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Burton, Martin Shuler, Murphy, John V. Srofe, O. H. Eyler, Trago, Smith, Chase, Wambledorf and Johnson. The Companies rendezvoused in the counties in which they were raised and received millitary instruction from their respective Commanders for several weeks. In the meantime, Co. E, Capt.
Company E was ordered to make a scout up the river five miles, under Lieut. Srofe. Soon after this, the brigade train was ordered to move out on the road leading to Franklin, with a guard of one company. The train had not more than straightened on the road, when Companies B and C found a strong force of the enemy in their front.
The order was first given to Captain Rankin to form his battalion on the slope of a hill in front of the battery, at a distance of about six hundred yards. Co. E, Lt. Srofe, on the right, near the pike; then Co. F, Lt. Boggs, Co. B, Lt. Burton, Co. C, Lt. Archer, and Co. A, Lt. Derstine.
Carr, Ketterman, Rich, Shuler, and Srofe, left Somerset and joined Col. Sanders at Mt. Vernon. A day or two was spent in making preparations for a raid.
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