. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . and troops, building numerous fires at niglit,throwing pieces of planks and logs into creeks to tloat downand suggest the construction of boats, and l»y various expe-dients trying to convince the enemy that oui- nniin body wasconcentrating there, when in fact i»rei)arations were in pro-gress to cross manv miles below. At davlight on the 2l>th. (; Till-: 79 part of Davis dixision frosseil at CaiK-rtonV in |(Htiiboats, drtnc oil a small torci of

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. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . and troops, building numerous fires at niglit,throwing pieces of planks and logs into creeks to tloat downand suggest the construction of boats, and l»y various expe-dients trying to convince the enemy that oui- nniin body wasconcentrating there, when in fact i»rei)arations were in pro-gress to cross manv miles below. At davlight on the 2l>th. (; Till-: 79 part of Davis dixision frosseil at CaiK-rtonV in |(Htiiboats, drtnc oil a small torci of tl:t* \s cavalry aiulquickly laid a liriduc on whicli the rest of the divisioncrossed, followed liy dolmson and Xc^lrx. Slu-ridan ci-osx-dl»y a jiontoon and trestle eondiineridw-,.|„,|-t. Haird fol-lowinu. J)iannaii i-rossed at the month of IJattle Creek onrafts, and Ueyimlds at Sliell Monnd, nsinide. The ditHeidties of tin- campaiun wei-e noi emleil withthe iiassanc of the ri\er. Uaecoon Mountain and thenLookout loomed u[t across the })atli of McCook and Thomas,Lotdvout risinu to the heiiiht of 2,40(> feet, with steep slopessurniounttd l)y perpendicular cliffs, the <)nly practicable roadsbeinu at -bdinsons Cro()k and WinstoiTs. one twentv-sixmi

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