This account is from an Interview with William H.Lipscomb Co.C,later Co.G,9th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry.June,1937,Interview by William E Fowler for his Bachelor Degree requirements,George Peabody College.

Excerpts as follows,"We stayed at Port Hudson for about a year.I was in my first engagement.I remember it well.Nearby us was a place called Jackson College,and there was a Jackson College man in our group,who piloted us there.It had a large building,which was being used for a barracks by Yankee troops.They had a regiment of negroes stationed there.My brother,Arch,was an officer and he led the advance party.I was in the front row.Sixteen of the negroes were on picket duty and heard us coming,but they thought that we were a party of Yankees and lined up along the side of the road to welcome us in.We killed all sixteen of them.Then we attacked the regiment of negroes.They broke and ran,and most of them got away but we killed a good many of them.We didnt take any prisoners.One negro tried to shoot Arch from his horse,but Arch jumped down and caught up with him just as he started to jump a fence,and ran his sword into him.He fell over the fence,and Arch shot him where he fell.Arch's sword was badly bent in the encounter.He brought it home with him,and his family has it now."

Notation..."Mr.Lipscomb died soon after the interview with the writer.After his death,his daughter,Mrs.E.P.Turner,of Columbia,told the writer that in this interview he had talked at greater length about his war experiences then ever before,and that in the interview he told a number of things that he had not previously told anyone."

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