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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
. Toward the middle of March, in order to divide the attention of the Federals, he sent Colonel Cluke with two regiments to gather booty in the plain extending between Winchester and Rogersville. Cluke came down from the mountains where the Kentucky River takes its source, striking the Lexington road, which the Confederates had already followed the previous month, and, meeting with no resistance, imprudently came to a halt in the neighborhood of Owensville and Mount Sterling. At the news ofarter, unaware of the strength of his adversary, does not dare to wait for him, and after depositing the supplies gathered in Danville at Lexington, takes up his line of march for Camp Dick Robinson, in order to cross to the other side of the Kentucky River. But on the morning of the 20th, before this movement could have been completed, Pegram's head of column attacks a portion of the Federal forces which are still occupying Danville. They resist long enough in the streets to enable the trains