they fell back into the woods in confusion. The enemy, under
cover of the woods on the slope of the ridge, now advanced against our
right. Christ's brigade, of our division, at once changed front. Buckley
executed the same movement with his battery, and, by a well-directed
fire, checked the enemy's progress in that direction. The enemy next
manoeuvred to turn our left. Falling back, however, to a stronger
position in our rear, we established a new line about four o'clock in
the afternoon. This was done under a heavy fire from the enemy's
batteries. Ferrero was now on the right of the road. Morrison's brigade
was placed in rear of a rail fence, at the foot of the ridge on which
Benjamin's battery had been planted. The enemy did not seem inclined to
attack us in front, but pushed along the ridge, on our left, aiming to
strike Hartranft in flank and rear. He was discovered in this attempt;
and, just as he was moving over ground recently cleared, Roemer,
changing front at the same time with Hartranft, opened his three-inch
guns on the Rebel line, and drove it back in disorder, followed by the
skirmishers. Longstreet, foiled in all these attempts to force us from
our position, now withdrew beyond the range of our guns, and made no
further demonstrations that day. Our troops were justly proud of their
success; for, with a force not exceeding five thousand men, they had
held in check, for an entire day, three times their own number,--the
flower of Lee's army. Our loss in the Ninth Corps was twenty-six killed,
one hundred and sixty-six wounded, and fifty-seven missing. Of these,
the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts lost one officer and three enlisted men
killed, three officers and fourteen enlisted men wounded, and three
enlisted men missing.

At six o'clock, P. M., Ferrero's division, followed by Hartranft's,
moved to the rear, taking the road to Knoxville. White's division of the
Twenty-third Corps covered the retreat. Campbell's Station is a little
more than sixteen miles from Knoxville; but the night was so dark, and
the road so muddy, that our progress was much retarded, and we did not
reach Knoxville till about four o'clock the next morning. We had now
been without sleep forty-eight hours. Moreover, since the previous
morning we had marched twenty-four miles and fought a battle. Halting
just outside of the town, weary and worn, we threw ourselves on the
ground, and snatched a couple of hours of sleep. Early in the day--it
was t