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 loss. The Union army advanced a short distance and bivouacked for the night.

November 26, we moved on after the retreating army, and at a small creek near Greysville, Georgia, had a skirmish, driving the enemy as far as Ringgold and Taylor's ridge, where they were in position behind breastwork in the narrow pass extending through the ridge in the direction of Dalton.

27th. Geary's division made a gallant charge upon the rebel works. The First brigade, commanded by Colonel William R. Creighton, made a direct assault on Taylor's ridge, while the Second and Third brigades engaged the rebels in the narrow defile. After a terrible struggle the Nationals were forced back a short distance. A battery was moved forward and placed in position, which opened with double shotted guns upon the enemy, soon driving them precipitately to the rear, leaving the Nationals in possession of the field. In this engagement the Union loss was quite heavy.

On the 28th the army moved back, Geary's division reaching Wauhatchie valley on the 29th. Resting a few days, when the Twenty-ninth Ohio regiment broke camp and on December 3d moved across Lookout creek, marched about two miles west of Summerville, on Lookout mountain, where it camped for the night. Returned to its old camp at Wauhatchie, Tennessee, on the 5th day of December, and the campaign of 1863 ended.

At Wauhatchie, on the 10th day of December, 1863, the Twenty-ninth Ohio, though now reduced to less than three hundred effective men for duty, almost to a man re-enlisted for three years more, should the war so long continue, and were given a thirty-days' furlough home for the purpose of recruiting. The headquarters of the regiment was established at Cleveland, Ohio.