Maurice Thompson. See note on “An Incident of War.”
=Stanza 5.= Salliquoy. A tributary of the Coosawattee. (See below.)
=Stanza 6.= Coosawattee. A stream that rises in Gilmer county, northern
Georgia, and flows southwesterly through Gordon county, where it unites
with the Canasauga to form the Oostanaula.
This poem relates an adventure that befell a Confederate scouting party
near Hogan’s Ford, on the Coosawattee, while out upon a reconnoitering
expedition late in 1864, or early in 1865.