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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
vers, within reach of railways of great importance to the Confederacy, he had shown, by his expedition against Goldsborough in November, 1862, that his presence was not an idle threat. The Federal navy kept up a connection between the various stations of the land-forces, protected them in case of need with its powerful guns, and participated in the reconnoissances, the small expeditions, which were undertaken for the purpose of preventing the enemy from approaching them. Thus, on the 8th of January two steamers, The gunboats Mahaska and Commodore Morris, and an army-tug, the May Queen.—Ed. combining their movements with those of a regiment of cavalry, ascended the Pamunkey River as far as the White House, and destroyed some large depots of grain; on the 30th of the same month a Federal gunboat With fifty men of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts on board.—Ed. entered the waters of the Perquimans River, which runs from the Dismal Swamp into Albemarle Sound, reached the town of H
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
erling, destroying all the provisions that were found there; on the 25th, after a skirmish at Licktown, near the latter village, Cluke gets away from Colonel Runkle, who had been sent in pursuit of him, and returns to the mountains whence he had emerged by way of Hazel Green and the Prestonburg road. Since the beginning of the year both parties seem to have abandoned Western Tennessee by common accord. It is sufficient to mention a few slight skirmishes, such as that at Ripley on the 8th of January, that at Ayresburg on the 30th, and that at Bolivar on the 13th of February, between the Confederate scouts and detachments from the garrisons of Fort Pillow and Memphis. But at the moment that Cluke invades the plain of Kentucky the Federals, in order to divert the attention of their adversaries, determine to make a demonstration along that section of the Tennessee River which crosses the northern part of the State of Alabama, and which furnishes abundant provisions to Bragg's army.