02 01 1865 Skirmish in McLemore's Cove,TN, in the vicinity of Ringgold, Ga, as the Federals attack and smash a Confederate camp.

RINGGOLD, February 2, 1865.

After leaving camp yesterday morning I learned that Gatewood was in McLemore's Cove with seventy-five men. I therefore marched up the cove road, I being upon his rear during the evening without letting him know that I was there. I waited for him to camp. About 10 o'clock at night I attacked his camp and made a smash of him, killing a number, capturing several horses, guns, &c. I took no prisoners. I was attacked by a squad of bushwhackers to-day. We killed two. I have lost no men, nor had any wounded.

G. A. GOWIN,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Comdg. Sixth Tennessee Mounted Infantry.

Major-General STEEDMAN.
OR V49 Pt. 1, p. 33

John Gatewood of Georgia, a notorious Confederate guerrilla
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