7 17 1864 [Sunday]

A diarist of the Thomas Legion (69th N.C.) wrote that “Vaughn’s horses arrived from Grayson County (Virginia).
(38, pp. 45)

We . . . were in sight of Washington City, we then fell back to Winchester Virginia crossing the Potomac river at Leesburg and there met our horses after having walked 648 miles and fought four battles. (166)

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(38) The Forgotten Fury, The Battle of Piedmont, Va., Scott C. Patchan,
Sergeant Kirkland’s Museum and Historical Society, Inc., 1996

(166) Autobiography of Wm. H. Long, 59th Tenn. Cavalry, CSA, Hamblen

County Civil War Letters, Records of East Tennessee, Civil War Records

Vol. 1, Tennessee State Library and Archives