Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . rare gal-lantry, losing 228 men killed and wounded. InJune the Eighty-fourth was again with Rose-crans army in search of General Bragg, and,not finding the enemy at Chattanooga, pushedon rapidly in his rear. September 19th thearmies engaged in battle, with indecisive re-sults; finally, on the 20th, Rosecrans Thomas alone stood between disasterand rout all that long, terrible afternoon, whilearound his veterans surged the entire Confed-erate force: but he, also, was obliged finally toretire to Chattanooga. The Eighty-fourth wasamong his
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . rare gal-lantry, losing 228 men killed and wounded. InJune the Eighty-fourth was again with Rose-crans army in search of General Bragg, and,not finding the enemy at Chattanooga, pushedon rapidly in his rear. September 19th thearmies engaged in battle, with indecisive re-sults; finally, on the 20th, Rosecrans Thomas alone stood between disasterand rout all that long, terrible afternoon, whilearound his veterans surged the entire Confed-erate force: but he, also, was obliged finally toretire to Chattanooga. The Eighty-fourth wasamong his heroes, and when the roll was calledat Chattanooga, 172 of its men failed to re-spond. On the 24th of November the Eighty-fourthwas ordered on duty and took part in the mem-orable battle of Lookout Mountain. It engagedin the battle of Dalton, May 13. 1864. and wasalso present at Resaca, May 14th; Burnt Hick-ory, May 26th to 31st, and Dallas. June 1st, 2dand 3d. At the battle of Kenesaw Mountainand the siege of Atlanta it bore a prominent.
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