. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . )ike and railioad at S[»ringHill and prevent any stragglers frompassing that ^toint. When the headof column was one mile from the vil-lage, citizens were met leaving theplace, who reported that Confed- !:■ ■>>• ii nn;i; r. ].;yerate cavalry was ai)proacliing from the east. Wagner orderedOpdycke to doul)le-quick, and himseligalloped on to the vil-lage, where he found our small cavalry force falling backbefore the advance of Forrests cavalry, and the four com-p
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . )ike and railioad at S[»ringHill and prevent any stragglers frompassing that ^toint. When the headof column was one mile from the vil-lage, citizens were met leaving theplace, who reported that Confed- !:■ ■>>• ii nn;i; r. ].;yerate cavalry was ai)proacliing from the east. Wagner orderedOpdycke to doul)le-quick, and himseligalloped on to the vil-lage, where he found our small cavalry force falling backbefore the advance of Forrests cavalry, and the four com-panies of the 73rd Illinois rallying behind a barricade at theedge of the town. The first brigade followed Wagnerdouble-quick, and on arrival the 74th and 88th Illinois,. 324 OPDYCKE TIGERS, acting as one l)attalion, deployed as skirmishers, while theother regiments formed line facing north east, and followedthe skirmishers, advancing against the enemy, then half annle distant, easily driving them back. The 125th was thetiftli regiment in the column on the march, went straightthrougli the village on the pike and formed on the left of thebrigade. Stanley had ordered Wagner to hold enoughground al)Out tlie place to park the wagons within the advanced as far as desired, Opdycke halted the line. A little later a body of the enemywas oljserved moving from the north,and (Ja}itain Bates, who was thencommanding the 12otli, by Op-dyckes orders deployed tlie regi-ment into a heavy skirmish linecrossing the pike and facing later, the enemy, persisting inhis desiie to reach the trains bymoving around our Hanks, the 44thIllinois deployed on the left of the125th, and the 24th Wisconsin on< ML. koi;ektc. tlic left of the 4
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