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 Posted: Tue Aug 4th, 2009 05:03 am
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Roy
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 If you get the chance, you may wish to read "Kirk's Raiders A Notorious Band of Scoundrels and Thieves" by Matthew Bumgarner. It is about George Washington Kirk, and his Federal 3rd NC  Mounted Infantry Regiment, and another good read would be "The Last Confederate General John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry" by Larry Gordon.

I live in the lower East Tennessee area, and can relate two war time incidents that occured in the Polk County, TN area. For example, along the Occoee River on the Old Copper Road, the notorious guerilla leader John Gatewood murdered some men who were on their way to enlist in the Union army. This was known as the Madden Branch Massacre. After this incident, Gatewood's band made it to the Ducktown area, and captured Captain Clayton Fain, a Georgia Unionist who was a Union officer. Fain was murdered by Gatewood or his men. Attached is a photo of Captain Fain's grave.

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