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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)
After this Jones quickly falls back upon the mountains, while the Federal troops hasten from Grafton to protect the railroad; but too late. After this expedition we have only to mention 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 b