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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
his brigade, sent direct toward Tuscumbia, arrives at Bainbridge on the 27th, where it crosses the Tennessee, while on the same day Forrest, with the remainder of his troops, crosses the river at Brown's Ferry, and promptly gains the village of Courtland, on the railroad from Tuscumbia to Decatur. He could not have arrived more opportunely: Dodge, leaving a few troops at Tuscumbia and in the village adjoining, South Florence, had resumed his march on the morning of the 27th, and was advancing that Streight had crossed the head-waters of Town Creek. Leaving only a small force along this stream, and directing Roddy to throw himself, with two regiments, between Dodge and Streight in order to definitely separate them, he fell back upon Courtland that very evening. In the morning of the next day he reached Moulton, where Roddy was not long in joining him. The two brigades he had with him were composed exclusively of experienced horsemen, mounted upon well-trained animals inured, like t