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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Rebecca Gordon Co., Ga., Nov. 28. (search)
wagons, but he managed finally, with the aid of his brave command, (Walker's division,) to save them all. At one time the enemy got in between him and the main column, but he took a neighborhood road and thus escaped destruction. Unfortunately Ferguson's battery of four guns, belonging to Walker's division, was captured. The horses were in very had condition and unable to keep up with the column, and hence the disaster. The greater part of the men and horses escaped. You will be astonished er dark and not far from Ringgold. The trains were brought out three miles this side of Ringgold and the teams fed while the army occupied the pass just outside the town. Three companies of the 16th South Carolina, acting as a special guard to Ferguson's battery, were dispersed and many of the men taken prisoners. November 27.--The trains were now put in front and directed to take a left-hand road to Dalton, passing near Catoosa Springs. They moved at midnight, the troops at daylight, fo