. . sAsa A. Gardner, of Company D, and Otho M. Shipley, of Com-*pany H, severely wounded, besides many excellent soldiers. Assailed in flank, we were compelled to change front to therear, the movement being executed under fire with almost thesame precision as upon the drill ground. Soon afterward, Lieu-tenant-colonel Whitbeck, commanding the Sixty-fifth, was solelywounded and was carried from the field. Major Brown succeededto the command. The rebels seemed to be all around us and itwas difficult to tell which was the front and which
. . sAsa A. Gardner, of Company D, and Otho M. Shipley, of Com-*pany H, severely wounded, besides many excellent soldiers. Assailed in flank, we were compelled to change front to therear, the movement being executed under fire with almost thesame precision as upon the drill ground. Soon afterward, Lieu-tenant-colonel Whitbeck, commanding the Sixty-fifth, was solelywounded and was carried from the field. Major Brown succeededto the command. The rebels seemed to be all around us and itwas difficult to tell which was the front and which the rear—infact it was front in two or three directions at the same time. Wewere again compelled to change position, and in doing so struckthe flank of a rebel regiment, from which the Sixty-fifth and ThirdKentucky swept off two hundred prisoners and sent them safelyto the rear. Harkers brigade, although its ranks were beingrapidly decimated, presented to the enemy an unyielding line,holding its own against all opposition. After being engaged for i863.] 421. CULL BRADLEYCAPTAIN, SIXTH BATTERY, 422 battle OF chickamauga. [September, about two hours the enemys fire ceased in our front and we werenot again attacked during the day. Fighting upon the extremeleft and also to our right continued until nightfall. During the action the Sixty-fourth was dispatched to fill agap in another division, caused by the giving way of a regiment—the Eighth Kansas. The gap had become so extended thatboth flanks were exposed, but the Sixty-fourth moved steadily for-ward, driving the enemy before it, until Colonel Mcllvaine ordereda halt, directing the men to lie down in the dense timber whichcovered the field. While the regiment was in this position it wasso far in advance of the Union line that a considerable body ofrebels came up in its rear. Forty or fifty of them, including halfa dozen officers, stumbled upon the Sixty fourth. Upon beingordered to surrender they did so and were sent to
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