[186] Rebellion Record, vol. xxxi. part i. p. 680.
[187] Since those days the name of Holston has been changed to the Tennessee.
[188] Writing of these operations since the war, General E. M. Law, in an article in the Philadelphia Weekly Press of July 18, 1888, said,—
“During the night the sounds of retreat continued, and when daylight came the valley about Lenoir presented the scene of an encampment deserted with ignominious haste.”
But he did not take the trouble to report the retreat until nearly twenty-five years after the war. Had he done so at the proper time the work at Campbell’s Station would have been in better season.
[189] Rebellion Record, vol. xxxi. part i. p. 526.
[190] Rebellion Record, vol. xxxi. part i. p. 491.
[191] Rebellion Record.
[192] Rebellion Record.
[193] Ibid.