The following paragraph is from Wiley Chandler Howard’s Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and Some Incidents and Scenes Remembered.

Lt. Col. Barrington S. King was in command (of the Cobb’s Legion cavalry), Col. Gib Wright commanding the brigade. At half past two o’clock in the morning, that fearless and peerless soldier, Lieut. Tom Donahoo (Dunnahoo), with Gen. M. C. Butler, personally captured the vidette and with others surprised and took the whole picket force on the road by which we approached, without the firing of a gun or making any disturbance, and we waited in column until the early dawn, when we fell upon the camp like a small avalanche, riding pell-mell over the enemy, asleep many of them, while others were preparing their coffee and breakfast.

Lt. Dunnahoo was my great-great grandfather. I know for sure he had fought against Gen. Kilpatrick’s troops at Brandy Station and Trevilian Station, VA and also possibly at Hunterstown, PA. He survived the battle at Monroe’s Crossroads and also Bentonville, but he would later be killed during the action at Swift Creek (about ten miles south of Raleigh) on April 12, 1865. He is buried in the Confederate soldier section of Oakwood Cemetery in downtown Raleigh.