On January 31, 1865 " . . . General Steedman, back at Chattanooga, reported he had sent Gowin's 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry toward
Sumerville, Georgia, via LaFayette. On February 2, at Ringgold, Georgia, Colonel Gown reported the previous night he had attacked the guerrilla
leader, Gatewood, with 75 men in McLemore's Cove, killing 14, and routing the remainder with the loss of most of their horses and arms."

Tennesseans in the Civil War, Part 1, p. 359