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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
s destruction will be henceforth the Unionists' real objective point in Western Virginia. They lose no time in taking the field. The Confederates have crossed the Potomac on the evening of the 13th of July; on the same day all the movable force which their adversaries have retained in the Kanawha Valley are preparing to destroy the Tennessee Railroad. This small column, composed of two regiments—one of cavalry, the other of mounted infantry—under the command of Colonel Toland, leaves Brownsville on the banks of the Ohio, follows Coal River, and takes on the right the only road which crosses this country through Guyandotte Mountain to the village of Oceana, whence it breaks into the Alleghanies through the valley of Tug Fork, one of the affluents of Sandy River, and arrives on the 17th at the town of Jeffersonville, near the source of Clinch River, where it captures a depot with thirty-five men. The Federals, after a night's rest, resume their rapid march, successively climb the l