The National tribune., 1883-09-20
GROWING OLD.
The Sad Franks that Memory is Playing Our
Veterans.
PONTIAC, Ill

The Sad Franks that Memory is Playing ON Our
Veterans.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
would like to have w. A Caughay, of COM
pany @, Forty-ninth o. V. V. l., name the rcgi-
ments which composed General Willichs old
Iron Brigade. Ny recollection is that August
Which commanded the First brigade, Third
division, Fourth Army Corps, and that at the
battle of Stone River the Eighty-ninth Ill. V. |.
was one of the regiments in that brigade, or at
any rate the brigade commanded by Which,
and j know at Chickamauga it was part of
Willich's brigade, as well as the Twenty-ffth
Illinois, Fifteenth Wisconsin, Forty ninth and
Fifteenth o. V. V. l., and Thirty second Ind. V.
vi A. NJ c.,
PLUM HOLLOW, MINI. Co. B, 89th III.
[The First brigade, Second division, Twen-
tieth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier-
General August Which at Stone River and
Chickamauga, consisted of the following regi-
ments: Forty-ninth Ohio, Thirty-ninth and
Thirty y-second Indiana, Fifteenth Ohio; and
Eighty-ninth Illinois inlantry.-ED.l
FORGOTTEN HIS DIVISION AND CORPS.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Indeed we are growing old. I wish to cor
rect Comrade Philip Dimes, in TRIBUNE of
August I6, 1888 He claims to have belonged
to company B. Forty first Ohio, Second brigade,
Second division, and declares that General
Hazen, and not Wagner, commanded that bri-
gade. Now, as l was only boy when | en-
tered the service, my memory is yet good, es-
pecially as far as our old brigade is concerned.
so / will give you, for Comrade Dimes benefit,
the history of its organization, and carry it on
down to the end of the war.
The brigade was organized at Bardstown,
KY, in the winter of 1S62-63 and was COM
/ posed of the following regiments: The Fortieth,
1 Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Indiana volun-
and hp we ont
mel Carr, of the Fifty eighth Indiana, CON-
manding. Colonel Carr and the Fifty y-eighth
remained with US until the brigade was reor-
! ganiZed at Nashville, Tenn. Just before start
ing on the memorable march to Shiloh battle
| field the Fifteenth Indiana relieved the Fifty
| eighth, and George ID. Wagner, colonel of the
! Fifteenth, took command of the brigade and
remained in command until after the fall of
/ Atlanta. when Colonel Lane, of the Ninety
seventh Ohio, assumed command; the Ninety
seventh Ohio having previous to this, relieved
/ the Twenty-fourth Kentucky. So, at the bat
/ tie of Stone River, the Second brigade, Second
/ division. Fourth Army Corps, was composed of
/ the Fortieth, Flfty-seventh and Fifteenth In
diana, and Ninety seventh Ohio, and was COM
/ manded by Colonel George ID. Wagner, who
/ won his star at that battle. General Hazen
/ never had command Of that brigade, and none
/ of the regiments that he refers to were ever at
any time in that brigade. Now. as To Wagner's
brigade being the only one that held its ground
/ that day, cannot say. / think that every
regiment brigade and division did its whole
] duty that day. | don't give one brigade or
division more credit than another there. / am
proud that / belonged to the Army of the Cum
berland, commanded by our brave Rosecrans,
and that we won the day.
notice that Michael p. Coen, of Ninth Con-
necticut, in an article on the commencement of
1 the Nicksburg Canal, says they were about to
| burn a school-house, when Wisconsin regi-
ment said: For shamei New England men
/ burning a school-houseI" Now, / marched
/ through Dixie for four years, and if Comrade
Coen saw a country school-house south of the
! Ohio River, he saw something that never did.
| 1t must have been negro meeting house
which he saw. In the slave States the rich
had private teachers, and the poor did the best
! they could. n. Y. BUCK,
First Lieut., Co. B, 10th Ind Y. l.,
I'd Brigade, 2d Division, 18th Army Corps.
Usage CITY, KAN.
fWagners brigade, at Stone River, was the
/ Second brigade, First (Wood's) division left
wing, afterwards Twenty-ir Army Corps
1t consisted of the Fifty-seventh, Fortieth and
| Fifteenth Indiana, and Ninety-scventh Ohio.
Hazens brigade, at same date, was the Second
brigade. Second division, laalmer's,) of the left
! wing, same corps. 1t consisted of the Forty
first Ohio, Sixth Kentucky, Ninth Indiana and
! One Hundred and Tenth Illinois. From which
/ il appears that Comrade Buck has not only
forgotten the number of the division but the
/ number of the corps TO which he belonged.
| The Fourth Corps was not formed until after
I the battle of Chiekamauga, and was made by
consolidating MeCook's Twentieth and Crit
/ tenden's Twenty-frst Corps, under command
of Major-General Gordon Granger.-ED.l