. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . UNIONCONFEDERATE Haiti, hf point of the bayonet, and to cut off the knai)sacks. These orders wereobeyed rigidly, and probably less than twenty men escaped our vigilanceand were captured. I am sure that we saved five hundred men from cap-ture by these severe measures. The enemy continued to annoy our rearall the time, and at 11 a. m. we reached Stevens hill, overlooking Franklin,took position on it, and remained there an hour and a half. General Wag-ner
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . UNIONCONFEDERATE Haiti, hf point of the bayonet, and to cut off the knai)sacks. These orders wereobeyed rigidly, and probably less than twenty men escaped our vigilanceand were captured. I am sure that we saved five hundred men from cap-ture by these severe measures. The enemy continued to annoy our rearall the time, and at 11 a. m. we reached Stevens hill, overlooking Franklin,took position on it, and remained there an hour and a half. General Wag-ner then ordered me oft, and as my rear was clearing the hill, was orderedback there. Wlien I reached the toj) of the hill I at once discovered heavy 2>Z^ OPDYCKE TIGERS,. and parallel columns of infantry approaching rapidly. I was ordered oflagain after sending a number of shell and solid shot at the advancingenemy. At about 2:1)0 p. m. the brigade was massed about 200 yards to theIear of Carters house, and on the right of Columbia pike, the main line ofdefense crossed this pike just in front of Cs. house. The stragglers with overloadedknapsacks mentioned by Opdjckewere new recruits and members ofnew regiments that joined at Colum-l»ia. They had not 3^et learned fromexperience the folly of carrying extraclothing or other articles not essen-tial to existence, and it is not surpris-ing that many of them, exhausted byseveral days of hard w^ork in trenches,marching, and loss of sleep, foundGEOK,,,:MMn.,.,K. i;>is,io,. ^y^^ ^^^^^ strctch froui Columbia to Franklin difficult to make. The order of march of tlie tirst brigade was in two lines•of battle, the lirst line consistino- of the 44th and 73rd Illinois,the second of the 125th Ohio, 24th Wisconsin
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