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 518 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY SECOND BATTERY LIGHT ARTILERY. The 2d Battery of Light Artillery was organized in December, 1861. Ordered to St. Louis. Mo., April, 1862, thence to Corinth. May. 1862. Participated in the following inarches, battles, sieges and skirmishes: Siege of Corinth. April. 1862; Bragg's raid. Assigned to Army of the Tennessee. Battle of Perryville, October 8 and 9, 1862; Lancaster. October 12. 1862; Knob Gap. December 20, 1862; Stone River. December 30, 1862; Tullahoma. Marched to Rome. Ga.. via Stephenson. Ala.. Caperton's Ferry and Look- out .Mountain: Chiekamauga. September 19 and 20, 1863; Mission Ridge; Ringgold, Ga. Marched to relief of Knoxville, December 15 and 16. 1864. Mustered out July 13, 1865; discharged at Fort Snelling. Goodhue county had three soldiers in the 2d Battery. COLONEL HUBBARD S BRAVERY. Two instances of remarkable bravery evinced by soldiers from this county have become a part of our national history. The first was at the battle of Corinth, in Oct.. her. 1862. The report says thai the "5th Minnesota closed the gap which saved the day at Corinth." The 5th Minnesota was at that time under tlie leadership of Col '1 L. K. Hubbard, of this county. General Stanley, who commanded the division to which this regiment was attached, accords the above credit to it on the Held of battle. The following extract from a Letter from General Rose- crans 1ells how the ad was accomplished: '•Colonel Mower had ordered the 5th Minnesota to guard the bridge across the Ruscumbia. when with the remainder of the brigade he went to help Davies. Late in the evening Colonel Hubbard broughl up his regimenl and formed facing westward on the .Mobile & Ohio railway, with its left near the depot, -where they bivouacked for the night. On the next morning, when the enemy from the north assaulted our line and forced it back a few hundred yards into the edge of the town. Colonel Hubbard, moving by his right Hank, faced the coming storm from that quarter, and by his promptitude anticipated General Stanley's order from me to use the reserves of his division in meeting the enemy's charge. He drove back the fragments of his columns, overtaking and bringing back some pieces, without horses, of our reserve artillery, which the enemy had seized, and cover- ing the retiring of a battery which had gone too far to the front. Veterans could hardly have acted more opportunely and effectively than did the gallant 5th Minnesota on that occa- sion. — W. S. Rosecrans."