. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ay. Captain Powell gives nodetails of the engagement on Saturday,but states that we took about seventyprisoners, among them a major. Thatwas probably Major Davis, of the 17thTennessee. Colonel Opdycke says : At 1 p. were rapidly moved to the scene of conflict. Our attackwas made with the 3rd Kentucky on our left and the 64thOhio on our right. The enemy seemed somewhat surprisedat our appearance, and after a sharp encounter, in which Ilost the lirst sergeant of Compa
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ay. Captain Powell gives nodetails of the engagement on Saturday,but states that we took about seventyprisoners, among them a major. Thatwas probably Major Davis, of the 17thTennessee. Colonel Opdycke says : At 1 p. were rapidly moved to the scene of conflict. Our attackwas made with the 3rd Kentucky on our left and the 64thOhio on our right. The enemy seemed somewhat surprisedat our appearance, and after a sharp encounter, in which Ilost the lirst sergeant of Company A, killed, and eleven menwounded, he disappeared from view, leaving nine prisoners,one an officer, in our hands. The growth of small timberwas so dense we could see but a few rods in any then received word from Colonel Harker by an aide toassume command of the 64th Ohio, and with it and my ownregiment to disperse any enemy we might lind. We werethen on the right of the road u[»on which we came fromGordons Mill. Firing upon us soon commenced upon ourfront, right and rear. 1 immediately ordered scouts and. BrsHROD R. Johnson,Major Gtueral, C. S. A. ciiiL•/<. /.I/. /1 i;.\—rii<sr skiiinislicrs out to ilcvclii our siirrouiidinus. Ilicir (lc|i|i>\-iiifiil liatl linrdly (•()iiitiiciiccil wlicn I received (inler- to luiiiii-tilt two reiiiiiieiit> out and join tlie lniu-ade, \\lii<-li was donewithout serious iiitiTiiiptittn. It is «|uiti apiiaidit tliat ueit lier (oloiiel I laiker nor any(d liis rc<i-inuntal coiiiinindiTs. at tin- date (d their re|ioits,suspectid that the liiiuadr had Keen tiuhtinii- within theenemys lines, or the urtat inijiortanee of the sei-\ ice leii-defctli ()hio<U;5rd \\v\\-tu(d<y. The re|ioit ot(olonel Floyd, of the 17th Tennessci,in which he says that he saw two of our rcii-imeiits still in t heroad wh
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