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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements of the enemy in Mississippi. (search)
Adventures of a Confederate officer. A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal, published at Atlanta, Georgia, says that some three months since Col, Bob. Martin, 10th Ky., Morgan's cavalry, asked for and obtained a leave of absence for ninety days to travel for his health, which had been much impaired by a gunshot wound in the right breast, greatly effecting his lungs and causing hemorrhage. Quickly collecting 15 men, he moved, not to our rear, but through Middle Tennessee into Southern was surprised on a dark, rainy night, just as he was preparing to retire, having divested himself of his hat, coat, pistol, and boots. The enemy approached from a point deemed inaccessible, and the first intimation of their coming received by Col. Martin was a volley fired at himself and men at less than ten paces distant. To beat a hasty retreat, without hat, coat, pistol, or boots, was the only course left the gallant Colonel; so, darting through the crowd with the speed of an antelope, he