. The military annals of Tennessee. Confederate. First series: embracing a review of military operations, with regimental histories and memorial rolls. and facing a battery,supported by infantry and cavalry, aboutthree hundred yards distant. Here with about half the regiment we waited fororders (the fire being kepfup), when Tillman moved us by the left behinda high piece of ground near by, from whence he reconnoitered, and finding aheavy force, proceeded down the railroad three miles to the crossing of the NorthFork of the Obion, and disposed us for the protection of the bridge. Th
. The military annals of Tennessee. Confederate. First series: embracing a review of military operations, with regimental histories and memorial rolls. and facing a battery,supported by infantry and cavalry, aboutthree hundred yards distant. Here with about half the regiment we waited fororders (the fire being kepfup), when Tillman moved us by the left behinda high piece of ground near by, from whence he reconnoitered, and finding aheavy force, proceeded down the railroad three miles to the crossing of the NorthFork of the Obion, and disposed us for the protection of the bridge. They onlyfollowed us about a mile, and then returned to Hickman. This extraordinarysurprise was from the withdrawal of our pickets the night before, the result of analleged misunderstanding as to who was in command of the post fa cavalry regi-ment having been ordered there, and the seniority question arising). By transfers, resignations, casualties, and deaths in camp and on the field (thebattle of Shiioh having also in the meantime been fought), these regiments werenecessarily much reduced when consolidated; to which rniirht be added that clari-.
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