To HQ Murfreesboro From GT Camp Dec 8 1864

              Hd. Qrs. 8th Regt. Minn. Vols. 

Fortress Rosencrans 

Dec. 8th, 1864 

Colonel, 

	In obedience to your orders I have the honor to report  
that my regiment was formed on the right of the brigade,  
the left resting on the Wilkinsons Pike, near Stone River by Lieut.  
Col. Rogers, from which point we advanced in line of battle on the right  
of said road, meeting with but little resistance the enemy retiring as we  
advanced in the center of a cotton field, where we found a large force  
of the enemy in front of our line, and we were exposed to a  
severe fire of the enemy in front, and upon the right of the regiment a  
flanking fire fore about twenty minutes, and until a charge was made by  
the whole line, when we advanced, driving the enemy from their  
cover, and pursuing them for upwards of half a mile. 


	Lieut. Col. Rogers having been wounded at the com- 
mencement of this charge, I assumed command and followed  
the enemy until they were completely routed, when finding that  
my regiment had become detached from the center and in ad- 
vance of it, I halted and reformed it, and moved by your  
order by the left flank until my left rested on the center,  
which had advanced on a line with the front of my regi- 
ment, which position I retained until withdrawn by your  
order.  During the charge companies “C” and “K” on my left,  
opened a severe fire upon the enemies battery in front  
of the center of our line of battle, killing the enemies horses,