Having blockaded the roads over the mountains near
Jacksborough, and believing the fortifications at Cumberland Gap very strong,
our General did not think an army train of the enemy could pass the mountains
anywhere between the Pound Gap, in Virginia, and Jacksborough, a distance of
about one hundred and twenty miles.1 Therefore, leaving orders for
his brigade to take up the line of march again the next morning in the
direction of Wartburg, General Zollicoffer went in person to Knoxville to
obtain more definite information of the state of things along the line of the railroad
and among the tories generally.
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1 Rebellion Records, Vol. IV., p. 244.
SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's
Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 81-
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