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The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Retaliation. (search)
Retaliation. --"Lightning," writing from McMinnville to the Atlanta Confederacy, says: Capt. Davis, of Morgan's brigade, with 150 men, crossed the Cumberland a few days ago, and went within a few miles of Columbia, Ky., where he found a company of the enemy strongly posted in a house, which Davis surrounded, and after a short but hotly contested fight, succeeded in capturing some 25 or 30 of the enemy and about 50 horses. The enemy's loss in casualties was several severely wounded. Capt. Davis succeeded in recapturing nine of our men who were prisoners in the enemy's hands, having been captured near the river the night before. The Yankees had stripped our men of their boots and shoes and forced them to walk barefooted. Capt. Davis, learning this, ordered every Yankee in his hands served likewise, and compelled them to walk to this point, nearly 150 miles. The Yankees complained bitterly, but it was only "tit for tat," and their complaints were not listened to. This is