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Re: Rogersville under Confederate control

There was a lot of skrmishing back & forth, in the area going on during the fall of 1864, this might help:

10 07 1864 [Friday]

Sgt. W. S. H. Smith, Co. A, 43rd Tenn. Cav. CSA [Vaughn's Brigade], was captured at Rogersville, Hawkins Co., Tenn.

Lt A. Guinn and Pvt. J. H. Guinn, Co. D, 43rd Tenn., were captured at Rogersville, Hawkins Co., Tenn.

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HEADQUARTERS, October 10, 1864.

Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War:

General Breckinridge reports Vaughn's cavalry drove the enemy from Rogersville on the 8th, killing and wounding a good many. No enemy in any force this side of Bull's Gap. Railroad [and] telegraph open to Carter's Depot.

R. E. LEE,
General.
OR, V39, P3, p. 811

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