. . y and Teniu protect the lines of communication. TheThird Division, under Gen-eral Mitchel ngagedin making things livelyalong the line of the Mem-phis and Charleston rail-road, between Decatur andChattanooga. Five divi-sions were mobilized for theadvance to the Tennesseeriver, viz: First, Thomas;Second, McCook; Fourth,Nelson; Fifth, Crittenden;Sixth, Wood. McCooktook the advance, breakingcamp on March 15th. Thedivisions of Nelson, Crit-tenden, Wood and Thomasfollowed in the order named,at intervals of one or twodays. It was consid
. . y and Teniu protect the lines of communication. TheThird Division, under Gen-eral Mitchel ngagedin making things livelyalong the line of the Mem-phis and Charleston rail-road, between Decatur andChattanooga. Five divi-sions were mobilized for theadvance to the Tennesseeriver, viz: First, Thomas;Second, McCook; Fourth,Nelson; Fifth, Crittenden;Sixth, Wood. McCooktook the advance, breakingcamp on March 15th. Thedivisions of Nelson, Crit-tenden, Wood and Thomasfollowed in the order named,at intervals of one or twodays. It was consideredthat there was no occasion for haste, and the movement was thus made that the road mightnot be encumbered by the troops, artillery and trains of the entirearmy marching in a solid column. Mad there been a little morespeed the result of the first days fight at Shiloh would in all prob-ability have been less disastrous to the Union army. The advance divisions were delayed several days near Colum-bia, the bridges across Rutherfords creek and Duck river having. JOHN C. MATTHIAS,CAPTAIN, SIXTY-FIFTH. i tB [March, been destroyed by the enemy. Pontons, which afterward provedaluable, had not then come into general use; nor had the sol-diers themsel ed the art of building bridges in a hurry,at which they b» luring the later years of the \\In C864 Duck river, though a pid stream, would have •areely to have caused a halt. The h: division to reach the stream would have thrown a bi md marched over it singing John Bro\^ almost by the time the rear regiment had sed up. :e we left Nashville the Thirteenth Michigan, ►nel Shoeinal igned to the Twentieth brigade, in of the Nineteenth Kentucky, which we had left stuck fast in the mud beyond Halls Gap. As our thoughts now recall, after more than thirty years, the fathomless mire of that awful nnot help wondei her the soldiers. fine- tfa Kentucky hav out yet Our own experience there I ground for at 1< isonable doubt. We had at this time
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