363 Series I Volume XXXIX-I Serial 77 - Allatoona Part I
| Page 363 | Chapter LI. EXPEDITION FROM DECATUR TO COURLAND, ALA., |
I encamped on Big Name Creek on the night of the 27th and the next morning started at 4 o'clock for Decatur, where I arrived at 3 p. m. the same day.
I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
WM. T. C. GROWER,
Colonel, Commanding THIRD Brigade.
Captain GARDNER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Numbers 2. Report of Lieutenant Colonel John Rheinlander, Twenty- fifth Indiana Infantry.
HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH INDIANA INFANTRY,
Decatur, Ala., July 28, 1864.SIR: In compliance with instructions received, I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by this regiment in the late expedition.
According to orders, this regiment left camp at Decatur, Ala., at 3 p. m. the 25th instant, with three days' rations in haversacks; marched to the town of Courtland, Ala., a distance of twenty miles, when a spirited engagement ensued, lasting half an hour, when the enemy retreated. No casualties in this regiment. Returned to camp at Decatur, Ala., at 3 p. m. July 28, 1864.
Respectfully submitted.
JOHN RHEINLANDER,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.
Lieutenant John P. HOLLERS,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
Numbers 3. Report of Major Edwin M. Hulburd, Eighteenth Michigan Infantry.
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY,
Decatur, Ala., July 28, 1864.SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the late expedition to Courtland under command of Colonel Grower:
On the 25th instant, in obedience to orders, I reported to Colonel Grower with 200 men and three days' rations at 3 p. m. I was assigned for position the rear of the infantry column. My command took no special part in the expedition until the morning of the 27th, when, on moving out from Pond Springs, I was given the advance. Company B, Captain Hinckley commanding, was thrown forward as advance guard, and on nearing Courtland was deployed as skirmishers. As we entered Courtland I was ordered to re-enforce the skirmish line, and sent forward Company G, Lieutenant Clark commanding. As we passed through the town, it appearing that our skirmish
| Page 363 | Chapter LI. EXPEDITION FROM DECATUR TO COURLAND, ALA., |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments