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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)
attanooga, which was a necessary sacrifice if Stevens' Gap was abandoned to the enemy. Long trains carried to Atlanta all the materiel accumulated in Chattanooga for two years, but the general-in-chief did not yet set his troops in motion. In the mean time the Federals were advancing very slowly. The columns still wedged in narrow roads, the artillery which was to join them, and the wagons in the rear required three days to come down the slopes of Raccoon Mountain. At last, on the 6th of September, the Twentieth corps was grouped on the right between Winston's Gap, Valley Head, and the Eureka mines. On the morrow two divisions of the Fourteenth corps were at Trenton, a third at Johnson's Crook, and Negley, with a fourth, had, without firing a gun, taken a position at Stevens' Gap. The Twenty-first corps had also arrived in Will's Valley: two divisions had come to a halt above the road between Trenton and Wauhatchie; Wood's division occupied this last village, and one of his bri
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
enemy could reach the crest of the parapet sooner than the garrison, and make them prisoners ere they had emerged from underneath the ground. There was not a moment to lose to avoid this disaster. Beauregard decided in the afternoon of the 6th of September to evacuate Battery Gregg and Fort Wagner: his instructions were full and precise. The operation, a very delicate one, was to commence at sunset. He had estimated, with rare accuracy, the extreme limit of resistance of these works. In facseason the fords are few, dangerous, and submerged at the least rising of the river. The ambulances and the train having been left at Brownsville under the protection of True's and Ritter's brigades, the remainder of the army started on the 6th of September, and by a rapid march reached the banks of the Arkansas the next day. The crossing of Bayou Metoe at Shallow Ford was not disputed. Davidson, having started ahead to clear the road with Merrill's brigade, had forced, after slight skirmishin