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Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for Rocky Face Ridge (North Carolina, United States) or search for Rocky Face Ridge (North Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
Who took Rocky Face Ridge?--Lieutenant R. C. Powns, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio regiment, writing from Dallas, Georgia, May nineteenth, 1864, made the following communication to the Louisville Journal:
In your issue of the twenty-first instant, there is a communication from your army correspondent, A. J. Daugherty, which gives an account of the battle of Rocky Face Ridge.
The hazardous undertaking of driving the enemy from that almost inaccessible stronghold is credited to General Willich, who is represented to have ascended to the summit, and asked permission to march steadily forward toward the Gap.
I do not know on what authorit er past, is complimentary neither to his good sense nor his gallantry.
The following is a plain statement of the facts: The work of driving the enemy from Rocky Face Ridge was assigned to General C. G. Harker, commanding the Third brigade of Newton's division.
The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio infantry, Colonel Opdyke, was