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Seventeenth corps, which was that day relieved by the Fourteenth corps. Breastworks thrown up. Twenty-second Wisconsin and battery I, First New-York artillery, moved to the Savannah River. Eighty-second and One Hundred and First regiments Illinois volunteers and Sixty-first regiment Ohio volunteers stationed at Cherokee Hill.--Weather: Fine but cold.--Supplies: Scanty. A quantity of rice was found and a mill set to running to prepare it for the troops. Operations before Savannah. December 12. Third regiment Wisconsin volunteers crossed to Argyle Island. Steamer Resolute captured. December 13. The remainder of the Third brigade, First division, moved to Cherokee Hill to protect the rear, and formed connection on its left with portion of Fourteenth corps. December 14. Two regiments of Second division pushed over on to Hutchinson's Island. December 15. Second regiment Massachusetts volunteers reenforced Third regiment Wisconsin volunteers on Argyle Island.
Operations before Savannah. December 12. Third regiment Wisconsin volunteers crossed to Argyle Island. Steamer Resolute captured. December 13. The remainder of the Third brigade, First division, moved to Cherokee Hill to protect the rear, and formed connection on its left with portion of Fourteenth corps. December 14. Two regiments of Second division pushed over on to Hutchinson's Island. December 15. Second regiment Massachusetts volunteers reenforced Third regiment Wisconsin volunteers on Argyle Island. December 16. Second brigade, Third division, relieved remainder of Second brigade, First division, the latter crossing over to Argyle Island. December 19. The regiments of the Second brigade, First division, crossed over to the South-Carolina shore and intrenched themselves between Clydesdale Creek and the house of Mr. Izzard. December 21. Savannah having been evacuated by the enemy, the Second division took possession of the city early in
oward Savannah. Nothing of importance occurred. We reached our first posion before the city December eleventh. Here I relieved a division of the Seventeenth army corps, and threw up works along my whole front. About four o'clock P. M., December twelfth, by order of General Carlin, I moved my brigade to the right, crossed the Ogeechee Canal, and relieved General Smith's division, Seventeenth army corps. While holding this position, (with a front of more than two (2) miles,) I forwarded oneht, I again joined the First division, Fourteenth army corps, (in obedience to orders), with three days rations and three days forage, and marched with it to a point near Savannah, Georgia, where I took up position in line of battle on the twelfth of December. Was engaged lightly by the enemy's batteries on the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, and twentieth, during which time I expended (283) two hundred and eighty-three rounds of ammunition, with
reconnoissance toward the enemy's works. December 12th.--Advanced with the brigade, and took posDecember 11.--Remained in same position. December 12.-Advanced the line five hundred yards, and f the front; encamped in line of battle. December 12.---Took position in line of battle to left in crossing two companies that night. December twelfth, crossed the balance of my command this mtrains from the rear. Remained here from December twelfth to twenty-second inclusive. December twevision, Twentieth corps. At one A. M., December twelfth, in obedience to orders, the brigade was on, which formed a very good rifle-work. December 12.--At one A. M., we moved about one half-milay out from Atlanta. On the eleventh and twelfth December, my battalion changed its positions in thf battle being nearly north and south. December twelfth, remained in position. December thirte placed on the extreme left of the line. December twelfth, I was ordered to take my regiment to the[5 more...]
and put in position, with a range of about one thousand two hundred yards. The troops of the First division, Twentieth corps, were immediately deployed, and scattered the enemy without the use of artillery. On the morning of the eleventh day of December, Major J. A. Reynolds again directed me to move my battery on the Savannah River, with the Twenty-second Wisconsin infantry as support, it being reported that the enemy's gunboats had made their appearance. On the morning of the twelfth day of December, about eight o'clock, the enemy's gunboats made their appearance, which afterward proved to be the Macon, armed with four sixty-four-pounder rifle-guns and two thirty-two pounder howitzers, also the gunboat Samson, armed with two thirty-two pounder howitzers, with their tender, (Resolute,) a small steamer. After an engagement of about three quarters of an hour, from two thousand four hundred to two thousand seven hundred yards, they were forced to retire up the river leaving their
heir works. This regiment lost first sergeant killed, and two (2) privates wounded. Monday, December twelfth, at one o'clock A. M., we were ordered to fall in, as our brigade were to charge the woDeserted to enemy. Charles Chapman,Priv'teIDec. 13, ‘64Deserted to enemy. Adam Wetzel,Priv'teKDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. Francis Mc Carthy,Priv'teKDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. John Smith,PrDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. John Smith,Priv'teKDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. Charles Wagner,Priv'teKDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. G. W. Mindil, Colonel Commanding Thirty-third New-Jersey Volunteers. Major Hoyt's Report. RepoDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. Charles Wagner,Priv'teKDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. G. W. Mindil, Colonel Commanding Thirty-third New-Jersey Volunteers. Major Hoyt's Report. Report of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New York Volunteers, from he capture of Atlanta, Ga., September second, 1864, to the twenty-first of December, 1864, when the regiment entered the city of SavaDec. 12, ‘64Deserted to enemy. G. W. Mindil, Colonel Commanding Thirty-third New-Jersey Volunteers. Major Hoyt's Report. Report of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New York Volunteers, from he capture of Atlanta, Ga., September second, 1864, to the twenty-first of December, 1864, when the regiment entered the city of Savannah, Ga. September 2, 1864.--The regiment, commanded by Captain Otis Griffin, company F, was ordered to march at twelve m. Advanced with the brigade into the city of Atlanta, Georgia.