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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 225 (search)
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212.-the fight at Augusta, Kentucky.
Report of Colonel Bradford.
Augusta, Ky., Oct. 12, 1862.
on the morning of the twenty-seventh, I despatched a messenger (Mr. Cleveland) to the Belfast, and Allen Collier, the latter having first arrived, that our scouts reported the rebel cavalry coming, from four to five hundred strong, with two pieces of artillery, and to make all the necessary preparation on their part.
The Captain of the Collier sent me word he would remain there an hAugusta, Ky., Oct. 12, 1862.
on the morning of the twenty-seventh, I despatched a messenger (Mr. Cleveland) to the Belfast, and Allen Collier, the latter having first arrived, that our scouts reported the rebel cavalry coming, from four to five hundred strong, with two pieces of artillery, and to make all the necessary preparation on their part.
The Captain of the Collier sent me word he would remain there an hour, or for further orders.
In half an hour I started to the boats, when I found the Collier rounding out. I despatched a man on horseback down the river-shore to hail her and bring her back, but she did not obey the orders.
I went on board the Belfast to give directions personally as to the manner of the fight, and the rules I desired both boats to observe in the fire from the boats.
When I arrived on the Belfast I was told by Captain Sedam that the Allen Collier had left to obey a signal fr