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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
he valleys of the Cumberland and the Shenandoah. On the north of Staunton the valley, rich and fertile, is watered by the affluents of the James, which, in leaving it, throws itself among the rocks of the Blue Ridge, forming Balcony Falls. These affluents are, on the right, Craig's Creek, a sinuous torrent, near which is found the village of Newcastle, and, more to the southward, the Catawba, upon which, at a short distance, is situated Fincastle, the principal county-town; on the left, North River, on which is situated the town of Lexington, renowned in Virginia for the military academy in which Jackson Stonewall.—Ed. was a professor, and which had the honor of having for its president General Lee during the last years of his life. The road from Fincastle to Lexington crosses the James on Buckhannon Bridge. A gap like that of Balcony Falls, from which it is separated by the large group of the Peaks of Otter, opens a passage to the Roanoke River, which rises in Catawba Mountain a