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Shiloh after battle report: HDQRS. FOURTH REGT. TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS, Corinth, Miss., April 10, 1862. The following is a report of the killed, wounded, and missing of the Fourth Regt. Tennessee Volunteers at the battle of Shiloh on the 6th and 7th instant: Total casualties: Killed, 36; severely wounded, 91 and slightly wounded, 92; aggregate, 219. The position occupied by this regiment on the morning of the 6th instant was on the right of the Second Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps, and moved forward in the second line of battle until about 10 a.m., when it came up with the first, which was driven back by a battery of the enemy in front, placed on the opposite side of an old field, on a hill. Here we were thrown into some confusion by the first line of battle falling back through ours; but we soon rallied, and formed in front under a very heavy fire of grape and shell from the enemy's guns, which were about 800 yards distant. We were here separated from the rest of our brigade and lost several men. Capt. John Sutherland was killed, and Maj. J. F. Henry was wounded and has since died. Our men here were ordered to fall flat on their faces in order to protect themselves from the enemy's fire, and while remaining here Gen. Stewart rode up and told me that Gen. Bragg said that the battery must be taken, and asked me if I would do it. I told him we would try, and immediately ordered the men forward, bearing to the left, in order to avoid the open field in front, and marched through a thicket of small timber at double-quick. We continued to march at double-quick until we were within 30 paces of the enemy's guns, when we halted, fired one round, rushed forward with a yell, and the battery was ours. We took 2 prisoners at the battery, who did not have time to escape nor courage to fight. During the whole time of this charge the battery played upon us with grape and canister, making sad havoc in our ranks, killing 31 men and wounding about 160. The battery, however, according to the report of the prisoners taken there, was supported by seven regiments of infantry-four Ohio regiments and three Illinois. After taking the battery I found I was in advance of our lines near a quarter of a mile, and heavily pressed both on the right and left by the enemy's infantry. I immediately dispatched my adjutant for aid, and in a short time had the pleasure of seeing our troops coming up in double-quick to support me. While remaining here we were called on to support one of our own batteries that had been placed on the same ground that the enemy's formerly occupied. While supporting this battery we were in a very heavy fire from the enemy, who made a desperate effort to take it. We had several men wounded here. The enemy were repulsed. I then marched the regiment a short distance to the rear, had the men to wipe our their guns, many of them being so dirty they could not load, fill their cartridge boxes, and replenish their canteens with water. We then marched forward into line, and continued in line until after dark, when we fell back, in order to get out of reach of the shells from the gunboats. We slept near where we took the enemy's battery, in their camp, and took supper and breakfast at their expense. On Monday morning we were placed near the left of the line, and had a great number of stragglers attached to us. The stragglers demonstrated very clearly this morning that they had strayed from their own regiments because they did not want to fight, and that they still would not fight. My men fought gallantly until the stragglers ran and left them and began firing from the rear over their heads. They were then compelled to fall to the rear. I rallied them several times and led them forward, but was compelled to fall back. I finally left out the stragglers, rallied my own men, and placed them on the left of a battery of the Washington Artillery, and supported it there until our whole line had fallen back on the hill in our rear. I then fell back just in time to save my men from our own guns, which opened and threw shell in the direction of the position we had just left. We had some 3 or 4 killed in this day's engagement and about 30 wounded. The company officers acted gallantly and fearlessly during both days of the fight, and rather appeared to court death than to fear it. My men acted gallantly the whole time, enduring the fatigue and danger without a murmur. Respectfully submitted. O. F. STRAHL, Lieut. Col., Comdg. Fourth Regt. Tennessee Volunteers. Gen. A. P. STEWART, Comdg. First Division, First Army Corps. Source: Official Records: Series I. Vol. 10. Part I, Reports. Serial No. 10 Stone's River after battle report: Report of Col. James A. McMurry, Fourth Tennessee Infantry. NEAR SHELBYVILLE, TENN., January 29, 1863. I respectfully report that my regiment, agreeably to orders from Brig. Gen. G. Maney, commanding brigade, marched from their camps early on the morning of December 29 last, and took their position in line of battle in the center of the brigade before Murfreesborough, on the west bank of Stone's River, and remained there until the morning of the 31st, the day of the general engagement, except the first evening, when it was ordered to march to the left a few hundred yards, when firing from artillery and infantry indicated that a strong attack might be made. The regiment encamped there until the next day, when it was ordered back to its first position in line of battle. At an early hour on the morning of the 31st, the firing from artillery and infantry gave evidence that all parts of the front line were engaged in battle, when the regiment, as early as 8 a.m., was ordered by the brigade commander to advance, for the purpose of participating in the battle. The regiment advanced to a distance of some 500 yards, until it reached our front line of battle, when it was halted, where the brigade which occupied our front line of battle, for some cause, had been thrown into disorder and confusion. After halting here some twenty minutes, until the broken brigade had reformed, and being all the while under fire from artillery and infantry of the enemy, in position in a skirt of woods a little in advance of the right of the brigade, near what is called the Wilkinson pike, the regiment again received orders to advance, which was done by making a circle through a cotton-field until the direction was changed to the right, when the regiment encountered a strong battery, well and ably supported by infantry, in position not more than 300 yards in advance of the right of the brigade, and apparently not more than 150 yards distant, when the first battery opened upon the brigade. This second battery was considerably-some say 300 yards or more-in rear of the forces of the enemy. On their right, being driven back a considerable distance, and from the artillery and infantry combined a most destructive fire was directed against our advancing column; and it being altogether uncertain whether the missiles of death were directed by friend or foe, the regiment was halted and covered, and protected itself as well as possible upon this ground and behind obstacles until it could be ascertained by whom we were being fired upon. Here the brigade commander, who was immediately in the rear of my regiment, sent some of his staff to ascertain this fact; and I here desire to call attention to the skill, gallantry and cool courage of Sergeant Oakley, color-bearer of my regiment, who, while the regiment was thus waiting and in doubt, volunteered and did march out with the flag of his country some 8 or 10 paces in advance of his regiment, and held aloft the flag, which he bore erect some ten minutes in a conspicuous place for the fire of the enemy, and amid a terrific fire, to test by whole fire the brigade was suffering so severely. The continued heavy firing directed upon our line soon demonstrated that the battery and its support were no mistaken friends of ours, and the battery belonging to the brigade was placed in a position by the brigade commander on an eminence, where it and all the infantry of the brigade opened a well-directed and destructive fire against the hostile battery and infantry, and after a heavy fire from us (continued some fifteen or twenty minutes) we drove the battery and its support from their position, which resulted in the battery (consisting of four pieces of artillery) being carried off by the enemy some 150 yards, when it was captured by and fell into the hands of the brigade, the enemy being unable to carry it any farther, my regiment passing immediately by the captured guns. The loss to my regiment is dislodging this battery and its infantry support from this well-selected position in the woods (our brigade having to attack them from an open field) was very considerable. I have to regret the loss of Capt. D. P. Skelton, of Company K, in my regiment, who was here mortally wounded. This was a severe loss to his company; also that Capt. C. Brown was very severely wounded in the thigh-a brave officer, who is disabled from any further field service; and also the loss of 2 non-commissioned officers and 5 privates, and some 40 non-commissioned [officers] and privates were wounded. And here [Lieut.] John Shane, adjutant in the regiment, was wounded in the arm, who had rendered valuable assistance on the day of the battle, exhibiting much courage. After driving the enemy from their position, the regiment, with the brigade, under orders from the commander, advanced through a skirt of woods. When they had proceeded about half through the woods, the enemy, from their numerous batteries on the Nashville and Murfreesborough turnpike, began and directed a heavy cannonading against our advancing line, which continued for some twenty minutes, resulting in the wounding of some 2 or 3 men in my regiment, and from here the regiment and brigade, which had been in the present line of attack ever since it had arrived at our front line of battle, advanced under the command of Col. Feild (Gen. Maney having been assigned to take command of the left) to a field on the Nashville and Murfreesborough turnpike, where it was directed to be halted, and where it opened a fire on the enemy's line on the turnpike, when 1 officer of the regiment was wounded and 1 private killed, which closed the fight on the part of my regiment that day. My regiment encamped here that night on our extreme front line, and remained on our extreme front line, except one night, until our forces were withdrawn on Saturday night, at 2 a.m., the brigade constituting the rear guard of the retiring forces. During the three days after the fight of the 31st the enemy kept up a brisk but irregular fire on our line, which was not returned in any way, except by some skirmishers, which I kept constantly in front of my regiment, and who, it is believed did considerable execution against the enemy by the discharge of their small-arms. I have further to report that the men and officers of the regiment endured considerable hardships and privations during the six days we were in line of battle before Murfreesborough with great patience and fortitude, such as becomes true soldiers, without uttering any complaint, and that the field, staff, and company officers gallantly and with alacrity performed their duties during the whole time, and to whose assistance much is due to the part performed by the regiment during the engagement. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. A. McMURRY, Col., Cmdg. Fourth Tennessee Regt. Capt. THOMAS H. MALONE, Assistant Adjutant-Gen. Source: Official Records PAGE 738-29 KY., MID. AND E. TENN., N. ALA., AND SW. VA. [CHAP. XXXII. [Series I. Vol. 20. Part I, Reports. Serial No. 29.] Chickamagua after battle report: Report of Col. Jonathan J. Lamb, Fifth Tennessee Infantry, commanding Fourth and Fifth Tennessee Infantry. HDQRS. FOURTH AND FIFTH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS September 30, 1863. SIR: In compliance with orders from brigade headquarters, I have the honor to state that the Fourth and Fifth Tennessee Regt.'s during the battle of Chickamauga occupied a position on the left of Strahl's brigade. About 12 o'clock on Saturday, 19th instant, the command was in line of battle on a hill immediately in rear of a field, where it was subjected for about an hour to a constant fire from the enemy's guns, when it advanced across the field a distance of about 300 yards, where it was exposed to a brisk fire from the small-arms of the enemy. The fire was not returned from the fact that I was informed by Brig.-Gen. Smith that Wright's brigade was in front. About 10 minutes afterward the command was ordered to fall back. It retired in good order, but in recrossing the field Lieut. W. H. Webber, Company A, Fourth Tennessee Volunteers, was killed, and 3 or 4 men wounded. The command reoccupied its former position, where it remained about an hour when it was advanced to a hill in the center of the field. Here the right wing was subjected to a very heavy fire of musketry, in which 4 or 5 men were wounded. Ten minutes after it was ordered to fall back to its former position. Here the firing was still continued. About twenty minutes afterward an order came to fall back 300 yards, where it remained until dark. It was then ordered forward and occupied its original position in rear of the field. About 10 o'clock on the following day (20th), while occupying the same position, the command was exposed for about an hour to a very heavy fire from the enemy's artillery, in which 2 men were killed and several wounded. About 1 p. m. the command was marched north by the right flank about half a mile, where line of battle was formed. Twenty minutes after it was moved by the right flank in a northeast direction about a mile, where a line was again formed at the foot of a hill. Here it remained until about 5 o'clock, subjected occasionally to a light fire from artillery. The command was then ordered forward in line of battle, and advanced abut half a mile to a glade, where it bivouacked for the night. On the following day it was ascertained that the enemy had abandoned the field. There were 3 men killed and 30 wounded during the engagement. All of which is respectfully submitted for the consideration of the brigadier-general commanding. J. J. LAMB, Col., Comdg. Fourth and Fifth Tenn. Regts. [Capt. J. W. JOHNSTON, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.]

Source: Official Records PAGE 133-51 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., N. ALA., AND N. GA. [CHAP. XLII. [Series I. Vol. 30. Part II, Reports. Serial No. 51.]

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