Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
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Instead CT Company . of the 18th, If
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Were Captured.

saw in the issue Of December j.
1912. communication from Comrade
n. P. Julian. company D, One Hundred
and Thirteenth Illinois, ST Cloud. Fla.
to Mr.. Wash NJ Ives, Fourth Florida
Lake City, Fla. instead of company Il
Of the One Hundred and Thirteenth il
was company ID of the One Hundred
and Fifteenth Illinois. commanded by
| Captain Hymer, who were all cap
tured. | WAS one of that regiment
| with headquarters at Tunnel Hill, but
my company and company II were sta
| toned north of Tunnel Hill at the
| two blockhouses located at bridges AT
| the crossing OF East Chickamauga
| creek.
| We could plainly hear the cannon
| aiding at Buzzard's Roost Gap block
house. The One Hundred and Fiji,
teenth belonged to the Fourth corps,
and was commanded by Gordon Grang-
| er until after the battle Of Chickamau,
ga. After that our corps was organ
lied and put under the command OF
General Howard who was in com,
mand OF the corps until the advance
! on Atlanta in May, writes T. j. Chas-
tan of Coffeeyille, Kan, in the Nation
| al Tribune
We moved out of our quarters at
Blue Springs, Tenn, to Red Clay, on
the cutoff between Cleveland and
| Dalton, and halted to get together
| from there. When all was ready we
! moved on to Tunnel Hill on the west
| side of BuzZard Roost mountain, and
! there at Tunnel Hill we struck For
| rests cavalry. but they did us no harm.
but we could not get through the
| gap, as it had been strongly fortified.
After trying to carry the place by
| storm and failing to do SO, we con-
| cluded to try to flank Johnston by
| moving on Rasaca, which We did by
order of General Sherman The Sec.
ond corps took up the march for
| Snake Creek Gap, on the west side CT
| Taylor's Ridge, to hide their move
ments, and were not noticed until they
had possession of the gap. This move
ment caused Johnston to fall back or
| and if the Second corps commanded
by Logan and MCPHERSON had taken
possession it would have been a hot
time in the old town for Johnston.
But he took the hint and moved out.
In the move we captured quite NUM-
Der of prisoners, who had to be guard
ed, and our regiment was detailed to
do that work and patrol tie town.
The army there passed on to mora
glorious fields, Rome, Good Hope
Church, Kenesaw mountain, Marietta,
Peach Tree creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy
station, etc.
All this while my regiment was at
Resaca Chat point being for a long
time our base of supplies), doing
guard duty, to our extreme disgust.
No demonstration was made to follow
the army farther After everything
in the commissary line had been
moved forward we were ordered south
to Adairville, where we stayed a few
days, then back to Resaca, then back
to AdairYille. There we stayed until
the last train going north came along,
and we got on and went back to Re
SAGA again. At this time Hood had
made his famous left flank movement
on Sherman's army and was coming
north.
About this time we were ordered to
Tunnel Hill to guard three block
houses, one at BuZzard's Roost Gap,
company D, One Hundred and Eff
teenth, A and FL. north four miles be-
tween the hill and Ringgold. ! be
longed to company A. We stayed al
the blockhOuse until after Hood haG
captured Colonel Johnston and his col
ored troops at Dalton and company D
at the gap. Then, knowing We could
not contend with him, we went to
Chattanooga. to be sent back to the
blockhouse the next day. Hood in the
meantime had gone west across the
mountains via Villanow to Gadsen,
Ala.