Kept watch over Davenport. About midnight scout went out.
Got a tent from warehouse. Boys got plenty of tobacco from warehouse. Many
stores and private buildings were broken into and plundered. Soon after daylight
the Col. becoming disgusted moved out three miles for breakfast. Ordered back
about noon. Burned 15 cars, three engines and building stored with salt. Any
amount of salt stored here left undisturbed. Burned three bridges and tore up
two miles of track above Bristol. Rained all the afternoon. Camped about two
miles from Blountville — good place. Had charge of Batt.—quite honored. Heard
Lewis Jones.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 93
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