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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 86 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 24 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 14 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 11 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 2 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Bull's Gap (Tennessee, United States) or search for Bull's Gap (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
of Knoxville the railway, leaving the banks of the Holston, enters through two successive passes, respectively called Bull's Gap and Blue Springs Gap, the rich valley of Nollichucky, in the centre of which lies the town of Jonesborough. The Federarection. On the 9th of October he personally led three infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade under Shackelford to Bull's Gap, while Colonel Foster, ascending Lick Creek with a cavalry brigade, was going to cross the mountain more to the eastwait in haste, fearing lest Jones, who is master of the situation at Rogersville, should get ahead of them at the pass in Bull's Gap. Their retreat, which was rather disorderly, ended only beyond the pass, while Jones, without profiting by his easy all the scattered detachments of his army with the exception of Willcox's division, which will yet remain some time near Bull's Gap, so as to hold back General Samuel Jones, and will then retire, with all its wagons, to Cumberland Gap. This division
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
and reconnoitre on that side for the flank of the principal column. The latter moves, via Mooresburg, on Rogersville, which it reaches in the daytime on the 9th. This point is the last stage in the retreat. In fact, Longstreet was not willing to take up his winter quarters at Rutledge, where the closeness of the hostile cavalry would have prevented him from dispersing his trains in quest of provisions. He has not here to fear the same danger. In occupying Rogersville and the defile of Bull's Gap he covers the two valleys of the Holston and the Nollichucky, a fertile country in which he will be able to subsist his army until spring. It will be all the easier for him to maintain himself there because, on the next day after his arrival, a despatch from President Davis came to authorize him to keep near him Martin's cavalry. The latter, who, fortunately, had not yet started out, immediately receives orders to remain in the neighborhood of Russellville between the Holston and the Nol