. . ing on theirnorthward way. The non-trans of the Sixty-fourthwere temporarily attachedto the Sixty-fifth, forminga company commanded byLieutenant Hinman. On the 15th of Jan-uary the brigade took itsdeparture from BlainesCros We Left it as gladly as, two years before, bade farewell to Halls Cap -we did not believewe could find a morewretched place. We pas Strawberry Plains — still barren of strawberries — crossed tin- Holston river, and during that day and the next marched twenty- five miles farther to Dan- dridge, on the French Br
. . ing on theirnorthward way. The non-trans of the Sixty-fourthwere temporarily attachedto the Sixty-fifth, forminga company commanded byLieutenant Hinman. On the 15th of Jan-uary the brigade took itsdeparture from BlainesCros We Left it as gladly as, two years before, bade farewell to Halls Cap -we did not believewe could find a morewretched place. We pas Strawberry Plains — still barren of strawberries — crossed tin- Holston river, and during that day and the next marched twenty- five miles farther to Dan- dridge, on the French Broad river. Here we found Woods division in camp. On the 17th there was a spirited attack by a considerable rebel force. We did not get fairly into the fight, but that was not our fault. The brunt fell upon the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio, which lost its adjutant and four men killed and a dozen or more wounded. We were ordered to establish a camp, but we had scarcely begun when we marched away to a ford of the French Broad, and built a bridge by means. DUNCAN THOM PS( >N,SERGEANT, ( OMPAN* G, wuunded at Rocky FaceRidge, May oth, 1 48S sixTv-FTrru dra hi-k in. [January, of wagons placed in the water at intervals, connected by bivouacked upon a large island in the stream, but at ten oclock that night we were routed out, recrossed the river and headedonce more for Strawberry Plains. All night the column swept on,scarcely halting till daylight. Nobody could imagine the pur-of all this playing hide and seek, and probably no onehas ever found out to this day. So far as can l>e judged it wase, rumors having be for some days that Longstreet had been re-in forced andhad turned to inflict con-dign punishment upon usfor having forced him toforego the pleasure of tak-ing Knoxville. Asa mat-ter of fact, Longstreetmaking his way back toVirginia, and the rebelforce which made itself soconspicuous at Dandiiwas nothing but a smallbody of cavalry.
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