General A. P. Stewart's Division
Monument at Beech Grove, Tennessee
(Front):General A.P. Stewart
Stewart's Division
2nd Army Corps
(Hardee)
Army of Tennessee
CSA
Dedicated 24th Day of April 2010
By Benjamin F. Cheatham Camp 72
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Manchester, Tennessee
(Reverse):Battle of Hoover's Gap
June 24 - 26, 1863
Stewart's Division
Bates' Brigade
4th Ga. Inf. Bn SS. - 15th Tenn. Inf. Reg't.
37th Ga. Inf. Reg't. - 20th Tenn. Inf. Reg't.
2nd 9th Ala. Inf. Btn. - Ala. Eufala Art'y. Btry.
Brown's Brigade
14th Ga. Btn. Light Art'y.
Johnson's Brigade17th Tenn. Inf. Reg't. - 37th Tenn. Inf. Reg't.
23rd Tenn. Inf. Reg't. - 44th (Cons) Tenn. Inf. Reg't.
25th Tenn. Inf. Reg't. - Miss. Pettus' Flying Art'y Btry.
Frank Maney's Tenn. Lt. Art'y.
No faint of hearts existed in the brave soldiers of Stewart's Division as they marched double-quick the five miles from their camp at Fairfield in the rain on the afternoon of Friday, June 24, 1863 to make three frontal assaults against the entrenched invading Union forces of John Wilder's Mounted Infantry and Eli Lilly's 18th Indiana Artillery. Confederates for the first time ever in the war faced the new 7-shot Spencers in the hands of Wilder's two thousand mounted infantry and Eli Lilly's six 3-inch rifles and four mountain howitzers. The rifle fire and 350 double-shot canister rounds barely prevented Confederate forces from overrunning Union positions. Darkness ended the fighting. --- Deo Vindice
Marker can be reached from Confederate Cemetery Road 0.1 miles south of Old U.S. Highway 41.
Courtesy hmdb.org
