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(3-95 VHS) 1995 Battlefield Tour Stop 8 (Struggle for the Round Forest, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Dec 31, 1862), west view across Nashville Pike. Site Marker: Hazen's Artillery. This section of guns represents Battery F. 1st Ohio Volunteer Artillery commanded by Lt. Norval Osburn (four James Rifles & two 12 pdr. howitzers). Along with Capt. Jerome B. Cox's 10th Indiana Battery (four 10 pdr. Parrotts and two 12 pdr. howitzers) located across the railroad tracks to the south, this battery was able to hold its ground, helping Col. Hazen maintain his position during this crucial afternoon of Dec. 31, 1862. The excellence of Union artillery saved the day for the Union army, by protecting the vital supply line on the Nashville Pike |
(3-95) 1995 Battlefield Tour Stop 8 (Struggle for the Round Forest, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Dec 31, 1862). Site Marker: Hazen Brigade Monument, One of the Oldest Civil War Memorials. Some of Hazen's men under Lieutenant B.K. Crabb__in, 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment built it of native Tennessee limestone. The graves of 56 soldiers of the brigade, killed here, partially surround the monument |
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(3-95) 1995 Battlefield Tour Stop 8 (Struggle for the Round Forest, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Dec 31, 1862). Hazen Brigade Monument. Large stone engraving: THE VETERANS OF SHILOH HAVE LEFT A DEATHLESS HERITAGE OF FAME UPON THE FIELD OF STONE RIVER. Other large engravings: THE BLOOD OF ONE THIRD ITS SOLDIERS TWICE SPILLED IN TENNESSEE CRIMSONS THE BATTLE FLAG OF THE BRIGADE AND INSPIRES TO GREATER DEEDS: ERECTED 1863 UPON THE GROUND WHERE THEY FELL. Smaller engravings are around the base but are to small to read from the photos |
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1995 Battlefield Tour Stop 9 (Breckinridge's Attack 4 p.m. - 6 p.m., Jan 2,
1863), west view across rise above McFadden's Ford. 1995 Tour Guide: As
Union soldiers crouched here behind breastworks of stone and rail, a
battered advance division fled back across the river pursued by Gen. John C.
Breckinridge's hard-driving Confederate brigades. Union batteries firing
from the rise above McFadden's Ford halted Breckinridge's pursuit with shot,
shell, and canister. Some 1,800 Confederates were killed or wounded in less
than an hour in this final action of the battle |
