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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
y had only been eight days together, they had neither experience nor cohesion. The removal of Wallace deprived his soldiers of the only incentive that could have sustained them—confidence in their chief. Kirby Smith had it all his own way. All he had to do was to push forward rapidly, which he knew how to do; besides, the character of the country through which he was passing did not allow him to stop. The first object of his expedition was to reach Lexington. He had started about the 22d of August, following the route which leads directly northward through Jacksboroa and Big Creek Gap, while his cavalry, nine hundred strong, with several light batteries, which had left Kingston a few days before, had made a large detour to the west in order to secure his left flank. This cavalry, under Colonel Scott, passing through Montgomery, Jamestown in Tennessee and Monticello, had crossed the old battle-field of Mill Springs, then Somerset, and had finally reached Loudon on the very day tha