Myra Inman, a teenager living in Cleveland with her mother, who ran a hotel, has this to say of these two days:

Thursday 26. A cold day. The Yankees are taking our corn, potatoes, port, salt, and never pay a cent and besides talk very insulting to us. . . We try to look on and see them take our things and try to give them up but it is so hard to see it done and can't help our selves. They burnt Mr. Raht's wagon and the railroad and some cars. Two took supper here.

Friday 27. A pleasant day. Our forces attacked Gen. Long's forces, 13 hundred strong, and whipped them. We had 2 cannon and a howitzer, 2 or 3 killed on both sides, several wounded. We were at breakfast when the fight commenced. All of us ran up to get in Mrs. Morrison's cellar. Aunt Elizabeth came in with me. Mrs. Mary Smith was here. We feel very sad this eve, as sad as we were joyous this morn. The soldiers all left town this eve, ordered to Spring Place, Ga. We expected the enemy in tonight. Bragg has fallen back. . . Capt. Nichols, a Lt. from Kentucky, and 4 other soldiers stayed all night at Aunt Elizabeth's. I feel so sad about Bragg's army.

Myra Inman, A Diary of the Civil War in East Tennessee, edited by William R. Snell, Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia 2000

George Martin