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Identifier: fouryearswithmor00berr (find matches)
Title: Four years with Morgan and Forrest
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Berry, Thomas Franklin, 1832-
Subjects: Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: Oklahoma City, Okla., The Harlow-Ratliff company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ity of Louisville, andwas stealing all the cattle for miles on either side of thepike as they came along. Near Shelbyville, Kentucky,we received definite word from our Uncle Louis Berryand Mr. John McGraw that this marauding band .white and negro soldiers had stolen a hundred head fromUncle Louis and forty head from McGraw. Hastilymustering our force we awaited the approach of thesecattle thieves. There were sixty white soldiers and twohundred and twenty-five negro soldiers, if I may socall them. This thieving business was going on allover Kentucky at this time. Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep,jewelry, furniture, was being shipped out of Kentuckyby the drove and car load. Everything portable was»taken during this period by these Yankees. I had a negro boy servant, Tom, who belonged toour family, who was faithful and trustworthy at thistime. He was sent into the ranks of these thievingmarauders on a work mule with blind bridle, tracechains, back band, collar and harness. He was instructed
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PREPARING FOR BATTLE 325 to fall casually in with them and learn the number c-^soldiers, cattle, and gain all the information possible,then leave them and report to us.. Near Simpsonville, near the county line of Shelbyand Jefferson counties, we had prepared ourselves withlong tin horns, ten in number, which could be heard amile away. These ten men, who had these horns, wereplaced half a mile apart and on either side of the pfkcthe Yankees were marching with the stolen cattle, fivemen on a side. These men were instructed to blow thesehorns at intervals of twenty minutes, and each pairon either side was directed to answer each others callsalong the line of march, but were all instructed to keepwell out of sight and reach of the Yankee column, andwhen within one mile and a half of Simpsonville tohurry forward to that place ahead of the Yankees toa point previously named. The march was slow, as theyhad over four hundred head of cattle, divided Up mtosmall bunches, some twenty or thirty i

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