Report of the Military Services, 1872 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of the Military Services, 1872 Thence moved to Belmont, Ky., and continued during the winter to guard the Louisville Nashville Railway from Bardstown to Lebanon Junction and Colesburg and part of the time to Elizabethtown. During this time two hours daily were spent in company drill and two hours in battalion drill. Companies took their turns on detached duty guarding the railway. 1862. Early in March, 1862, moved with regiment to Nashville, where guard duty in the city was done for some weeks, thence to Murfreesboro. May 17th moved with regiment to Columbia, Tenn., for a few days, then returned to Murfreesboro. Cumberland Mountains. June 11th moved with expedition (column of 3, 000 with about 800 cavalry) under Gen. Dumont to Pikeville. Marched afoot the first forty miles to McMinnville in twenty-four hours. Here he was detailed as provost marshal of the command, and at the principal camping place was visited by many Union men wishing to "take the oath." Pikeville was reached the fourteenth of June and the column got back to Murfreesboro the eighteenth. The Cumberland Mountains were thus twice rapidly crossed amid intense heat and dust. The regiment first resumed its former camp, but soon moved to the level ground on the southeast suburbs of the town, near the Ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, yet on account of its overflow during heavy rains it moved out near the Nashville pike, nearly two miles distant, on the opposite side of Murfreesboro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.