The skirmish Nov. 9, 1861 along the Burning Fork Northeast of Pikeville after Confederates fled from Ivy Mt. the day before is still technically listed as part of the Ivy Mt. battle by some.
My g-g- grandfather Pvt. William Barker was killed there with his son Henry (my g-grandfather) and his brother-in-law as witnesses.

The account came from an article published in the Lexington paper on 1961 on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Ivy Mt.
According to Green Gevedon who was interviewed by his nephew before his death;

"We had taken our position in the flat above the narrows, each of us with our old squirrel rifles. The Yanks were coming down the Burning Fork with the Cavalry in front passing along the bluff in front of us; and from where we stood we could only see their heads
The Cavalry could do us no harm, but their infantry coming on behind could see us and were pouring bullets in on us, but were our of range of our small bore guns, so we were taking it out on the Cavalry.
Billy Barker and John Pieratt off to our right could not see over the bluff and they were immediately shot down. Henry saw them fall. He placed his gun against a bush and ran down to his father and held his head until his father died.
Then he came back to me, picked up his gun, took the bullets from his pouch and counted them. Then he said to me, 'Green, I have eleven bullets. That means eleven of their scalps for the death of my father'. I watched as he loaded his gun. I saw him load and fire eleven shots and at every shot a Yank fell from his horse. Others were firing at the same time, but I don't believe Henry missed one single shot."

Does anyone have more details about this skirmish along Burning Fork Road? Were there Union deaths? How many?
GB