Evelyn Rard, Good for you. The location of "Lamb's Gap" should be documented.
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Now the question is: Is Lamb's Gap mentioned in any of the Civil War era documents?
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This A.W. Sparks article was written in 1901 but it reads as if that is what that place was called in 1861.
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From A.W. Sparks' "Recollections of the Great War" (1901) p15.
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"... From this point Captain Whaley was sent in advance to procure subsistence for the men and horses, and this writer was one of the detail to go with him. At Lamb's Gap, Capt. Whaley was making a purchase of a hog for meat from an Indian who spoke but very little of the language. About all I could make out was that the hog was big and fat and wild and that he, the seller, could go to the mountains and kill him, the hog, for the price named. The trade was made and the Indian, mounted on his pony, with his six shooter without the revolving apparatus, set out for the mountain and brought the hog in, and, behold, when the hog was delivered HE was an old woods sow in a very short time of bringing pigs. ..."
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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