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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
chain of the Alleghanies between the two gaps opened. by the waters of the Potomac on the north and New River on the south forms an insuperable wall for the armies, except at a single point in the centre, where a practicable route, coming from Buckhannon and Beverly on the west, crosses the mountain between the Traveller's Repose Tavern and Monterey. To go through the wild region between the Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge the Federals are compelled either to start from the Potomac and cross trates into error about his designs. However that may be, Early, deceived by false rumors, fancies that the Unionists wish to cross the James below the point where the swollen Jackson's River takes this new name; and he orders Lee to proceed to Buckhannon, where he expects to see them appear. Jackson, for his part, in order to shut them off from the entrance of the valley of Cow-Pasture River, quits Callaghan's and Covington, leaving but a mere guard on the bridges at Island Ford, with orders t