He also said that Forrest’s cavalry had refused to fight any more and these brigades of infantry were ordered to hold us until they could get their trains out of our reach.
We fell back about four hundred yards and reformed.
In this affair, I am most happy to state we did not lose a single man. Our losses in horses was twenty-eight.
The rebels captured the 4th U. S. battery which belonged to our brigade.
This battery was situated on our left about a mile and supported by the 4th U. S. cavalry.
After the capture of our artillery the enemy at once commenced their retreat, as was ascertained by throwing forward Hatch’s Division, leaving their dead and wounded on the field.
This finished Christmas day’s work, a Christmas long to be remembered by the 7th O. V. C.
This was the last sight our brigade got of the rebels, except a few wounded ones lying along the road, and a few stragglers picked up, but a severe fight occurred at Sugar creek on the 26th between our advance and their rear.
We followed the enemy to near Florence where they crossed the Tennessee river.
After remaining two days in camp we marched to Mooresville with the Huntsville and Stevenson railroad sixteen miles distant, where we rested from our labors ten days, and then marched to Gravelly Springs, Ala., reaching there January 14th, 1865.