. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . iort. withall the force that could he sparedfrom the railroad, and advance -^ - ^^■■^ • way of Wliitesido to Wauhatchie in I kout ValKv; the l*irsi l)ivision ot the Kourth to march on the uortliside of the river to a point ojiposite Whitesi(Ks, »deven mileswest of Wauhatchie. there to i-ross and hold the Ioad passed<»vei hy Hooker, and in the meantime a forci undci- (ieneralSmiths direction to he thrown acr(»ss at J^rowns Kerry tosie/e the ranut <f hills
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . iort. withall the force that could he sparedfrom the railroad, and advance -^ - ^^■■^ • way of Wliitesido to Wauhatchie in I kout ValKv; the l*irsi l)ivision ot the Kourth to march on the uortliside of the river to a point ojiposite Whitesi(Ks, »deven mileswest of Wauhatchie. there to i-ross and hold the Ioad passed<»vei hy Hooker, and in the meantime a forci undci- (ieneralSmiths direction to he thrown acr(»ss at J^rowns Kerry tosie/e the ranut <f hills at the im)uth of Lrowns Kerry road. ()rders were issued and theplan executed successtully. (u-neial J looker crossed withtlie Kleventli Cori)s (two di\isions. ahout six thousand men)and pait of C4earys division ot the Twelfth (orps (ahoutfifteen humlred men), and on the c\-cnini:- f the ITth. 144 OPDYCKE TIGERS, reported Howards advance at Whitesides, the balance of theEleventh Corps on Rnnning Water Creek and Geary atShellmonnd, all ordered to march again at snnrise. Before sunset on the 28th Geary was at Wanhatchie andHoward to the left near Browns Ferry. General Smith liad carried out his part of the programbefore Hookers arrival. Tlie troops assigned to him wereHazens and Turcliins brigades of Woods division (4000men). Hazen was ordered to organize a force to float downin pontoons, distance nine miles by riverthree miles by land, and to eftect a land-ing at or near the ferry, when the remain-der of the force was to be rowed across andthe boats then used to lay a bridge. Tiierewere iifty-two pontoons, each carryinga crew of one corporal and four oarsmen,and a landing party of twenty four menand one officer, the entire force beingabout sixteen hundred men. They start-SERGT. JOHN WAEMAN, F. gj at 3 A. M. ou thc 27th, keeping close tothe right bank. Finding that the curren
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