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 CHAPTER XIII.

Shelmound—Wauhatchie Valley—Ringgold—Battle of Dug or Mill Creek Gap or Buzzard's Roost—On the Move.

On the morning of May 3, 1864, at 10 o'clock, we broke camp, crossed the Tennessee river, and moved eastward along its south bank to Shelmound, where we encamped for the night. On the following day the march was resumed, the column halting for dinner in Wauhatchie valley. Crossing Lookout Creek and mountain, we encamped for the night on its east side and two miles distant from Chattanooga. The column resumed its line of march at 7, on the 5th. Moving cautiously during the day, in the advance, it halted for the night a short distance west of Ringgold, Georgia. At daybreak on the following morning we moved forward, and about 9 o'clock formed line of battle, remaining here during the day and subsequent night. The beat of the "long roll" on the following morning called us to arms, and we immediately advanced in line of battle. When near Gordon's Springs General Kilpatrick passed to our right with his command. Our column came to a halt for the night near Tunnel hill.

At about 11, on May 8th, we pushed forward in order of columns right in front, and at 3 o'clock arrived in front of John's Mountain at Rocky Face Ridge, on the summit of which the enemy were entrenched in force. The Twenty-ninth Ohio regiment and Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania of the First brigade, Colonel Candy commanding, with three regiments of Buschbeck's Second brigade, formed in line, the latter on the right, and in this