Second Brigade - Third Division - Army of the Tennessee
Colonel John M. Thayer

This brigade consisted of Twenty-third Indiana, First Nebraska, Fifty-eighth Ohio, and Sixty-eighth Ohio was encamped at Stony Lonesome, 2 ½ miles from the Tennessee River, on the Purdy road. The Sixty-eighth Ohio was detailed to guard the baggage, the other regiments of the brigade followed the First Brigade in its march toward Shiloh April 6, 1862. It countermarched, from a point 4 ½ miles out, to the Adamsville and Pittsburg road, and thence via river road to the battlefield, where it arrived after dark and bivouacked, in line of battle, at the right of the First Brigade. Monday morning it formed en échelon in right rear of the First Brigade, the First Nebraska on the left, the Twenty-third Indiana on the right, and the First Brigade through the day and bivouacked at night in the camp of the Forty-sixth Ohio.

23rd Indiana - Colonel William L. Sanderson

1st Nebraska - Lieutenant Colonel William D. McCord

58th Ohio - Colonel Valentine Bausenwein

68th Ohio - Colonel Samuel H. Steadman