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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 170 . retreat of the wild Cat Brigade. (search)
Doc. 170. retreat of the wild Cat Brigade.
A correspondent gives the following minute account of this affair:
Crab Orchard, Ky., Sunday, November 17.
My last letter was written from Camp Coburn, near Crab Orchard.
The Wildcat Brigade, or sorrowful fragments of it, had but just staggered into camp after its disastrous retreat from London, and its tattered remains were still straggling up the rugged road miles in the rear, animated by hope of finally reaching a haven of rest.
As t ay in the last stage of exhaustion.
I gave them whiskey to revive them.
I could do nothing else.
I was compelled to leave them with their comrades, and attend to the sick of my own regiment.
They probably died of exhaustion.
Crab Orchard, November 17.
The Thirty-eighth Ohio and the Thirty-third Indiana are coming in slowly.
The former was more deliberate, but suffered its proportion.
The latter are sleeping in the woods without tents.
I know not whether the Tennesseans have got back
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 216 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 229 . fight at Munfordsville, Ky. (search)