HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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When the division reached Murfreesboro' and the commanding general had in mind to attempt the capture of the place, Chenoweth was ordered to charge with all the well-mounted and well-armed men of his regiment, and was promptly on the gallop with his gallant young bloods to ride at that strong garrison and as certainly "into the jaws of death " as did the Light Brigade at Balaklava; but Gen. Wheeler, ever alive and circumspect, quickly discovered the strength of the enemy's forces and position and recalled him.

Returning from this long raid, he was sent with the First Regiment and Kirkpatrick's Battalion to Harrison's Landing to guard the crossings of the Tennessee and do general outpost duty, where he remained until the battle of Mission Ridge ; then fought his command on flank and rear of Bragg's retreating army to Ringgold Gap and was aligned in front of Cleburne to receive the attack of Osterhaus's advance, as described in a previous part of this work.

At Tunnel Hill, January, 1864, when. Kilpatrick attacked the Kentucky Cavalry, the brigade and regimental commanders were absent; but Major Chenoweth took command, and though some confusion had resulted from the sudden Federal dash aud firing, he quickly had the brigade in fighting order, repulsed Kilpatrick, and drove him wounded back to Ringgold.

At one time during this winter, either from Tunnel Hill or Oxford, Ala., he led a detachment into McLemore's Cave and captured nearly a hundred deserters from the Confederate Army, who had rendezvoused there to effect some offensive or defensive organization, and turned them over to Gen. Johnston at Dalton.

On the campaign of 1864 he shared with his regiment all its dangers, hardships, and conflicts, until a few days before the army reached Atlanta. The splendid charge which he led at Snake Creek Gap, and its effect in retarding McPherson's advance on Johnston's communications, have been described. Col. Breckinridge, in an address at a reunion of Co. A, in 1S83, said, referring to this : " I saw the charge of Chenoweth with you and your comrades; the flank movement under cover was rapid, skillful, and quiet; the dash from cover handsome and brilliant."

In July, 1864, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ordered him to report to Col. Adam Johnson to aid in recruiting a brigade of cavalry. With about fifty men, the nucleus of a regiment, which he enlisted en route, he entered Kentucky and was soon afterward made colonel of one of the three regiments which they had succeeded in raising. His command was known as the Sixteenth Kentucky Cavalry. As the brigade retired from the State there was fighting at Grubb's Cross Roads (where Gen. Adam Johnson lost his eyes by a gunshot wound). At