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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
fire of a battery in their front and musketry from the hill above, which drove them back in confusion. When I returned to Dalton after nightfall, it was reported to me that the guard posted in Dug Gap had been driven from it by a regiment of Federal mounted infantry, and without resistance. Fortunately, Granberry's Texas brigade, the foremost of the returning troops of Hardee's corps, had just arrived at the railroad-station and was leaving the train. He was directed to march by the Villanow road, which passes through the Dug Gap, to the foot of the mountain, to bivouac there, and at dawn next morning to recover the position. That gallant officer executed these instructions with the intelligent courage he always exhibited in presence of the enemy. The appearance of a part of his brigade on the crest of the mountain, at a point commanding the Gap, and that of another in front at the same time, dislodged the Federal troops before sunrise, and they abandoned the ground with a