. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . r ears. We bivouacked in an open field that nightand listened to the tiring of cannon and rifles till wewent to sleep. Johnsons army was there near RuffsStation in force, and behind intrenchments. We spentmost of the 4th in thisfield. Two Brigades ofour division were en-gaged fighting most ofthe 4th. The enemy wasin strong works, preparedfor them before they leftKennesaw. Here , of the EleventhMichigan, had his legshot away. Johnson fellback again
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . r ears. We bivouacked in an open field that nightand listened to the tiring of cannon and rifles till wewent to sleep. Johnsons army was there near RuffsStation in force, and behind intrenchments. We spentmost of the 4th in thisfield. Two Brigades ofour division were en-gaged fighting most ofthe 4th. The enemy wasin strong works, preparedfor them before they leftKennesaw. Here , of the EleventhMichigan, had his legshot away. Johnson fellback again the night ofthe 4th. Col. Ward tellshow an old lady residentof that place describedthe battle there. She said : Weuns stopped and built a rail pile and got behindit. Then youuns sent up a critter company and shot atweuns, then youuns sent up a foot company and shot atweuns, and then you brought up the cannon wagon andthrowed artillery at em, and you throwed one rightthrough my ash hopper, and I wouldnt have taken twodollars for it. On the morning of the 5th we learned that theii emy had fallen back again, and we pressed forwarde. Samuel Harbour. Co. I;.Letts Corner. Ind. INDIANA VOIANTEEK 1NKANTKV 107 and found them again a few miles from the Chatta-hoochee river. Sharp fighting began as soon as we foundthem, which continued till night, the Thirty-seventhtaking the front line about noon. We were at that timeat the right of the railroad and about ten miles from thecity of Atlanta, which was plainly visible from the treetops. But how long it took and how many lives it costto get possession of those ten miles! The familiar sound of skirmishing greeted us as weawoke the morning of the 6th of July and erected breast-works. Two months have nowpassed, and every day of thattime we have been under tire,and many of our good andbrave comrades have beenstricken down by the enemysbullets. And but for the/ JKB& breast-works we had made, more than half our numberwould have been numberedamong
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