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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 272 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 122 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 100 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 90 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 84 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 82 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 74 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 70 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 70 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) or search for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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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)
s of the river, so as to cross it below Louisville, and then to go up on the right bank as far as the vicinity of the Pennsylvania State line, in order to join Lee in that commonwealth. In case a reverse should befall him, he would make for Western Virginia by crossing the Ohio near its confluence with the Great or the Little Kanawha, where it is ordinarily easily fordable and inaccessible by armed steamers. The attack upon the cities and their occupation would depend upon the political situatanks of the Watauga River. It had to be withdrawn without betraying the retrograde movement of the army, which it had masked until then: the betrayal of this movement would have called up before Knoxville all the Confederate troops in South-western Virginia. Burnside arrived on the 21st near Carter's Depot where he found the enemy strongly posted within works forming the head of the bridge on the left bank of the Watauga. He at the same time received from the President an order directing him
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
nd this little army would have been better employed if turned against Hooker. It is all the more difficult to imagine what Bragg intended to do with it, because he withdrew it from East Tennessee at the very time when it should have been allowed to remain there. Indeed, it seems that on no occasion do the Confederates know how to combine their efforts against Burnside. It is at the moment when Stevenson and Cheatham are idle at Athens that General Samuel Jones, who is in command in Western Virginia, receives orders to assume offensive movements with Ransom's division. This division is scattered on the right bank of the Watauga River. But the isolation of Garrard, who is stationed with only two regiments at Rogersville, and is separated from Willcox by several mountain-ranges, has not escaped the attention of the Southerners, who are burning to wreak vengeance upon Garrard for the repulse experienced at Blue Springs. General W. E. Jones and Colonel Giltner, successor to Williams