...-ninth regiment O. V. U. S. A., Colonel Fyffe; the battalion of Kentucky Volunteers under Colonel Charles A. Marshall, and two sections of artillery, Captain Konkle, and took the State road direct to Pikeville , twenty-eight miles. Some eight miles from Prestonburg they met a picket of about forty cavalry and fired on them, but, having no cavalry, they escaped easily. At one P. M. the column had advanced ...