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`` But there were traitors in Greenville , and they carried the news to the little company of Yankees four miles away that Morgan was in the city , and told at what house he lodged . Two daring young cavalrymen volunteered to carry the news to General Gillem at Bull 's Gap . Talk about the ride of Paul Revere , compared to the ride of those two Yankees ! Buffeted by wind and rain , one moment in a glaring light and the next in pitch darkness , with the thunder crashing overhead , in spite of wind and rain , those two cavalrymen rode the sixteen miles by midnight . `` The command was aroused . What if the rain did pour and the elements warred with each other ? Morgan was the prize , and by daylight Gillem 's soldiers had reached Greenville .