. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . ory, which in the end is but hoping againsthope. We remained here during the day. Our trainwas parked in a Held and aboutnoon our Regiment was or-dered to reeonnoiter in searchof cavalry which were re-ported near ns. We went to the front amile or so and rinding noenemy, returned and remainedtill morning. We moved somedistance the 30th, and wentinto camp at night. We madeour beds, put down ourblankets and expected to get agood nights sleep. Soon Avewere aroused
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . ory, which in the end is but hoping againsthope. We remained here during the day. Our trainwas parked in a Held and aboutnoon our Regiment was or-dered to reeonnoiter in searchof cavalry which were re-ported near ns. We went to the front amile or so and rinding noenemy, returned and remainedtill morning. We moved somedistance the 30th, and wentinto camp at night. We madeour beds, put down ourblankets and expected to get agood nights sleep. Soon Avewere aroused and ordered topack up and fall in. In the whole category of wordsthere are none that are so full of meaning to soldiers asthose two little words, fall in. He hears them in hissleep and day dreams. They always convey to themind some anxiety or fear. Yet the old Thirty-seventhnever in all her three years failed to respond promptlywhen that command was given it. About noon of the31st our train preceded the Regiment. Owing to thebad condition of the roads, we had orders to repair itfrom place to place as it might need it. During our. Joseph Vandolah. Co. Mo. 12S HISTORY K THE THIRTY-SEVENTH march that day we passed our corps headquarters. Thesound of cannon on our right that afternoon told ofHoods last stand at Atlanta. Despite the fact thatSherman was moving with five corps against his onlyline of communication, and with crushing weight writ-ing the last chapter of the history of the Atlanta cam-paign, it seems that it never occurred to him to give city without a struggle and the shedding of is creditable to the Union soldiers that everywhereand on every occasion from Tunnel hill to Love JoysStation they met a foe worthy of their steel and honoredprogenitors. Those Southern soldiers did tight. It seems that this flank movement had deceivedGen. Hood. He thought that Sherman had fallen backtoward his base of supplies. He telegraphed that state-ment to the
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