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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
kly falls back upon the mountains, while the Federal troops hasten from Grafton to protect the railroad; but too late. After this expedition we have only to mention a trifling engagement in the vicinity of Fayette Court-house on the borders of New River. After Jones' check in front of Point Pleasant the Federals had ascended the valley of the Kanawha, which bears the name of New River in the upper part of its course, and had occupied the approaches of the defiles of Cotton Hill, which had beeNew River in the upper part of its course, and had occupied the approaches of the defiles of Cotton Hill, which had been so warmly disputed the previous year. On the 19th and 20th of May, after a few skirmishes, a Confederate detachment attacked them in their intrenched camp at Fayette, but were unable to dislodge them. While these insignificant conflicts occupied a few isolated detachments in West Virginia, the two great armies that were watching each other near Fredericksburg had remained stationary. The moment was approaching when they were once more to encounter each other on the bloody field of battl
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
s between the two gaps opened. by the waters of the Potomac on the north and New River on the south forms an insuperable wall for the armies, except at a single poithe routes which concentrate at Lewisburg on the west of the Alleghanies near New River, and which cross the chain in its least rugged part. These roads descend on he more southern region, whence descends on the east the Roanoke, on the west New River, on the south the Cumberland. In fact, it is at that point that the Virginia the main chain, and at last reach the town of Wytheville on the left bank of New River, in the large valley watered by an affluent of that stream and followed by thnoke before going through the valleys whose waters descend to the Ohio by the New River. Salem is the principal station on this part of the line; it is the main poill the crossings and roads between Staunton on the north-east and Newport, on New River, on the south-west. In front of the Federals, who return from the south-east