out where things were concealed,
and then! Oh, then! take a regular nigger laugh when the Yanks "went
in." However, about noon on the 28th, the command having left
Sandersville, arrived on the west bank of Rocky Comfort creek. The
bridge over this stream being burnt, it was obliged to wait till late
in the evening before a crossing could be effected into Louisville,
where it went into camp one mile east of the town.

At this camp, on the evening of the 29th, Colonel Fahnestock took his
regiment on picket, and on the next day fought a force of the enemy's
cavalry which was making a demonstration on our lines in several
places, keeping the pickets on the maneuver most of the day.

At the first alarm of the enemy on the lines of the Eighty-sixth, the
Colonel ordered his men to advance to a line two hundred yards to his
front and throw up a line of barricades for protection.

While this was being done a constant fire was kept up on the rebels,
whose course was soon turned, being compelled to withdraw in confusion
across a large cornfield. When they reached the farther side of this
field they formed their lines, and also threw up a line of barricades
which they held until late in the afternoon, when the regiment charged
them away and took possession, and following them up for more than a
mile, returned. Though the casualties of the regiment in this day's
skirmish were not great, the excitement, nevertheless, ran high. Its
loss was four missing or captured. The company loss was as follows: Co.
A, two; Co. F, one; Co. K, one.

The foragers from our division on this occasion were made to suffer
severely. The enemy came upon them so suddenly that they were unable to
get back to the lines; not a few of them were killed and captured, and
many of them, being overbalanced with wines, were shot in cold blood.

On the first of December, the division moved from Louisville in the
direction of Millen, and crossing on its route, Big, Dry and Spring
creeks, camped a short distance to the east of the latter. It had the
corps train in charge, while the other two divisions moved on the right
and left to protect it.

The next day a deflection was made in the line of march of our
division, caused by the change of direction of the 20th Corps, its
course being turned northward, crossing Buckhead and Rocky creeks, on
pontoons laid for that purpose, and camping on the night of the 3rd at
Lumpkin's on the railroad. On the next day Carlin's an