The National tribune., 1894-04-12
WHEN AND WHERE.
1t was on Monday, Sept. 22, 1863, near Mid
night, that Those Guns were Wrapped.

1t was on Monday, Sept. 22, 1863, near Mid
night, that Those Guns were Wrapped.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l would
say concerning the muffi ng of the wheels oil
and the position of Battery /, ID III. L. A.
at Rossville Gap, that the brigade to which
The battery belonged, composed Of the SD
Ohio, 65th, Seth and 125th Ill. and 22d Ind.
crossed over Lookout the night Of Sept. II,
en- ering Rossville about sunup. In the
afternoon, about o'clock, the infantry and
artillery were ordered to Ringgold, Ga, to
determine whether Longstreet had Joined
Bragg yet
We got out as far as South Chickamauga
Creek. Longstreet had just crossed over the
creek on bridge and had marched up on the
west side of the creek to join Bragg on the
right. We scooped in two doctors, an am
bulance, two musicians, and a darky. The
darby said that Longstreet had Just passed
over the bridge, and had gone up on the
same side Of the creek that we were on.
This was about shutdown of the 18th.
We were ordered into line-oEbattle to wait
an attack, and about o'clock ordered TO lie
down on our arms. We were up and in line
before day broke. Battery | was there. and
between daylight and sunrise our skirmish-
ers and the Confederates were firing at each
other. Longstreets Corps was about thou
sand yards away.
This was Saturday morning, the 18th.
Just then orders came from Gen Granger
tor Col. Dan. McCOOk to bring his brigade
back to Rossville again. Battery l was put
on the road, and we formed on each side of
the battery and double-quicked through the
woods for over mile. AS that was by
road, we struck the main road that leads
from Rossville to Gord0n's Mill Just in the
rear of Gen. TOmson's Corps. Battery /
went into position, and we marched on to
within quarter of mile Of Rossyille. and
were formed on picket up in the gap to pre-
vent the COnfederates from getting between
the army and Chattanooga
We were there all day Saturday, that
night, and all day during that hard-fought
battle of the Goth of September, and on
Sunday evening after the army had fallen
back toward Chattanooga.
We were ordered 10 drop back to the
mouth Of RossyilIe Gap about dusk. There
had been logs thrown up for breastworks.
Here is wbere Comrade J. Bond, I'd Ohio.
was, no doubt, when he claims the I'd Ohio
left Sunday night for Chattanooga. We
marched into the works running parallel
with Mission Ridge. The sid Ohio was on
the right of the gap on entering.
Sometime Monday morning one section
of Battery was placed on the top of the
high bluff TO the left of the gap. About 8
o'clock in the afternoon there was brigade
OF Confederates sent to take the guns, but
they did not take them. heard the COM
mander yelling, Take those guns!n but the
firing was so rapid they were swept from tn e
face of the earth. About o'clock in the
afternoon our regiment was about 1000
yards from those two guns; and about 8
o'clock at night on top Of that bluff was the
! time and place where the wheels were wrap
ped with blankets and the guns let down by
ropes TO the road leading from Rossville
| Gap to Chattanooga.
After the battery was safe on the road
| for Chattanooga the SD Ohio was ordered by
a whisper TO left face, and we marched down
the works on TO the road ia rear of Battery
| i, and away we went to Chattanooga
On Sept. % the Confederates took posses
sion of Mission Ridge.-IsAAo GATES, Cor
poral, Co. f, SD Ohio, Henderson,, o.