. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . tlie crossing. Grose advancing atthe jsauie time drove the enemy from thel)ridge just below the railroad tiring aroused the Confederates, whopromptly tiled into tlieir WM)rks, and thehattle was on. Cruft found it impracticable to rei)airthe bridge under tlie heavy tire thrownup(^n it, and was ordered to go slow untilGeary came up. Osterhaus also foundthe crossing at his front impracticable,and was ordered to send Brig. R. Woods brigade under cove
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . tlie crossing. Grose advancing atthe jsauie time drove the enemy from thel)ridge just below the railroad tiring aroused the Confederates, whopromptly tiled into tlieir WM)rks, and thehattle was on. Cruft found it impracticable to rei)airthe bridge under tlie heavy tire thrownup(^n it, and was ordered to go slow untilGeary came up. Osterhaus also foundthe crossing at his front impracticable,and was ordered to send Brig. R. Woods brigade under cover of the hills and tim-ber to a point about half a mile higher up the creek, andthere prepare a crossing. By 11 oclock Woods had com-pleted his bridge. By that time Geaiy was near at hand, hisskirmishers smaitly engaged. Cruft had been ordered toleave two Iegiments to keep the enemy busy at the railwaybridge and send Grose with his remaining regiments tofollow Woods. Both Woods and Grose crossed and formedon Gearys left, and all moved on down the valley. By thistime the artillerv was at work also. Hooker luid two l)at-. ! iIi:.n. ( )>ii,i:hai >. J^.lTTLli OF /.OOKOC/MOCXJA/y. 59 toiies, hrloiiuiiiL;- to lln- l]lt\ flit li (orps—IJatti-rv I\. \>\Ohio, and Battery 1, 1>I New ■^()^k, The ()\\ liattcr\ wasl>lace(l on Jiald Hill,wliri-o it eiitiladcd the railway and thewagon road leadinu to Chattanooga. Thi New \\)vk l>at-tery was jilaeed iieaf hy. ()sterhatis |»hu-e(l tw) hatterywhore tiiey entihided a series (»t the enemys works and ritlepits. Ca}>tain (iritliths (1st Iowa) battery was j>osted nearwliere Woods crossed. All tlu l»atteries were in easy range,and Well posted to make the \alley andwestern slojies dangerons gronniL Thebatteries on Moeeasin Point also joinedin, doing \\A\ eoiisidering the distaiieeand ditlieidty of seeing. The enemysbatteries on the erest roared incessantly,but from inability to see their enemy didlittle damage. l>
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