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(3-95) East view along
Manson (wartime Wilkinson) Pike near the General Smith house (right
background). Union Gen. McCook's wagon train was parked along this road when
the Confederates struck on the morning of Dec. 31. To escape capture the
train quickly turned north onto a road near the Smith house leading to
Asbury Church |
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(3-95) Widow Burris House,
Asbury Road (or wartime Lane) approximately 3/4 mile west of Nashville Pike.
Here, reinforcements from General Thomas Crittenden's wing went into action
in an attempt to prevent the advancing Confederates from seizing the
Nashville Pike. Bitter fighting occurred in the fields directly opposite the
Widow Burris house with the Confederate drive eventually being stopped short
of the pike
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