 84 (search)
ffective manner in which every duty was performed, are due, and are hereby officially rendered. I am, General, Very respectfully Your obedient servant, T. J. Wood, Brigadier-General Volunteers, commanding. Brigadier-General Grose's report. headquarters Third brigade, First division, Fourth corps, Huntsville, Ala., January 6, 1865. Captain: sir: I have the honor to report the part taken by my command in the battles at Nashville, Tennessee, on the fifteenth and sixteenth of December, 1864. Pursuant to orders from division commander, I moved my brigade from its position in front of Nashville, near the Franklin pike, to the right of the Hilsboro pike. Six regiments marched with me at daylight on the morning of the fifteenth. The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania, being on picket, followed as soon as relieved. My effective force was two thousand one hundred and ninety. The order of battle was to be by divisions in echelon, forward on the right. My brigade was formed o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 121 (search)
al Lyon, near Huntsville, Alabama. Two 6-pounder smooth-bore guns, carriages and limbers, were captured by Major-General Steedman. near Decatur, Alabama. Three 12-pounder guns, carriages, and limbers; one 10-pounder Parrott rifle and carriage; one 3-inch wrought iron rifle and carriage, United States, were captured at Columbia, Tennessee. All the remaining artillery and carriages, and all the small arms and accoutrements were captured before Nashville, on the fifteenth and sixteenth December, 1864. The larger number of ammunition chests captured were filled with ammunition in good condition, and six wagons loaded with similar ammunition were captured before this place. I am informed that there are, in addition to what are reported above, four guns and carriages now at Pulaski, Tennessee, and three or four guns in the Duck river at Columbia, Tennessee, all captured from the enemy or abandoned by him in his retreat to the Tennessee river. Very respectfully, Your obe