The Seventh O. V. C. occupied the left flank of the 23rd A. C., as they faced the enemy.
We continued our operations on the flank of Gen. Thomas’ army until it reached the fortifications around Nashville.
About the 1st of December, the regiment crossed the Cumberland river and was engaged in guarding ferries below Nashville, patrolling the country as far as Harpeth Shoals, and pressing in horses until the 13th, when we moved to Edgefield opposite Nashville.
Here the cavalry command was reorganized.
The Seventh was assigned to the First Brigade, Sixth Division, Brig-Gen. Johnson, commanding. Col. Garrard having been returned to his command of the Seventh, and Col. Harrison, of Indiana, commanding the brigade.
On the 14th, all the cavalry was brought from the north to the south side of the Cumberland river, and on the following morning, the 15th, at an early hour, everything was in motion.
Our division occupied the extreme right of our army.
As soon as the fog was sufficiently cleared away we marched through our breastworks, the Seventh being placed in the reserve.
Soon fighting commenced in the front along the river below the city. (I should have mentioned that the Sixth Div. had but one brigade in it mounted and that was the First.)
The rebels were soon driven from their first line of works and contested every inch of ground with artillery and musketry, but they were steadily driven back by the two regiments in front of the Seventh.