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From William H. Osborne, History of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Boston, 1877.
P. 259 [refering to the fight at Blue Springs, Tenn.]
...Custer's men had slowly retired before the Confederates, and passed to our rear, when the order came for our two brigades [Humphrey's and Christ's of the 1st Div., 9th Corps] to charge. The men rose to their feet and went forward at a rapid run, with arms aport and bayonets fixed, up the hill. The enemy, closely followed by our men, fell back rapidly down the hill, across the rivulet, into and through a belt of woods, where the pursuit ended by the direct orders of our generals. Here Colonel Christ re-formed his Brigade, to carry one of the Condfederate batteries that had begun to fire shell into our lines....
P. 259 [refering to the fight at Blue Springs, Tenn.]
...Custer's men had slowly retired before the Confederates, and passed to our rear, when the order came for our two brigades [Humphrey's and Christ's of the 1st Div., 9th Corps] to charge. The men rose to their feet and went forward at a rapid run, with arms aport and bayonets fixed, up the hill. The enemy, closely followed by our men, fell back rapidly down the hill, across the rivulet, into and through a belt of woods, where the pursuit ended by the direct orders of our generals. Here Colonel Christ re-formed his Brigade, to carry one of the Condfederate batteries that had begun to fire shell into our lines....