Our artillery was placed where we could plant every shell right in their embrasures. Capt. Cockerell, our Chief of Artillery, was an excellent gunner, and the first shell he fired from one of our steel Rodmans cut off the head of a Confederate giant who must have been quite seven feet in height, for when we advanced in pursuit my horse jumped through an embrasure and over his headless body, which was more than six feet in length.

On the morning of the 16th we were confined mostly to artillery and skirmish firing. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon Gen. Wood pushed the Fourth Corps forward, supported by Steedman on the left, to try the strength of the enemy's line, but were repulsed with great loss; Col. Post, a brigade commander, being wounded.

After noon, Gen. Wilson's cavalry, supported by Henderson's Brigade of Cox's Division, moved around further on Hood's left flank. This movement was made easier by reason of the absence of Forrest's cavalry at Murfreesboro. This mistake of Hood's in allowing such a useful branch as the cavalry had been in his support to be absent on this day, contributed more to his easy defeat than any other single cause. It enabled Wilson to dismount his men and crowd around in the rear of Chalmers, who was supported by Govan's Brigade.

Here, with their repeating rifles, they kept up an incessant firing which made Hood extremely anxious, not knowing but one-half of our army was in his rear. In the meantime, Gen. McArthur, of Smith's Corps, had discovered that Bate's position had been weakened in looking after the flank, and reported to Thomas that an attack on Shy's Hill would probably meet with success. Thomas approved of the suggestion, and rode over with his staff to where Gens. Schofield and Cox had made their headquarters. From this point every move could be seen. McArthur placed McMillan's Brigade in position for assault. The artillery from all our advanced batteries opened with an intense fire on the hill, and our skirmish lines were pushed to the utmost. McMillan's double line went up the hill as steadily as troops in review. Occasionally a rebel gun could be depressed enough to make a gap in the line, but it would immediately close up and press on in superb alignment. This was about 4 o'clock.

Gen. Thomas, the grand old hero, had dismounted from his horse, and stood in the pouring rain watching the movement closely through his field-glass. Steadily forward moved the lines; gradually they approached the crest of the hill. All this time Wilson's rattling din of arms in their rear was as continuous as hell's clamor; now they were up to their works; only for a moment they hesitated, which was followed by a rapid exchange of fire, face-to-face, and a fierce hand-to-hand clubbing of rifles, then the line broke.

Logan remained at Louisville. Thomas had been standing as rigidly as a statue of bronze, but quietly turned to Schofield and said: "General, will you please advance your whole line?"

The order was repeated to Cox, and the staff officers rode at a plunging gait over the fields to the different brigades. But the orders were not given to the troops; they had been watching the movement, too, and followed it without orders. It was one of those momentous occasions when immediate action was justified, and time was too precious to await formal instructions. From this point the whole of Hood's army crumbled right and left. Their backbone had been broken two weeks before at Franklin. There was no fight left in them.

No such stubborn resistance as when they repulsed our pounding charges at Kenesaw and Lost Mountain. Their officers, of fine ability, who held them with their lines with such tenacity during the Georgia campaign, were lying cold and stiff on the southern banks of the Harpeth. Without the leadership they could not stand, and pell-mell they scattered over the Granny White Pike to the Franklin Pike, flying as if old what's-his-name was after them. Artillery stuck in the mud, cartridges, guns and accouterments of every description bestrewing the ground, as though they never again expected to have any need of them, but as if their only thoughts were to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the dreadful Yankees. Oh, it was a glorious picnic to rush them from one hill to another, shouting all the way. Brave Walthall checked us occasionally with his strong rear-guard; but Wilson harassed his flanks until he had to fall back again. Little heed was taken of time and approaching darkness. One officer was so carried away with enthusiasm that he became separated from the staff and pushed over to the Fourth Corps, who were in pursuit, and then on with the cavalry over the Brentwood hills, so that he did not find his way back to headquarters until 3 o'clock the next morning, and there found the General and staff stretched out in the mud, each one having two fence rails for a bed, no blankets, no fire, and a drenching rain to cool off the ardour of the previous day.

l00th Ohio 13,32

103d Ohio 15,16, 18, 19 123d Indiana 51

183d Ohio 50,50 24th Kentucky 43 63d Indiana 24 65th Indiana 40 7th Ohio 50

A

Adams, Brig. Gen. John 40,41,42

Alabama 7, 8

Arkansas 47

Army of Tennessee 62

Army of the Ohio 57

Atlanta 7, 8,11,18,43,49,62,62

Atlantic 8

B

Baldwin, Capt. A. P. 39, 40

Baldwin's Battery 40

Baltimore 53

Bate(s), Gen. William B. 30,32,64

Beauregard, Lt. Gen. G. T. 11,11

Bills, Lieut. 18

Bostwick House 30

Bradley, Brig. Gen. Luther P. 17, 17, 18

Bradley's Brigade 17,26

Bridges, Col. Lyman 17

Brown, Maj. Gen. John C. 19,35,38, 48,51, 51

Brown, Lieut. 51

C

Canby 35, 36

Canby's Battery 35, 36

Capron 11,13

Carmel 14

Carter, Col. 21

Carter, Gen. John C. 47, 48

Carter Cottage 23, 29, 45, 47

Carter House 35,.40,47, 55

Carter's Creek 30

Carter's Hill 26

Carter's yard 10, 11,38

Casement, Brig. Gen. John S. (Jack) 24,40,42,42,43,51

Casement's Brigade 40

Cavalry

     Capron's 11,13

     Croxton's 11

     Forrest's 14, 24, 26, 64

     Hatch's 11

     Wilson's 9,64

Chalmers 64

Chattahoochee Valley 8

Cheatham, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. 7,8,10,11,17,19,28,30,30, 32,34,37,39,47,48,53

Cherokee County 7

Cincinnati 8

Clark, Lt. Col. Mervin 50,50,51

Cleburne, Maj. Gen. Patrick R. 19,

28,30,35,47,47,48,49 Cleveland 50

Clinton, Alec 34

Columbia 11,12,13,14,17,21,24,56

Columbia Pike 11,21,26,30,32,45,47

Columbus 53

Cockerell, Brig. Gen. Frank M. 48,53

Cockerell, Capt. 63

Conrad, Col. Joseph 26, 26, 34

Conrad's Brigade 26

Cooper, Brig. Gen. Jos. A. 65

Corps

     A. J. Smith's 9

     Cheatham's 17,32,34,37,47

          Bates's Division 30

          Brown's Division 51

     Engineer 24

     Fifteenth 8

     Fourteenth 8

     Fourth 8, 9,12,13,14,15,17,17, 18,20,22,26,28,28,35,38,43, 59,61,63

          Canby's Battery 35, 36

          Kimball's Division 26

         Marshall's Battery 16, 26, 35, 36

          Wood's Division 26 Lee's 53

     Sixteenth 59, 61, 62, 64

          McArthur's Division 64

     Seventeenth 8

     Stewart's 19,30,41

          Cleburne's Division 49

          French's Division 48

          Loring's Division 35, 49

          Walthall's Division 35,48

     Twentieth 8

     Twenty-third 8,9,11,12,13,17, 20,22, 24, 24, 26, 28, 33, 42, 43, 59,62, 63, 63, 65

          Couch's Division 63

          Cox's Division 11, 13, 14,21, 63,64

          Ruger's Division 13,17

          Third Division 24

Couch, Maj. Gen. Darius N. 63, 63

Coughan, First Lt. James 43, 44, 44

Cox, Col. Theodore 52, 52

Cox, Maj. Gen. Jacob D. 11,13,17, 21,24,24,26,28,30,32,33,37, 38,38, 39, 43, 44, 49, 52, 52, 56,64,65

Cracker line 7

Croxton 11

D

Dalton 9

DeVillier's Zonaves 50

Doolittle, Brig. Gen. Charles C.

Dow, Maj. 52

Duck River 14,28,56

E

Engineer Battalion 26

F

First Brigade 14

Florence 7, 11

Forrest, Maj. Gen. Nathan B. 7, 8, 13,13, 14,24,26,64

Fort Granger 26

Fort Sanders 42

"Fourteenth Missipp" 41

Franklin 9,17,21,22,24,30,43, 48, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 64, 65

Franklin Pike 14,41, 65

French 48, 49

G

Georgia 8, 32, 65

Gist, Brig. Gen. S. R. 47,47

Goodspeed, Maj. W. F. 15,17

Gordon, Brig. Gen. George W. 47, 51

Govan 64

Govan's Brigade 64

Granger, Maj. Gen. Gordon 63

Granny White Pike 65

Grant, Maj. Gen. U. S. 7

H

Halleck 62

Harpeth River 24, 26, 44, 65

Hatch 11

Henderson 24, 30, 37, 40, 64

Hillsboro Pike 63

Hood, Lt. Gen. John B. 7,8,9,11, 13,14,17,21,28,30,30,31,32, 33,39,41,48,49,50,52,53, 54, 56, 63, 64, 65

Huey's Mill 14

I

Illinois 43

Indiana 24, 40, 51

J

Jenny, Maj. 24

Johnston, Gen. Joseph E. 8, 11, 50

K

Kenesaw 65

Kentuckians 37

Kentucky 21,43

Kimball, Brig. Gen. Nathan 21,26

Knoxville 42

L

Lane 14,26

Lane's Brigade 26

Lawrenceburg 11

Lee, Lt. Gen. Stephen D. 53

Lewisburg Pike 30

Logan, Gen. 62, 65

Longstreet 42

Lost Mountain 65

Loring 35, 49

Louisville 8, 62, 65

Lynvi11e 11

M

"March to the Sea" 7

Marshall, Capt. A. 15,.16,18,19,33, 35,36

Marshall's Battery 16,26,35,36

McArthur, Brig. Gen. John 64, 64

McGavock House 30, 60

McMillan, Brig. Gen. Jason W. 64,64,65

McMillan's Brigade 64

McPherson, Maj. Gen. James B. 49, 62

Mississippi 7,33,53

Missouri 46

Moore 48

Moore's Brigade 48

Mt. Pleasant 11

Mt. Pleasant Pike 13

Murfreesboro 64

Murfreesboro Road 17

N

Nashville 8,9,9, 11,13, 14,28,39, 43,46,52,53,56,59,61,62,62, 64

Battle of 56,63

Newport 9

North Carolina 11

Northrup, Col. George 21

O

Ohio 13, 15,16, 18, 19,32,50,50,53, 57

"Old Rock of Chickmauga" 56

Opdycke, Col. Emerson 14, 26, 28, 30, 38, 46, 59

Opdycke's Brigade 26, 38, 46, 59

P

Pickands, Lt. Col. Harry S. 15,16,18, 19

Poe, Brig. Gen. Orlando M. 33

Post, Col. 63

Pulaski 9, 10, 11, 14

Q

Quarles, Gen. William A. 48, 53

R

Reilly, Brig. Gen. Jason W. 26, 30, 37, 51

Reilly's Brigade 26,51

Resaca 9,43

Riley 24

Rousseau, Col. 37,38 "

Rutherford Creek 21

S

Sargent, Capt. Charles E. 15,19

Schofield, Maj. Gen. John M. 8,9,9,10,11,12,14,17,18,20,21,22, 24, 28, 52, 52, 59, 62, 64, 65

Scofield, Capt. Levi T. 33

Scott, Gen. 49

Scoville, Charley 37, 46

Shelbyville 11

Sherman, Maj. Gen. William T. 7, 7, 8

Shy's Hill 63, 64

Smith, Gen. A. J. 9,52

Southron 7

Spring Hill 14,16,17,17,18,20,21, 26,28,41

St. Andrew's Cross 35

Stanley, Maj. Gen. David S. 13,14,17, 17, 18,21,33,38,39

Steadman 56

Stewart, Lt. Gen. Alexander P. 19,30, 34, 35, 48, 53

Stiles 24

Stone's River 37

Strahl, Brig. Gen. Otto F. 47, 48

Strickland 38,46,47

Strickland's Brigade 13,46

Sweeney House, The 54

T

Tennessee 10,10,11,12,16,17,20, 22,24,37,39,47,48,53,58,61

Tennessee River 7

"Tenth Alabam" 41

Thomas, Maj. Gen. George H. 8, 9,9, 11,24,52,59,61,62,64,65

Thompson's Station 17,21

Tracey 39

Tracy, Lieut. 38

V

Valley of the Harpeth 30,31

W

Wagner, Brig. Gen. George D. 14, 17, 17,19,26,28,30,32,33,35,37, 37,51

Wagner's Brigade 51

Walthall, Maj. Gen. Edward C. 35, 40, 41,48

Washington 52

Wherry, Col. William M. 52

"Whiplash Corps" 62

White, Col. 37, 38

Wilson, Maj. Gen. James H. 9,14,64, 64,65

Winstead Hills 21,27,28,30,31