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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Success of Gen. Roddy (search)
us the news of the capture of Athens, Ala., by Brig. Gen. Roddy. They are direct from Tuscumbia, and obtained their information from a Lieutenant of the command, whom they fell in with on their way here. Gen. Roddy contemplated moving on Athens in two columns. He sent Johnson's cavalry regiment and a battalion of cavalry not yet organized across the Tennessee below Florence, to move up the river on the north side, while the General himself, with about 350 cavalry of Hannan's regiment and Moreland's battalion, proceeded up the river on the south side to Brown's Ferry, about 16 miles from Athens. He dismounted his men at the ferry, crossed on flat boats, and marched on foot to Athens. Several hundred men, who were garrisoning the town, after a slight skirmish fled, leaving Roddy in possession of the town. He captured about thirty prisoners, over a hundred horses and mules, and a considerable quantity of quartermaster, commissary, and sutler stores, and destroyed all the enemy's ten