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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)
ves around the secession authorities whom the Confederate generals were about to install in the official capital of the State. In a military point of view, however, this town had but one advantage—that of enabling these generals to cross the Kentucky River without difficulty, and was in reality but the first stage toward Louisville, which city he could have entered that very day without making an unnecessary circuit northward. Besides, Kirby Smith was about to surrender the principal part inuck River, from which he could easily defend the precipitous banks of that stream. Polk had the more easily guessed Buell's plan, because this plan was in itself simple and well conceived. In fact, instead of going to strike the line of the Kentucky River, the Federals, by marching direct upon Frankfort, had only to bear to the right to menace Bragg's communications, draw him upon Duck River, and thus compel him to abandon Frankfort, Lexington and the richest portion of the State, without a fi