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Lyon’s Raid Dec. 9, 1864

Lyon’s Raid Dec. 9, 1864 is a Tennessee historical marker in Stewart County.

Stewart Co, TN 149, at southwest boundary of Cumberland City

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Gen. Hylan B. Lyon's Cavalry Brigade ferried here on the raid through West Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and North Alabama, using the steamer Ben South, captured by gunfire of Gracey's Battery under Lt. R.B. Matthews. They later captured the steamer Thomas E. Tutt and towboat Echo with four barges, a lt. col. and 49 other prisoners. The vessels were burned and sunk in the channel off this point.

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