On this day, General Morgan rested his weary brigades that had just made a daring march from Cumberland Gap to join DeCourcey's brigade near Manchester, Kentucky. The entire division was preparing to resume their desperate march to freedom the next day while bands of Confederate cavalry were always nearby, sometimes harassing the advance pickets.

Pvt. Newt Gorsuch of Company B tells us that Col. DeCourcy made a short speech to his troops.

* Information and quotations from Civil War Diaries and Selected Letters of Robert Newton Gorsuch, recently published in book form by Newt Gorsuch's great grandson, Everett Gorsuch Smith, Jr. The book is available for purchase from various Internet sources.