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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Official list of casualties in the Belmont battle. (search)
A son of Senator Pickens, of Sevier county, Tennessee, was mortally wounded in the attempt to burn the bridge at Strawberry Pleasant few days since. Young Pickens is reported as one of the incendiaries who attacked the sentinel and set fire to the bridge. He was the man shot by the brave sentinel who so gallantly defended the bridge alone. A son of Senator Pickens, of Sevier county, Tennessee, was mortally wounded in the attempt to burn the bridge at Strawberry Pleasant few days since. Young Pickens is reported as one of the incendiaries who attacked the sentinel and set fire to the bridge. He was the man shot by the brave sentinel who so gallantly defended the bridge alone.