Hope Church, Big Shanty, Allatoona, Cartersville, Kingston and Rome. From Rome it moved to Calhoun, thence to Resaca, and through Snake Creek Gap to Villanon, Summersville and Cedar Bluff, Ala. On October 31st it was at Rome, and with its brigade reached Johnsonville, Tenn., early in November where it was stationed doing garrison duty and throwing up works until the 24th when it left by rail for Columbia, arriving there on the 25th, and there joined the army then opposing Hood. At the time of its arrival at that point, a heavy skirmish was in progress, and four companies were immediately sent forward on the skirmish line, while the regiment went into position, and at midnight it was ordered to withdraw to Duck River, then threw up works and lay on the south side of the river skirmishing with the enemy and working day and night, the men being on short rations. Before daylight on the 28th, the regiment crossed Duck River, taking a position on the north bank, skirmishing with the enemy across the river until noon of the 29th, when the army fell back towards Franklin, and about dark, near Spring Hill, ten miles north of Duck River, the enemy was found in front in heavy force on the right flank, occupying the road, and after a short skirmish he was driven from his position, and the march was resumed towards Franklin, where the army arrived on the morning of the 30th, the enemy hanging on its rear and flanks, and destroying a part of the train. The army was immediately put in position, throwing up slight works, and at 4 P. M. the enemy attacked in four lines, and after a desperate assault he was repulsed with great loss. He renewed the attack at intervals until 10 P. M., when he again made an assault and planted his colors on the works in front of the Twenty-Third Mich., and was repulsed after a hand to hand fight. At 11 P. M. our troops withdrew and crossed the river, moving in the direction of Nashville, and arrived there at 2 P. M., December 1st, having in 48 hours marched fifty miles and fought the battle of Franklin, the men being on less than quarter rations. In the engagement Captain D. M. Averill was killed. The regiment lay in the works at Nashville until the morning of the 15th, when, as a part of the army of General Thomas, it moved on the enemy and was in the engagements during that day and the next with Hood's forces, which resulted in his being driven, in a demoralized condition, from all his positions. On the 15th the regiment made a daring and dashing charge on a position occupied by a portion of the enemy's infantry behind a heavy stone wall on a crest of a hill, carried it in most gallant style, capturing more prisoners than there were men in the line of the regiment. The color staff is shot in two, the color sergeant severely wounded, but before the colors fell to the ground they were grasped by a color bearer and bravely carried forward erect and defiant. On the 17th the pursuit of the enemy commenced, and during the first three days of the march the rain fell in torrents, the mud being fully six inches deep, which with the swollen streams, rendered progress extremely difficult and tedious. The pursuit was continued until Columbia was reached, where a halt was made and the movement ended. The following is from a correspondent: "You are long since posted on our glorious battles of the 15th and 16th of December before Nashville. There is much to write it seems, that the world can never know. Michigan should know more than the mere telegraphic reports of the part which her brave soldiers acted. The Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fifth are in the 23d army corps. The morning of the 15th was warm and the earth, fortunately for our movement, covered with a dense fog. Steedman commands. The 4th and 16th corps passed defiantly over their works and moved forward to confront the enemy in his works, while the 23d corps moved far to our right, passing between our fortifications and the city, and passing out, forming in four lines upon the extreme right of our line of infantry. We then began our usual movement in battle, during the whole Georgia campaign, swinging around to our left as we moved forward, and pressing hard upon the enemy's right. This we continued until our batteries reached the desired position. One by one they opened until the whole earth seemed to tremble, the enemy responded as is written, 'feebly. The results of these feeble efforts reached our lines, causing us to hug the earth closely, but with unpleasant sounds passing us harmless. An hour or more we lay listening to the thurder of this grand artillery fight, and feeling proud of the General commanding, who had so defiantly pushed so much heavy ordnance into the very face of that boasting braggart, Hood. Hooker before Kenesaw had caused our hearts to swell under the sublime thunder tones of his artillery, but Thomas before Nashville, having facilities for multiplying the notes struck them boldly and reached such of those explosive mines of feeling and emotion as seldom burst upon one in this world. While Steedman on our left and the 4th corps on his right, and the 16th corps were charging upon and taking successive lines of the enemy, our corps again moved by the flank nearly three miles to our right and front, our whole line having pushed the enemy back in wheeling movement around and upon his right flank, where were built his strongest fortifications, and where he made his most stubborn resistance that day. We reached again the extreme right of our infantry lines. A. J. Smith's force had just taken a high hill and a battery from the enemy. Behind this hill our corps formed, and moving over it near its base upon the opposite side where runs the Harrodsburg pike, passed through the resting lines of the 16th corps, relieving them and pressed on through a wood to the open fields of the valley. Here the balls from the skirmish line began to fly around our heads, and shell from a battery upon the next eminence half a mile to our front shrieked over and tore up the ground before us. Down through the fields, over fences, past a mansion but a few moments since the headquarters of a rebel general and over the fields and hills we ran. As our regiment climbed to the brow of a slight elevation we dislodged the enemy from a stone wall, losing a standard-bearer and several sergeants of Co. 'I' wounded, but escaping wonderfully, by the favorable lay of the ground, that shower of lead. We cast a glance toward the high point from which burst forth the smoke from the enemy's batteries. A regiment in advance of all others had climed to within a hundred yards of the battery. A horseman had taken its star spangled banner and rode forward to the very mouth of the cannon, then turned around and waved it to his valiant followers. I need not attempt to describe the shout of pride, of triumph, and of joy, that went up from our corps. The hill and battery were ours. The Major who bore our beautiful banner there was Major Dunn, of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Until that hour we had known but little of the magnificence of that "Flag of the free heart's hope and home, And all whose hues were born in heaven. "The shades of evening were falling, the enemy had fled. We entrenched ourselves and lay down to rest. Another hour and our regiment was building strong works on the hill, up near where the last battery was taken. The enemy half a mile distant, on a hill of equal hight, was heard doing a like work. Early on the morning of the 16th the battery from Gen. Couch's division opened upon the enemy's works at short range, doing splendid execution, piercing repeatedly their works, and even playing the sharpshooter, by crushing through trees, from which were seen the smoke of rebel skirmishers, the wind blew strong and cold. Far to the left was seen the flash of our artillery, bringing no audible response. The whole line poured out its volume of iron until about 2 P. M. All day legions of cavalry had been moving to our right. Then came the charge. Our first brigade, Gen. Cooper's, moved from our left and began the ascent of that steep, the summit of which was the last stronghold of the enemy visible to us. We watched our flag as it moved slowly but steadily up, until it reached the summit, when it waved triumphantly there, and the rebels were seen flying before it. The excitement all along the line became intense. The flag that first waved over the enemy's works at the summit of the hill was that of the Twenty-Fifth Michigan. A few hundred yards to the right of this point the enemy was seen to plant hurriedly a battery, and fire wildly a few shots, when our skirmishers silenced it. A moment more and this was Still on the right and higher up than all, there was such heavy musketry ours. firing as to produce that perfect roll which tells that it is the carbine, with its seven or more shots. Suddenly, very suddenly, it ceased. Our cavalry, which in these two days' fighting had redeemed itself from all odium attached to its character in the days of Wolford, had there captured a brigade. The glorious day's work was done, 'Ho, for Alabama! was then our watchword. We marched over their works and on in the pursuit. Such a scene! Their trenches, the corn fields, the Granny White pike which we then struck, the whole were covered with great and small arms, ammunition and accoutrements, wounded, dead,-indeed, all the paraphernalia and débris of a routed army. Glory enough; we had reached the acme of our arms, and felt a kind of pity for those who had not been here to see all this." The Twenty-Third Corps having received orders to proceed to Washington, D. C., the regiment left Columbia on January 1st, 1865, and marched for Clifton, a point on the Tennessee River, distant 250 miles, where it arrived on the 8th, and on the 16th embarked on steamers for Cincinnati, Ohio, reaching there on the 22d; immediately took rail for Washington, D. C., and arriving there on the 29th moved to Camp Stoneman and continued at that point until February 9th, when it went to Alexandria, where, on the 11th it embarked with its Corps on transports for Smithville, N. C., at the mouth of Cape Fear River, reaching that point on the 15th. On the 17th the movement was commenced against Fort Anderson, and on the 18th our troops were advanced to within a few yards of the Forts and intrenched under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery, and on the morning of the 19th occupied the fort, the TwentyThird Michigan being the first to enter. Engaging again the enemy at Town Creek, on the 20th, capturing two pieces of artillery and taking 350 prisoners, a movement was immediately made up the south bank of the river, above Wilmington, and on the night of the 22d the troops moved back ten miles to cross the river for the purpose of rejoining General Terry. The crossing was made on boats from the fleet on the morning of the 23d, when it was found that Wilmington had been evacuated during the previous night. The march was resumed on March 6th. Proceeding up the coast, reached Kingston just at the close of the action at that point, having marched 125 miles in six days, and for the last 24 hours without halting, except long enough to draw rations and issue thirty additional rounds of ammunition to the men. On the 20th left Kingston, and occupied Goldsboro on the 22d, the enemy retiring on the approach of our forces. Gen. Sherman's army arriving at Goldsboro on the 23d, the regiment was sent back ten miles, to Mosely Hall, to guard the railroad at that place while the army was being supplied, and on April 9th moved with the grand army on Raleigh, which was reached and occupied on the 13th. The regiment remained at that point until the surrender of Johnston's army, on the 21st, when, on the 3d of May, it marched for Greensboro, distant ninety miles, reaching there on the 7th. On the 9th went by rail to Salisbury, remaining there until June 28th, when it was mustered out of service, and left for Michigan by rail, via Danville, Petersburg and City Point, Va., thence by steamer to Baltimore, Md., where it again took rail, and arriving, July 7th, at Detroit, on the 20th was paid off and discharged. The regiment during service had met the enemy at Paris, Ky., July 29, 1863. Huff's Ferry, Tenn., November 12, 1863. Campbell's Station, Tenn., November 16, 1863. Seige of Knoxville, Tenn., November 17 to December 5, 1863. Dandridge, Tenn., January 14, 1864. Strawberry Plains, Tenn., January 22, 1864. Rocky Face, Ga., May 8, 1864. Resaca, Ga., May 14, Etowah River, Ga., May 22, 1864. Dallas, Ga., May 27, 1864. New Hope Church, Ga., June 1, 1864. Lost Mountain, Ga., June 17, 1864. Kenesaw, Ga., June 27, 1864. Chattahoochie River, Ga., July 5 and 6, 1864. Siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 22 to August 25, 1864. Lovejoy's Station, Ga., August 31, 1864. Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1861. Duck River, Tenn., November 28, 1864. Spring Hill, Tenn., November 29, 1864. Franklin, November 30, 1864. Nashville, Tenn., December 12 to 16, 1864. Fort Anderson, N. C., February 18, 1865. Town Creek, N. C., February 20, 1865. Wilmington, N. C., February 21, 1865. Goldsboro, N. C., March 22, 1865. The Twenty-Third had borne on its rolls 1417 officers and men, while its loss was 287, being 3 officers and 38 men killed in action; 1 officer and 17 men died of wounds, and of disease 3 officers and 225 men. O, bravest, truest, best!- Beneath the daisied sod! No more the volleying gun, No more the scorching sun, For you, O, tired sleepers watched by God! TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY. "Our country! forever we swear 'neath the blue, Thy name and thy fame bright and spotless shall be ! The Twenty-Fourth was raised almost exclusively in the county of Wayne, with its rendezvous at Detroit. It was recruited with much dispatch, being mustered into the U. S. service on the 15th of August, 1862, just thirty days from the date of the order giving authority for its organization. FIELD AND STAFF. Henry A. Morrow, Detroit, Colonel; Mark Flanigan, Detroit, Lieutenant Colonel; Henry W. Nall, Detroit, Major; John H. Beech, Coldwater, Surgeon; Charles C. Smith, Redford, Ass't Surgeon; Alexander Collar, Wayne, 2d Ass't Surgeon; James J. Barnes, Detroit, Adjutant; Digby V. Bell, Jr., Detroit, Quartermaster; William C. Way, Plymouth, Chaplain. The companies were mustered in with the following line officers: "A." Captain, Edwin B. Wight, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Richard S. Dillon, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Henry R. Whiting, Detroit. "B." Captain, Isaac W. Ingersoll, Detroit; First Lieutenant, William H. Rexford, Detroit; Second Lieutenant F. Augustus, Buhl, Detroit, "C." Captain, Calvin B. Crosby, Plymouth; First Lieutenant, Charles A. Hoyt, Plymouth; Second Lieutenant, Winfield S. Safford, Plymouth. "D." Captain, William J. Speed, Detroit; First Lieutenant, John M. Farland, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Charles C. Yemens, Redford. "E." Captain, James Cullen, Detroit; First Lieutenant, John J. Lennon, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Malachi J. O'Donnell, Detroit. "F" Captain, Albert M. Edwards, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Asa W. Sprague, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Jacob M. Howard, Jr., Detroit. "G." Captain, William A. Owen, Detroit; First Lieutenant, William Hutchinson, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, George W. Burchell, Detroit. "H." Captain, Warren G. Vinton, Detroit; First Lieutenant, John C. Merritt, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, Newell Grace, Redford. "I." Captain, George C. Gordon, Detroit; First Lieutenant, Henry P. Kinney, Detroit; Second Lieutenant, John M. Gordon, Redford. "K." Captain, William W. Wight, Livonia; First Lieutenant, Walter H. Wallace, Brownstown; Second Lieutenant, David Birrell, Detroit. Prior to its leaving for the front Messrs. F. Buhl, Newland & Co. gave the Twenty-Fourth, on Campus Martius, Detroit, a very costly flag, red, white, and blue in stars of raised work, inscribed on the flag, "24th Michigan Infantry." D. E. Harbaugh, Esq., made a very appropriate presentation speech, to which Colonel Morrow made a very brief but patriotic reply. The flag was carried through all the battles of the regiment up to Gettysburg, T |