Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Louisville” in chapter 10, page 217 of 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 II.:
... to be; skirmishing by the way with small parties of Rebel cavalry and artillery.
Thus advancing steadily, though not rapidly, he passed through Bardstown, and thence to Springfield, 62 miles from Louisville ; Bragg slowly retreating before him, harassing rather than resisting his advance, so as to gain time for the escape of his now immense trains, consisting mainly of captured Federal army wagons, heavi...
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