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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
hments could not have sustained a long siege; their profile was slight, and they were not sufficiently extended for the garrison; the guns they mounted were not sufficiently numerous, and they only rested upon a small work closed at the gorge, Fort Negley, crowning a height near the Lavergne road. They were, however, sufficient to keep Forrest's troopers at a distance. This general, therefore, before attempting a serious attack, waited for the arrival of Morgan, whose assistance he had requmiddle of the night, toward two o'clock in the morning, the Federal outposts were driven back on both sides of the river. But the garrison was on its guard. A regiment was sent to meet Forrest in order to draw him within range of the guns of Fort Negley; and the fire of this work soon stopped the assailants, who tried in vain to dismount its guns without venturing a near approach. Meanwhile, Morgan, hoping to surprise the Federal post which guarded the large railroad bridge over the Cumberla