Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Cheat Mountain” in chapter 9 of Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders.:
... and the reduced condition of his artillery horses made pursuit impracticable.
But one incident of success was to occur in a campaign of so many disappointments.
When Gen. Lee withdrew from the Cheat Mountain region, he left Gen. II. R. Jackson with twenty-five hundred men to hold his position on the Greenbrier River.
On the 3d of October, the enemy, about four thousand strong, attacked Jackson's positi...
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† | Cheat Mountain (West Virginia, United States) | 644 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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