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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)
e northwest to the south-east, one meets near Fosterville a first line of heights, stretching on the south-west as far as the little neck of Guy's Gap on the road from Murfreesborough to Shelbyville; at the Bellbuckle narrow pass the route crosses another line of heights, called Horse Mountain, extending above the town of Bellbuckle. Beyond these heights there meanders a branch railroad which connects Shelbyville with the Wartrace Station. Farther on the railroad passes over Duck River at Normandy, ascends the grade of the Barrens, touches at Tullahoma, descends into the valley of Elk River, which it crosses at Estell Springs, and meets again at Decherd the line to Fayetteville. Then, following from Cowan the gorge of Boiling Creek, it goes through a tunnel under a dividing ridge between the head-waters of streams flowing in opposite directions, and runs toward Stevenson through the Big Crow Valley, where are found the villages of Tantallon and Anderson. The Elk River Valley is n
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
of Bayou Cocadrie and Bayou Boeuf finally unite to form the Bayou Teche. From Shreveport to Grand Écore, in a line extending seventy-five miles, the tributaries of the Red River form on the right bank the Bayou Pierre, which is compelled, owing to the hills we have spoken of, to return and fall into the main bed. The city of Grand Écore is situated above the gap in these hills, on a bluff about one hundred and twenty-five feet high, from which it derives its name core, a term still used in Normandy, signifying in Old French a high bluff. The river divides immediately after having passed through the gap. On the southern branch, the most important one when Louisiana was settled, is the town of Natchitoches, an old French town, notwithstanding its Indian name. The northern branch, called the Rigolets du Bon Dieu, has developed at the expense of the other, which bears the name of Cane River; it is the only navigable one at present. These two branches unite sixty miles farther down, to