Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
Stevenson, Ala., May 9, 1864.—Everything is quiet and comfortable here. Two years ago today we fought at Farmington, Miss., when Captain Perkins and Lieut. Beamish were killed. We got no news from the front, but feel easy about operations down there. The news from Virginia this morning is first rate.
I am going to Tullahoma today to report in person to General Paine, who has command from there to Bridgeport; will be back tomorrow. The 71st Ohio, Colonel McConnell, is between here and Tullahoma on the railroad. I was sent here because I had been here before and had a reliable, well disciplined regiment, and because, further, as General Rousseau told me, he knew my boys would fight if attacked. This service is honorable, and it was a high compliment sending me here, and so intended by General Rousseau. General Granger was not consulted and had nothing to do with it.
