. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . (anyof my regiment and then tiled left, andabout two regiments had changed direc-tion when they commenced tiring. There were two regimentsstill in the road. It is jropor foi- me to state here, that imme-diately on my left, and running back to the road, the busheswere very thick, which accounts toi* the two regiments ot(ireggs brigade retiring and the enemy slipping in thereundiscovered by me oi any of my otticers or men. It was probably the tioth Ohio that ciicouiitereil
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . (anyof my regiment and then tiled left, andabout two regiments had changed direc-tion when they commenced tiring. There were two regimentsstill in the road. It is jropor foi- me to state here, that imme-diately on my left, and running back to the road, the busheswere very thick, which accounts toi* the two regiments ot(ireggs brigade retiring and the enemy slipping in thereundiscovered by me oi any of my otticers or men. It was probably the tioth Ohio that ciicouiitereil the17th Tennessee. Ilarker, in his report of the mo\ement, said: At thistime the t!5th Ohio regiment was a little to the rear of tlie;^rd Kentuckv, with the \iew ot makin>:- ust- o| it as circum-. 1 Ciriii 98 OPDYCKE TIGERS, stances might re(j[uire. What was at tirst my front line,to wit, the 125th Olno and the 04th Ohio, were now somedistance obliqnely to my right and front, and as from thedenseness of the wood I could not have direct supervisionover my entire line, I sent an order to Colonel Opdycke totake command of the G4th Ohio regiment in connectionwith his own regiment, and to clear his own front of theenemy, as he had previousl} sent me word that a regimentof rebels was on his front, and I confined myself for thetime being to the 3rd Kentucky and the 05th Ohio. Againa more furious attack was made upon theleft of the 3rd Kentucky ; again thedirection of the latter was changed, andthe 65th Ohio formed n[>on its left. jM}troops were now nearly on the same gen-eral front, making a broken curved line,with the conAexity toward the eneni}-,with a short interval between the right ofthe 3rd Kentucky and the left of the125th Ohio regiment, and stretch
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