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14 January. 22. officer of the guard today, with a sick head ache to help me. Received a letter from father and Mr. Coffin this evening. The former is coming out to see me. Capt. Brown tendered his resig-nation today. If accepted the company will fall under my command. Lollicoffee [?] dead and his army routed. This will read well by the side of Marshall's defeat and the cowardly dispersion of his troops. This last triumph will let our forces into East Tennessee where there is said to be a large body of loyalists.