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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Cumberland Gap. (search)
7th, when a report came from our signal station on the crest of the mountain that a flag of truce from the enemy was approaching. This was in reality a party of observation. I therefore sent Lieutenant-Colonel Gallup, with a small escort and a few shrewd officers, to meet the enemy's flag outside our picket lines. The officers on either side were laughing and joking together, when suddenly a glare of fire shone from the valley at the foot of the Gap and a volume of smoke curled over Poor Valley Ridge. One of the Confederates exclaimed, Why, Colonel, what does that mean? It looks like an evacuation. With admirable coolness and address Gallup replied, Not much. Morgan has cut away the timber obstructing the range of his guns, and they are now burning the brush on the mountain-side. This off-hand explanation was apparently satisfactory, but the fact was that some reckless person had fired a quartermaster's building,--a criminal blunder that might have cost us dear. On the night