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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)
gton, and, thus convoyed, ascended the Tennessee. Finding Streight at Fort Henry, his brigade was again taken on board, and landed on the evening of the 19th at Eastport, at the very entrance of Bear Creek. It was impossible to be more promptly at the rendezvous; but Streight's troops were not mounted, it having been found imporly ignorant of the art of managing horses. These animals, moreover, were very inferior, being either old mules or cast-off horses that had been found either at Eastport or Tuscumbia, and they were not in sufficient number: more than three hundred of Streight's soldiers were on foot at starting, the inhabitants of the neighborhoohe whole northern section of the State of Alabama, bordering the left bank of the Tennessee from Huntersville: there the river deflects to the westward as far as Eastport, where it finally takes a northerly direction. The waters descending both north and south from the plateau are massed into deep gorges, the passage of which is