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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Excitement in Knoxville. (search)
Company G thinks he was the last man who swam from the river bank opposite the field of battle. He states that as near as he could judge, from eighty to a hundred soldiers lay wounded and helpless on the bank. Another statement. Corporal Fred'k Piper, of Company P, First California Regiment, was wounded in the right hand, and when he reached the river, he plunged in with his clothes on.--Five or six men sank beside him; their outcries were terrible. "My God!" "Oh, oh!" "Help!" were heard from all parts of the river. He swam with one hand for fifty yards, and struggled on, he hardly knew how, until he reached the opposite bank. To go back: Mr. Piper remained concealed behind a rock, a clump of bushes protecting him from view, until 12 midnight. During this time he saw the enemy's pickets, and heard them challenging our men who struggled, one after another, into their lines. In response to the question "Who goes there?" he often hears the answer, "a friend in distress