. indicating the charac- 563 BATCHELLER GENEALOGY. ter and title to respect of Massachusetts troops at the hands of Western men. InJuly they were at Lexington, and afterwards at Camp Nelson, and started for EastTennessee Sept. 12, marching one hundred and eighty-five miles to II, a spirited engagement occurred at Blue Springs, when the Twenty-firstdrove the enemy from its position, and pursued it twenty-six miles, having marchedfifty-one miles to reach that point. From this time to the end of the year theirservice was
. indicating the charac- 563 BATCHELLER GENEALOGY. ter and title to respect of Massachusetts troops at the hands of Western men. InJuly they were at Lexington, and afterwards at Camp Nelson, and started for EastTennessee Sept. 12, marching one hundred and eighty-five miles to II, a spirited engagement occurred at Blue Springs, when the Twenty-firstdrove the enemy from its position, and pursued it twenty-six miles, having marchedfifty-one miles to reach that point. From this time to the end of the year theirservice was severe, and their conduct heroic. Thev are said to have marched andcountermarched through storm and cold without tents, and on half rations, poorlyclothed and badly shod, twenty men doing duty through November barefoot, andyet doing their duty cheerfully and with such alacrity as to have acquired thename of the Fighting Regiment. At the siege of Knoxville they did active duty,being one night picket and the next in the rifle-pits: and the 24th of November, in. MAJOR WAKIi BATCHE1 I IK company with another picked regiment, they made one of the most brilliantcharges of the siege, driving the enemy from the houses, the fences, and the rifle-pits in the neighborhood, and keeping up the work constantly till the siege wasraised the 5th of December; and though only able to have for their subsistence twoears of corn per day, yet following hard on the footsteps of the retreating enemy,into the woods of East Tennessee; and then, with the memory of what they hadpassed through, and realizing what was before them, half starved as they were,they crowned their service of two and a half years by further enlistment for threeyears. If any men ever deserved well of their country, surely such as these is worthy of note that all but thirty-six of the regiment, who were alive andpresent for duty, became veterans. In January, 1864, they came home on a fur-lough, and were honored with a
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