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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)
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 defiles of Cotton Hill, which had been so warmly disputed the previous year. On the 19th and 20th of May, after a few skirmishes, a Confederate detachment attacked them in their intrenched camp at Fayette, but were unable to dislodge them. While these insignificant conflicts occupied a few isolated detachments in West Virginia, the two great armies that were watching each other near Fredericksburg had remained stationary. The moment was approaching when they were once more to encounter each other on the bloody field of battle. But before returning to the borders of the Rappahannock and undertaking the recital of these struggles, which will occupy the latter half of this volume, we must
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
Grierson was marching directly upon Grand Gulf. But the enemy had at last fathomed his design, and Wirt Adams' cavalry, superior in numbers to his own, was preparing to block his way. He exchanged a few musket-shots with it, the first he had fired. Adams had intended to attack him on the 29th, but Grierson succeeded in getting away from him. In order to make him believe that his object was to gain Grand Gulf, which Porter was storming on that very day, he made a feint in the direction of Fayette village, near Rodney on the Mississippi; then, suddenly turning southward, he reached Brookhaven Station along the railroad, where he surprised a drilling-camp and took two hundred prisoners, whom he released on parole. Following the track, he continued his work of destruction; but this time the Confederates started in pursuit of him in earnest, for they could no longer have any doubt as to the road he had taken, Baton Rouge being the only point which he could henceforth reach. Consequent