No. 138.
Report of Lieut. Col. John W. Hammond, Sixty-fifth Indiana Infantry,
of operations November 22-30, 1864.
HEADQUARTERS
SIXTY-FIFTH INDIANA VOLUNTEERS,
Nashville, Tenn.,
December 6, 1864.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report of
operations of my regiment from the 22d of November, 1864, to the date of our
arrival at Franklin, Tenn.:
The regiment was with the brigade all the time covered by
this report. The only items worthy of special notice (if any are) are the
following: On the 25th two companies (E and F), under Major Baker, were sent up
Duck River, on the north side, to reconnoiter the fords for five miles, which
he did, and returned at 12.30 p.m., having found the fords impracticable and no
enemy in sight of them. Company D was sent the same day to Rutherford's Creek
to construct a foot bridge, which was done, and the company left there on picket,
and joined the command at Spring Hill on the night of the 29th of November. The
march from Columbia to Franklin, twenty-two miles, from 8 p.m. to 4.30 a.m.,
with scarcely a halt, would be worthy of notice if the regiment had been
separated from the brigade. The regiment arrived at Franklin, Tenn., November
30, 4.30 a.m., not having lost a single man, so far as known, by straggling or
otherwise.
I was ordered to hold my regiment as a reserve to the First
Brigade, guarding the ford at Columbia, on the 28th and 29th of November. There
the regiment was under some shelling from the enemy's batteries, but, with its
usual happy fortune, sustained no loss. Beyond this, nothing occurred out of
the usual routine until the battle of Franklin, a report of which is not
desired.
Respectfully
submitted.
JOHN W. HAMMOND,
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commanding Regiment.
Capt. C. D. RHODES,
Acting Assistant
Adjutant-General, Second Brigade.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
45, Part 1 (Serial No. 93), p. 427
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