. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . tles of modern times. Captain David F. Bremner commanding Company E—no man among the survivors of our Regiment knows more,perhaps none so much, about this battle as he—writes asfollows: Stanleys Brigade was moved from its position in line, byorder of General Negley, betw^een nine and ten oclock onSunday morning, to the left and w^ent into action nearKelleys field, reinforcing and sup])orting General BeattysBrigade, then heavily
. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . tles of modern times. Captain David F. Bremner commanding Company E—no man among the survivors of our Regiment knows more,perhaps none so much, about this battle as he—writes asfollows: Stanleys Brigade was moved from its position in line, byorder of General Negley, betw^een nine and ten oclock onSunday morning, to the left and w^ent into action nearKelleys field, reinforcing and sup])orting General BeattysBrigade, then heavily engaged with the on coming into line we went into action, drivingAdams Brigade back in confusion, the General and his stafffalling into the hands of the Nineteenth. Being reinforceil,the enemy renewed the attack, and our Brigade was compelledto yield, which it did slowly, halting at hitervals, whilepresenthig a good front to the foe, until it took jiosition nextto some log buildings on the brow of Snodgrass Hill, nearthe Rossville Road. The Confederates soon l)egan a fierceantl lietermined assault upon this position, defended, as it. Lieut. John Young, Co. E. The Nineteenth Illinois 241 was, by part of Battery I, Fourth United States Artillery,Lieutenant Smith commanding, which did its duty well,supported by our Brigade, and scattered fragments from theEighty-second Indiana, Tenth and Fourth Kentucky, andFourteenth Ohio regiments. *Tt was here that Colonel Stanley was wounded, w^here-upon command of our Brigade devolved on Colonel Stoughtonof the Eleventh Michigan, who ^ays in his official report:I advanced my command about fifty yards and drove theenemy from our immediate front. The Brigade was thenmoved West to the Snodgrass house, and, passing in the rearof it, advanced to the hill south of the house, arriving therein time to join in repulsing an attack then being made. Theregiments were then placed—the Nineteenth Illinois onthe right, the Elev
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