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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)
On the same day a detachment of about seven hundred mounted men, under Colonel Cluke, taking advantage of the alarm caused by this demonstration, makes its appearance in the villages of Winchester and Mount Sterling, 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