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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)
Fortunately for him, he met with a party of Federals, which decided him to stop in time and endeavor to join Chenault by way of the cross-road. But the latter had again abandoned his position after a trifling skirmish, and Morrison found the Jamestown road occupied by Carter's troops. They at once attacked him, and he resisted them for a while, but was finally dislodged, and fell back upon Travisville, in the direction of Jamestown. The losses were very small on both sides, but a considerJamestown. The losses were very small on both sides, but a considerable advantage had been gained by the Unionists: East Tennessee was free. The other extremity of this State, Western Tennessee, lying between the river and the Mississippi, was at that time nearly forsaken by both parties. The Federals were satisfied with the control of the waters; the Confederates did not dare to venture in force on a peninsula hemmed in by the gunboats of the enemy. Consequently, we shall have no military exploit of any note to mention in this region during the months of