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Creator/Title
Painter, Sidney C., 1837-1880. Letter, 21 October 1862. ALS, 2 pp.
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Mss. C P
Content
In a letter to his sister from Salyersville, Ky. dated 21 Oct. 1862, Lt. S. C. Painter of Co. B of the 29th Va. Inf. describes the Confederate retreat from Kentucky after the battle of Perryville. He writes that he saw the recently paroled Union prisoners captured at the battle of Richmond, Ky. in the streets of that city and witnessed the retreat of Braxton Bragg's entire column. He also heard cannon fire that marked a clash between John H. Morgan's rebel cavalry and the pursuing Union forces. A member of Gen. Humphrey Marshall's column, he reports that the Kentuckians "would not turn out," adding that the 5th Ky. Inf. had just disbanded.