A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial thus narrates the manner in which this brave General recently routed the enemy from their fastness in the Cumberland mountain:
“There were five hundred rebels intrenched on the summit of the Cumberland Mountain, at Pound Gap. – The General ascended the mountain with his infantry by an unfrequented path, three miles below the Gap, and while his cavalry, by advancing along the main road, and making a vigorous attack in front, drew the rebels a short distance down from the summit, the infantry advanced along the ridge and completely routed them, after a fight of less than twenty minutes. They abandoned everything. After chasing the flying fugitives six miles into Virginia, and quartering his men over night in their captured camp, the General burned their barracks, consisting of sixty log huts, together with a large quantity of stores. The rebels lost seven killed and wounded. Nobody hurt on our side.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 1, 1862, p. 2
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