There was some fighting south of town this morning and there
is still some skirmishing. Old Patrick and several other citizens left, for
they were afraid that the rebels would catch them and hang them. They had
violated their oaths to support the Confederacy and then when the Union army
took this section they had sworn to support the United States, and now thinking
that this place would be retaken, they got out so as not to fall into the hands
of the rebels.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 66
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