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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 Florence. Nearly one month has thus been lost by this going to and fro. During this time the severity of the weather renders the least operation impossible in the upper valleys of the Alleghanies. The Confederates have experienced it. General Vance, having endeavored to penetrate from North Carolina into the Tennessee Valley at the head of a small force of five hundred cavalry, of whom one hundred and fifty were Indians, crossed the chain of the Smoky Mountains, and, coming down near Knovement, Ransom, to forestall it, carries his right to the enemy's front; he has less than two thousand five hundred men in line, and he can escape only by a bold stroke at the critical moment. The fight begins in the glade. The galling fire of Vance's Federal brigade checks for a moment the Southerners. In order to sustain it against the superior forces which threaten to crush it, Ransom is obliged to weaken his left and summon a part of Emerson's brigade. Thanks to this reinforcement, the