Turchin's Brigade (Detachment)

On September 20, 1863, Turchin's Brigade, part of Reynolds' Division in Thomas' Corps, included the 92nd Ohio under Colonel Benjamin D. Fearing and Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Putnam, Jr., and the 18th Kentucky under Colonel Hubbard K. Milward. These two regiments marched with the brigade from Pond Spring about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of September 18 and, after moving all night, halted an hour for breakfast south of Cave Spring. The brigade was first ordered into position northeast of Widow Glenn's, but was immediately dispatched toward McDonalds. About 1 o'clock, while marching on the LaFayette Road toward the left of the lines, the 92nd Ohio and 18th Kentucky were detached by order of General Reynolds and turned at once to the right into the forest east of the road. After advancing about four hundred yards, the detachment became heavily engaged on the left of Hazen's Brigade and continued in action until about 3 p.m., when it was joined by the brigade's other regiments, the 36th and 11th Ohio, and the 21st Indiana Battery. Thereafter the brigade operated as a unit in Brock Field and in the charge from there against Law's Brigade of Hood's Division. The 92nd Ohio had four hundred in action, with five men killed and three officers and men wounded, and the 18th Kentucky had two hundred fifty in action, with four men killed, five officers and thirty men wounded, and twenty men missing.

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