The long marches cripples Huddard’s feet and he is forced to ride in the ambulance in the early October. Marching through Kentucky, the 1st Ohio misses the battle of Perryville. While marching back to Nashville, one hundred and fifty of the regiment are captured by John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate cavalry. When he sees brick chimneys at the headquarters, Huddard is assured that the regiment will be there for some time. At the end of November, Huddard realizes that the rebels are massing near Murfreesboro. At present it looks as if we should have a pretty hard battle at Murfreesboro and that the men are all anxious for a fight and say the sooner, the better, he writes on December 15.