Left Cowen’s Station
and marched over the Cumberland Mountains to Cumberland Gap or Sweden Valley.
Came upon a camp of General Adams’ rebel cavalry, seven-thousand in number, who
stood us a fight, being the second engagement that we were personally engaged
in. Three fires from our batteries put them to flight; and in following up
their retreat we lost two men out of Colonel Haggerty’s regiment of Kentucky
Cavalry. Our Forces captured a first-rate cooked dinner, just ready to be sit
down to eat; and corn, leather and ammunition of all kinds, haversacks made out
of every sort of material, women’s carpet-sacks and clothes, even down to
babies’ frocks, that these scoundrels had stolen from the Union families of the
valley they had passed through—all of which fell into our hands and those
hellish fiends had to flee from to save capturing of themselves and their whole
army, losing many of their men killed and wounded by our forces, and a number
of prisoners falling into our hands. After dinner we encamped for the night on
their camp or battleground, making a march of 15 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14-5
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