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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)
he various levels of table-lands which we have just described. It presented the only practicable route to the belligerent armies, each of which held one extremity of it. Following the route from the northwest to the south-east, one meets near Fosterville a first line of heights, stretching on the south-west as far as the little neck of Guy's Gap on the road from Murfreesborough to Shelbyville; at the Bellbuckle narrow pass the route crosses another line of heights, called Horse Mountain, extennd line of highlands it meets, at Bellbuckle Gap, the route which runs along the railway. No serious obstacle is encountered on the routes which open on the Confederate left. There are, first, the Shelbyville Railway, which crosses, south of Fosterville, the insignificant neck of Guy's Gap; then, in the lowlands, two county roads which lead to the same town of Shelbyville, the one from Salem via Middleton, the other from Lizzard via Unionville and Versailles. If this left wing appeared to be