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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 5 1 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia 2 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
dered to attack the Yankee force and drive him from Booneville. Two of these regiments were commanded, respectively, by Colonel Clanton, of Montgomery, Ala, and Col. Lay, a Virginian, commanding Kentucky cavalry. At the outset our skirmishers were hard pressed by the enemy, and our lines ambuscaded. At this juncture Col. Clantovandals for several miles. Meanwhile five hundred of the picked cavalry of the enemy had been sent to get to the rear of Col. Clanton's regiment. Fortunately, Colonel Lay's regiment was posted on the road by which they moved. On this road was situated our hospital, and the Chaplain had returned to that place, in the ministrationnformed Mr. Hodgson that the enemy's cavalry was at hand. He was quickly in saddle, and, with the enemy thundering at three hundred yards behind him, he reached Col. Lay's position. Line was instantly formed, and as the enemy mounted a hill a lethal volley broke their ranks and scattered them. This "fighting parson" is scar