To Maj Gen Rousseau From RH Milroy Dec 6 1864

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	   Fortress Rosecrans 
 
                    Murfreesboro Tenn. Dec. 6th 1864 
 
 
 
	          General 
 
 
 
		        In obedience to your Orders, I 
proceeded on the afternoon of the 4th inst. to the relief of 
the Blockhouse at Overalls Creek, Four and one half 
miles North of this Place on the Nashville s Chattanooga  
Rail Road, which was besieged by a considerable 
Rebel force with artillery. I took with me by your 
Order the 8th Reg. Minn.. I. V. Infy. & Reg. Ill.  
I. V. Infy. 174 Reg. O. V. Infy. and a section of the  
13 N.Y. Artillery under Lieut. McFurrin. I proceeded  
on the Nashville Pike to Overalls Creek, where I 
found the 13th Ind. Cavalry (Col. Johnson) who 
preceded me some hours, engaged in skirmishing with 
the Enemy’s sharp-shooters, who were deployed across 
the Creek. I threw Lieut. McFurrin with his section 
of Artillery forward to the bluff of the Creek, who 
engaged the Enemy’s Battery in gallant style, which 
was pivoted on an eminence about 900 yards 
distant, on the opposite side of the Creek, between 
the Rail Road and the Nashville Pike. 
 
 
 
         I at once deployed the 61st Ill. as skirmishers, and 
sent up the 8th Minn. to the Blockhouse, at the Rail Road 
crossing about half a mile below the Pike, with the  
orders to cross there if practicable, and flank the Rebel 
Battery on the right. I then advanced the skirmi- 
shers across the Creek, most of them crossing the