The Noble 300: The Untold Story of the Battle at Sterrett's Gap

by Dennis Hocker, Randy Steele (Photographer)

“In the year 1863 and the latter and the first parts of June and July, the rebel hordes were threatening and invading our loyal State; war was even coming to our own firesides. We could hear the rebel artillery throwing the missiles of death into Carlisle. True to the instincts of preservation, from our firesides we rushed, three hundred strong, to the top of the Cumberland Mountain at Sterretts Gap, and determined to be a Spartan band and allow no foe to desecrate the soil of Perry with his foul footsteps unless he passed over our stark lifeless bodies.”One of the Three HundredThe Perry County Freeman10 August 1892

183 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2014