found this account of the fight at liberty gap and a metion of union troops over running the camp of the 15th Arkansas
On the morning of June 24, 1863, McCook's XX Corps marched south out of Murfreesboro. A soft rain had begun to fall, a rain which would become heavier as the day progressed, turning the roads into a muddy mess. In the lead was the mounted infantry of Col. Harrison's 39th Indiana Volunteers. Willich's Brigade was to drive the enemy out of Liberty Gap and then keep it occupied while the main thrust was carried out by General Thomas at Hoover's Gap, a few miles to the east.
Near 2 p.m., Harrison approached Liberty Gap and called a halt, sending back for support. The crest of the hills forming the northern entrance to Liberty Gap were steep, open half way to the top and then wooded. A fence ran along the base where rebel skirmishers were deployed. General Willich pushed the brigade forward toward the gap. His lead regiment, the 15th Ohio, deployed in an open field to the right of the road leading into the gap. The 49th Ohio deployed to the left. General WIllich now stood before the imposing hills of Liberty Gap and he didn't like what he saw. A frontal assault was out of the question. He estimated that he would lose ten to one by direct assault. He ordered his lead regiments to extend their lines in an effort to find the enemies flank.
On the right, Col. Frank Askew, just recently returned to the regiment after being severely wounded at Stone River, deployed two companies, A and B, as skirmishers. He advanced but a short distance when he halted and extended his line further to the right. He did so by moving Co. C, I and E to the right with Co. K in reserve. He was still outflanked. Askew sent word back to General Willich that he needed help in order to extend his lines and overlap the Rebel flank. Willich responded by sending the 29th Indiana in on the right of the 15th. The left of the 15th's line was engaging the rebel skirmishers at the bottom of the hill. Goodspeed's artillery went to work with good effect, assisting both the 15th and 49th.
On the left, Col. Gibson of the 49th Ohio had the same problem with two companies of the 32nd Indiana moving up to support the 49th. Gibson's regiment launched an all out assault to take the gap. Frances Kiene recorded the event in his diary. "...when we had nearly gained the hill, hte rebels mad one more effort to drive us back and for a moment our line in the center wavered but just then our gallant adjutant dashed forward and urged the men onward...the move was successful...one more dash and the hill was ours and a hearty cheer told us that we were gaining. Co. I had been in reserve till now but now we relieved Co. C and deployed out, when we again moved forward on this side of the hill. We found the camp of the 15th Arkansas, whom we had been fighting on the hill...they had left most of their tents sitting and many knapsacks were left..a table was left setting that was set for supper."
On the right, the 77th Pennsylvania had outflanked the rebel line. The 15th Ohio and 29th Indiana charged up the slopes to find the 5th Arkansas falling back to a point a hal a mile away. The brigade drove ahead to Liberty Church, having cleared the northern entrance to the gap. With darkness coming on, the men halted. Fighting in a drenching rain and rough terrain had taken its toll. Darkness was welcomed.
As the sun rose on the morning of June 25th, Willich moved his brigade to the front and relieved Baldwin's Brigade. As the men finished breakfast, the 32nd Indiana was sent to the left with the 15th Ohio in reserve and the 89th Illinois went to the right with the 49th Ohio in reserve. By nine a.m. skirmishing broke out along the entire line. The Confederates were pressing the brigade and feeling out the positions held by Willich's men. By mid-afternoon, Confederate General Liddill, believing that Willich was withdrawing, began to press the Union lines. With ammunition running low, General Willich ordered Colonel Askew to relieve the 32nd Indiana. Askew wasted no time going into action. "I immediately deployed the battalion as skirmishers and moved forward to the line of the 32nd Indiain...We opened a fire on the enemy, who were posted opposite our left on the hill across the valley and along a fence, around a cornfield and about the house in the valley nest the road. We had a good position and our men were mostly under cover, so that the enemy did us little damage on the left of our line, althought they kept up a brisk fire from their line and from a battery posted on a hill a short distance in rear of their line and also from a mountain howitzer posted in the road near a house in our front. The right of our line, Companies A, F, D, and H which were in the woods on the top of the hill, together with that part of the 32nd Indiana and 89th Illinois which were on picket duty there, encountered a very spirited attack of the enemy, who I have no doubt, designed to drive us from the summit of the hill, which in their possession would have made our whole line untenable and compelled us to fall back. They were gallantly met and repulsed...".
Captain Amos Glover was in command of Co. A when the rebel attack came. "Our line is being driven rapidly when we reinforce and by a desperate and quick fight succeed in checking them and breaking their line which caused their entire left to fall back and our right is saved from what appeared to be inevitable defeat. I presume thaere has been few occasions when so much depended upon so small a force and never did any men meet the call for a determined desperate fight then did my little handful of brave men."
It was indeed a desperate fight, with acts of heroism abounding. Writing after the battle, Col. Askew made special note of one such deed. "It is the case of James E. Ramage, (see photo page) a private of his company (A), who in the hot fight on top of the hill, on the 25th of June, fell mortally wounded. Immediately rising to a sitting posture, he grasped his rifle again and calling to a comrade, "I am giving them my last shot," fired his gun and fell back exhausted by the pain of his wound and this his last effort to punish the traitor to his country. When the Captain approached him, he cheerfully said, "Tell my father I fell with my face toward the enemy." "
Between 5 and 6pm, with ammunition exhausted in his other regiments, General Willich ordered forward the 49th Ohio. This was to be the first time that General Willich's Advance Firing would be used in battle. The brigade cheered as the 49th moved forward to the charge. Col. Gibson gave the order to advance firing! By the second volley, the enemy wavered. By the fourth volley they broke and ran. The battle was over. Willich's brigade held the field.
On the evening of June 26th, the Brigade withdrew through the gap to join the rest of the army. Willich's orders had been to seize and hold the gap and he had done just that. Two days later, the brigade passed through Hoover's Gap where General Thomas had defeated the Rebels a few days before.
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