Van Derveer's Brigade at Chickamauga

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Excerpt from Van Derveer's Brigade at Chickamauga: Paper Read Before Minnesota Commandery of Loyal Legion U. S., May 12, 1903 During the period covered by this narrative, the following infantry regiments, viz., the 9th Ohio, (Col. Gustave Kammerling), the 35th Ohio, (Lt. Col. H. V. Boynton). the 87th Indiana, (Col. Newell Gleason), and the 2nd Minnesota, (Col. James George), and Battery "I, " 4th U. S. Artillery, commanded by Lt. Frank G. Smith, constituted the Third Brigade of Third Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. The Army was commanded by Major General W. S. Rosecrans, the Corps by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, the Division by Brig. Gen. J. M. Brannan, and the Brigade by Col. Ferdinand Van Derveer, of the 35th Ohio, and was called and known as "Van Derveer's Brigade." On the 16th day of August, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland, at and near Tullahoma, Tennessee, commenced the campaign for the capture and possession of Chattanooga, involving the expulsion therefrom, and the defeat in battle, if possible, of the Confederate Army under Gen. Bragg, then occupying that city and the country about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.