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Upon retiring as above mentioned, reinforcements were seen coming up under General Asboth. In a gallant attempt to resist the advancing column of the enemy, General Asboth received a severe wound in the arm. After the terrible conflict of the day our gallant troops bivouacked in front of the enemy, awaiting the reopening of the conflict in the morning. Colonel Vandever fought Little's Division.
Olympian Springs.-Second Ohio, Colonel Harris. Cynthiana, Kentucky.-Thirty-fifth Ohio, Colonel Vandever. Nicholasville, Kentucky.-Twenty-first Ohio, Colonel Norton; Thirty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Bradley. Big Hill.-Seventeenth Ohio, Colonel Connell. Colesburg.-Twenty-fourth Illinois, Colonel Hecker. Elizabethtown, Kentucky.-Nineteenth Illinois, Colonel Turchin.
Our men fought like heroes; many fell covered with wounds. The latter, when brought to the rear by their comrades, encouraged those who were still breasting the fierce cannonade, by hurrahing for the Union. Colonel Vandever, in leading forward his brigade, had his horse hit twice, and Colonel Phelps, in the van of his own Regiment, had three horses shot under him.
These men, and some others, had been sent away because they had no weapons with which to enter the fight. Immediately on learning this, Colonel Vandever dispatched a courier to General Curtis, and prepared to set out on his return to the main army. We marched six miles before nightfall, and at midnight, while we were endeavoring to sleep, a courier joined us from the commander-in-chief.
There were several flouring mills in the vicinity of our camp, which were kept in constant activity for the benefit of the army. I accompanied an expedition, commanded by Colonel Vandever, of the Ninth Iowa, to the town of Huntsville, thirty-five miles distant. Our march occupied two days, and resulted in the occupation of the town and the dispersal of a small camp of Rebels.
As soon as I saw, near the middle of the day, the formation of the enemy, I knew that I could not hold the extended line we were covering, and I commenced drawing in my right and closing on Vandever until I backed down through an open field that had been cleared, and where the logs had been hauled to the lower edge of the slope to make a fence.
The firing of the artillery and the sharp skirmish firing of my movement satisfied Colonel Carr that the enemy was in force in my front, and he immediately sent back word for his other Brigade, Commanded by Colonel Vandever, of the Ninth Iowa Infantry, to come to the rear, now our front.
Olympian Springs.-Second Ohio, Colonel Harris. Cynthiana, Kentucky.-Thirty-fifth Ohio, Colonel Vandever. Nicholasville, Kentucky.-Twenty-first Ohio, Colonel Norton; Thirty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Bradley. Big Hill.-Seventeenth Ohio, Colonel Connell. Colesburg.-Twenty-fourth Illinois, Colonel Hecker. Elizabethtown, Kentucky.-Nineteenth Illinois, Colonel Turchin.
As I moved out I passed right in sight of a column of the Confederate forces, who evidently had come out of the hollow and were forming to again attack Vandever. They probably thought I was a portion of their force, for they made no demonstration towards me, and I passed right by them.
Olympian Springs.-Second Ohio, Colonel Harris. Cynthiana, Kentucky.-Thirty-fifth Ohio, Colonel Vandever. Nicholasville, Kentucky.-Twenty-first Ohio, Colonel Norton; Thirty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Bradley. Big Hill.-Seventeenth Ohio, Colonel Connell. Colesburg.-Twenty-fourth Illinois, Colonel Hecker. Elizabethtown, Kentucky.-Nineteenth Illinois, Colonel Turchin.
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