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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)
e brigade to the southward of the point where the Confederates had purposed to encamp. Colonel Marshall was expected to approach from the west, and Colonel J. Davis with the cavalry of his brigade was to cut off their retreat on the north-east. Davis was the first to encounter the enemy, on the 19th of December, separated from him by the Black Water River, near the mouth of Clear Creek. A narrow bridge defended by Confederate skirmishers spans the Black Water at that point. A platoon of regral cause and take proper steps to prevent such an important State from falling into the hands of her enemies. Consequently, the latter determined to act before the meeting of the legislature; and on the 4th of September, at the very time when Mr. Davis was giving assurances that he should respect the neutrality of Kentucky, General Polk took possession of Columbus by surprise. The prompt action of Grant, as we have stated, alone prevented him from reaching Paducah in time. For a while a rea