HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT.
O. V. INF.,
CAMP NO. 6 IN THE FIELD,
MISSISSIPPI, May 15,
1862.
We are still advancing, counter-skirmishing, and the din of
cannonading is by day and night. We are close to Corinth. A great and decisive
battle must soon be fought. We have been brigaded a second time. My regiment is
now under command of Brigadier-General Morgan L. Smith, and consists of four
regiments, the 55th Illinois, Colonel Stuart; the 57th Ohio, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Rice, the Colonel being absent on sick leave; the 8th
Missouri, and the 54th Ohio. I still preserve my position on the left flank,
which gives me my position on the extreme left of the brigade, and as we march
by the left flank, the advance of the army, which is a post of honor. The
integrity and courage of my command is undoubted, and therefore the responsible
trust. My address will now be 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, First Brigade,
Fifth Division, Major-General Sherman commanding.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 204
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