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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Pegram 's fight in Kentucky . (search)
Gen. Pegram's fight in Kentucky.
--The Knoxville Register has an account of Gen. Pegram's fight near Somerset, Ky., from persons who participated in it. The first most important collision he had with the enemy was at Danville.
The enemy only made a show of fight, and on a gallant charge being made upon them by Col. Ashby's regiment, they fled at a rapid rate, and could not be over taken.
The Register says:
During the fight at Danville, or immediately afterwards, Gen. Pegram learned there was a force of twelve hundred of the enemy at Lancaster, who, expecting he would be defeated at Danville, intended to cut off his retreat.
On learning, however, their friends were defeated, they retreated themselves, and went so rapidly Gen. Pegram could not overtake them.
Gen. Pegram then fell back with his whole command to within a mile or two of Somerset, intending to recross the Cumberland river and make his headquarters in the neighborhood of Monticello.
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