Show LIVELY SCRAP IN TENNESSEE Interesting Account of Calf Killer of or Dug Hill Battle Twenty Battle Twenty Out of 72 Get Away I 1 have never read an account of what hat Is known as the Calf Calt Killer Jr ar Dug Hill battle In White county Tennessee Fennessee I dont don't recollect the date of Jf the battle but It was some ome time In 1864 two Seventy-two of ot VB tie s followed hamp Ferguson the noted guerrilla ill all day until about four o clock In the evening and they set a trap for us ind we didn't do thing out but ride Into It I and anti two more comrades were advance advance ad ad- vance guards and we were some four hundred bundled yards In advance writes John V W T. T Clark bugler First Tennessee Tennes Tenses see M. M T. T D. D In the National Tribune I As we were riding along at ease I I noticed fresh horse tracks In the roa road f looked up the road about one hundred hun hun- dred fired yards yaros and saw two Johnnies sitting sitting sit sit- ting on their horses with guns lying across their saddles and I said Boys Doys yonder onder stand two confederates Suppose we get them I raised my old navy took tool good aim and opened on them The Johnnies broke as we thought for life I was bugler I sounded the double double- quick charge signal and lit out after them and about the time the company company com com- pany pan caught up we spied two lines of battle formed One line was up to our right on high ground about three hundred feet above us We were In Inthe inthe the Dug Hill road which ranged around the mountain about six hundred hundred hun hun- dred yards from where we entered It At the loose end of this hill was another another another an an- other line of battle By this time another another an an- other line had bad formed behind us and the Johnnies were firing cross-firing on us three ways We Ve had a close call As AsI I recollect It 20 out of ot the 72 got out John M. M Hughes colonel commandIng command command- Ing the Tenth Tennessee was back In Inthe Inthe inthe the mountains picking up deserters and conscripting that country He had gathered about seven hundred Including In in- eluding old Champ Fergusons Ferguson's band of robbers and murderers and they were the ones we were fighting We fought our way back the way wayve we ve came In We fired every round of ammunition In the company and then used our sabers This little fight lasted from four o'clock until about six The smoke was so dense that you could not pot tell one man from an an- other Lieutenant Emick Stone of the theold theold old DId Fifth Tennessee cavalry was In I command About six o'clock r on one I I Johnny ball hall passed so close to my my head that It left a blister bister all aU the way across my forehead just above my I eyes Just after that another cut cutI a n l s iq l I Iv v I Sounded the Quick Double Charge sly ny bridle reins In two between my myland sand land and my horses horse's neck We were all pretty close together ind and we started almost straight up tho the mountain I in the rear by this time A A. confederate caught my horse by the I tall taU and ordered me to surrender I didn't have a lead In el either her of my navies and as I was bugler I wasn't supposed to carry a gun I 1 drew my sword and gave a right-hand right back cut and I was free from him I think we wo lost 52 men At least half one that number surrendered to Colonel Huse as he was a regular soldier sol sol- dier ller and promised to protect them He Helid Helid Helid lid so by DY passing them back to the ear to old Champ who shot them In old cold blood We Ve got this Information rom a couple of old negroes and hey said that we killed more of them ban han they did of us We were 12 miles from Sparta fenn Tenn and arrived there about two clock About four tour o'clock clock Pickett ame In He reported that he was taken aken prisoner and took the o oath th to lever sever take up arms against the south 10 o he resigned his office and went lome some and I think of all aU the nervous nen flea I ever saw during the tho war he vas the worst worst The next day we went back through hat country with picked men men men- hat Is la men who volunteered to go goud gond gond go- go nd ud not a confederate could we find n arms |