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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
ng the enemy four times, losing the gallant General Sill of his right, and Colonel Roberts of his left brigade, when having exhausted his ammunition — Negley's divisntle, true, and accomplished General Sill; the heroic, ingenious, and able Colonels Roberts, Millikin, Shaffer, McKee, Reed, Foreman, Fred. Jones, Hawkins, Knell, and Sheridan's division on the right, when our skirmishers were withdrawn for Colonel Roberts's command. During the day, General McCook's forces advanced on the righor valuable assistance, and the heroic examples he gave others. I Color-Sergeant James M. Roberts deserves mention here for gallant conduct. He never faltered; alw foe clear back to his original position, where they re-formed. Schaeffer and Roberts were equally successful. But Johnson's division, taken somewhat by surprise, s captured. Brigadier-General Kirk was seriously wounded, and the gallant Colonel Roberts, of the Forty-second Illinois, while repulsing a fierce attack at the angl
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 32 (search)
n Col. Smith's command on the north side of the river, with the evident intention of destroying the railroad and pontoon-bridges. After a sharp contest, in which several companies of Illinois troops behaved with great gallantry, Morgan was repulsed, leaving a stand of regimental colors in our hands, five killed, and nineteen wounded. He then burnt an old railroad building in Edgefield, and retreated to Gallatin. Finding the enemy on the south taking a position beyond our picket-lines, Col. Roberts, with two regiments of infantry and one section of artillery, was ordered to advance on the Murfreesboro road, while I took the Sixty-ninth Ohio infantry, with parts of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania, Fourteenth Michigan, Colonel Stokes's and of Wynkoop's cavalry, and two sections of artillery, numbering in all about one thousand four hundred, and pursued that portion of the enemy on the Franklin pike. They were speedily driven from every position by our artillery, until we reached a di