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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 24 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 13 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] 7 7 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 3 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 6 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
road passes over Duck River at Normandy, ascends the grade of the Barrens, touches at Tullahoma, descends into the valley of Elk River, which it crosses at Estell Springs, and meets again at Decherd the line to Fayetteville. Then, following from Cowan the gorge of Boiling Creek, it goes through a tunnel under a dividing ridge between the head-waters of streams flowing in opposite directions, and runs toward Stevenson through the Big Crow Valley, where are found the villages of Tantallon and Anbridge at Bridgeport. A few days thereafter the Confederate army is gathered at Chattanooga. Rosecrans, reinforced by Van Cleve's division, which was thenceforth useless at Murfreesborough, halted at the base of the Cumberland plateau between Cowan and Hookersville. Some detachments from his cavalry pushed on as far as the banks of the Tennessee River to take the defiles, but the greater part of them, not being able to subsist in that sterile country, went to seek in the approaches to the
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
at the same time making the roads muddy, he will be constrained to subsist from hand to mouth in a condition of dearth which the least accident might transform into a famine. Such a state of things might be brought on, for instance, by the destruction of the tunnel at Cowan, which Roddey attempts at the moment when Wheeler recrosses the Tennessee. Roddey passes the river at Guntersville on the 10th, and, moving by Maysville and New Market, proceeds toward Salem, where he expects to reach Cowan. But he learns on the 12th that Wheeler is no longer in those parts, and that Mitchell, returning to Bridgeport, chances to be between himself and the river. He immediately retraces his steps, encounters in the night Crook's vanguard, that had followed his tracks from the vicinity of Guntersville, and, passing between Crook and McCook, he returns on the 13th to the banks of the Tennessee on the south of Athens. General Lee, who had not yet been able to take the field, was near Muscle Sho