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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)
berland from that of the Ohio. The shores of this stream, called Duck River, are steep bluffs, among which only two or three practical crossings are found. Below the confluence of Duck River the Kentucky is a stream of considerable size. These two water-courses, therefore, constie toward Bryantsville, a village situated a little to the east of Duck River, from which he could easily defend the precipitous banks of that tend their flank movement across the mountainous country in which Duck River takes its rise. The most direct road from Bardstown to Bryantsine o'clock in the evening of the 9th. The next day they crossed Duck River and took position at Bryantsville, while Kirby Smith, recalled inf the Confederate army. It was massed in the triangle formed by Duck River and the Kentucky before their confluence, but it could not think iately put Crittenden's corps in motion through Stanford, to turn Duck River, and cut off the enemy from the direct southern road toward Somer
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
sted soldiers before Columbia, he quietly proceeded through Jamestown to join the left flank of Bragg's army in the positions which the latter had just taken on Duck River, as will be seen presently. This new expedition was thus accomplished without the least opposition; but it could not have been productive of great results, unlhat the Confederate cavalry surrendered the town of Murfreesborough to the Federals. Bragg's army halted on the same day behind the line of Duck River, This Duck River in the State of Tennessee must not be confounded with Duck River in the State of Kentucky, to which allusion has been made in another place. which it occupied fDuck River in the State of Kentucky, to which allusion has been made in another place. which it occupied from Manchester to Shelbyville, the Tullahoma Junction becoming the central depot of its supplies and the headquarters of the general-in-chief. Rosecrans did not proceed beyond Murfreesborough, and his army, having taken up its quarters in the neighborhood of this town, soon found itself in communication with Nashville by means