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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
ad remained in the mountains of Kentucky which adjoin West Virginia; and in order to be able to pursue the Confederate bands that overran them more effectually, he had taken up his quarters at Piketon, in the heart of those mountains. On the 16th of March, by a bold and difficult advance, with one thousand men, he surprised a small Confederate brigade upon the elevated defile of Pound Gap, and dispersed them after a slight engagement. On the same day, at a distance of more than six hundred , with their materiel, could be transported in a single trip; but the flotilla assembled below Washington could scarcely accommodate one-half of that number, which was a new cause of delay in the opening of the campaign. Nevertheless, on the 16th of March, the whole army was massed in the neighborhood of Alexandria, where the embarkation was to take place. Near this city eighteen wooden piers jut out into the waters of the Potomac, many of which have wharf accommodations for three large stea