Left Camp Cooper, and arrived the sameday at Wartrace, remaining in the above mentioned camp twenty-six days, without moving. Encamped for the night in Wartrace, guarding commissary or station all night ; making a march of 8 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Wartrace and arrived at Duck river the same day as guard for rail road bridges and fortifications there, and encamped for the night at Duck river bridge camp, making a march of 5 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Camp Duck river and arrived the same day at Tullahoma and encamped for the night, making a march of 9 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Tullahoma and marched to Manchester fair grounds, Coffee county, Tenn., and encamped for the night, making a march of 11 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17-8
Left Camp Wynkoop
and got to Camp Haggerty, one mile south of Salem, in Franklin TN, making one
day in the above mentioned camp, and encamped for the night, making a march of
22 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14
Left Camp Haggerty
and marched on the Chattanooga Road, encampted for the night at Cowen’s
Station, making a march of 21 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14
Left Cowen’s Station
and marched over the Cumberland Mountains to Cumberland Gap or Sweden Valley.
Came upon a camp of General Adams’ rebel cavalry, seven-thousand in number, who
stood us a fight, being the second engagement that we were personally engaged
in. Three fires from our batteries put them to flight; and in following up
their retreat we lost two men out of Colonel Haggerty’s regiment of Kentucky
Cavalry. Our Forces captured a first-rate cooked dinner, just ready to be sit
down to eat; and corn, leather and ammunition of all kinds, haversacks made out
of every sort of material, women’s carpet-sacks and clothes, even down to
babies’ frocks, that these scoundrels had stolen from the Union families of the
valley they had passed through—all of which fell into our hands and those
hellish fiends had to flee from to save capturing of themselves and their whole
army, losing many of their men killed and wounded by our forces, and a number
of prisoners falling into our hands. After dinner we encamped for the night on
their camp or battleground, making a march of 15 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14-5
Left Sweden Cove
Valley camp and marched through Jaspertown on the Chattanooga Road, and
encamped in camp meeting barracks used for holding camp meetings in, nicely
fitted up for that purpose, and called Camp Mellinger, marking a march of 15
miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 15
Left Camp Mellinger
and arrived 12½ miles this side of Chattanooga, and encamped for the night at
Camp Sliver, making a march of 27 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 15
Left Camp Sliver and
arrived at Camp Haste, 12½ miles. At 2 o'clock, got orders to fall in again for
fight. We marched about one mile, feeling our way cautiously as we went,
understanding that fifteen thousand rebels had crossed the Tennessee river and
were moving on us, between the river and town, in haste. There were two
companies of the 79th Pa. Inf. detailed and sent down the river in front of
Chattanooga, to advance slowly and cautiously to feel the enemy; while a force
of cavalry was sent around to come up the river and advance until they would
meet, if not fired upon. The rest of our army, with six pieces of artillery,
passing down' the river on the right, about one mile and a quarter from the
river, to the centre, and our brave commander, General Negley, at the head of
our forces, gave us the order to left face and advance toward the river and
town. On we went to the top of a high hill or mountain in sight of the town,
which surprised the rebels in their forts and town to see the Yankees in sight;
so the orders, “Lie down, infantry, flat to the ground, and be ready to support
your batteries,” was no sooner given than it was obeyed. We could see the rebs
coming out of their forts and pits like bees out of a scap, and turning their
artillery on us; so feeling that our cavalry and infantry might meet, and
hearing they were across the river, might fire on each other when meeting, four
men were detailed off the head of each company, to be sent down to the river as
skirmishers, to report to them, and then return to the hill again. As I was one
of the front files, it so happened to be my lot to go, and on reaching the
river the rebs opened fire on us from the other side, killing two men and
wounding several of our force. At three o'clock we opened our batteries on them
and their town, shelling them hard, and causing them to silence their guns,
only four shots of theirs reaching us. We shelled the town until four in the
evening, causing them all to move out of the town and call for reinforcements
from the Gap, which was all we wanted, to draw them out with this feint attack,
so that our army might go in, which it did without being interrupted, the rebs
having evacuated the place. So we returned back to camp for the night, making a
march of 14 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 15-6
Left Camp Haste,
having fulfilled our mission, and after shelling the town of Chattanooga this
morning again about three hours, we took up march right-about or
counter-marched back again to our old camp Sliver, making a march of 12½ miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Sliver on our return and encamped for the night on the M'Minnville road at Big Creek camp, making a march of 27 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Big Creek camp
and marched on the Altamont road to Camp Nell and encamped for the night,
making a march of 21 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Camp Nell and
arrived at Manchester the same night, and encamped, making a march of 25 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Manchester camp
and arrived at Shelbyville, and encamped for the night at Camp Cooper, making a
march of 25 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 17
Left Camp
Merriweather, and got to Camp Rutherford the same day, and encamped for the
night, remaining one day in this place, making a march of 20 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 12
Left Camp Rutherford
and got to Duck creek the same day, and encamped for the night, making a march
of 2 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 12
Left Duck creek camp
and got to Camp General Moorhead the same day, and encamped for the night,
making a march of 5 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 12
Left Camp General
Moorhead and came to Columbia, and got to the town of Pulaski on the same day,
and encamped for the night, making a march of 11 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 12
Left Pulaski and got
to Sugar creek on the same day, remaining three days in the above mentioned
camp, and encamped for the night, making a march of 18 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 12
