Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-30
CONTEMPLATION.

Editors Nashville Union and american Som,
one styling himself y ]. c." IN your paper
If the 18th instant processes to give description
If the late skirmish st Cheat Mountain between a
portion of Col Savage's reg ment of Tennessee vol
unteers and 4 small force OF the enemy. In giving
this description he makes the folio wing statement
20, wit:
In the morning just as we had flashed drying snt
reloadng Our ~ a sharp firing commenced be-
tween billiards. company and a scouting party of
one hundred of the Cheat Mountain forces who
were crossing over TO the HuttOnsville camps bu
had stopped ct the foot of the m luntain for the
night TIE two parties came upon each other suTpr
sing both. A fierce fight ensued lasting about TWEEN
ty minutes,when billiard ordered his men to charge
Say nnets the enemy retreated at the top of their
| speed leaving seventeen of their number killed
and SIS many taken prisoners When we got to the
foot of the hill they out of sight One man OF
Savage's regiment was kiled-Alf Martin from
Warren county. He broke ranks from his company
and ran in advance Of the vaa company. He was
shot at distance Of three hundred yards wi h a.
Enfield rife, the ball striking him in the eye, killing
him instantly
J J c. in saying the fight commenced between
| Dill ards company and the enemy is mistaken.
On the morning o. the skrmish Lieut. March
banks, Of Ceptsin Coffee company, was command
ing the resF guard of Ssyages regiment this guard
as have been informed, was constituted of only
thirteen soldiers; by some arrangement this guard
on the morning of the skiTmish was placed in adj
vance of the regiment, and instead Of the fizht com
menciDg between Captain billiards. company and the
enemy 1t commenced between the rear guard, com,
Danded by Lieut. Marchbsnks, and the enemy a.
will appear from the following statement Of Lieut.
Denton, owit:
II have seen statement Of J. J. c., in the USIoN
AND AMERICAN of the 18th instant, am second Lieu
tenant IN Captain BILLIARDS company, and can say
that j. J. c. is mistaken about saying that the ighi
commenced between Captain billiards. company
snd the enemy. The Fighting commenced between
the rear guard of the right commanded by Lieut.
George Mprchbanks of Captain Golfers company
while Captains Billiards and YOrk's companies
were on their way down the mountain and perhaps
200 yards or more from them, and as soon as said
companies arrived at the point where tie rear
guard and the enemy were engaged. said cOmps-
MES engaged with them, and after exchanging SOM
eight or ten rounds, were ordered by Col. Savage
TO ehsrge them, which they did, and the enemy 1sd
loOsing about eighteen killed, and perhaps, some
twenty FIVE wounded and eighteen prisoners. / was
present and knOwI am not mistaken TO the above:
1t occurred early on the morning Of the 18th Sep
tdmber. q DENTON,
Lieutenant, Captain DuLARDs' company,
18th Regiment Tennessee.
Lieutenant MsrchbHnks wrote to me after the
skirmish and on the 18th of SEPTEMBER from that
letter Icopy the following paragraph.
while we were on thS side of the mountain l
commanded the rear guard which at day break was
sent down to the foot OF the mountain. On srriv-
ing there We discovered q scouting party Of the
envy, reported by prisoner TO number 200 in all
they were sc2' red al over the little field in the
bottom, Sa'. Vien they discovered US, sone of the
started towards US upon which we retreated a fe
yards up the mountain and awaited their approsch
As soon as their heads appeared, l told the
guard to fife upon them which they did wounding
the two in advance, the others retreated down the
hill, joining those who remained IN the bottom we
rushed down and fred upon them from the edge of
the woods and kept up the fire until some Of the
companies came up"
Lieutenant AArchbanks IS my son. and is now in
our army in Virginia, lis absence is my apology for
interfering to have the mistake above referred to
corrected. A. J. MARCHBASKs.
Warren county, 28th Oct 1881.
The Episcopal Convention, in session at Column
bia, has finally determined that the name of the
Church in the South shall be The Protestant Eps-
copal Church in the Confederate States of Ameri-
ca"