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work; we went on the left of the Seventy-eighth Illinois, and under
a heavy fire from the enemy; Company C was detailed as skirmishers.
On the morning of the 20th Capt. John,A. Norris, Company C, while
going out to visit the left of the skirmish line, was wounded through
the right knee joint so severely as to render immediate amputation
necessary to save life. The captain is one among the bravest and most
competent officers in the service. Early in the morning heavy skirmishing
commenced and continued until the middle of the afternoon,
when the skirmishers (Company H being a part of them) advanced,
and, with the aid of the battery on the right, drove the enemy away
and took uossession of their works. Here we remained until the noon
of tfte 224, when the brigade moved to the extreme right and took position
on a high hill, and intrenched. At this place we remained until
9 a. m. of the 28th, when the regiment, with the others of the brigade,
made a reconnaissance to Turner’s Ferry, on the Chattahoochee
River, returning at night-fall; encamped a short distance from
where we started in the morning. On the followin ~ morning moved
out and relieved a part of the First Division, then in the works on
the front line, and in the afternoon moved out to the Green’s Ferry
road and intrenched, and there remained until the following day,
when we were relieved by a portion of the Fifteenth Army Corps, and
moved one mile farther to the right and went into camp, where we
remained until the 4th of August, when we moved in light marching
order to the right of the Twenty-third Army Corps, to protect its
flanks, in the advance movement of that day. Here bivouacked for
the night, and on the following morning, the 5th, advanoed with
the brigade toward the Sandtown road, and when near it were ordered
to intrench, which we did under one of the heaviest artillery
fires of the campaign. Lieut. George C. Porter, commanding Company
D, was struck by a fragment of a shell, severely wounding him.
At this place the regiment remained until the 12th. A portion of
the regiment, under command of Lieutenant Craft, Company B,
being on the skirmish line on the 7th, advanced and captured three
lines of the enemy’s works and many prisoners. The conduct of
the officer in command and men in this charge was gallant and
meritorious of much praise. Henry T. Albaugh, Company I, was
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killed. John Holmes, Company C, ~rounded~ and W. I. Giles, Coinpany
C, wounded in the head severely, and since died in hospital,
and P. Griffith, Company C, missing. On the 12th the regiment
with balance of the brigade moved to the right about one mile and
relieved a portion of Cox’s division, where we remained until the
27th, when the entire div.ision moved about two miles farther to
the right. At 4 a. m. 28th moved toward the Atlanta and Montgomery
Railroad, which we reached and crossed at 2 p. in., and bivouacked
for the night to the right of it. Here we remained until
the 30th, when we marched at an early hour about six miles and
went into camp.
On the 31st, at 11 a. in., we marched toward the Macon railroad
and reached the Jonesborough and Atlanta pike at 4 p. m. The
regiment that night xvent into picket, and early next morning rejoined
the brigade and marched with it toward Jonesborough.
When we arrived within about one mile of the town the enemy
opened on us with shell, and Adjutant Reaves of the regiment was
struck by the fragment of one on the knee, slightly bruising the
skin. A, F, and D Companies were deployed as skirmishers, and,
under command of Capt. D. E. Roatch, Company G, advanced, and
by a rapid and daring movement, captured nearly the entire rebel
skirmish line. The enemy, calling to the captain from their main
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