Nine miles northwest of
Gadsden, Ala.,
October 25, 1864.
Found the Rebels about noon to-day in position behind a rail
work, running across from Lookout Mountain to Coosa river. It was only
Wheeler's cavalry, and we blew them out easily. We formed to charge them, but
they wouldn't wait. We followed until we were satisfied there was no infantry
behind them, and then settled for the night, and sent out foragers. There was
some miserable artillery firing by both sides. Not a dozen men were hurt; only
one in our brigade, 100th Indiana.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 315-6
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