The regiment assisted actively in the defense of Knoxville until the siege was raised, on the 5th of December. On the 7th of December it marched in pursuit of the retreating rebels, and on the 13th went into camp at Blain’s Cross Roads, where it was stationed until the 25th, when it received orders to [...]
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On the 7th it marched toward Tunnel Hill, and on the 8th encountered the enemy at Rocky Face. The regiment advanced as skirmishers, and took possession of a ridge in front of the enemy’s works. On the 9th it was engaged in a reconnaissance of the rebel position. Moving from Rocky Face, and marching through [...]
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The enemy having evacuated Resaca, the regiment engaged in the pursuit, and came up and skirmished with them on the 24th, on the Etowah river. The rebel forces having fallen back to Dallas, the 23d took a position in front of their works at that point, which it occupied from the 27th to the 1st [...]
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On October 31st it was at Rome, and with its brigade reached Johasonville, Tenn., early in November, where it was stationed, doing garrison duty and throwing up works, until the 24th, when it left by rail for Columbia, arriving there on the 25th, and there joined the army then opposing Hood. At the time of [...]
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He renewed the. attack at intervals until 10 P. M., when he again made an assault and planted his colors on the works in front of the 23d Michigan, and was repulsed after a hand-to-hand fight. At 11 P. M. our troops withdrew and crossed the river, moving in the direction of Nashville, and arrived [...]
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without a reserve, to engage the rebel force, which was from three to five times their number, and which advanced to the charge with three lines of battle, extending along the whole front. The repeated, desperate, and determined charges of the enemy were every time successfully met, and with a heroism unsurpassed in the annals [...]
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it moved on the enemy and was in the engagements during that day and the next with Hood’s forces, which resulted in his being driven, in a demoralized condition, from all his positions. On the 15th the regiment mad a daring and dashing charge on a position occupied by a portion of the enemy’s infantry [...]
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Steedman commands. The 4th and 16th corps passed defiantly over their works and moved forward to confront the enemy in his works, while the 23d corps moved far to our right passing between our fortifications and the city, and passing out, formed in four lines upon the extreme right of our line of infantry. We [...]
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our whole line having pushed the enemy back in wheeling movement around and upon his right flank, where were built his strongest fortifications, and where he made his most stubborn resistance that day. We -reached again the extreme right of our infantry lines. A. J. Smith’s force had just taken a high hill and a [...]
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I need not attempt to describe the shout of pride, of triumph, and of joy, that went up from our corps. The hill and battery were ours. The major who bore our beautiful banner there was Major Dunn of the 3d Tennessee Infantry. Until that hour we had known but little of the magnificence of [...]
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