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as the East Tennessee House in this place. I Rented the House of Powel and was occupying it when the Union Army Entered the state & Entertained Genl. Burnsville and many of his officers on the Genls Retreat from this place & went to Kentucky with the Army and left my family alone in the House, very soon thereafter Genl. Songsheets forces occupied the country some of his officials declared that my family being a Union family should not remain in the house They weare turned out in street without a house to go in during a spell of the Most Severe Weather Ever fell in this country, the Effects from which some of my children never will recover. After the retreat of The Reble Army from here my wife was afraid to Reoccupy the House on account of The Sone [[?]] of