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bruught to this contry viore put on that hill and she can remember when the entire hill was covered with them.

	The southern side had trenches on the east side of the Dixie Highway on and surrounding the site where the Ponnt~iton Hospital is now standing, i~rhioh are very ViVid today. The L~nd~n City School being in the path bears

a hole today from a cannon ball. Shot no doubt from the Southern forces. The new addition to the school hides the hole, but until recent ye~.rs it could be seen being about ton inche3 in diameter.

	Zollie Coffer a southern general had camped at VIild Cat, Ky. but was forced to retreat when general Garrad and Lucas and Stratton two captains under him, all from Clay county, with a large crowd came in. He, on his retreat came through London and had a iattle with an army of Ohioians camped on Cenietery Hill, Quoted a poem by Mrs. lodge, which she remembered from those days:
“Just raise your eyes to yon grassy hill, View the bold O~.ioians working with skill,
Their bombs lying around them to spew fiery flames, Arnon~ the zecodors, till they want own their names.

Hodge quotes another poem from memory about Gen. Coffer‘s retreat

Cat:

“Our tigOrs aixi bulipups to Wild Cat did go, to fight our bravo boys, tho our force they did not know, V~hen they came in gun shot distance, Schelf told them to halt,
We‘re not Murphey‘s honey, nor Alox ?4}iitos salt.

His orders to his mén, wa~“go thrut‘ or “go to hell“ But our Indiana hoosier bous, heard them too well, In less than thirty minutes, they gave them many balls, Wild Cat had had kitt~ns, Oh; dontt you hear them squall.

	They did not stay long, before they did retreat,
	Went on double quick and left all their meat,
	As they went back through Barbourville, they say Zollie did s~y
	I‘ve lost fifteen hundred killed or run away.

	Away back in Mississippi, we‘re forced to go
	As fer our loss you‘ll never know
	Slipped back when the union fell asleep Hauled off our dead and buried them deep.
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Mr ~. WIld