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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
the Alleghenies to the eastward, separating the waters of Cheat River, an affluent of the Monongahela, from those of Greenbrier River, a tributary of New River. Lastly, at the west a small spur called Rich Mountain detaches itself, and soon takes thme of Great Greenbrier, connects the High Knob with the crest of the Alleghanies, and proceeds towards the source of Greenbrier River, near a tavern celebrated in that wild region by the name of Travellers' Repose. The road branches off once more ateft of that elevation, through the passes called Cloverlick and Staunton Pike; thence it descends into the valley of Greenbrier River. South of the three passes of Cheat Mountain, Staunton Pike, and Cloverlick, all three very near each other, there d also to burn the bridge situated near the point of its confluence with New River, to withdraw to Lewisburg, on the Greenbrier River, beyond Sewell's Mountain. The Confederates thus found themselves at the end of July driven back everywhere into th