The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20
THE FOURTEENTH CORPS.
History Of the Organization OF the Third Di.
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To THE EDITOR: To those comrades who
are writing about the Third Division, Four
tenth Corps would like to say, Brace up"
Get some sweet oil and emery paper" and
polish up your memories. You are off, all of
you, and off bad. Comrade Van Camp, 2lst
Ohio, was the first, and Comrade Tibbet*s, S1th
Ind, next Now, l want to ask what was the
Third Division, Fourteenth Corps, when organ
lied, and of what composed? For the infOrma-
ton of the comrades l will give short sketch
of this division.
In December 1861, Gen. Buell. organized the
First Division of the Army of the Ohio at
Lebanon, KY. 1t consisted of the following
regiments and batteries: First Brigade, Gen.
A. Schoepf communicable, 18th, 3lst and
3Sth Ohio, Standards battery; Second Bri-
gade, Gen. Geo. II. Thomas commanding-10th
Ind, 18th Ohio, Battery c of LIST Ohio Art, 4th
and 10th Ky; Third Brigade, Gen. Robert l..
McCook commanding-2d Mimi, 18th U. S.
Inf, 9th and 35th Ohio and Church's Michigan
battery. This constituted the First Division,
Army of the Ohio, and on Jan. l, 1862, the di-
vision started for Zollicoffer on the banks of the
Cumberland River. The First Brigade moved
to Somerset, the Second via Columbia, KY, and
the Third via Jimtown road. Owing to the i'm
passable condition of the roads, the 10th Ind.
and 4th KY, of the Second Brigade, and the
9th Ohio and I'd Mimi, of the Third Brigade,
and Standards and Kinneys batteries were
the only troops who in reality fought the battle
Of Mill Springs. Gen. Thomas was in the
meantime, placed in command of the division
and Col Manson, of the 10th Ind, the Second
Brigade. The division remained in this organ
izatiOn until we arrived at Louisville Sept. 80,
1862, on what was known as Buel'S retreat"
Here we met the new regiments that had en-
listed under the 100000 call of g. The SD
Ind. was assigned to the First Brigade, the
74th Ind to the Second Brigade, and S7th Ind.
30 IL De- 40 Dafn fhn hoff Of
Stones River the army was reOrganized, being
known thereafter as the Army OF the Cumber-
land, and divided as follows: Fourteenth Corps,
Gen. Geo. II. Thomas; Twentieth Corps, Gen.
A. Med. McCook, and Twenty first Corps, Gen.
T. L. Crittenden. The First Division Army
of the Ohio, now became the Third Division
of the Fourteenth Corps temporarily under
the command of Gen. j. b. Steedman. The
Second Brigade became the Third, and the
Third the Second. At Tullahoma Steedman
was transferred to Changers Reserve Corps,
and Gen. James NJ. Brannan took command OF
the division. And here is the organization
when we went into Chickamauga Sept. 10, 1868:
First Brigade, Col. NJ. B. Walker command
ing-11th, 18th, 31st and 3Sth Ohio and sgd
Ohio, commanding-9t and 35th Ohio I'd
MINI. and s7th Ind; Third Brigade-10th and
74th Ind, 4th and 10th KY, 14th Ohio and
Battery G, LIST Chic, Capt. Kinney. The above
is the correct organization of the Third Di-
vision, Fourteenth Corps. Why the old Third
was changed to the Second and the Second to
the Third l never knew; but the change was
made, and my regiment remained in the Third
Brigade until the expiration of our term of
service. The division suffered heavily at
Chckamauga and at Jonesboro, Ga; the field
officers in all regiments being either killed or
wounded. The old Third was daisy" and
it would be well for comrades to remember this
fact while writing up accounts of their various
divisions Success to all comrades and to The
TRIBUNE-J. b. SHAW, H. ST. 10th Ind, Sd
Brig. Sd Diy 18th Corps. LAFAYETTE. Ind.