. . ng the river,about noon, the rebels tookshelter behind the strongworks which had beenbuilt in anticipation of theretreat. General Stonenianordered the artillery to thefront, and during the after-noon shells were liberallydistributed along the ene-mys line. The fire wasreturned by batteries on theConfederate side, and wasso annoying that the peo-ple at headquarters found itconvenient to change theirlocation to get out of was fighting all dayon the 6th, but the 7th va day of quiet. For a weekthe members of the Squad-ron
. . ng the river,about noon, the rebels tookshelter behind the strongworks which had beenbuilt in anticipation of theretreat. General Stonenianordered the artillery to thefront, and during the after-noon shells were liberallydistributed along the ene-mys line. The fire wasreturned by batteries on theConfederate side, and wasso annoying that the peo-ple at headquarters found itconvenient to change theirlocation to get out of was fighting all dayon the 6th, but the 7th va day of quiet. For a weekthe members of the Squad-ron had been in the saddlea large part of the time,night and day, and all were glad of a chance to rest. On the 8th the brigade marched back to the Sweetwater,where it remained three days. At dawn on the nth it was offagain and at noon reached the Chattahoochee river at Campbell-ton. The rebels were in position on the other side, and the restof the day was spent in blazing away at them, with the noisyassistance of a battery. The firing was resumed in the morning,. laiNJAMIN B. LAKE,FIRST LIEUTENANT, COMPANY H, mlaugh lins squadron. 888 BEATING THE BUSH. [July, hut at ten oclock the brigade w red to proceed down UK- river. It marched till dark, bivouacking on Dog creek. ^Sextday the Ontinued a few miles farther down the n. drove tli from Moores bridge and took possession. A • of men to work to repair it, but the labor was in vain, for the next morning the enemy, reinforced by infantry andartillery, opened so hot a fire that the Union troops were forced tolet go of the bridge. Before leaving, however, they applied thetorch and it was destroyed. The next two or three days and nights were spent in marchiug and countermarching, scouting and skirmishing. Nobodycould tell where or for what purpose they were going or whatthey were trying to do. Both men and horses were excessivelyfatigued from almost constant duty, with very short rations of length, on July 17th, the brigade br
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