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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)
n foot, showed themselves in West Virginia at Moorefield, where, on the 3d of January, General Jones succeeded in capturing about sixty Federals; and again at Point Pleasant, where they were repulsed with loss on the 30th of March. They finally returned to the charge at the end of April, while one detachment tried in vain, on theter opens the campaign at the end of March by coming down the Kanawha in small boats with a few companies of his best troops. Having arrived near the town of Point Pleasant at the entrance of this river, he lands and attacks the small Federal garrison, but after a brisk fight is repulsed. Hoping to have thus put the enemy on thes 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