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

1864

January the first not only brought in a new year but also, you guessed it, reorganization. This time the regiment was attached to the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. The new year arrived, a reorganization was performed, but the army didn’t change much in the way of location. They continued to operate in eastern Tennessee until the end of April. But things weren’t the same for William. He was ordered by Lt Col Granville Frambes from Company A to Company F on April 12 to take temporary command and stayed there the rest of April and through May when he was returned to Company A on June 1.

Lt. Colonel Granville Frambes

On May 1st a new charge was given-join General Sherman in his movement into the heart of Georgia. (10) The regiment participated in that campaign through September although not continuing all the way to the sea. They were used to demonstrate at Rocky Face and Dalton in support and then participated in the battle of Resaca on May 14 and 15. As May progressed they passed through Adairsville, Kingston, Cassville and, by the 22nd were advancing on Dallas. The end of May was busy with operations at Pumpkin Vine Creek and the battles of Dallas, New Hope Church, Allatoona Hills, and Pickett’s Mills. All through this, William was commanding Company F.

(8) Chain of command: 59th-LTC Granville A Frambles; 2nd Bgde Col Geo F Dick; 3rd Div BG Horatio P Van Cleve; 21st Army Corps-MG Thos L Crittendon; MG Wm S Rosecrans-Army of the Cumberland. Source: Union Order of Battle, Official Record.

(9) Chain of command: 59th-LTC Granville A Frambes; 2nd Bgde Col Geo F Dick; 3rd Div BG Horatio P Van Cleve; 21st Army Corps-MG Thos L Crittendon; MG Wm S Rosecrans-Army of the Cumberland. Source: Union Order of Battle, Official Record. Soon after this battle (Chickamauga) the Twentieth and the Twenty-first Corps were consolidated, forming the Fourth Corps.

(10) Chain of Command: 59th-LTC Granville A. Frambes (Capt Chas A Sheafe, Capt John L. Watson, Capt Robt H Higgins), 3rd Bgde-BG Samuel Beatty, 3rd Div-BG Thos J. Wood, 4th Army Corps-MG Oliver O Howard, Army of the Cumberland-MG Geo H Thomas, MG Wm T Sherman, commanding. Source: Union Order of Battle, Official Record.

Returned back to Company A, William continued on with the regiment through June in various battles and skirmishes in operations at Marietta and Kennesaw Mountain, Pine Hill, Lost Mountain and finally assaulting Kennesaw Mountain on the 27th. Hot July and August in Georgia came but the war didn’t stop for it. The regiment started July at Ruff’s Station, battled at the Chattahoochie and Peach Tree Creek and ended up in mid-August at the siege of Atlanta. On the 25th they were sent south to flank Jonesboro (11) and by the 31st were engaged in battle there which continued through the 1st.

As September began, the plans to muster out the regiment also began. Remembering that these men were only signed up for a three year hitch, Captain Higgins made a request to the regimental headquarters set up in Atlanta that Lt. Bartlow be allowed to go to Bridgeport to transport the desks and papers from there so the regiment could get their papers in order before the mustering-out due to complete by the end of October. Also in preparation for that, the unit became unattached to any other unit and was sent north to Tullahoma Tennessee to defend the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad in the Department of the Cumberland. On the 24th the unit was attached to the 23rd Army Corps and ordered on to Nashville where the unit ceased to exist for all practical purpose as they were mustered out on the 31st.

William, however, continued on and was transferred to Company I along with a request to be paid for his temporary extra duty with Company F. Evidently pay was not quick in coming as requests for the extra pay were included on muster rolls all the way to June 1865. The stresses of camp life again took their toll as the pneumonia and attending discomforts reared their ugly head that fall also while in Tullahoma causing “a gathering in the head which permanently obstructed his breathing” and brought him a full disability but not until much later in life and after repeated requests.

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