. Morgan's cavalry . y-six strong—Hunts regiment numbering about three hun-dred and fifty; mine, the Second Kentucky, about threehundred and seventy, and Ganos squadron making up thebalance. Fifty or sixty men, from all the commands, were left atKnoxville for lack of horses. Perhaps two hundred menof this force, with which Morgan commenced the expedi-ton, were unarmed, and a much larger number were badlymounted and provided with the most indifferent saddlesand equipments. The command set out from Knoxville on the morningof the 4th of July, 1862, and took the road to Sparta, alittle place on th
. Morgan's cavalry . y-six strong—Hunts regiment numbering about three hun-dred and fifty; mine, the Second Kentucky, about threehundred and seventy, and Ganos squadron making up thebalance. Fifty or sixty men, from all the commands, were left atKnoxville for lack of horses. Perhaps two hundred menof this force, with which Morgan commenced the expedi-ton, were unarmed, and a much larger number were badlymounted and provided with the most indifferent saddlesand equipments. The command set out from Knoxville on the morningof the 4th of July, 1862, and took the road to Sparta, alittle place on the confines of the rugged mountainouscountry which separates Middle Tennessee from the richvalley of East Tennessee in which Knoxville is is one hundred and four miles from reached it after tolerably hard marching, for the roadwas terribly rough, on the evening of the third day andencamped five miles beyond it on the road to Livingston. While traversing: the resfion between Knoxville and. GrElSr. 3VI O R. Gr A. IsT III Ilk First Uaid into the Of Kfiitucky, July, 18G2. rr= Indicates Gen. Morgana routd.•vavladicatea Federalsrouto. e04LB 30 KILBa TO TBS ll>OB> XV^t
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