Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Wardensville” in chapter 6, page 136 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.:
...o doom his army to starvation, there being little for man or beast to eat in those wild mountains.
He therefore decided to go by Moorefield, which compelled him to go 29 miles farther northeast, to Wardensville , in order to find a practicable route across the mountains.
Stripping his army as
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