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How the Confederates left Cumberland, Gap.

--When the Confederates evacuated their fortifications at Cumberland Gap, they had no commissary stores, cotton, or tobacco insured, they fired the mountains at various points in order to light their way by the blaze.

The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 5, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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