. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . He-captured ten prisoners ami all the horses and arms. Colonel Harrisons regiment was brigaded with theSeventy-ninth Ohio, the One Hundred and Second, theOne Hundred and Fifth, and the ( hie Hundred andTwenty-ninth Illinois, Brigadier-General Ward com-manding; and, what is extraordinary, the organizationthus effected was kept unchanged to the close of the Bowling Green, Colonel Harrison, with his com-mand, accompanied the brigade to Scottville, Kentucky,and thence to Gallatin, Tennessee, where he was occupiedgua
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . He-captured ten prisoners ami all the horses and arms. Colonel Harrisons regiment was brigaded with theSeventy-ninth Ohio, the One Hundred and Second, theOne Hundred and Fifth, and the ( hie Hundred andTwenty-ninth Illinois, Brigadier-General Ward com-manding; and, what is extraordinary, the organizationthus effected was kept unchanged to the close of the Bowling Green, Colonel Harrison, with his com-mand, accompanied the brigade to Scottville, Kentucky,and thence to Gallatin, Tennessee, where he was occupiedguarding the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Fourmonths were evenly divided between hunting guerillas anddrilling his men. The brigade then marched to Lavergneand thence to Murfrecsborough ; then it became part ofGrangers Reserve Corps. On the 2d of January, the First Brigade of the First Division oi theEleventh Army Corps, and Colonel Harrison was placedin command of it, General Ward taking the division. When General Ward returned to the command of the. brigade, Colonel Harrison resumed that of his Harrison participated in the Atlanta campaign,and was engaged in the battles of Resaca, where, incharging a battery, he was amongst the first to cross the fc> £> j ir> parapet. He also assisted in the capture of Cassville;was engaged at New Hope Church, and commanded hisbrigade in the engagements at Gilgal Church, KenesawMountain, Peach-Tree Creek, and Nashville. After thelast-named,Colonel Harrison was occupied in the pursuitof Hoods army, and through many difficulties pene-trated as far as Courtland, Alabama. He was then or-dered to report to General Sherman at Savannah. AtPocotaligo he was assigned to a brigade, with which he-joined Sherman at Goldsborough. At the close of the war Colonel Harrison was madebrevet brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from Jan-uary 23, 1865, for ability and manifest energy and gal-lantry in command of the
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