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Re: "The Skirmish at the Irish Shanty"(Book)

Cal,

I have one more question:

How many guerrillas were captured & were there any that escaped capture?

Here is what i found:

On July 2, 1863, Federal forces, campaigning against local Confederate guerrillas, claimed that about 20 men in front of Irish Shanty, a nearby store and tavern, fired at them. Some of the men were arrested and convicted at trial despite their claim of innocence. The verdicts were later reversed by Abraham Lincoln.

a small band of men (Dr. Aaron JAMES, Dr. Payton WASHBURN, Jonas SPICER, William FEW, James Washington SHELTON, Euphrates SHELTON and John BOX) from Dickson and Humphreys Counties had assembled at a drinking establishment known as the "Irish Shanty". This location is at or near the present site of Tennessee City in Dickson County. Several of the men were boiling eggs over an open fire in the yard in front of the Shanty.

Upon the arrival of the forward elements of the Union troops a skirmish ensued and 6 men were captured. They were returned to Clarksville to stand trial as southern guerillas before a military commission.

Note* This data shows about 20 men were gathered and the other paragraph states 7 men were captured. I believe it's possible that two of my ancestors "could" have participated in this skirmish, if there were indeed more than 7 men involved. They lived in the same area and were captured in 1864 and shot as guerrillas. One thought to have killed a Union sympathizer and also harrassed local occupying troops in the county. The other in retaliation.

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