. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ^ demonstrating theirfitness for service at the front. Such affairs, though deemed unworthy of mention bythe general historian because they do not affect the issues ofa campaign, are worthy of consideration in a regimentalhistory, because the extraordinary exer-tion and exposure, especially by newtroops, is sure to entail sickness, sufferingand death. Witliin the next few days alarge number of our men went to thehospital, many of whom never , the losses by
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ^ demonstrating theirfitness for service at the front. Such affairs, though deemed unworthy of mention bythe general historian because they do not affect the issues ofa campaign, are worthy of consideration in a regimentalhistory, because the extraordinary exer-tion and exposure, especially by newtroops, is sure to entail sickness, sufferingand death. Witliin the next few days alarge number of our men went to thehospital, many of whom never , the losses by death, discharge,and transfer to the Veteran ReserveCorps, occasioned by that cold bath in thellarpeth and the hard service for somewrecks tliereafter, probaldy exceeded thelosses in any single battle except that of Chickamauga, asevidenced by our losses from death and discharges in thenext three months. The following extract from a letter, written by a ser-geant of Company B, gives a graphic picture of the combat:. GE(ii:i.;i: FiiENrn, B (IW). I remember my ambition quickened as we marched past the otherregiments. We felt our importance at being thus selected ; and I noticedmy comrades each had a gallant bearing. On reaching the front we weremet by a delegation of citizens (all colored), who, instead of tendering usthe freedom of the city, with eyes stretched in wonder, informed our com-mander that Genl Forrest in dar with heaps of rel)s. The town washidden by the hills, but our ears caught on this, what our eyes failed to dis-tinguish. Company B was ordered to load and deploy as skirmishers. Onthe run we took ])Osition, and then by the flank we moved on theenemy. Over the hill, on the double quick, we were stealing a march onthose fellows rapidly. But wait; here is a river, until now unseen, and webrought up suddenly on the l)anks of this murky stream. The timbers ofthe bridge, the only means of crossing, were yet smoking in the water. AT 39 We paiisfil. •• l
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