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by Col. Wyncoop.
IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE.A Dash at the Rebels by Col. Wyncoop--A Fight Expected at McMinnville, Tenn. NASHVILLE, Friday, Aug. 8. Col. WYNCOOP'S Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry attacked the rebel FORREST'S force, on Calf-Killer River, near Sparta, killed thirty, and then withdrew and rejoined Gen. NELSON, at McMinnville, where an attack by rebels in large force was hourly expected. It is reported that Gen. BUELL has possession of Chattanooga, but it needs confirmation. The train from Columbus was fired into by guerrillas, and about twenty passengers wounded. The brakeman died of his wounds to-day. He received fourteen shots. Cross ties were piled upon the road to obstruct the passage of the train. The engineer, knowing his only safety was in going ahead, opened the valves and dashed through the obstructions, thus saving the train. A Small Union force, guarding a wagon train, was to-day driven from Lebanon back to Nashville. The body of Geo. McCook was forwarded to Cincinnati this morning. The Ninth Ohio regiment, of which he was Colonel, inflicted severe chastisement upon the people residing at the scene of his murder. Seven dwellings were in flames at one time.
Source: Unknown, "Important from Tennessee; A Dash at the Rebels by Col. Wyncoop--A Fight Expected at McMinnville, Tenn.," New York Times, Sunday, 10 August 1862, p. 1.
The Col. Wyncoop mentioned in this article is Col. George Campbell Wynkoop of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. His son, Nicholas Wynkoop, served under him as did his nephew, John Estill Wynkoop. Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about him on page 147:
725. George Campbell Wynkoop, Gen'l, (Dr. Nicholas 393, Judge Henry 157, Nicholas 46, Gerret 5, Cornelius 1,) born February 27, 1806: died September 29, 1882, in Pottsville, Penn.: married March 24, 1831, Mary Walker. Chris
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