. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . roeky hills, the iirinelpalrontes passing sonthward from MurtVeo-boro toward Tnllahoma, and the line oltlie enemys eoinninnieations are: TheManehester i>ike. passing thesi- hillsthrongh Hoovers (lap. ami aseending totill Uarri-ns throngh a long dilKenlteanon ealled Matts Hollow: tin- Wart-raci Ioad through Liherty (iap. wliieli passes into the onealong the railroad hy l>ellhnekle : the Shelhyville tnrn-piki, rnnning throngh ^Hys (ia|>: the Middletown diitroad :
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . roeky hills, the iirinelpalrontes passing sonthward from MurtVeo-boro toward Tnllahoma, and the line oltlie enemys eoinninnieations are: TheManehester i>ike. passing thesi- hillsthrongh Hoovers (lap. ami aseending totill Uarri-ns throngh a long dilKenlteanon ealled Matts Hollow: tin- Wart-raci Ioad through Liherty (iap. wliieli passes into the onealong the railroad hy l>ellhnekle : the Shelhyville tnrn-piki, rnnning throngh ^Hys (ia|>: the Middletown diitroad : the road l»y ^ersailles into the Slielhyville and Trinneroads, hotli ot whieli avoid ]iasses and ha\e few defiles. ••The enemy held all these passes, and his main po>itionin front of Shelhy\ille was strengthened hy a redan line,extending iVom Horse Monntain on the east to Huck liivcron the \\est. covered hy a line ot ahattis. If Ivosecrans conid pass his army through tlu ga|>s andeoncentrat* at or near Manehester, the strong (kdensivc linenorth of |)uck River would he untenahle. and Urairir niust. >r\.;iKN. .1. S. 66 OPDYCKE TIGERS, then defend Tullahoma by giving battle on tlie plateau,where he would have no advantage arising from the char-acter of the ground, or await an attack within his intrench-ments at Tullahoma and risk losing his railroad. He seemsto have exi)eeted that Rosecrans would avoid the difficultpasses and advance b}^ Shelbyville. At least the elaboratepreparation about Shell)yville and the weakness of the forcefound in each of the gaps on tlie other routes indicates asmuch. Eosecrans preferred to avoid a direct attack uponthe intrenched line, where success if obtained must be bydint of hard blows, and would leave to Bragg safe avenuesof retieat on good roads. He decided to turn the enemysright flank by way of Manchester. The initial movementswere designed to deceive Bragg and lead to a concentrationof his forces in the direction of
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