“May 8 to 12.  Battery in position at Mill Creek Gap, near Dalton, and engaged with the enemy.  They fell back to Resaca.  Engaged on the 14th of May in supporting charge by Stewart’s Division upon the enemy.

“On the 15th, battle of Oostenaula.  The battery was divided, one section on each side of a battery in a fortified work.  The charge of the enemy was most desperate, and they captured and held the fortification, but were repulsed from the front of each section of Fenner’s Battery, which held their positions till night, and then evacuated.  Retreat of the army was continued to Calhoun, Adairsville, Cassville, Centerville; engaged more or less at each of those points.

“On the 25th of May occurred the battle of New Hope Church, one of the finest fights of the war.  It was an assault of the whole of Hooker’s Corps on Stewart’s Division.  The attack was almost a complete surprise.  Fenner’s Battery went into position at a gallop, had several horses killed while unlimbering, and fired canister at the first discharge.  The engagement was continuous for two hours, during the whole of which time, owing to the thickness of the woods, the enemy’s skirmishers were enabled to maintain their position within from fifty to one hundred yards, but their repeated charges were well repulsed.  The enemy’s loss was terrific, admitted to be over two thousand, far exceeding the number of our men engaged.  Fenner’s Battery lost twenty-three men killed and wounded, and nearly all of its horses, and was specially complimented in orders for gallantry and efficiency.

“From this point, in continual conflict with the enemy, the army gradually fell back till it reached Atlanta, around which continuous fighting was kept up, until its evacuation on the 2d of September.

“1st September.  Battle of Jonesboro’, in which the battery was engaged.

“This may be considered the end of the Georgia campaign.

“After brief rest at Lovejoy’s Station, the army commenced its long march to Tennessee by Centre, Jacksonville, Gadsden, and Florence.

“Left Florence November 20; arrived at Columbia, Tennessee, and struck the enemy there November 26.  Enemy evacuate on the 28th.

“November 30.  Battle of Franklin.

“December 2.  Reached Nashville.

“December 6.  Fenner’s Battery was ordered to join General Forrest’s command at Murfreesboro’; participated in the battle of Murfreesboro’ on the 8th, and was still with Forrest when the battles of Nashville were fought, on the 15th and 16th, and the great retreat commenced.

“In this fight, which is called the second of Murfreesboro’, it will be remembered that Bates’s Infantry Division was stampeded early in the action, causing the loss of several guns of the Fifth Company, Washington Artillery.  On this occasion (one of the few instances, if not the only one during the war) six pieces of field artillery, being four Napoleons of Fenner’s Battery and two rifled pieces of Missouri Battery, placed in position by General Forrest,—­their horses having been sent to the rear across Stone River,—­held the line for three-quarters of an hour against the enemy’s entire force until the infantry and wagons had safely crossed the river on the only bridge half a mile in the rear.