. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . 1862, Lieutenant Dykeman, the regimentaladjutant, was promoted; he organized his company, H,First Battalion, and took Lieutenant Wedemeyer withhim. In May, [862, the company went to the field, viathe Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. His first picket-dutywas on the Tennessee River bank, the steamer tied upfor the night. Quiet it was, but the major will alwaysremember it. He joined the battalion in the FourthBrigade, Second Division, just before the evacuation ofCorinth. Then followed the march to Stevenson, Ala-bama, the retreat
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . 1862, Lieutenant Dykeman, the regimentaladjutant, was promoted; he organized his company, H,First Battalion, and took Lieutenant Wedemeyer withhim. In May, [862, the company went to the field, viathe Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. His first picket-dutywas on the Tennessee River bank, the steamer tied upfor the night. Quiet it was, but the major will alwaysremember it. He joined the battalion in the FourthBrigade, Second Division, just before the evacuation ofCorinth. Then followed the march to Stevenson, Ala-bama, the retreat to Nashville, where, on September 7,1862, he received his appointment as second lieutenantin the Sixteenth U. S. Infantry. Then came the tiresomemarch to Louisville, the advance to Perryville, where theregiment arrived after the battle, it having in the meantime a lively brush with Kirby Smiths forces at Dog-walk, south of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. After manydelays and countermarchings, the regiment again founditself in Nashville. The battle of Stone River followed. At. Murfreesborough, in April, 1863, Lieutenant Wedemeyerwas detailed to command the provost-guard of the FirstDivision,Fourteenth Army Corps. He remained in thatcharge during the campaign on Tullahoma and Chatta-nooga, acting as topographical engineer on the latter, inaddition to his regular duties. At the battle of Chickamauga he had charge of a largenumber of prisoners, which he had considerable difficultyin getting from the field and to Chattanooga. On Octo-ber 1 he was assigned to duty as assistant commissaryof musters of the department. After the fall of Atlantahe was sent to the Cavalry Division of Shermans armyin the same capacity. He left Chattanooga on the lasttrain going south, and only got to Ackworth, whenHood struck the road, sending him back to Allatoona,where he witnessed the fight for the hard-bread storedthere. He joined General Kilpatrick and made withhim the memorable campaign through the South. Th
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