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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
March: Philadelphia, 1881.—Ed. On the 23d of June, Rosecrans issued his marching orders. We shall defer to our fourth volume the recital of the campaign which brought him to Chattanooga. Nothing of military importance had occurred in Kentucky during the two months which had just elapsed. A few engagements only had taken place on the borders of the Cumberland between Pegram's Confederate troopers and Carter's Union men. After a few insignificant encounters—on the 25th of May at Fishing Creek; on the 28th near Somerset; and on the 31st more to the south, near Monticello—the Federals determined to send out a reconnoissance toward the latter point. Two mounted regiments left Somerset on the evening of the 8th of June, and overtook a third regiment which had arrived from Mill Springs on the left bank of the Cumberland. The column, under the command of Colonel Kautz, came up with Pegram's soldiers on the morning of the 9th, and drove them back in disorder beyond Monticello, tak<