Confederate General Carter L. Stevenson
This file appears in: A Masterful Retreat
This post-war photograph shows Carter L. Stevenson. It was Stevenson's approach of Cumberland Gap that caused the Union retreat. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This file appears in: A Masterful Retreat
A Masterful Retreat
Historical Marker #637 in Carter County notes the route of retreat north from Cumberland Gap made by Union General George W. Morgan's Union force during the fall of 1862.
That September, Confederate troops led by General Carter L. Stevenson…