Following by Sgt. Samuel Broughton 21st Il Co I : "At daybreak we were relieved by the second line and fell back into their position. We hardly got there when the Rebels attacked our first line, which gave way and in a few minutes came swarming back in disorder. Some of them rallied on us but most of them kept on. The Rebels came right at their heels, but we, together with the 15th Missouri, as brave a regiment as was ever mustered and a few from the 101st Ohio, who had rallied, checked the for some time"

This was December 30, 1862 the Battle of Stones River.