. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . eadvancing upon them, but they managedto escape without the loss of a gun orwagon. Foiled in his first attempt, Braggthen sent l*olks and Walkers corps to attack Crittenden atLee and Gordons. Polk hesitated and called for reinforce-ments, and was again ordered to attack on the 13th, andpromised Buckners cor[)S. General Bragg went to the fronton the 18th, found no attack had been made, and that Crit-tendens corps held a strong position. He claims to havebeen disa[)pointed
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . eadvancing upon them, but they managedto escape without the loss of a gun orwagon. Foiled in his first attempt, Braggthen sent l*olks and Walkers corps to attack Crittenden atLee and Gordons. Polk hesitated and called for reinforce-ments, and was again ordered to attack on the 13th, andpromised Buckners cor[)S. General Bragg went to the fronton the 18th, found no attack had been made, and that Crit-tendens corps held a strong position. He claims to havebeen disa[)pointed by the tardiness of his subordinates, buttacitly approved their course by not attacking after he waspresent in person. He took five days more tor preparation,tlie delay giving him a reinforcement of Longstreets corpsfrom Virginia, but in the meantime the three corps of theArmy of the Cumberland, separated beyond supportingdistance in crossing the niDuntains, liad reunited. On thatdate Bragg issued his order for battle, and on the 18th hisarmy executed tlie initial movements that brought on the l-i;;. NAr( k, tiKuKiiE \V. l{ATt>, A (). CAOSS/.V(; Till. MorxiAixs. 8i coiitlict. iir ai-eoiiiit ottlic l»;ittle is i-iscil lor :i siiiarutotliaptiT. and we coiiclutK this (nu- with a IlilkT account ofour own niovenuiits. The 12otli Oliio marched from Ilillsboi-o with the com-mand (llarkers l)rii;a(le of Woods division) on Siiii(hi\-morniiiii-, August Ki. At the foot of the moimtiiins nearPelham, arms were -stacked, and otHci-rs and men lined thi-road, or what passed for a road, from the hase to thi- summit,eaeh re»;iment armed with rojies and assii:-ned a certain sjiaceto keep eleai. As a wagon, gun or caisson came up. themen attached a rope ami su[>}>lementedthe efiorts of the animals to keej) thewheels turning. Men, liorses and mulesserambled over the rough suifaee, tuggingwith might and nuiin, until tlie Ixuder ofthe next beat was passed, when a new setto
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