GENERAL ORDERS No. 12

GENERAL ORDERS No. 12
HDQRS. TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Lexington, KY., July 17, 1863

The general commanding the corps hereby extends his thanks to the 200 officers and soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Michigan Regiment, under Col. O. H. Moore, who so successfully resisted, by their gallantry and heroic bravery, the attack of a vastly superior force of the enemy, under the rebel General John Morgan, at Tebb’s Bend, on Green River, on the 4th of July, 1863, in which they killed one-fourth as many of the enemy as their own little band amounted to, and wounded a number equal to their own.

The general also desires to commend, in the warmest terms, the officers and soldiers of the Twentieth Kentucky Regiment, under Lieut. Col. C. S. Hanson, who, at Lebanon, Ky., for six hours sustained a most unequal contest with the same force, only yielding when entirely surrounded, and the town was being burned over their heads, further resistance being impossible.

By command of Major-General Hartsuff:

George B. Drake,
Assistant Adjutant-General.[i]

ENDNOTES
[i] “Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,” Part I –Reports, pages 768-769.