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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Repulse of Federal raid on Knoxville July , 1863 . (search)
Repulse of Federal raid on Knoxville July, 1863. By Capt. B. F. Wyly.
Atlanta, Ga., January 3, 1880. Dr. H. Jos. Warmuth, Formerly Surgeon Ninth Georgia Battalion of Artillery:
Dear Sir,--Your kind favor of 21st ult. received and contents duly noted.
I have always had so little thirst for notoriety that I do not now recollect all the particulars of the efforts of my battery to protect the Confederate stores and depots at Knoxville, Tenn., from destruction by the Federal raiders under the command of the Federal Colonels Bird and Sanders on the occasion referred to (in the summer of 1863), but will cheerfully state what I do remember.
About July, 1863, Major Leyden, commanding the Ninth Georgia Battalion of Artillery, then stationed at Knoxville, Tenn., received an order to move his command of five batteries of artillery in the direction of Cumberland Gap as rapidly as possible to intercept or check the advance of the Federal raiders, commanded as heretofore said, who were