. History of Fourteenth Illinois cavalry and the brigades to which it belonged. a and Franklin pike, at or near Spring Hill, and to cutoff that portion of the enemy at or near Columbia. Again:The cavalry became engaged near Spring Hill about mid-day. With Hood marching rapidly with nearly hiswhole force on a road parallel to the Franklin pike, onwhich General Schofield was moving, and nearly abreastof Schofield, so near at least that the advance of his in-fantry joined with Chalmers division of cavalry in thebattle at Spring Hill, it is not difficult to,surmise whatwould have been the result h
. History of Fourteenth Illinois cavalry and the brigades to which it belonged. a and Franklin pike, at or near Spring Hill, and to cutoff that portion of the enemy at or near Columbia. Again:The cavalry became engaged near Spring Hill about mid-day. With Hood marching rapidly with nearly hiswhole force on a road parallel to the Franklin pike, onwhich General Schofield was moving, and nearly abreastof Schofield, so near at least that the advance of his in-fantry joined with Chalmers division of cavalry in thebattle at Spring Hill, it is not difficult to,surmise whatwould have been the result had Forrests whole force ofcavalry reached Spring Hill hours before, as they mighteasily have done had not our brigade held Bufords atbay at the crossing of Lewisburg pike, at the same timealso detaining Jacksons division in their vain attemptto capture our brigade. We will now give other proofsthat we fought these divisions at that point until the nightof the 28th. General Wilson, in his report (see page 145) says : Thecavalry (rebel) began crossing about noon at Davis ford,. LIEUTENANT WM. M. MOORECompany L, 14TH Illinois Cavalry FOURTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY. 277 near Hueys mill, but could not get over at Hardisonson the pike till Capron and Garrards brigades werestruck in flank and rear by the rebels at Rally Hill. Gen-eral Johnson (on page 598) says the same thing, and highlypraises the charge made by our brigade that night, whensurrounded at the post they had defended all day. ColonelCapron in his memoirs quotes from a history by GeneralCox as follows : General Cox in his history of the Nash-ville campaign (page 72) was led into some errors whendescribing the occurrences on Duck river. He says : TheNational cavalry were broken into smaller detachments,part of them well out toward Shelbyville (that was cor-rect). The nearest to the infantry being part of Capronsbrigade at Rally Hill on the Lewisburg pike, where abranch turnpike turns off to Spring Hill. Instead ofthis being t
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