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George Martin
W. D. Hopkins, age 19, enlisted December 6,1861 at Camp Trousdale, in Company C, 45th Tennessee Infantry, died April 4, 1862 [Camp Trousdale was located in Pordland, Sumner County, Tennessee]
His regiment was reported in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on February 23, 1862. Thereafter we find his division under MGen. G. B. Crittenden, at Decatur, Alabama on March 15, Iuka, Mississippi on March 24 & 31, 1862, subsequently on March 31, MGen. Hardee relieved Crittenden, and his division came under the command of BGen Breckenridge, commanding the Reserve Corps.
The Reserve Corps, commanded by General Breckinridge, having moved on Friday morning [April 4th] at daylight from Burnsville [Miss.] in the rain, bivouacked that night, after a day's march of 23 miles, near Monterey, 6 miles from Cornith. On the next morning, shortly before daylight, after having been exposed to the rain during the night, the corps was moved up to near Mickey's house, where it became necessary to halt until the roads were cleared of the troops in front, which, occurring in the afternoon, enabled General Breckinridge to march on the neighborhood road to the right of Mickey's house to a point within 3 or 4 miles of Pittsburg Landing, where on Saturday night [5th] we again bivouacked.
[This information found in the OR, Ser. 1, V10, parts 1 & 2]
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The 45th was at Murfreesboro February 93[sic 23rd], 1862, where it was reported in Major General G. B. Crittenden's Division, Colonel W. S. Statham's Brigade, consisting of the 15th and 22nd Mississippi, 19th, 20th, 28th and 45th Tennessee Infantry Regiments, and Rutledge's Battery, with Lieutenant Colonel Lytle in command of the 45th. As part of Statham's Brigade, the regiment was in Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge's Corps at the Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, but no record of its activities was found. On May 26, it was reported at Corinth, Mississippi with the same units in the brigade.
http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csainf/csa45.html
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In early 1862 a new regiment was being formed in Murfreesboro. Hardy’s brother-in-law; James Lillard had enlisted in Company G, 45th Tennessee Infantry. The company was made up of men from Rutherford county. Hardy would join the 45th Tennessee on February 28, 1862. Maybe fate was kind to Hardy. The 18th Tennessee had been sent to help defend Ft. Donelson, which sat on the Cumberland River. The whole regiment had been captured, and sent north to Union prison camps. The 45th Regiment had not been properly trained or armed in late Febuary. Because of the Confederate defeat at Ft. Donelson, the regiment was quickly placed in Statham’s Tennessee Brigade. The brigade which consisted of the 19th, 20th, 28th, and 45th Tennessee Regiment’s, was sent to Corinth, Mississippi. A build-up of Confederate forces was taking place in order to repeal the Union invasion of West Tennessee.
http://busenbarkcivilwar.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/hardy-mb-greer-18th-45th-tennessee-inf/