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FORTY-THREE YEARS AGOA Number of Our Citizens Were Fighting at Stone’s River.From Saturday's Daily.Forty-three years ago today a number of residents of Shelby county were engaged in that desperate death-struggle at Stone’s River. On December 30th, 1862, two regiments of Union troops, one of them being the Fifty-first Indiana, crossed theriver and ascended the hill on the opposite side. Late that night the Federal forces were driven back.The attack was resumed on the next day and again on the first of January. Time after time did therebels charge from the cedars andwith all the dash of the Southern soldier make the attempt to rout the sturdy Northern troops. At times victory seemed certain foj the men in gray. Not until the second of January did the Union forces drive back the Confederates, and swung their triumphant columns into Murpheesboro.The battle of Stone’s River was the first fought after Lincoln’s proclamation freeing the slaves took effect. Among the Shelby county men in this conflict were J. K. Bowers, W. T. Wicker, George W. Ferris, Martin T. Williams, George W. How-ery, Edward Small, A. J. Ensminger, I N. Justus, Martin Cherry, James M. Linville, J. K. Henry, Anderson Talbert, Joseph V. Poer, Marion Campbell, Benjamin Sampson, James P. Rowe, Jasper Ritchey, John Hogan and Jacob Knopp.It was during the terrific cannonading on the thirty-first that a cannon ball, grazing the body of General Rosecrans, the Union commander, carried off the head of General Gars he, the chief of staff. The reunion of the survivors of this battle will be held at TndlanapbTis on January , 2, and a number of Shelby county citizens will attend.
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Shelbyville Shelby Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 04, 1906
Page 3
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