ORs: (US) Brig.-Gen. J. S. Negley to Col. J. B. Fry - July 21, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 194

COLUMBIA,
July 21, 1862.

Col. J. B. FRY:

I reply to your dispatch. The telegraph line is cut between this and Franklin. Will send your order by couriers. This morning at 3 a. m. we were threatened by a considerable force of the enemy, who were endeavoring to approach through the front. On being discovered they retreated, and were last heard from 7 miles west, near a canebrake. It is reported that it is a force who have lately crossed the Tennessee River near Clifton. I am of the opinion that it is a concentration of the guerrilla bands below us. They are getting quite bold. Send two companies Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania to Franklin and along the railroad. This small force will possibly unite in attack.

JAS. S. NEGLEY,
Brigadier-General.