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e battery which ceased firing. The enemy failing in their attempt to capture the battery, or drive us from our position, hastily retreated to the woods. I then moved by the rear rank to the rear of the battery, and reoccupied my first position, where I remained until after dark, when I received an order to place the regiment on picket, the right of my line resting upon the left of the pickets of General Robinson's brigade, and to prolong said line, in this position we remained until December fourteenth, eight o'clock P. M., when I was relieved by another regiment and ordered to occupy the position first assigned me, December thirteenth, in rear of the battery — in this position we remained until December fifteenth, at ten o'clock r.n., when we received orders to move to the rear, where we joined the brigade near the stone house, and marched left in front across the river, where we bivouacked for the night, and the next morning we were marched back to our old camp, where the regiment
Doc. 65.-battle at Hartsville, Tenn. Cincinnati Gazette account. Nashville, Tenn., December 14. in a letter dated the eighth instant, I gave you such imperfect accounts of the affair at Hartsville, as had then come to hand, mentally resolving that I would write no more about it until I should be in possession of a sufficient number of facts to furnish a clear and reliable statement. Since that time, the paroled prisoners have arrived from Murfreesboro; minute accounts of the disaster have been presented by members of all the Union regiments concerned. At Hartsville, the Cumberland River, which runs north-west from Rome in Smith County, makes a not very abrupt curve, and for a few miles pursues a course almost due south. Two little streams enter the river at the bend, and between these lies the town of Hartsville, about a mile from the river-bank. Leaving the town and approaching the river, you enter tolerably heavy woods; after which you come to some old fields aba
Doc. 73.-operations in North-Carolina. The official report of Major-General Foster. headquarters, Department of North-Carolina, Newbern, December 27, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, United States Army, Washington, D. C.: General: Referring to my letters of December tenth, fourteenth, and twentieth, I have the honor to report that I left this town at eight A. M. of the eleventh, with the following forces: Gen. Wessells's brigade of General Peck's division, kindly loaned to me; Col. Amory's brigade; Col. Stevenson's brigade; Col. Loe's brigade. In all about----infantry; batteries Third New-York artillery; Belger's battery, First Rhode Island; section of Twenty-fourth New-York independent battery; section of Twenty-third independent battery, having a total of----guns, and the Third New-York cavalry of about----men. We marched the first day on the main Kinston road about fourteen miles, when, finding the road obstructed by felled trees for half a m