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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
y for him to stop the advance of the enemy. In the absence of its two chiefs, Mitchell and Stanley, the one ill and the other on furlough for his health, the Union cavalry had not been pushed forward as Rosecrans would have desired. On the 4th of September it yet held neither Frick's Gap, Stevens' Gap, nor the outlet of Winston's Gap on Little River. A road running along the eastern side of the mountain-chain allowed Bragg to occupy the first two passes without separating himself from Chattansurrounded with all the prestige of victory, was going to give them some valuable examples. The reorganization of Pickett's forces, decimated at Gettysburg, had reduced this corps to two divisions. Hood's division set out first, toward the 4th of September; Longstreet, with McLaws' division, followed it six or seven days later. The arrival of these troops would secure to Bragg some sixty thousand combatants. This was a greater number of men than Rosecrans could place in line, and almost eq