Compiled
and Written by Rocky L. Bartlow Great-great-grandson of William
Henry Harrison Bartlow Meriden, Kansas September 2003 Rev November
2007 Rev & Addendum added September 2009
1863
William
endured another indignity beyond sickness as the muster records
show on December 31 that he had been overpaid from July 18 to
August 31. Evidently, he was not a 1st, but a 2nd Lieutenant still
and the muster record once again shows him a 2nd Lt. He would
later be granted his pension as 1st Lt effective January 11, 1863
even though further records will note he was promoted to 1st Lt
in March, 1863 and signed an oath of allegiance on June 11, 1863.
Reorganization
again! This time attached to the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 21st
Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. The army left on June 23 to
begin the Tullahoma Campaign in Middle Tennessee and would occupy
various places there until taking to the march once again on August
17, crossing the heights of the Cumberlands and the depths of
the Tennessee River in their search of the Confederates around
Chattanooga.
As mid-September
rolled around, the regiment found themselves headed for a head-on
collision with General James “Old Pete” Longstreet
at Chickamauga Creek. (8) They opened the fight and “contested
every inch of ground against overwhelming odds”. At the
end of the battle, the army began a month and a half siege of
Chattanooga culminating in the assault on Missionary Ridge on
November 25. (9) November ended and December began in
northern Georgia in such places as Orchard Knob, Ringgold, Tunnel
Hill, and then pursued the Confederates to Greysville. They continued
northeastward in relief of Knoxville and continued operations
in eastern Tennessee for remainder of the year spending Christmas
in the field for another year and three days later finding themselves
in Charleston, almost back to Chattanooga.
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