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Hdqrs. Eleventh regiment Ohio Vol. Infantry, Resaca, Ga.,
May
30, 1864
.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment during the late movement
from Ringgold, Ga., and action near this place:
The regiment moved with the brigade from Ringgold on the morning
of 4he
7th instant
and bivouacked near Tunnel Hill same evening.
On the
8th
and 9th moved to the right and front with the brigade to a point near Mill
Creek Gap.
On the evening of the 9th the regiment was ordered out to build a bridge across Mill Creek, near the gap, and construct a road for getting artillery in position at
the gap. The work was completed at 2 a. m. of the
10th
, when I returned to the brigade with a loss of 2 men wounded.
Remained in bivouac until the morning of the
12th
, when I moved with the brigade south and to the east side of Rocky Face Ridge, through Snake Creek Gap,
bivouacking near the east end of the gap. On the
13th
the regiment with the brigade took position in front of the enemy, west of the railroad, north of and
about
two and a half miles from Resaca
.
Changed position on the morning of the 14th to a point about one-half a mile north of the position occupied the
evening previous.
The brigade being formed in two lines, my regiment was the third from the right of the second line, and in the
rear of the Eighty-second Regiment
Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
At about 12.30 p. m. an advance was made by the Twenty-third Army
Corps, when the brigade moved forward in support, I being ordered to follow the Eighty-second Regiment
Indiana Volunteers.
After having moved about half a mile the fire from the enemy became severe, when I deployed my column, having
been formed
in double column at half distance.
Owing to the dense undergrowth the Eightysecond Indiana became
lost to sight during this movement.
My regiment having been deployed, moved forward on the double-quick, and in descending a precipitous hill in
front of the
enemy's works, became mixed with the Eighty-second Indiana and some regiments
of the Twenty-third Army Corps.
Finding my regiment disorganized by this mixture, I withdrew to the top of the hill, as soon as I saw that no
further advance
was being made by the troops originally in my front, where I reformed and was preparing to move forward to the
point from
which I had withdrawn, when I was ordered by
Lieutenant-Colonel
Grosvenor
, aide-de-camp, to report my regiment to the crest of the hill, a few hundred yards to the right, at
which point I remained until dark, when the brigade was moved to the rear.
On the morning of the 15th the brigade was moved to the right about one mile, where it remained in bivouac until
the morning of the
16th
, when moved to this place, where my regiment has since been stationed.
Nominal list of casualties accompanying this report shows 2 officers and 18 men wounded at Resaca.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,