Hazen's Brigade Monument

Hazen's Brigade monument honors the memory of its soldiers who fell at Stone River on December 31, 1862, and recalls veterans of Shiloh who left a deathless heritage of fame there. It declares that the blood of one third of the brigade's soldiers, twice spilled in Tennessee, crimsoned the brigade's battle flag and inspired greater deeds, with Chickamauga and Chattanooga also inscribed at the close of the war. Those named as killed at Stones River on December 31, 1862, are Lt. Col. Geo. T. Cotton of the 6th Kentucky Volunteers, Capt. Chas. S. Todd of the 6th Kentucky Volunteers, Capt. Isaac M. Pettit of the 9th Indiana Volunteers, 1st Lt. Calvin Mart of the 41st Ohio Volunteers, 1st Lt. L.T. Patchin of the 41st Ohio Volunteers, 2nd Lt. Henry Kessler of the 9th Indiana Volunteers, and 2nd Lt. Jesse G. Payne of the 110th Illinois Volunteers. Those named as killed at Shiloh on April 7, 1862, are Capt. James Houghton of the 9th Indiana Volunteers, 1st Lt. and Adj. T.J. Patton of the 9th Indiana Volunteers, 1st Lt. Joseph Turner of the 9th Indiana Volunteers, 1st Lt. Franklin E. Pancoast of the 41st Ohio Volunteers, 2nd Lt. Chauncey E. Talcott of the 41st Ohio Volunteers, and 2nd Lt. Anton Hand of the 6th Kentucky Volunteers. The monument was erected in 1863 upon the ground where they fell by their comrades of the Forty First Infantry Ohio Volunteers under Lt. Col. A. Wiley, the Sixth Infantry Kentucky Volunteers under Col. W.C. Whitaker, the Ninth Infantry Indiana Volunteers under Col. W.H. Blake, the One Hundred and Tenth Infantry Illinois Volunteers under Col. T.S. Casey, and Cockerill's Battery, Company F, First Artillery Ohio Volunteers, all of the Nineteenth Brigade, Buell's Army of the Ohio, commanded by Col. W.B. Hazen of the 41st Ohio Volunteers.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee · United States