John Robert Lobb served in Company e, 27th Kentucky Infantry (Union).
In late November of 1863, he and several comrades were trapped for eighteen days by Confederate soldiers on Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
With the Confederates in hot pursuit, the Union soldiers rode their horses as far up the mountain as they could, then dismounted, tied their horses and continued further up on foot. Food and water became scarce and they were reduced to half rations and the to five men to one man's ration.
After fifteen days, their captain asked for a volunteer to carry a message down the mountain with plans to be captured by the enemy. indicated that there were a thousand or more Union soldiers on their way to reinforce and resupply the men on the mountain.
A volunteer was found and within about 24 hours, John Lobb and his fellow soldiers could see the Confederates retreating and that their man had been captured by them. The ruse had worked.
--Old Secesh
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