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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
l distance from these two points an elevated cone called High Knob rises from the crest of the ridge, marking an important elevation, the centre of a sort of cross in that system of mountains. North of High Nob the chain bears the name of Greenbrier Mountain; at the south it is called Cheat Mountain, as far as the point where it slopes down abruptly to the westward to form the mass called Sewell's Mountain, which flanks the remainder of the chain like a bastion. A perpendicular branch connect, the formidable positions it occupied. That general, with only two thousand men, was with the greatest portion of his troops at Elk Water, where he commanded the entrance to the Tygart valley and the junction of the two roads which cross Greenbrier Mountain. He had only been able to place a few pickets in the defiles of this mountain. A strong detachment occupied the junction of the Elk Water and Cheat Summit roads at Great Pass, while Colonel Kimball was strongly entrenched at the latter p