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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
the two the valley of the Sequatchie. There were only three routes across these almost uninhabited regions: the first, from McMinnville to Washington in Tennessee; the second, from McMinnville to Poe's Store; and the third, from Manchester via Altamont to Dallas. They crossed the Sequatchie respectively at Pikeville, Dunlap, and Anderson. The nature of the country, over an extent of nearly sixty-two miles, was such as to present insurmountable difficulties to an army of large size. Once arrnd Manchester up to McMinnville. He took up the line of march on the 16th in three columns: Wood, on the right, leaving Hillsborough and Pelham, made for Tracy City, whence he proceeded upward to the north as far as Purden, where he entered the Altamont and Anderson road; Palmer, who was at Manchester, reached at Irvine College, by a like movement, the Dunlap road; Van Cleve, who was posted at McMinnville, leaving a garrison of one brigade in that town, marched upon Pikeville with the two other