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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 31: (search)
. Butler's boastful despatch. he dares the whole of Lee's army. he is defeated by Beauregard, and his army bottled up. operations in the Kanawha and Shenandoah Valleys. signal defeat of Sigel. Grant's combination broken down. he moves to the North Anna River. is foiled again by Lee. he crosses the Pamunkey River. thall farther operations against Richmond, as much so, wrote Gen. Grant, as if his army had been in a bottle strongly corked. Operations in the Kanawha and Shenandoah Valleys. While Butler was thus neutralized, the movement in the Kanawha and Shenandoah Valleys, under Sigel, was to end in disaster. Gen. Crook, who had the immShenandoah Valleys, under Sigel, was to end in disaster. Gen. Crook, who had the immediate command of the Kanawha expedition, divided his forces into two columns, giving one, composed of cavalry, to Gen. Averill. They crossed the mountains by separate routes. Averill struck the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, near Wytheville, on the 19th May, and, proceeding to New River and Christiansburg, destroyed the road,