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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)
following the line of the Big Black, cut off the retreat of the Grand Gulf garrison and march upon Jackson by way of Rocky Springs and Raymond. It was by way of this route that Bowen waited for the arrival of the reinforcements which Loring was to neighborhood of Grand Gulf with the greater portion of his troops. Loring, who was coming to his assistance, was at Rocky Springs when he learned of his defeat. He immediately despatched Tilghman's brigade to Grindstone Ford, on the northern branrters being at Memphis. On the 8th of May, McClernand, who had taken position on the right of the army, arrived at Rocky Springs by the Grand Gulf and Jackson road. McPherson was skirting the Big Black, and Sherman relieved him at Hankinson's Fent of Jackson, and made him bear to the left and encamp, on the 9th, at Cayuga, on the bank of Sandy Creek, along the Rocky Springs road, while McPherson, turning suddenly to the right, passed behind him, and took the road to Utica. On the 10th the
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
ake up their winter quarters: surprised by the Federals' rapid march on Huntersville, he cannot fall back toward the east, and is compelled to collect his force and bring it back to the south by the Lewisburg road. The brigade that fought at Rocky Springs under Potter, and whose command General Echols has resumed, is in this town: he orders it to meet Averell with a part of Jenkins' force, while Jackson, who has remained with his brigade near Huntersville, rapidly falls back to meet him. On the 6th of November, after having closely pressed, at Mill Point, Jackson's rear-guard, whose retreat he endeavors to cut off, the Unionist general finds four miles south of Hillsboroa all the Confederate forces, stationed, as at Rocky Springs, in a well-selected position on the Lewisburg road. It is called Droop Mountain, which, while detached from the Greenbrier chain, runs east to the bank of Greenbrier River, closely shutting the valley on the left bank. The road which follows that bank a