On a single night Thomas Walbridge, a personal out-of providers “K,” dropped overboard and you may try drowned. His human anatomy could not be retrieved.
In the Memphis the fresh new routine went towards the go camping to your Pigeon Roost roadway, just east of your city. If you find yourself at this go camping all of the non-seasoned soldiers out-of H. Elizabeth. I. K. and you will F. was in fact mustered out of the service, plus Big McCracken, Chief Hughes, Stewart, Wakefield, Reitzell, and you will Lieutenants Terry, Shaw and you may McKibbon.
This new demand sustained right here off cold by the need out of safety, camping tents and deficiency of wood and you may power. The new tents had been zero safety against cold, and the need from wood or material averted the new men regarding strengthening comfy huts otherwise barracks.
To your 12th off December orders away from Standard Canby was gotten re-putting the fresh soldiers of 19th variety corps with the Set aside Corps, Army Office from Western Mississippi, The newest 2d Brigade, that was composed of the fresh new 8th, 11th, 46th and you may 76th regiments regarding Illinois Infantry, while the 23d Wisconsin and you may 30th Missouri regiments Infantry, are demanded from the Brig. Gen. Elizabeth. S. Dennis.
In the beginning the new morning of the twenty-first from December a trip started out, asked because of the Brig. Gen. Lawler, moving in the new guidelines out of La Grange, Tenn. Brand new eighth, 11th and you can 46th Illinois Infantry, asked from the Colonel Dornblaser of your own 46th, try followed by two most other small brigades and you may marched the first time in order to Germantown, second to Moscow, and you may third to help you Wolf Lake near Moscow, Tenn., in which we stayed up to early on the fresh day of your 26th away from December, in the event the come back march in order to Memphis try commenced.