. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . crossed theEtowah several miles east ot Kings-ton and was posted on AllatoonaHills. Sherman regarded a directadvance impracticable, and resolved to turn the position bymarching southward twenty-live miles to Dallas, tlienee easttwenty miles to Marietta, or to any other point on the rail-road he mioht be able to reach. The movement l)egan 014May 23. McPherson moved on the road to Van Wert,crossed the Etowah at Wooleys bridge, camping at night onEuharlee Creek. Thomas comm
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . crossed theEtowah several miles east ot Kings-ton and was posted on AllatoonaHills. Sherman regarded a directadvance impracticable, and resolved to turn the position bymarching southward twenty-live miles to Dallas, tlienee easttwenty miles to Marietta, or to any other point on the rail-road he mioht be able to reach. The movement l)egan 014May 23. McPherson moved on the road to Van Wert,crossed the Etowah at Wooleys bridge, camping at night onEuharlee Creek. Thomas command advanced on Dallasby Euliarlee and Stilesboro. Hookers corps had the ad-vance, and moved at daylight, followed by Howards corpsat noon, and that by two divisions of Palmers corps. Hookercrossed on pontoons above Milams bridge, Howard, followedby Palmer, crossed at Gillems Bridge, all advancing to. James ISI. Reynolds, U (J880). .\7-:ir //()//■: (//cac//. 25« Mnliarkc Crirk, oiir division, the l:i>t in tlir li>iiitli ((>i|».iToiuii into ciinij) ;it 11 i. m. Sdiotifld tnllnwcd \l(( (loks caxidrv, in iKhantc of lldoker, skinnislicd withtlic rniniy t<» Stileshoio, wlicit Mt-Cooks :id\-:iiicc wasilittktd. Stonenians cavali\ covered the Idt and rear. A .TXi~r
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