The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-01-08
AROUND, /
CAMPO s,A
FIRE 4G&9A
TAKEN AT BUzzARD'S RoosT
Instead Of Company D Of the 18th, 1t
Was Company D of the 115th Who
Were Captured.

saw in the issue of December IL,
1912, a 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 ID
Of the One Hundred and Thirteenth 1t
was company D 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 H 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 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
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. ]. Chas-
tian 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 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 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 were not noticed until they
had possession Of the gap. This move
ment caused Johnston to fall back or
be cut off from railroad connections,
and if the Second corps Commanded
by Logan and McPherson) had taken
possession 1t 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-
ber 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 Chat point being for 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 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
Tunnel Hill to guard three block
houses, one at BuZzard's Roost Gap,
company D, One Hundred and Fif-
teenth, A and H, north four miles be-
tween the hill and Ringgold. l be-
longed to company A. We stayed at
the blockhouse until after Hood had
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.