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History of Military Units in Columbia County, FL (1970) Robert Gary Shields

The Army of Tennessee encamped for a few days in the beautiful
Sequatchee Valley; then it took up its line of march across the Cumberland
Mountains into middle Tennessee and northward toward the Kentucky in

Monroe county. The proceeded directly to Green River, near which a
brigade of 4,000 Federal troops were captured. After a few days1 delay,

anticipating the approach, of Buell's Army, the Army of Tennessee on
Sept. 20, moved toward Louisville, Kentucky, and for two weeks were
camped at different points; part of the time a few miles from Bardstown.

The movements of the Federal forces caused General Bragg to shift his
position and on Oct. 8, the two armies confronted each other at Perryville,

where the 3rd lost heavily. Capt. D. B. Bird, who commanded the Regiment
during most of the time after it left Chattannoga, fell mortally wounded,
late on the afternoon of the 8th.

From Perryville the army fell back until it again reached Chattanooga
in December, where the decimated ranks of the 1st and 3fd Regiments were

consolidated, the 3rd forming the right wing of the consolidated regiment,
and this it continued through all its subsquent history. The consolidated

Regiment shared in all the subsquent inovements of Bragg's Army back to
east and forward to middle Tennesse, where, as a part of Breckinridge's
Division it took part in the battle of Murfreesborough, where, out of its

531 men it lost 138 killed, mounded and missing and the other engagements
of that campaign. Early in the summer of 1863, the Regiment, under
Breckenridge, was ordered to Mississippi and was on tlie Big Black when

Vicksburg was sirremderedf afterward was engaged in the siege at
Jackson, Miss. After the close of the Mississippi campaign the consolidatec
regiment returned to Norhtern Georgia in time to take part in the battle

of Chickamauga aridliMihsibnaryu Ridge. The Regiment was in all the
subsquent inovements with the Army in Northern Georgia, which opened early
in the spring of 1864 and extended form Chattanooga to Atlanta, thence

onward to Middle Tennessee under Hood, and finally back through Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to Durham Station# near

Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865.

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