The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-01-16
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TAKEN AT BUzzARD'S ROOST
Instead Of Company o Of the 18th, II
Was Company D Of the 1t5th Who
Were Captured.

saw In the issue OF December IL
1912, a communication from Comrade
~ p. Julian. company ID. One Hundred
and Thirteenth Illinois, ST. Cloud, Fla
70 Mr.. Wash NJ. Ives. Fourth Florida
Lake City Fla. Instead of company ID
OF the One Hundred and Thirteenth II
was company ID of the One Hundred
and Fifteenth Illinois. commanded by
Captain Hymer. who we're all cap.
tured. / was one OF that regiment,
with headquarters at Tunnel Hill but
my company and company II we're 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 Fif-
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
ized 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. ]. Chas'
tlan OF Coffeeville. 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 1t 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 Resaca, which we did by
order OF General Sherman. The Sec
ond corps took up the march for
Snake Creek Gap, on the west side OF
Taylor's Ridge, TO hide their move
ments, and we're not noticed until they
had possession OF the gap. This move
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be cut off from railroad connections,
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 a num-
Der of prisoners, who had to be guard.
ed, and our regiment was detailed TO
do that work and patrol the town
The army there passed on to more
glorious fields. Rome, Good Hope
Church, Kenesaw mountain, Marietta,
Peach Tree creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy
station, etc.
All this while my regiment was at
Resaca (that 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 Adairville. 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
Funnel Hill to guard three block |
houses, one at Buzzard's Roost Gap, |
D, One Hundred and Fiji
.eenth, A and H, north four miles be-
.ween the hill and Ringgold. I be-
onged to company A. We stayed at
he blockhouse until after Hood had
captured Colonel Johnston and his col
,red troops at Dalton and company D
It the gap. Then, knowing we could
lot contend with him, we went to
to be sent back to the
,lockhouse the next day. Hood in the
Meantime had gone west across the
Mountains via Villanow to Gadsen,
Ala.