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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
the 3d at Loudon, whence he will likewise repair to Morgantown. But having ascertained the existence of a ford called Davis' Ford nearly eight miles below that town, on the road to Unitia, he obtains permission to try the crossing. He will thus spmeans of some boats at Hurst Ferry and picks up four abandoned guns, the One Hundred and Forty-third New York occupies Davis' Ford: the river at this place is two hundred and seventeen yards wide, the bottom hard, of uniform depth. The wagons, pushank of the Holston. Sherman has experienced greater difficulties at Morgantown. The river has the same width as at Davis' Ford, but the bed of the ford, much cut up, presents various depths, which render impossible the crossing of the infantry ay the enemy. His columns took up the line of march in the morning of the 7th. Howard crossed the Little Tennessee at Davis' Ford, where he found the foot-bridge which he had constructed, and arrived at Athens on the 9th. He sent a brigade to Char