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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)
ar siege will allow time to perfect its defences. On that day also the fronts on the north and the west are invested: the two others remain free. The Southern cavalry appears alone on the east near the confluence of the French Broad River and the Holston, where Burnside's cavalry will not be slow to seek the enemy. Wheeler's four brigades cover the besieging army on the north and the east, from the neighborhood of Kingston, still occupied by the Federals, as far as the Cumberland Gap and Tazewell roads. No Confederate soldier shows himself on the south of the Holston. The Army of the Ohio is therefore not completely invested. It maintains its communications with every part of Sevier county, while the sympathies of the farmers, compensating for the poverty of the country, ensure the supply of the troops. They embark their grain and live-stock on rafts, and avail themselves of the November fogs to descend the French Broad River and the Holston as far as Knoxville without being p
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
deserters, the broken wagons, that in such a case an army leaves behind it. He thus arrived on the 8th at Bean's Station, where Martin detained him a few hours ere taking the road to the south. On the other hand, Foster started on the 6th, via Tazewell and Walker's Ford, toward the neck of Clinch Mountain, which opens out on Rutledge; but he found on the 7th this passage so strongly occupied that he did not dare to attack it, and proceeded to the south-west to reach Blain's Crossroads by turnianks and protected on the left by the river, on the right by the mountains, must endeavor to prevent the retreat of the enemy. Jones' two brigades, passing to the northward of Clinch Mountain, will occupy, at the neck of Bean's Station Gap, the Tazewell road, while Martin, who is to the southward of the Holston, will cross the river at Kelley's Ferry on the road from Morristown to Rutledge, to attack Shackelford in the rear if he should stand out against him, and quickly to pursue him if he ret