... south of that point (after burning the saltpeter works) until the morning of the 23d, when the regiment stripped for battle, crossed the Etowah, and by easy marches reached the Allatoona hills near Dallas on the evening of the 26th. A portion of the Fourth Corps being hotly engaged on the 27th, the brigade was sent to its support, but night putting a stop to the fight, the regiment was not brought i...