Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Tennessee river” in article 2 of The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...n last Friday with a brigade for Knoxville, leaving only two regiments to guard it.
The reported fight sent you Wednesday evening by telegraph is said to have taken place at Cotton Port, on the Tennessee river .
It still remains uncontradicted, and is credited here. O. K.
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