. . Markers; ide yielded no foot ofground. Its courage, mettleand endurance were indeiput to a crucial in the history ofwars have soldiers beencalled upon to meet anemergency more critical, toa danger more threaten-ing. The confidence feltby General Thomas in Colo-nel Marker and his brigade I not misplaced. Offi<and men vied with oneanother in their valor anddevotion. Conspicuous inan army of brave men, theirconduct challenged admira-tion, and elicited from Gen-eral Thomas the rich tributeof thanks and unstintedpraise.
. . Markers; ide yielded no foot ofground. Its courage, mettleand endurance were indeiput to a crucial in the history ofwars have soldiers beencalled upon to meet anemergency more critical, toa danger more threaten-ing. The confidence feltby General Thomas in Colo-nel Marker and his brigade I not misplaced. Offi<and men vied with oneanother in their valor anddevotion. Conspicuous inan army of brave men, theirconduct challenged admira-tion, and elicited from Gen-eral Thomas the rich tributeof thanks and unstintedpraise. No language can overstate, or magnify beyond its value,the service rendered by Harkers brigade during the closing hoursthat September fighting upon the slopes of Snodgrass hill was most des-perate and sanguinary. Again and again the Confederate com-mander hurled his gray masses against the hill, in vain attempts tocarry the position; as often they recoiled before the deadly firewhich swept their ranks. Forming his brigade in two lines,. t It JACOB BYERS,CHIEF BUGLER, SIXTY-FIFTH. 43° n*i*< OF chickamai. [September Colonel Harker adopted the excellent plan of firing by volley,each regiment in turn advancing to the crest, discharging its guns,and then falling back under cover of the hill, to load while anotherwas delivering its fire. Such volleys, in quick succession, aremuch more effective than a desultory fusillade in which each in-dividual fires at will. The very handsome manner in which thisvolley firing was maintained, each regiment in perfect order andaligned upon its colors, evoked from General Thomas and GeneralWood many expressions of the warmest commendation. No braver, cooler man ever faced the deadly blast of battlethan Colonel Emerson Opdycke, of the One Hundred andTwenty-fifth Ohio, of Harkers brigade. While the storm wasbeating with its fiercest fury upon Snodgrass hill, Colonel Op-dycke sat upon his horse, at the summit, sweeping the field withhis
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