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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The gape in the Cumberland mountains . (search)
The gape in the Cumberland mountains.
--The correspondent of the Auguste Sentinel, writing from Powell's Valley in Virginia, says: Cumberland mountain is in sight, and the State of Kentucky is but ten miles distant. There are a good many gape in the Cumberland mountains. Pound Gap is a pace sixty miles from Abingdon due north, and before our forces had consumed all the forage, &c, in the country, it was not difficult for a traveler to find good accommodations at any point by the way. Along this road all the stock, &c, that was heretofore sent from the State of Kentucky to the South was driven.
It is an excellent wagon road.
From Pound Gap to Big Creek Gap, it is one hundred and forty miles. Between these two gaps are many others, among them Big Stone Gap, Crank's Gap and Cumberland, Gap. It is forty miles from Big Stone, Gap to Pound Gap — about twenty-eight miles from Big Stone to Crank's Gap, and thirty-six to Cumberland from Crank's Gap, and about thirty or thirty five from